Who Knows What Evil...?
Francesco Francavilla does, as this alternate cover from #1 of Dynamite's new Shadow comic book shows!
Check out his blog entry about it HERE!
Check out his blog entry about it HERE!
Monday, February 13, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Whitney Houston (1963-2012)
Genre appearances included...
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Fairy Godmother / performer: "Prologue", "Impossible", "It's Possible", "Finale Ultimo", "There's Music in You")
The Preacher's Wife (Julia Biggs)
The BodyGuard (Rachel Marron / performer: "Queen of the Night")
Note: The BodyGuard is not really genre, but it's use of footage from the classic 1926 film Metropolis as well as the Maria-Robotrix-influenced costume prominently featured in the video for "Queen of the Night" and the film itself make it worthy, IMHO, of inclusion.Check out...
Whitney's Official WebSite
Other actresses to play Fairy Godmother in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella include Celeste Holm [1965] and Edie Adams [1957]
Other actresses to play Julia Biggs include...Actually, in the previous version of this film, The Bishop's Wife [1947], the character was named Julia Brougham and played by Loretta Young.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
3-D BONUS: Blinkeys!
The 1960 William Castle movie 13 Ghosts used red/blue 3-D style glasses, but not for 3-D!
While most of the movie was black and white, certain sequences had red and blue tinting.
To see the ghosts, you looked thru the red "lens".
To not see the specters, you looked thru the blue "lens".
But, years earlier, in 1953, Harvey Comics' 3-D comic books offered a similar idea in a series of one-page fillers most of which have never been reprinted...
(Yes, you need those 3-D glasses to read them properly!)
To see the ghosts, you looked thru the red "lens".
To not see the specters, you looked thru the blue "lens".
But, years earlier, in 1953, Harvey Comics' 3-D comic books offered a similar idea in a series of one-page fillers most of which have never been reprinted...
(Yes, you need those 3-D glasses to read them properly!)
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| Adventures in 3-D #1. Art by Howard Nostrand |
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| Adventures in 3-D #2. Art by Bob Powell |
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| True 3-D #1. Art by Bob Powell |
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| True 3-D #2. Art by Bob Powell |
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Friday, February 10, 2012
3-D: WHACK! "3-D-t's" Part 2
We began 3-D Week with the 3-D-t's and we end the week with them...
...but only two months after WHACK! #1 came out, things for the 3-D comic industry have not gone well at all!
How close was this story to the truth about the collapse of the 3-D comics phemonenon?
Read this page on 3-D comics expert Ray Zone's site, then decide for yourself.
Remember, in the comic story, the names have been changed to protect the guilty!
Reversing roles from the previous 3-D-t's story, Joe Kubert penciled and Norman Maurer inked this story.
Who wrote it is unknown, but it could be either or both of them.
They also satirized those impressionable youngsters who wanted to do 3-D comics...
Wonder how many kids actually sent in a dollar...
We hope you've enjoyed 3-D Week.
Check out our brother and sister RetroBlogs™ (shown on the list at left), all of whom have 3-D stories and features this week!
Check out our brother and sister RetroBlogs™ (shown on the list at left), all of whom have 3-D stories and features this week!
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
3-D: ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN "Nightmare"
You won't need red/blue 3-D glasses to read today's 3-D comic story, thanks to...
All the benefits!
None of the headaches (except for the artist)!
And now, on with today's story, the cover feature from Adventures into the Unknown #51 (1953)...
The extensive use of Craftint for backgrounds, background objects, and shading is a clever idea, but I can see how it would become visually-irritating on an ongoing basis.
Art by Harry Lazarus, one of a trio of siblings (including Sid and Leon) who all ended up writing and/or illustrating comic books during the 1940s-1960s.
(They are not related to Mell Lazarus, writer/artist of the comic strips Miss Peach and Momma, who also worked in comic books in the 1950s.
Small world, ain't it?)
BTW, for another TrueVision tale, pop over to our "sister" blog True Love Comics Tales™!
Art by Harry Lazarus, one of a trio of siblings (including Sid and Leon) who all ended up writing and/or illustrating comic books during the 1940s-1960s.
(They are not related to Mell Lazarus, writer/artist of the comic strips Miss Peach and Momma, who also worked in comic books in the 1950s.
Small world, ain't it?)
BTW, for another TrueVision tale, pop over to our "sister" blog True Love Comics Tales™!
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