...as he encounters the Bronze Age's first Black villainess!
...as We Conclude Zangar's High Adventures!
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Showing posts with label Gardner Fox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardner Fox. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ZANGAR "Trail of the Golden Idol"
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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Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Best of Reading Room WEIRD WORLDS "Space Vampires"
How did the cover-featured tale from Avon's Strange Worlds #4 (1951)...
...end up being used (almost verbatim) in Eerie Publications' Weird Worlds #V1N10 (1970)?
Eerie Publications had been using photostats and negatives from defunct comics companies as the source material for their b/w magazine line.
About
a year in, they started using South American artists eager to break
into the comics market and American artists like Dick Ayers and Chic
Stone who were losing work as the Silver Age ended and comics companies
cut back their lines, to re-do old stories with a more contemporary
style.
Some
illustrators totally-redid the art, using new "camera angles" and
clothing/technology designs reflecting contemporary tastes.
In this particular case, artist Cirilo Munoz just lightboxed and re-inked the existing Wally Wood/Joe Orlando artwork!
Editor
Carl (Golden Age Human Torch) Burgos rewrote the opening captions and
changed the hero's name, but otherwise left Gardner Fox's original
script intact.
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
Best of Reading Room KENTON OF THE STAR PATROL "Sirens of Space"
Kenton goes hand-to-hand with space pirates...
...and to think he gets paid to do this sort of stuff!
Where do I sign up for the Star Patrol?
...and to think he gets paid to do this sort of stuff!
Where do I sign up for the Star Patrol?
This Kenton story from Avon's Strange Worlds #5 (1951) demonstrates Joe Orlando and Wally Wood's talent for rendering both exotic machinery and beautiful women.
It's also their final Kenton story, but not their final work on the character.
He did the cover for the next issue, which features the final tale in the Kenton series, but illustrated by another artist!
You'll see that one on Monday!
It's also their final Kenton story, but not their final work on the character.
He did the cover for the next issue, which features the final tale in the Kenton series, but illustrated by another artist!
You'll see that one on Monday!
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Best of Reading Room KENTON OF THE STAR PATROL "Alien Raiders"
When interstellar crime occurs, there's only one man to call...
...as this exciting tale from Avon's Strange Planets #3 (1951) demonstrates!
This second Kenton story is Joe Orlando and Wally Wood's first work on the strip (Joe Kubert illustrated the character's first appearance).
Orlando and Wood would subsequently do all but the last Kenton tale, despite a very hectic schedule in 1951, including other Avon Comics work, illustrating the ongoing Captain Science strip plus miscellaneous short stories for Youthful Publishing, and numerous EC Comics assignments in various genres, before going exclusively to EC for a couple of years.
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