Sunday, September 15, 2024

Sadly, This Story, Published Almost 75 Years Ago is as Relevant Today as it Was in 1952!

And there came a day unlike any other day, when heroes banded together to battle a menace so overwhelming no single hero could stand against it...
...unless not enough of those heroes actually go to vote!
Here's a handy (very) basic guide...
Illustrated by Warren Kremer and Al Avision, this one-shot published by Harvey Comics in 1952 (72 years ago) was offered for only a couple of pennies a copy to any group (even Republicans) who wanted to utilize it to get out the vote!
Note: Our gratitude to the ever-amazing Kracalactaka for the full-color scans of this ultra-rare comic!
Now, unless you want things to stay as they are (or get worse)...if you're over 18 and under 110...

Saturday, September 14, 2024

Space Heroine Saturdays BARBARELLA 2.1

All you really need to know is that Captain Dildano's spacecraft was forced down by a gigantic jellyfish...ok, plot logic is not the strip's strong suit.
Just enjoy the kool art...
Dildano also dies in the movie, but under vastly different circumstances.
In fact, this particular sequence is not adapted into the 1960s cult classic flick!
More in the near future!
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Friday, September 13, 2024

Friday Fascist Fun THE COMIC STRIP CHARACTER CONSERVATIVES FEAR ABOVE ALL OTHERS!

"Republicans are a cowardly, superstitious lot!
So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts!"

"I shall become a Childless Cat Lady!"
(With apologies to Bill Finger and Bob Kane for paraphrasing the origin of The BatMan presented in DC's Detective Comics #33, 1940) 
This character, who appeared in two issues of Centaur's Amazing-Man Comics during the Golden Age was a super-person with a difference!
How different?
Read on...

Cat-Man appeared only once more, three issues later.
Tarpe Mills, the writer/artist of this titillating tale, later created another, better-known, feline-themed comic character...Miss Fury, the first superheroine created by a woman!

BTW, despite Wikipedia's claim that Madame Fatal was the first transvestite super-hero, this Cat Man predates him/her by several months. (Amazing-Man Comics #5 was cover-dated September, 1939. Quality's Crack Comics #1, Madame Fatal's first appearance, was cover-dated May, 1940, over half a year later!)

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Reading Room 1984 "Bugs!"

In 1978, Warren Magazines began publishing a new title...1984...

...which had nothing to do with George Orwell's novel, except that the mag was filled with speculative fiction...aka sci-fi!



This particular never-reprinted tale, written by Bill DuBay and illustrated by Joe Vaultz, appeared in #1, and was typical of the type of material James Warren felt could compete with the then-new Heavy Metal magazine which primarily reprinted translated material from European artists appearing in the French comic publication Metal Hurlant.
The magazine ran from 1978 to 1983 
 for a total of 29 issues, with a title change from 1984 to 1994 due to a legal demand by the estate of George Orwell as of #11 in 1980.
Most of the material has never been reprinted, though Jan Strnad & Richard Corben's Mutant World and Frank Thorne's Ghita of Alizar strips have achieved success as reprint hardcovers/trade paperbacks!
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CROM THE BARBARIAN "Giant from Beyond!"

Return to a time before Atlantis sank with comics' first barbarian...
...as we present the third and final chapter in the saga of Crom, from Avon's Strange Worlds #2 (1951)
 
Thus do the tales of Crom come to an end, two decades before the coming of Conan in 1970...
His last adventure was produced by co-creators Gardner Fox (writer), and John Giunta (artist).
None of his stories were reprinted, even after the success of Lord of the RingsConan the Barbarian, and others made sword and sorcery a hot genre!
One bit of barbarian trivia; around this time, artist John Giunta took on a 15-year old apprentice who would later illustrate many fantasy characters including Conan, Kull, John Carter of Mars, and Tarzan!
His name?
Frank Frazetta!
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