Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week, like last week...the coming of the Famous Funnies' Buck Rogers!
Illustrated by the late, great, Frank Frazetta, the series of covers running from Famous Funnies #209-216 helped redefine the "look" of the character who, up to this point, seemed far more "cartoony" than rival Flash Gordon!
This particular art is from #211, and is wonderfully dramatic as Buck and Wilma stand-off against primitive, but lethal aliens! Who will make the first move?
We're offering him on items for state of the art tech like iPad and iPhone hardcases, as well as mugs, t-shirts, and other tchochkies!
We will bring Buck back, on more of the Famous Funnies covers, so don't "pass the Buck"!
Vote with your bucks for more Buck!
For delivery by December 24th, customers can order Standard Shipping all the way up through TODAY, December 18th! We will upgrade packages when necessary for free*.
Note: You can order after Dec. 18th but will need to pay for upgraded shipping for delivery by the 24th.
*Choose Standard Shipping, and at no extra cost we’ll automatically upgrade your shipping (when needed) to ensure delivery by December 24, 2010.
Delivery address must be within the United States and cannot be a PO Box.
Promotion starts on December 16, 2010, at 12:01 a.m. (PST) and ends on December 18, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. (PST).
This offer may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice. This promotion cannot be applied to past orders.
Delivery dates are not guaranteed and may include extra transit time in case of unforeseen delays. Late deliveries are always a possibility, but we'll do our best to ensure late deliveries are as infrequent as possible.
For delivery by December 24th, customers can order Standard Shipping all the way up through December 18th and we will upgrade packages when necessary for free*.
Note: You can order after Dec. 18th but will need to pay for upgraded shipping for delivery by the 24th.
*Choose Standard Shipping, and at no extra cost we’ll automatically upgrade your shipping (when needed) to ensure delivery by December 24, 2010.
Delivery address must be within the United States and cannot be a PO Box.
Promotion starts on December 16, 2010, at 12:01 a.m. (PST) and ends on December 18, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. (PST).
This offer may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice. This promotion cannot be applied to past orders.
Delivery dates are not guaranteed and may include extra transit time in case of unforeseen delays. Late deliveries are always a possibility, but we'll do our best to ensure late deliveries are as infrequent as possible.
One of the problems pretending to be a criminal, as The Green Hornet does, is that you're as likely to be wounded or killed by police as by criminals!
And that's exactly what happens here!
Investigating the possibility that crooked police are looting crime scenes before their honest comrades show up, the Hornet is caught escaping from a break-in location, and shot by legitimately-responding cops. ("459-Silent" is police code in this city for a silent burglar alarm.)
He escapes, wounded, but can't go to a hospital since there's an all-points-bulletin out for a wounded Green Hornet, and even the Sentinel's respected publisher would be hard-pressed to explain how he had a gunshot wound in exactly the same spot on his body where the legendary verdant villain was shot! (Plus, the bullet could be forensically-matched to the gun of the policeman who shot the Hornet!)
How will Britt and Kato...
1) Get medical treatment for the wounded hero while avoiding connecting Reid and the Hornet, and having CSIs expose the incriminating evidence (the bullet)?
2) Solve the problem of the criminally-inclined cops, and save Mike Axford, who thinks the Hornet is responsible for the robberies, and plans to trap the wounded criminal, not knowing that crooked cops, who won't hesitate to kill, are behind the break-ins?
The answer to #1 is rather ingenious, and solving #2 is made more difficult since Britt is almost-incapacitated and barely functioning! (Thank God for Kato!)
Tune in below for the exciting answers... Side Notes:
More day-for-night photography, which on this particular print is a little too light.
Since the episode involves break-ins at warehouses, a couple of 20th Century-Fox soundstage exteriors are used for the outside of the two different warehouses, but only one soundstage interior (redressed) is used for both interiors. (The Batman tv series used the same exteriors for their "warehouse" and "alley" shots.)
Here's the 21st filmed and aired episode..."Bad Bet on a 459-Silent".
