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Thứ Hai, 9 tháng 3, 2009
Number 485
Katz Outta the Bag
Uncanny Tales #20 was about the second pre-Code horror comic I ever saw. I was 12 in 1959 and in that youthful way I was very impressed by the panel of "Who Shall Judge" with its graphic suicide. Wow. When I saw it I felt I knew why comic books had at one time been in trouble.
The story is drawn by Jack Katz, an artist who, later in his career, spent several years drawing his magnum opus, The First Kingdom. Katz was a good artist, with a careful approach to anatomy. His panels are obsessively busy, loaded with detail.
Uncanny Tales #20 is dated May 1954. I scanned "My Other Body" from Vault of Evil #17, a Marvel Comics reprint. The story was originally published in Menace #11, the last issue of that title with, coincidentally, the same date as Uncanny Tales #20.
I've also scanned a vignette 1954 from Johnson Smith in Uncanny Tales. Something else that got comics in trouble: advertising. An 8-foot plaited leather bullwhip for only $2.69! You definitely want to arm kids with something like that.
Chủ Nhật, 8 tháng 3, 2009
2 Frew: #1220, 1414
Post #100 updated: Chatur Cheeta has send 9 Daily (211, 212, 215, 216, 217, 218, 222, 223, 224) & 5 Sunday strips (163, 164, 166, 167, 168).
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(Frew) Phantom 1220 - The Choice (67.17 MB)
(Frew) Phantom 1414 - The Mysterious Wreck (63.28 MB)
Links are contributed by "Delboj". These are scanned by BDS TEAM (scan - san2710; edit - Rado46).
All thanks & credits go to all above mentioned friends.
Dr Strange Versus Dormammu
Up to this point, there was no particular reason to consider Dr Strange as one of Marvel's more interesting characters. Yeah, Ditko's art was psychedelic, but the series suffered from fairly mundane villains and supporting characters. There were hints that Dr Strange was becoming more popular; at first the character did not even appear in every issue. That quickly changed, and he even began to share cover space with the Human Torch.
But the series really took off with the battle between Dr Strange and Dormammu starting in Strange Tales #126. Here's the memorable splash page:
Dr Strange is summoned by the Ancient One. The Dread Dormammu is planning to leave the Dark Realm and come to Earth. The Ancient One is unable to face him, so the Doc is drafted as a replacement:
Now there's a villain worthy of facing Dr Strange. And a durable companion is introduced a short while later:
The actual confrontation between Doctor Strange and the Dreaded One takes place in the following issue. We learn that Dormammu is the only thing keeping the Mindless Ones from breaking through into the Dark Realm.
In the battle itself, we see signs of Ditko's influence on the character:
And when the Mindless Ones break through, we see that Dr Strange is a man of honor:
He lends his support to Dormammu and together they repel the invaders, putting the Dreaded One in Dr Strange's debt:
This highlights one of the odder aspects of some of the Marvel villains. There were several who possessed a moral code despite their essentially evil nature--Dr Doom, the Sub-Mariner (back when he was played as a villain) and Galactus were notable for this supposed trait. In a sense this is just another out for the writer, which may explain why Lex Luthor underwent a similar transformation in the 1960s.
But the series really took off with the battle between Dr Strange and Dormammu starting in Strange Tales #126. Here's the memorable splash page:
Dr Strange is summoned by the Ancient One. The Dread Dormammu is planning to leave the Dark Realm and come to Earth. The Ancient One is unable to face him, so the Doc is drafted as a replacement:
Now there's a villain worthy of facing Dr Strange. And a durable companion is introduced a short while later:
The actual confrontation between Doctor Strange and the Dreaded One takes place in the following issue. We learn that Dormammu is the only thing keeping the Mindless Ones from breaking through into the Dark Realm.
In the battle itself, we see signs of Ditko's influence on the character:
And when the Mindless Ones break through, we see that Dr Strange is a man of honor:
He lends his support to Dormammu and together they repel the invaders, putting the Dreaded One in Dr Strange's debt:
This highlights one of the odder aspects of some of the Marvel villains. There were several who possessed a moral code despite their essentially evil nature--Dr Doom, the Sub-Mariner (back when he was played as a villain) and Galactus were notable for this supposed trait. In a sense this is just another out for the writer, which may explain why Lex Luthor underwent a similar transformation in the 1960s.
Number 484
Monster of Flame!
Karswell showed the lead story from this issue of Plastic Man, #43, November 1953, called "The Evil Terror," some time ago. The whole issue has a definite horror bent, which represented the time it was published, right in the horror comics boom. But the stories aren't drawn by Plastic Man creator Jack Cole. The Grand Comics Database gives credit to Al Luster?, the question mark meaning they're not sure.
The artwork is pretty good, whoever drew it. No one else had Cole's genius and I'm sure this story would have been even wilder had he drawn it.
Thứ Bảy, 7 tháng 3, 2009
Superboy Saves The Economy!
Just happened across this story last night and I thought it would make a very topical post. In Superboy #59 (September 1957), the Lad of Steel is asked to help out the government with a new missile, called the Mole. As the name implies, it attacks by burrowing underground and then surfacing in enemy territory. The military wants Superboy to track the missile with his x-ray vision to make sure it does not go off course:
However, when Superboy returns to the military base, he does so by burrowing underground. Did the explosion affect him in some weird way, turning him into a mole?
Then the story turns even stranger. Underground, Superboy starts hoarding gold:
He finds ingenious ways to use the gold to help maintain his position underground:
But it's all for a good reason as we learn here:
Ironically, Superboy himself had caused the problem when he was tracking the Mole Missile:
Yep, that reverse-alchemy vision of Superboy's is surely his most useless ability, which may explain why it's one of the superpowers that time forgot.
Superboy fantasizes about what would have happened had he not rectified his mistake:
Sounds depressingly familiar. Maybe the US economy could use a little Superboy stimulus package!
However, when Superboy returns to the military base, he does so by burrowing underground. Did the explosion affect him in some weird way, turning him into a mole?
Then the story turns even stranger. Underground, Superboy starts hoarding gold:
He finds ingenious ways to use the gold to help maintain his position underground:
But it's all for a good reason as we learn here:
Ironically, Superboy himself had caused the problem when he was tracking the Mole Missile:
Yep, that reverse-alchemy vision of Superboy's is surely his most useless ability, which may explain why it's one of the superpowers that time forgot.
Superboy fantasizes about what would have happened had he not rectified his mistake:
Sounds depressingly familiar. Maybe the US economy could use a little Superboy stimulus package!
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