Design of the Week: BUNNY? DADDY?

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

Since Easter is coming, we thought we'd present an absolutely adorable piece by the legendary Walt (Pogo) Kelly featuring a bunny with a surprised look on his faces a the egg in his basket hatches, producing yet another cute animal...a baby duck!

You just don't see stuff like this anymore!
So, why not order some kidswear, or even holiday greeting cards with this one-week-only graphic?
Everyone who sees it will go "Awwww."

Best of Reading Room: RACE FOR THE MOON "Invasion"

Some people called early television "just radio with pictures"...

...a premise taken to an obvious extreme in this tale...

Unfortunately, the technological level of tv fx in 1958, when this story was published in Race for the Moon #1, make the events of the story highly unlikely.
The primary reason the inspiration for this story, the 1938 War of the Worlds radio hoax by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre of the Air, worked was because peoples' imaginations ran wild, fueled by sound effects and well-written dialogue!
The "visuals" were in their heads!
Nonetheless, the unknown writer and artist Bob Powell did their best in only five pages.
And, the comic's intended audience, kids aged 9-15, could accept the premise, especially if they had no knowledge of the Welles radio show, which wasn't often rebroadcast until old radio show reruns made a comeback in the mid-1960s on college radio stations and lp albums.

NOTE: This story is a radically toned-down version of a tale that appeared a decade earlier!
Tomorrow we'll show you how it ORIGINALLY looked...pre-Comics Code, which has NEVER been reprinted!

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Reading Room: SUPERSNIPE "Halloween" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Kid with the Most Comic Books in America...

...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 the 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, SuperSnipe 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!

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Reading Room: SUPERSNIPE "Halloween" Part 2

When Last We Left the Kid with the Most Comic Books in America...

...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 tomorrow...

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

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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 Kid with the Most Comic Books in America, so it'll all tie together shortly...

This tale of terror and trick-or-treat continues tomorrow...

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

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Reading Room: SUPERSNIPE "Benson Kidnapping Case" Part 2

When Last We Left the Kid with the MOST Comic Books in America...

...after becoming accidentally-enmeshed in the FBI's takedown of a pair of kidnappers, SuperSnipe thinks he's tricked the criminals into leading him to the captive girl.

But who has tricked who...especially when the girl doesn't want to be rescued!

The story's not over!

SuperSnipe meets the most unexpected guest-star of all...

...tomorrow at
Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™!

(Want to know who?

Consider that SSoCV is a blog about comic books relating to movies and radio/tv shows...)

Story and art for this tale from SuperSnipe Comics V1N7 (1942) by George Marcoux, who did all the "SuperSnipe Universe" strips himself!

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Reading Room: SUPERSNIPE "Benson Kidnapping Case" Part 1

The Kid with the MOST Comic Books in America returns...

...with an exciting tale full of blood and thunder!

(Or is it thud and blunder...?)

If SuperSnipe is the rescuer, who will rescue the rescuer?

Find out tomorrow!

Story and art for this tale from SuperSnipe Comics V1N7 (1942) by George Marcoux, who did all the "SuperSnipe Universe" strips himself!

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