Showing posts with label Norge Benson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norge Benson. Show all posts

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Space...Hero??? Saturdays PLANET COMICS Cosmo Corrigan & Norge Benson

With North America currently caught in a deep freeze with major snow storms/blizzards...

...you can stay warm at home and read Fiction House's Planet Comics' two different characters starring in strips set on the frigid world of Pluto!
Unlike most of the deadly-serious features of the periodthese strips played both series as sci-fi sitcoms, starring "heroes" who could best be described as "spacegoing slackers", or "galactic party animals"!
You can read the complete run of the first guy, Cosmo CorriganHEREHERE, and HERE.
Yeah, he only lasted three issues.
Cosmo Corrigan was apparently caught in a black hole and immediately replaced (like the very next issue) in Planet Comics by Norge Benson, who encountered a whole different group of Plutonians!
Norge was a somewhat less snarky (though no less humorous) version of the "Earthman on Pluto" concept shown in Cosmo Corrigan., mixing talking alien versions of both Arctic and Antarctic animals with total disregard to anything even remotely resembling exobiology (or continuity)!
But both strips were fun, and that's all that really matters!
Norge Benson managed to survive for twenty issues, all of which you can read by clicking HERE!

Friday, February 18, 2022

Frigid Friday Fun PLANET COMICS "Norge Benson is Plummeting to Pluto!"

Cosmo Corrigan was apparently caught in a black hole...
...and immediately replaced in Planet Comics (like the very next issue) by this guy, who encountered a whole different group of Plutonians!
Illustrated by Al Walker, who spent his entire comics career at Fiction House, this debut tale from Planet Comics #12 (1941) presents a somewhat less snarky (though no less humorous) version of the "Earthman on Pluto" concept shown in Cosmo Corrigan., mixing alien versions of both Arctic and Antarctic animals with total disregard to anything even remotely resembling exobiology (or continuity)!
But it is fun, and that's all that matters!
And it managed to survive for 19 more issues, some of which you'll see here over the remaining winter months...
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Reprinting issues 9-12

Monday, April 9, 2018

Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Mammoth Poachers of Thor"

Add a mammoth to your cast, and what's the first thing that happens?
You encounter mammoth poachers, of course!
Perhaps it's a blessing that this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #32 (1944) is the final Norge Benson adventure.
The writing, which had never been the strip's greatest asset, has deteriorated remarkably.
Even Lily Renee's constantly-improving artwork can't save the series.
Be here next Monday as we begin a new time-lost series!
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Planet Comics
Vol. 8

Monday, April 2, 2018

Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Time Travel Terror"

In the far future of Pluto's Norge Benson...
...science is sorta arbitrary and time travel is as easy as being swept up by a cyclone!
"Murphy the Mammoth"?
With Frosting the Polar Bear's mysterious reduction from full-size bear to puppy dog-sized cub, the editors must have felt they needed a character who could do "bull in a china shop" slapstick he used to do, as well as provide occasional sheer muscle in dangerous situations.
As a result, Murphy was added to the cast in this Lily Renee-rendered tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #31 (1944)!
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Planet Comics
Vol. 8

Monday, March 26, 2018

Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Kaws of the Lost Planetoid"

One thing you have to say about Pluto in Golden Age comic books...
...it certainly wasn't a dull place to live, or visit!
Is it just me or is Frosting getting even smaller than before?
Initially, he was the size of an adult bear, then he became the size of a chimpanzee!
Now he's small enough to sit on Norge's head like a hat!
Lily Renee continues the illustrating chores in this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #30 (1944), handling spacecraft, criminals, and beautiful women with equal aplomb!
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Planet Comics
Vol. 8

Monday, March 19, 2018

Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Dragons of Diablo"

One thing I've noticed about this strip...
...is that there seem to be a lot of alien worlds easily-accessible with a quick trip from Pluto!
This never-reprinted story from Fiction House's Planet Comics #29 (1944) showed the versatility of Iger Studios newcomer Lily Renee, who was already handling Ranger Comics' Werewolf Hunter and Wings Comics' Jane Martin with the best yet to come!
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Monday, March 12, 2018

Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Ape-Men of Eo"

For a tiny planet, Pluto has a lot of hidden races...
...as this never-before-seen bunch of extremely-abominable snowmen demonstrate!
Coming in cold (pun intended) on this never-reprinted story from Fiction House's Planet Comics #28, Iger Studios stalwart Lily Renee proved herself more than capable to handle the weirdness inherent in the strip!
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Monday, March 5, 2018

Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Pirates of the Lost Planet"

Frosting the bear suddenly shrinks to the size of a cub...
...a clear indication a new artist has taken over the strip!
This never-reprinted tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #27 introduces Jim (Supergirl) Mooney to the wacky world of Pluto and its' weird residents.
Despite a commendable effort (except reducing Frosting to half his normal size), it's a one-off for an artist who became synonymous with Silver-Age superheroines as the series' last illustrator (no stranger to sci-fi or scantily-clad females) debuts on the strip next issue!
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Monday, February 26, 2018

Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Invasion of the Lederhosen Aliens"

The writing takes an odd turn...
...as Plutonians looking like a weird mix of 1930s-40s Swiss and Germans take advantage of an unusual situation...
While not an overt Nazi analogue, these previously-unseen Plutonians from Fiction House's Planet Comics #25 (1943) seem to be looking for expanded Lebensraum ("living space"), much as Hitler's Germany did in the late 1930s!
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