Thursday, March 21, 2024

Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Mr Dumpty Gets Mended" and "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater"

More holiday fun with Walk Kelly's adaptations of nursery rhymes...
...starting with a never-reprinted revisionist short from Dell's Four Color Comics #140: Easter with Mother Goose (1947), showing the Easter Bunny succeeding where All the King's Horses and All the King's Men failed!
Revisionism continues the next year, with another never-reprinted short (with guest-stars Jack and Jill), this time from Dell's Four Color Comics #185: Easter with Mother Goose (1948)...
Should we ask why Peter isn't actually living with his wife?
Trivia: this issue features the now-repaired Humpty Dumpty on the cover!
All script and art by Walt (Pogo) Kelly!

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WOLFF "City in the Clouds" and "Return of Sadya"

We Have Already Seen...

...Wolff rescues Katerina, who brings him to her sorcerer father's kingdom...in the sky!
Will Wolff and Katerina survive Sadya's attack?
Let's See...

Where's the conveniently-placed synopsis to explain everything going on in this post-apocalyptic world where magic rules and technology is all but forgotten?
Oh, it's at the top of Page 2!
Carry on...
Now the story makes sense!
Interestingly, this concludes the major plotline in the Wolff strip, with Wolff's final adventure beginning...
NEXT WEDNESDAY

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

WOLFF = FFLOW ???

We've been running the post-apocalyptic adventures of Esteban Maroto's Wolff on Wednesdays...
...and in preparing this week's entry, we discovered the last two chapters we ran were published by New England Library in the wrong order!
Comparing the NEL publication order...
Dracula #8
Dracula #9
Dracula #10
...to the original running order by Spanish publisher Buru Lan...
Dracula #8
Dracula #9
Dracula #10
...the storyline makes a lot more sense!
Another tip-off was that the cover of Dracula #9 illustrates the story "City in the Clouds"...which NEL ran in #10!
Ironically, the same thing happened to the Agar-Agar stories from those same two issues Dracula which we ran last year in Wednesday Worlds of Wonder...as I pointed out HERE!
So, tomorrow, we'll run those two stories together in the correct order, and continue with the narrative next Wednesday!

Monday, March 18, 2024

Monday Madness HICKORY "Dewey Drip and the Bar"

Here's a strip that'll appeal to the intellect (such as it is) of Don the Con's rural con "audience"!

This one-page filler, created, written and illustrated by John Devlin, appeared in most issues of Quality's Police Comics, beginning with #1 in 1940.
It also popped up in Crack Comics and Plastic Man whenever a one-pager was needed.
This short in Quality's Hickory Comics #1 (1949) was the strip's final appearance.
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Sunday, March 17, 2024

St Patrick's (Sun)Day! BLACK MAGIC "Nasty Little Man!"

We've run several posts involving leprechauns on St Paddy's Day...
...but never one quite like this Simon and Kirby classic!
Written and illustrated by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (though who did which at any given point in the story is up to debate, since they both could do everything except lettering), this story from Prize's Black Magic V2N12 (1952) is one of the most reprinted tales from the legendary horror comics anthology!
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