Tuesday, March 27, 2018

How Do You Handle a Humongous Movie Cast on Posters?

Easy!
Do a Bunch Of Posters!
Apparently color-coded to the Infinity Stones everybody is trying to protect/steal/recover...
...the posters each give an Avenger a starring spot...
...with allies dynamically-filling out the designs.
Yes, I note neither the Hulk nor the Vision get "star' status...
...but neither does the Black Panther, though I'm not certain if he's "officially" an Avenger or not!
And where the hell are Ant-Man/Giant-Man and Hawkeye?
Will Clint Barton follow his Silver Age comics story arc and become Giant-Man/Goliath?
Or will he skip that incarnation and go directly to Ronin?
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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

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Holiday Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Hot Cross Buns"...Two Ways!

Sometimes Walt Kelly liked a nursery rhyme so much...he used it twice!
Such is the case with this one...from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #103 (1946), and then, with an extra rhyme, in Easter with Mother Goose #220 (1949)
You gotta admit, if there's anyone who can do a classic nursery rhyme and make it appear fresh both times, it's Walt!
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Saturday, March 24, 2018

Reading Room GET LOST "Circle, the Triangle and the Square"

Sometimes, a comic tale doesn't need perspective, anatomy, or even characters to tell a story...
...as this classic bit of storytelling from Mikeross' Get Lost #3 (1954) proves!
The graphics are simple, but effective...but the key is the captions and their use of slang to deliver the punchline!
Though it only lasted three issues, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito's Get Lost was one of the best of the MAD comic knock-offs, never quite hitting the heights of Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's lunacy, but coming close with several tales, including this one!
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Friday, March 23, 2018

Friday Fun JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Jet-Heeled Prom" and "Zingbats"

Like most comics of the era, Jetta of the 21st Century had text stories...
...to qualify for second-class (magazine) mailing rates!
The text stories featured other characters from the "Jetta-verse"!
Written by "Dixon Wells" (a pen-name used only for Jetta text stories), this never-reprinted piece from Standard's Jetta of the 21st Century #7 (1953) would've made a pretty good comic story.
Perhaps it was scripted by Dan DeCarlo?
Also included in this final issue of the series was this one-pager totally-unrelated to the "Jetta-verse"...
No credits are available for this short, which probably was meant for one of Standard's sci-fi comics, Lost Worlds or Fantastic Worlds!
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Dan DeCarlo's Jetta