Showing posts with label 1940s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1940s. Show all posts

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Halloween Reading Room: SUPERSNIPE "Halloween" Conclusion

...Koppy (SuperSnipe) McFad (wearing his original costume), celebrates Halloween by trick-or-treating with his friends Herlock Domes and Roxy, and ends up at the Van Welty mansion where the trio inadvertently helps an assassination attempt on the mansion's rich owner.
When news reports about the police suspecting costumed kids reach Koppy and Herlock, they investigate in an attempt to clear themselves, discovering the "policeman" who tricked them was a fraud in a rented costume!
After the costume store owner gives them the name of the man who rented the police uniform, the now-plainclothes heroes go in search of the criminal...

Usually, Koppy McFad triumphs despite his rather "Inspector Clouseau"-type antics, but this time he not only figures out the clues (with a couple of handy coincidences), but deliberately puts himself in danger to keep the criminals in the store until the police arrive!
He may not have super powers, but SuperSnipe proves himself to be a real hero...

Story and art for this tale from SuperSnipe Comics V2N12 (1945) by George Marcoux, who did all the "SuperSnipe Universe" strips himself!

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Halloween Reading Room SUPERSNIPE "Halloween" Part 2

...Koppy (SuperSnipe) McFad (wearing his original costume), celebrates Halloween by trick-or-treating with his friends Herlock Domes and Roxy, and ends up at the Van Welty mansion where the trio inadvertently helps an assassination attempt on the mansion's rich owner.
Discovering that they aided and abbetted a felony, Koppy and Herlock calmly assess the situation...
This tale of terror and trick-or-treat concludes Thursday...

Story and art for this tale from SuperSnipe Comics V2N12 (1945) by George Marcoux, who did all the "SuperSnipe Universe" strips himself!

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Halloween Reading Room SUPERSNIPE ""Halloween" Part 1"

You'd think a story about Halloween would begin a bit differently...
...but remember, this is a story about the Boy with the Most Comic Books in America, so it'll all tie together shortly...
This tale of terror and trick-or-treat continues Tuesday...
Story and art for this tale from S&S's SuperSnipe Comics V2N12 (1945) by George Marcoux, who did all the "SuperSnipe Universe" strips himself!

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Spooky Space Hero Saturdays PLANET COMICS "Fero: Planet Detective"

This Halloween Season, We Give You the Truth about a Major Threat to Humanity!
We thought now is the right time to reveal the awesome secret about vampires and werewolves kept from humanity for centuries!
They're from Pluto!
Really!
While Fero did return in the next issue of Planet Comics, the "vampires and werewolves from Pluto" plotline didn't!
In fact, Fero was, without explanation, now an "interplanetary detective" in a future version of New York City, and stayed there for the remainder of his four-issue run.
This premiere appearance in Fiction House's Planet Comics #5 (1940) is credited to "Allison Brant", a pseudonym used by writer/artist Al Bryant who did almost 400 comics stories during his decade-long career.

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Halloween Reading Room DOCTOR HORROR

Let's Begin the Month with Horror, Specifically the Self-Named Doctor Horror...
...who made only one appearance...but what an appearance!
If this had been produced in the 1960s, I'd say the artist had gotten some bad weed before producing the latest issue of his underground comix.
In fact, it appeared in Lev Gleason's Captain Battle Comics #2 (1941), illustrated (and probably written) by Don Rico and read by impressionable young kids throughout America!
Publisher Lev Gleason had already introduced comics' first major super-villain, The Claw, in Silver Streak Comics, and it's possible he posed the suggestion to his artists that they come up with something to top The Claw!
Or, it's possible that with a deadline looming and pages to fill, Gleason assigned Rico to come up with a story in a very brief time frame!
We'll never know the answer.
But that shouldn't stop you from enjoying this startling, surreal story!
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Friday, September 26, 2025

Friday Fairy Tale Fun FAIRY TALE PARADE "Emperor's New Clothes"

Besides Doing Holiday-Themed Variations of Classic Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales...

...legendary writer artist Walt (Pogo) Kelly also did straight-up retellings of those children's stories!







This PG (no nudity) retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's satirical fairy tale appeared in Dell's Fairy Tale Parade #2 (1942)!
The series ran for nine 68-page issues, and while Walt Kelly did a considerable amount of the material, he didn't do all of it!
Other contributors included humor/kids' comics veterans Gardner DuBois, Arthur Jameson, Jon Small, L Bing (whose first name is unknown), Bill Brady, Casper Emerson, and George Kerr!
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