RetroBlogs' Summer Blogathon Welcomes...the Memory of Bruce Lee!

With the 50th Anniversary of Bruce Lee's passing last week...

...we began a re-presentation of an almost half-century old graphic novel about his life!

And that story continues, tomorrow, at...

POP ART MARTIAL ARTS!

Meanwhile, the never-reprinted Silver Age tales of The Shadow continue with our last contribution to the re-presentation of his blue/green spandex adventures at

HERO HISTORIES

...followed by another never-reprinted tale of the Bronze Age stories of the classic Pulp/radio version at

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

There's no summer break for our RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon!

Space Hero Saturdays FANTASTIC COMICS "Space Smith and the Headless Men of the Gold Comet"

Newspaper comics had Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Brick Bradford...

...but comic books had the even wilder exploits of adventurers like Space Smith!

Wow!

Dianna's no mere helpless female sidekick, as this tale from Fox's Fantastic Comics #4 (1940) proves!

Fletcher Hanks was no stranger to visualizing assertive women.

His Fantomah strip in Fiction House's Jungle Comics presented a jungle heroine with super-powers on a par with Wonder Woman (whom she pre-dated by a year)!

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I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!

by

Fletcher Hanks

Friday Fun BARBIE! BARBIE!! BARBIE!!!

 The movie's out today!!!

Before (or after) you go, have a look at our posts about the legendary lady!
Barbie the SuperHeroine!
Nurse Barbie and Doctor (of Course) Ken!

Barbie and Ken...Married Since the 1960s???

Barbie: Fashion Icon of Marvel Comics???

Barbie Around the World!

And, Barbie Today!

Reading Room: AMAZING ADVENTURES "Winged Death on Venus"

Some story titles need no elaboration or explanation...

...especially when the tale features early work by a young up-and-comer destined to become a graphic storytelling legend...

One of the legendary Wally Wood's earliest assignments, this story from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #1 (1950) shows off both his ongoing strengths (beautiful women, detailed slick inking) and early weaknesses (anatomy).
Within a couple of years, his anatomy improved considerably.

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Taylor Illustrated History

Science Fiction Comics 

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SILVER SURFER: THE ULTIMATE COSMIC EXPERIENCE Preface and Creator Bios

Here's the text pieces from the long OOP graphic novel...

Judge for yourself as to the historical accuracy of the material.

Nice to see the rest of the creatives get a little attention.

But, Stan Lee realized the PR value to his audience of promoting the writers and artists like rock stars (as his promo for the first issue of Fantasy Masterpieces demonstrated), and pushed the image of a happy "bullpen" (with him as the lead creative, of course).

We hope you enjoyed seeing this long-lost bit of Marvel history, and suggest you bookmark this blog for a lot more HTF comics goodies...

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Silver Surfer

The Ultimate Cosmic Experience

by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby