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Sunday, May 16, 2021

Asians and Asian-Americans in Comics...Continued

More from our ongoing examination of how American comics portray Asians and Asian-Americans...

Meet the only costumed Golden Age Asian super-heroine in (where else?)

Heroines!

The Blackhawks' Chinese teammate "Chop-Chop" gets not just one, but two different stories of how he joined the already-established aviator team!

His Silver Age origin at

Hero Histories...

...plus his politically-incorrect (and somewhat racist) Golden Age Origin at

Not Safe for Work Comics!

Meet the immortal "World's Greatest Lover" who seduces (among others) Pacific Islanders in...

True Love Comics Tales!

Discover secrets about the 1970s Charlie Chan cartoon (and other media versions) that you never dreamed of in...

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

and finally, meet the villain who's personified the racist concept of "Yellow Peril" for over a century in...

Seduction of the Innocent!

There's lots more coming!
Don't miss it!

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Space Force Saturdays SPACE SQUADRON & SPEED CARTER: SPACEMAN "Famous Explorers of Space" Part 5

Both Atlas' Space Squadron and Speed Carter: SpaceMan had "future history" features...

...set in the "past", like this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Space Squadron #5 (1953), which took place in the then-future of 1976!

Ah, the year of America's Bicentennial...when we discovered valleys with oxygen, water, and edible vegetation on the Moon!
In contrast, let's look at how such "Future History" was told in Speed Carter...

Oh, dear!

We're not off to a good start, are we?

Makes you wonder what, exactly, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and several others are investing in...and why, eh?

Besides "Famous Explorers", Space Squadron also presented "future history tales" about the guy who was young hotshot Jet Dixon's crusty Commander-in-Chief when he was a young hotshot pilot...

Think a space cadet named James T Kirk would've considered Blast Revere a role model?

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Friday, May 14, 2021

Friday Fun MIRTH OF A NATION

Some things never go out-of-date...

...like dumb jokes and juvenile humor, as these panels from Mirth of a Nation #5 (1943) demonstrate!

Five issues were produced by the Harry "A" Chesler Jr. Features Syndicate for the short-lived Wm H Wise & Company.

Each issue had this notice on the first page...

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Reading Room SPACE ADVENTURES "Magnet of Magneto"

Nope, it's not the mutant villain/anti-hero/hero of X-Men fame, but an entire planet...

...hell-bent on conquering the universe!

Written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Steve Ditko, this tale of menace and magnetism from Charlton's Space Adventures V2N5 (1969) is scientifically-inaccurate, but fun.

and isn't that what comics are all about?

You may recognize the splash panel as the cover for this issue...