Remember When We Believed This Was the Extent of Don da Con's Involvement with Vlad Putin?
Ah, those innocent times back a decade ago...
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Friday, October 25, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Reading Room / Tales Twice Told THIS IS SUSPENSE "Short Step to Oblivion"
We saw this tale of terror and justice uncut in Part 1...
Now let's see how it looked after the Comics Code Authority took their censoring scissors to the reprinted version...
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| The knife, seen in panels 5-7 on the original page, is now missing! |
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| The knife in panels 3 and 5 is missing in the reprint page! |
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| Despite being removed from the previous pages, the knife is shown to be the murder weapon! |
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| But how did the knife get there if it was deleted from the earlier pages? |
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| Ruth's word balloon in the last panel is rewritten to eliminate reference to the knife shown on the original page! |
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Why is Ruth screaming? It's not like there's a dead body, like there was in the original page! |
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Why did the villain fall to his death? Maybe it's the fact that Holiday shot him in the original version of the first panel! |
This Comics Code Authority-eviscerated reprint appeared in Charlton's This is Suspense # 24 (1955).
The writer is unknown and the illustrator is George Evans.
A comic with no more violence or blood than a TV cop show of the period is gutted by the CCA to Protect the Morals of the Youth of America.
Take a good look at your parents.
Did it work?
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Wednesday World of Wolverton ADVENTURES INTO TERROR "Where Monsters Dwell!"
Though this cover-featured tale's title became the name of a Marvel reprint comic...
...the story was never reprinted in its' namesake!
Nor does the cover art for Atlas' Adventures Into Terror #7 (1951) by George Tuska and Joe Maneely show anything even vaguely like what this Basil Wolverton penned and illustrated feature is about!
BTW, the splash panel was redrawn by another, unknown, artist!
When the tale was reprinted in Marvel's Curse of the Weird #3 (1994)...
...cover artist Ron Wagner deliberately mimicked the art style of each of the original tales' illustrators!
And, the story title on the cover used a modified version of the logo for the Bronze Age reprint book!
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Reading Room / Tales Twice Told SUSPENSE DETECTIVE "Short Step to Oblivion"
With the revelation that Fredric Wertham lied about comics' effects on kids...
...it seems appropriate to take a look at how his far-reaching deception altered pop culture as we know it!
BTW, most people (myself included) felt that Wertham exaggerated his claims, but altering/modifying evidence to validate his theories went over the line.
This pre-Comics Code tale appeared in Fawcett's Suspense Detective #1 (1952), illustrated by George Evans, but the writer is uncredited.
It seems to be a straightforward tale of mistaken identity and justice served with some violence mixed in, but nothing over-the-top, right?
Not according to the Comics Code Authority!
Be back Thursday to see how the Code altered this story, which they considered too violent!
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Monday, October 21, 2024
Monday Maternity Madness MAD "Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Abortion Newspaper Story"
With minor updating, this never-reprinted two-page feature...
...written by long-time contributor Frank Jacobs from EC's MAD Magazine #324 (1994) could be used today!
Sad, isn't it?
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