What do you do when you want to heat up a planet that's colder than America's MidWest in February?
Cosmo Corrigan has the answer...cosmic chorus girls!
Sady, Cosmo never got back to Pluto.
He wasn't in the next issue of Planet Comics, nor would he reappear anywhere else in the known universe.
His fate remains a mystery...
Written and illustrated by Seymour Reit (who later co-created Casper the Friendly Ghost), Cosmo's final tale appeared in Fiction House's Planet Comics #11 (1941).
But don't think this is the end of our winter-inspired posts!
But don't think this is the end of our winter-inspired posts!
There's more frigid fun to come!
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Great blog, I'll have months of checking out everything!
ReplyDeleteThe Cosmo Corrigan page I find hilarious. 1940, we (the artist) knew that Pluto is an ice dwarf planet, but not much more. Pluto's day temperature ca 3500 degrees Celsius below zero. And Cosmo skates in swim trunks! Not forget that he obviously needs no helmet and oxygen tanks. I nowhere found a hint that he has superpowers.
And when did we saw a king in shorts and bare legs? Unique!
All these pulps from the 1940s and 50s (Planet Comics, Exciting Comics) had a fixed idea about futurist clothing: minimal. Girls diving in space in a pre-Gaultier copper bra and high heels. And like most other comic heroes, the men wore shorts and boots and nothing else. Was that really artists' vision of the future? Bare male chests? Alex Raymond showed skin too, but gave his Flash Gordon uniforms with pants once in a while.
The culture and psychology behind all this I find most interesting.