Showing posts with label Frank Giacoia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Giacoia. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ZANGAR "Lost Beyond the Bog of Darkness!"

...read through the synopsis on the title page below and see if you follow the rather confused narrative which mentions characters like Narcor whom we haven't seen previously!
Plus, who is...Koalrack?
Was this never-reprinted Bronze Age tale from Skywald's Jungle Adventures #3 (1971), penciled by Jack Katz, and inked by Frank Giacoia, a lead-in to an unexpected change in direction?
Conan the Barbarian had been introduced by Marvel less than a year earlier, and was selling amazingly-well!
Was Zangar going to go the barbarian-adventurer route, instead of staying a jungle lord?
And what of Tellana?
Was she going to be an ongoing villainess/love interest?
The writing is confusing, so it's unlikely co-creator Gardner Fox, noted for his precise, logical storylines, scripted this tale.
Sadly, this was the final issue of Jungle Adventures as Skywald phased out the color comics line to concentrate on their better-selling b/w horror magazines!
Next Week: the High Adventure Tales of a Different, Rarely-Seen Character Begin!
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ZANGAR "Trail of the Golden Idol"

...as he encounters the Bronze Age's first Black villainess!
This never-reprinted Bronze Age tale, written by Gardner Fox, penciled by Jack Karz, and inked by Vince Colletta, is a lead-in to an unexpected change in direction as you'll see in two weeks...
...as We Conclude Zangar's High Adventures!
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ZANGAR

One of the few (if not the only) red-headed jungle heroes...
...Zangar swung through all three issues of Skywald's short-lived Jungle Adventures, fronting reprints of everything from Jo-Jo to Sheena!
You have to wonder what was going through writer Gardner Fox and penciler Jack Katz's minds when they created this feature!
Is Zangar just Bob Gordon with an untreated concussion?
Or did he, almost mystically, bond with the jungle-dwelling animals?
This never-reprinted Bronze Age tale, inked by John Tartaglione and Bill Everett, leaves it somewhat nebulous...
Be Here Next Week as We Continue Zangar's High Adventures!
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Reading Room SENSATION MYSTERY COMICS "Last Dream"

Wonder Woman lost her cover feature in Sensation Comics as of this issue (#107)...
...when the book was retitled Sensation Mystery, and featured "mysteries" like this one!
In 1952, horror comics became the "hot" genre, with most comics publishers going "all in" to see who could be the goriest!
DC, though, tried to stay relatively innocuous, refusing to go for the gore.
While their sales didn't skyrocket as many other publishers' did, they managed to stay below the radar during the whole "Seduction of the Innocent" mania.
And, it certainly made reprinting any of the material produced during this period a breeze after the Comics Code was imposed!
This John Broome-written, Carmine Infantino-penciled, and Frank Giacoia-inked tale was typical of DC's output during this period.
(Some say Sy Barry inked it, but expert art identifier Martin O'Hearn thinks it's Giacoia, and I agree with him.)
Straightforward, logical, and effectively-told, it's almost a template for the various stories the anthology would carry until the book's cancellation a year later with #116.
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Sunday, April 29, 2018

Reading Room WEIRD THRILLERS "SandFlower of Venus"

Alien worlds have potentially-lethal animals and plants...
...but the most dangerous creature in the Universe is...Man!
I take it back.
The most dangerous creature in the Universe is Woman!
This never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Weird Thrillers #1 (1951) was probably illustrated by a round-robin of Dan & Sy Barry, Murphy Anderson, and Frank Giacoia.
The writer is unknown.
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