Verily, the RetroBlogs Summer Blogathons Cometh...

...this Wednesday, as, tying into the new Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunder...
...we simultaneously present two (sorta) related comics about the God of Thunder...

...a double-feature of the conclusion of Thor and Jane Foster's long-running soap opera-style Silver Age romance in

True Love Comics Tales

...along with Jane Foster's first time wielding Thor's hammer in

Heroines!

Be at both blogs on Wednesday, or face the wrath of Odin the All-Father!

SO IT IS WRITTEN!

SO IT SHALL BE!

Space Hero Saturdays TARGET COMICS "SpaceHawk Answers Uncle Sam's Call!"

Pretty appropriate for the 4th of July weekend, eh?
...as the realities of pre-Pearl Harbor America interrupt Spacehawk's fictional far-future exploits!
The story's about to take a sharp turn for SpaceHawk as things get multiversal, kiddies!
Oddly, the 1861 image, showing the Civil War, doesn't show a cavalryman wearing either Union blue or Confederate gray...but green, which wasn't an official uniform color during that period in American history!

In 1940, with World War II underway, most Americans accepted it was only a matter of time until we were drawn into the war.

As the government began to scale up military preparations, the entertainment media started turning their characters towards dealing with the potential threats from across both oceans!
Comic book and pulp heroes began encountering thinly-disguised surrogates for German, Japanese, and Italian spies and soldiers.
In perhaps the best-known of these stories, Superman invaded Germany and Russia, grabbing Hitler and Stalin, and brought them to trial!
(And this was in 1940!)
As for this tale from Novelty Press' Target Comics V2N1 [13] (1941), though the writer is unknown, it may be editor David Adams.
Illustrator Ben Thompson likely was assigned the cover and short feature because he wasn't the artist on any of the series, but made an effort to deliberately match the various styles of the other artists on their respective characters.
SpaceHawk didn't begin his assignment immediately, as he was finishing up a two-part story on Neptune, as we showed HERE!
With the next issue, though, he jumped into the fray!
But, due to racial stereotypes common to World War II entertainment media, we can't show it to you on this blog!
You'll have to go HERE to see it!

 

Friday Fun NOT BRAND ECHH! "Original Origin of Charlie America!"

It's almost the 4th of July, so we thought we'd kick back and enjoy...

...this spoof of one of the most-retold origins of all ('cause we're really nice guys)!

Admittedly, this ain't exactly how they portrayed his origin in Captain America: the First Avenger.

But hey, this classic from Marvel's Not Brand Echh #3 (1967) is a lotta fun anyway!
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Tales Twice Told STRANGE GALAXY "Planet of Horror"

Remember "Last Expedition", our "Tale Twice Told" from Tuesday?

Well, here it is again, right down to the original captions, dialogue balloons and character names!

Eerie Publications editor Carl Burgos thought the story from Fiction House's Planet Stories #72 (1953) was good enough to have Argentinian artist Oswal re-draw it almost 20 years later for the b/w magazine Strange Galaxy V1N8 (1971)!

(In fact, all the stories that appeared in the Eerie Publications line-up were either actual reprints or re-drawn versions of 1940s-1950s tales from defunct publishers!)

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ADVENTURES OF THE DOVER BOYS Chapter 6 "Treasure Trove"

We Have Already Seen...

Don't wait!

Here it is!

The Big Finale!

(One codicil: may be NSFW due to racial stereotypes common to the era [1950].)

Apparently very few people sent postcards because the Dover Boys never reappeared anywhere else.

And I do mean NEVER!

In 2011, Archie and Friends #137-138 and #150 featured a storyline involving almost all the "forgotten" characters from MLJ/Archie's long publishing history from Suzie to Sam Hill: Detective to Super Duck crossing dimensions to Riverdale to encounter Archie and the gang...except the Dover Boys!

Sad, ain't it?

Next Wednesday...

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