...he was returning to Pluto after spending a couple of issues on a jungle planet where he met the scantly-clad Princess Jolie...
More cold calamities next Monday!
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Showing posts with label Al Walker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Al Walker. Show all posts
Monday, January 29, 2018
Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Plutonian Prehistoric Peril"
More cold calamities next Monday!
Monday, January 22, 2018
Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Peace Conference on Pax"
...and you have to ask, "how could he possiblly screw this ideal situation up?"
Well, at least he's still involved with the beatiful princess, eh?
Al Walker's kool design style and sense of humor separate this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #21 (1942), from becoming like the standard square-jawed space heroes who filled the rest of the book!
As to what will happen when he (and she) hit Pluto...well, be here next Monday to find out!
Al Walker's kool design style and sense of humor separate this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #21 (1942), from becoming like the standard square-jawed space heroes who filled the rest of the book!
As to what will happen when he (and she) hit Pluto...well, be here next Monday to find out!
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Princess of Pax"
I don't know if it was the editor's or the writer's choice...
...but as of this issue, Norge left frigid Pluto behind for the jungle planet of Pax and its' scantly-clad Princess!
As of this Al Walker-illustrated tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #20 (1942), Norge has become more like the standard square-jawed space heroes who filled the rest of the book battling alien menaces and rescuing mimimally-clad helpless heroines!
But, thankfully, the wacky sense of humor that enabled the strip to survive far longer than it's predecessor, Cosmo Corrigan, is still evident!
But, thankfully, the wacky sense of humor that enabled the strip to survive far longer than it's predecessor, Cosmo Corrigan, is still evident!
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Monday, January 8, 2018
Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Springtime on Pluto"
The writer of this series is as scientifically-literate as Don (the Con) Trump...
...if his descriptions of Pluto's "global warming" are any indicaction!
This Al Walker-illustrated tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #19 (1942) is over 70 years old, but it's just as entertainingly-hokey as the day it was created!
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Thursday, January 4, 2018
Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Voyage of the Bilge Queen"
On Pluto there are thug penguins, magician penguins, and pirate penguins!
So the writer thought...let's add "whaler penguins" to the mix!
Just when you think this series can't get any weirder, it brings in references to Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick"!
Considering today's average high-schooler hasn't read it (nor probably heard of it), it says a lot for the literacy level of kids back in the 1940s!
Artist Al Walker apprenticed at the Walt Disney Studios in California, but returned to NYC due to personal matters.
His animated cartoon-influenced style was unique enough that Fiction House hired him to do humor-oriented strips like Norge, Greasemonkey Griffin (in Wings Comics), Simba (in Jungle Comics), and Private Elmer Pippin and the Colonel's Daughter (in Rangers Comics).
WWII put Walker in uniform...and serving in the Army's publications division as well as designing unit insignia, he smoothly transitioned back to working at Fiction House as soon as he was discharged.
But...Al had fallen in love, married, and discovered that his Fiction House work didn't pay enough to cover expenses!
He was already at his productivity limit due to his detailed style, and wasn't comfortable "watering it down" and a page rate raise was unlikely, so Walker, like many others during thie period, left the comic book industry.
Al ended up taking a better-paying job as graphic designer/illustrator for the publications department of a regional banking chain, where he spent the rest of his professional career.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Ghoulish Gooleys"
Norge Benson was "meta" long before the phrase was even coined!
Note the references to Planet Comics or the fact they're in a comic on the second page!
More Norge Benson nuttiness TOMORROW!
Yeah, Norge definitely wasn't the typical square-jawed, all-American space hero, as this tale from Fiction House's Planet Stories #17 (1942) proves!
Artist Al Walker was one of the few creatives to spend his entire comic book career at only one company, Fiction House!
We'll go into his other artistic endeavors tomorrow!
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Friday, July 17, 2015
Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Frozen Famine"
Let's visit Pluto, world of talking penguins...
...as stranded spaceman Norge Benson's existence may come to an end since the food supply on the frozen world seems to be running out!
As you can see, life on Pluto had its' charms back in 1942, as this never-reprinted tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #16 proves!
Artist Al Walker and whoever was scripting under the name "Olaf Bjorn" did a heck of a job with this whimsical tale, providing comedy relief amidst all the deadly-series tales of space emperors and alien invasions.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Invasion of the Snowmads"
If you're staying in during this cold wave, get some hot cocoa (with marshmallows) and read...
...in this never-reprinted tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #15 (1941).
Interesting how the "Snomads" are similar to the much-later Marvin the Martian...
Illustrated by Al Walker, who spent his entire comics career at Fiction House, this tale introduces more protagonists for Norge Benson and his crew to deal with besides evil penguins.
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