Thứ Bảy, 30 tháng 4, 2011
The Kiss of Death!
Celebrating Karswell's birthday today (and all week too) with posts dedicated to his all time favorite comicbook illustrator-- Bill Everett! And those of you who loved the sassy Scarlet O'Neil stories from last month better hold onto your britches, because we kick things off with a terrific Venus tale from the final issue of this amazingly eerie, and incredibly difficult to collect Golden Age series (thanks again to Brian Hirsch for these scans!) From the April 1952 issue of Venus #19.
Green Arrow VS. Black Canary #29
Apr 2010 | 34 pages | CBR | 31.1 MB
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Monster Hunters Survival Guide. Volume 1
Oct 2010 | 53 pages | CBR | 19.6 MB
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Batman-Catwoman - Follow the Money #1 One-Shot
Jan 2011 | 46 pages | CBR | 21.4 MB
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Red Hood - The Lost Days #6 (of 6)
Jan 2011 | 27 pages | CBR | 10.7 MB
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Blackbeard - Legend Of The Pyrate King #6
2011 | 37 pages | CBR | 15.8 MB
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DCU Halloween Special 2010 #1
Dec 2010 | 51 pages | CBZ | 48.3 MB
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Grimm Fairy Tales Myths and Legends #3
CBR | English | 34 pages | 16.9 MB
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Heavy Metal Vol.35 No.2 Living Dead Special
Spring 201 | CBR | 124 pages | 88.5 MB
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Black Canary/Oracle/ Huntress: Birds of Prey TPB
English | 215 pages | CBR | 70.2MB
When Dinah Lance, aka the freelance superheroine Black Canary - an expert martial artist with a potent 'sonic cry' - takes a job from the mysterious information-broker known as 'Oracle', little does she realise that a powerful new partnership is about to begin! 'Oracle' is, in fact, Barbara Gordon - the former Batgirl, left in a wheelchair after being shot by the Joker. While she is a computer expert with access to vast data repositories, she needs a field agent to act for her - and Black Canary fits the bill! Join the Birds of Prey through a series of hard-hitting contemporary adventures, and some team-ups with most unexpected allies, including the Huntress and Catwoman!
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Tarot Witch Of The Black Rose #67
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Thứ Sáu, 29 tháng 4, 2011
Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer #1
Of all the weird titles launched at the end of the Silver Age, this has to be one of the strangest. Milson Publishing (aka Lightning Comics) appeared in 1967, published three issues of this comic and two issues of Super Green Beret, then vanished into the mists. The book did have some sterling credentials behind it, as the creative team was Otto Binder and CC Beck, the men responsible for Captain Marvel in the Golden Age.
Fatman is something of a composite of Captain Marvel, and the other overweight hero of the 1960s, Herbie. Does this ring some bells?
But we quickly learn that Van Crawford has powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Via a flashback, we learn that he was bird-watching one day, when he spotted a flying saucer about to crash. He demonstrates that some of his powers were innate to his avoirdupois form:
As the saucer lands on the tree he knocked down, it changes into an alien. It turns out that it was just testing him to see if he was a suitable candidate for super powers. Sure enough, he passed, and the alien gives him a potion that allows him to turn into a flying saucer at will. He later learns that he can change back just by speaking his own name, much like Captain Marvel could change back to Billy Batson by saying "Shazam!"
In the first issue, he battles some crooks who use jets for their getaways. This makes the "change into a flying saucer" routine useful. Like many superheroes, he gains powers as needed by the script:
And when he encounters a sea monster:
In the third story in the comic, Fatman picks up an ally in the war against crime: a beanpole teen named Lucius Pindle who wants to be stronger. He tries exercise, but he can't even lift a barbell. He tries mixing up a formula in his chemistry set, but it just leaves him with a bad aftertaste. Finally he tries a spell from a book of magic and presto:
At first, he has great fun with his powers as Tin Man, but when a lightning bolt hits him he runs amok. So Fatman assumes he's a villain, and they have a classic Marvel-style battle until Tin Man speaks his own name, causing him to change back into Lucius Pindle again. (Shades of Captain Marvel!)
In the final story, Tin Man battles the sea monster in what appears to be just a friendly match, refereed by Fatman. And for a moment, the monster agrees to join their team, but then:
And that's basically the end of the comic, except for a promise that the next issue will bring some major villains:
Comments: Amusing and lighthearted intro to the series. Why didn't it succeed? I suspect there are several reasons. First, the title is off-putting. The publisher probably thought that noting that the book was produced by the creators of Captain Marvel would overcome this, and it may have gotten some of the older fans interested enough to buy it. But for kids like me, Captain Marvel generally drew a shrug. He had last been published in 1954, and none of his adventures had been reprinted. Most of us only knew him from a line in the Beatles' song, Bungalow Bill. Second, the price point of 25 cents was a little steep for a new character. And third, I suspect they just missed the market by putting this out ihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifn early 1967, when all the other publishers had jumped on the superhero bandwagon by 1965.
Update: Booksteve comes by in the comments and notes that the Bungalow Bill song wasn't released until 1968, so I probably would not have heard of Captain Marvel by the time this comic came out. He adds:
I remember I knew who CAPTAIN MARVEL was but I don't know how. I remember very distinctly though that I had heard of him and the "Shazam" thing but...how? I know I'd never seen any of the comics.
Perhaps I can answer that. There was one very well-known TV character who used the word "Shazam!" a lot back in the 1960s.
1528 - Destination Haiti
Update 4th May: New links for D-231 (1000 px width) are added in 100th post.
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Writer: Claes ReimerthiArtist: Kari Leppänen
1528 - Destination Haiti (NEW LINK)
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Egmont Cover
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1404 - Eye of the Hurricane (Phantom Year One)
Story: David Bishop
Art: Kari Leppänen
Art: Kari Leppänen
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| Fantomet #26 - 2004 |
1345 - Treasure of the Astecs
Story: Ulf Granberg
Art: Jaime Vallvé
1345 - Treasure of the Astecs
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1345 - Treasure of the Astecs
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| Fantomet #13 - 1976 |
Number 938
...and featuring Sonny Bono as Burt the ghostly ex-lover...
Looking at this story makes me realize how long ago 1973 really was, and yet seems so recent, still vivid to me. Maybe it was the sideburns or the turtleneck sweaters, maybe the bell bottom trousers, the wide lapels...man, have we ever approached the coolness of that time since? (That's a joke, son...)
Frank Bolle, the artist on this story for issue #2 of Charlton's Haunted Love, had the look of 1973 down well. Bolle had a clean ink line, and looked like he drew from photographs. The audience for whom the comic was intended, mostly pre-teen or teenage girls, wouldn't be fooled if he had faked it. I wasn't part of the intended readership, but Haunted Love was one of my guilty pleasures in 1973. I was so embarrassed about buying any comic book with "love" in the title that I always hid it in the middle of the stack of comics I bought.
Bolle was born in 1924, and his work pops up many places over several decades of the history of comics. He has his own website, if you want to see other illustrative work he's done. The story is written by Charlton scripter Joe Gill.
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