From Fawcett's Mechanix Illustrated V49N8 (1953)...
Did it help inspire Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Werner Roth, and Vince Colletta in creating this sequence in Marvel's X-Men #14 (1965)?
You tell us!
Monday, April 15, 2024
Monday Mutant Madness MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED "How Nuclear Radiation can Change Our Race"
Sunday, April 14, 2024
What Do Trumpettes Talk About When They Wait in Line to Get Into a Rally?
Likely something like this...
...and this!
Both these two-page spreads are from Charlton's Hee Haw comics derived from the syndicated TV series.
These examples of the show's humor were written and illustrated by Frank Roberge and based on an ongoing skit featuring the entire cast (plus guest stars) in a cornfield popping up and doing jokes and one-liners!
The TV show ran a surprising twenty-six seasons from 1969 to 1995, though the comic only lasted for seven (never-reprinted) issues!
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Space Hero Saturdays STAR HUNTERS Intro and "Part 1: The Farrell Alternative"
In the mid-1970s, tv/movie sci-fi experienced a revival...
...and comics, as they had done since the late 1940s, jumped on the pop culture bandwagon!
But, instead of doing adaptations of popular shows like Space: 1999 (Charlton), or movies like Star Wars (Marvel), DC decided to do a couple of original series using talented, young, up-and-coming creatives.
One of them was The Survivors...I mean The Outcasts...er, make that Donovan Flint: StarHunter...or finally, The Star Hunters!
Here's the explanation of how the project came about, from DC Super-Stars V2N18 (1977)...
And now, from that never-reprinted issue...
To Be Continued...
NEXT SATURDAY!
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Friday, April 12, 2024
Friday Fun HOLY CREAM-FILLED PASTRY!
When Hostess Baking ceased operation in 2012, a chapter of comics history ended...
This wonderfully-looney series of ads featuring all the major comics characters from Archie to Spider-Man to Casper the Friendly Ghost to Wonder Woman appeared in comics for almost a decade, featuring some of the best artists in the business including Neal Adams (above with Dick Giordano), Gil Kane, John Romita Sr, Curt Swan, Jim Starlin, and Frank Miller doing the rendering!
Note: You can see a complete set of the Marvel and DC ones HERE!
Bonus: the original art for this ad...
BTW, Hostess' nigh-indestructible pastries have since returned to supermarket shelves...but the comic advertising never did!
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Reading Room CRIME DETECTOR "Ultimate Destiny"
Some comics tales of the 1950s have a real "nightmare" feel...
...such as this rarely-seen story by an underrated master of the genre!
Note: the final page was printed sideways as a single page, but we think it works better as a two-page spread, so...
The writer for this cool comic classic from Timor's Crime Detector #5 (1954) is unknown, but the distinctive art is by Jay Disbrow, who had a long career in comics from 1948 to 2005!
His last new work was the on-line comic Aroc of Zenith, which ran for 312 pages from 2000 to 2005, and you can find HERE.
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