Captain 3D and Star War - 3D

Hello Comic lovers, It gives me great pleasure to present you next comics in the series of 3D comics. This was published by Star Comics Delhi who were pioneers of 3D comics in India. However due to poor stories and high costs this gener of comics soon disappeared. This is one of the prime examples. The title says Captain-3D but you won't find him anywhere in the book. :) . Story also is poor. The 3D illustrations are however good. I hope you like the Comic.
You will need a 3D anaglyph pair of glasses to read this comic. It has red glass on one eye and blue glass on the other. These glasses are available on ebay for as little as Rs 50 or below.







Credits:

Scanned by : IUnknown
Cleaning of Cover and non 3D pages : Prabhat

I hope you enjoy the comic.

Coming Soon : Tarzan - Rescue at Mount Talamuna 3D

Lorna, The Jungle Girl #11

This comic arguably fits in better with the Golden Age, although its cover date is January 1955. "Women in the jungle" comics were extraordinarily popular during the 1940s and 1950s; it's not hard to guess that the appeal was the scantily-clad appearance of the females in question.

As the first story begins, Lorna spots the fierce Abaku tribe out to capture the peaceful Quaqui people and sacrifice them to their evil gods. As she rushes off to warn the Quaqui, she accidentally comes between a mother ape and her baby:

Mikki distracts the mother and Lorna and the monkey escape. As they head towards the Quaqui, Lorna muses that the mother was ready to die for her baby, just as she herself must be prepared to give her life for the Quaqui. She arrives as the battle begins and realizing that the peaceful villagers are no match for the Abaku warriors, she makes a bargain:

As she is about to be carried off to the sacrificial temple, she makes one request:

Things look bad for Lorna:

But Mikki unties her bonds and Greg, refusing to accept Lorna's argument that she made a bargain, comes up with an alternative sacrifice for the gods:

In the end, we learn that Greg, for all his admirable qualities, is just a little sexist:

Comments: Wow! Terrific characterization for Lorna, who really was quite prepared to sacrifice herself. Note as well her compassion for the mother ape. Granted, the Quaqui by analogy are the equivalent of her babies, but they are drawn by Werner Roth in a non-racist manner.

In the second story a "typhoon" (really a cyclone or tornado) is carrying off all the strongest men and animals in the jungle. Lorna discovers who is behind it here:

It carries her off to a hidden valley where she is attacked by a giant lizard and other things:

Eventually, she and Mikki end up atop a mesa with Greg, the strongest warriors and a few savage beasts. But then Chiga comes to see what happened to them, and Lorna commands him to transport them all back to the jungle. Later, Lorna tells Greg that Chiga agreed because he feels she's the strongest person in the jungle:

Comments: Silly story but I love the art by Roth again and the ending is amusing.

The third story is a backup featuring the "Jungle Adventures of Greg Knight". Greg is forced to kill a mother lioness when she attacks him in defense of her cubs. Now that the cubs are defenseless, Greg adopts them, knowing that the lioness' mate will come after him. That night, the lion attacks Greg's native assistant and carries him off. Greg follows and the cubs (who have gotten free of their cage) trail him. As the lion and Greg battle it out, he spots the cubs about to go over a cliff:

The lion, impressed by Greg's saving of his young, leaves him alone and carries off the cubs.

Comments: Entertaining story with art by Al Hartley, who would later become known for his Christian comics work.

The finale is Moon Madness. A pair of hoodlums try to take over Greg's animal refuge, but when the full moon comes up, all the animals go mad, and nearly kill the crooks. Lorna saves the criminals from certain death and eventually the moon goes behind a mountain, calming the jungle. What happened?

Comments: Note in particular that Lorna is not shy about expressing her affection for Greg. This completes the role reversal which has her as the most powerful creature in the jungle, and Greg as, well, kind of a wimp.

Overall I found the issue very entertaining, with terrific art and solid stories.

Number 813

The "First" Batman

Tattered, worn, battered, torn...Detective Comics #235 rests in a comic book bag in a box in my basement. I lost the cover eons ago. This comic is one I bought in the summer of 1956, just after my ninth birthday, when I took my 50¢ allowance to the drugstore for my weekly ration of comics and a candy bar. I was knocked on my keister by this story, written by Bill Finger and drawn by Bob Kane's ghost, Shelly Moldoff. I didn't know about Finger or Moldoff at the time, obviously. It was the first time I'd seen Batman's origin, and I was impressed. Detective Comics #235 is one of those comics I treated shabbily as a kid with repeated re-readings and mishandling until it ended up like this.

Batman was a favorite character of mine. In 1956 I was considered the neighborhood expert. "Does the Batman fly?" asked my neighbor, Bobby. "No," I said, "Not unless Superman carries him." That was what passed for expert.

This is one of the books I'll keep until they pry it from my cold, dead fingers. Not that anyone else would really want it, being in the poor-minus condition it is. Just so you can see how bad it is, I've scanned it without cleaning it up.

I haven't read any Batman comics in a long time, and no recent stories. When I quit reading I felt that too many hands were working over the character, writing and rewriting the legends.

This beat-up old comic book is a sentimental favorite of mine, as you can probably tell.

"The First Batman" has been reprinted several times. According to the GCD, it's been reprinted in these places:

Batman (DC, 1940 series) #255 (March-April 1974)

Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #4 (Winter 1963)

Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #2

Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1988 series) #nn [1]

Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #nn [1]

Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (Warner Books, 1989 series) #nn

My additions to the list:

Batman: Secrets Of The Batcave (2007)

Batman: The Black Casebook (2009)

Mask Bawl (FANTASTIC FELIX FRIDAY!)

We interrupt our regularly scheduled tales of screaming bloody horror for-- FANTASTIC FELIX FRIDAY! A one-of-a-kind, groundbreaking internet event where eight bloggers of historical comic material join forces in support of "Felix: The Great Comic Book Tails" (IDW/Yoe! Books), a beautiful hardback, full color, art book that lovingly collects the best of brilliant Felix the Cat comic book stories from the 1940s and 50s. In an enthusiastic, united effort, classic Felix comic stories will be posted on each blog today, Friday September 24th (more details listed below after the story.) Some of the "tails" seen on the blogs are from the new book, and some are from the bloggers personal collections of comics featuring Felix. So fear not THOIA freaks, the Felix story that Karswell has picked for you today still features ghosts, witches, dragons, shotgun blasts, etc.

As mentioned above, each blogger is linking to the other participating blogs, creating a Felix Maelstrom of Mirth throughout the blog-o-sphere! The other participating blogs are as follows:

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http://www.fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/

http://www.comicbookbin.com/Beth_Davies-Stofka.html

http://www.comicrazys.com/

http://andeverythingelsetoo.blogspot.com/

http://www.theitchblog.com/

Craig Yoe edited this amazing book, which is jam-packed with rare Felix art, ephemera, animation insights, and, of course, a plethora of comic book stories by Otto Messmer, Joe Oriolo, and Jim Tyer. And Don Oriolo, the son of Joe Oriolo, and head of Felix the Cat Productions, wrote the heartfelt introduction!

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Craig Yoe is an Eisner-winning, Harvey-nominated writer, cartoonist that Vice magazine called "The Indiana Jones of comics historians." Other Yoe! Books include: "Dick Briefer's Frankenstein," "Barney Google: Gambling, Horse Racing, and High-Toned Women," "Dan DeCarlos' Jetta," "The Art of Ditko," "The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics," "The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story," "George Herriman's Krazy & Ignatz in Tiger Tea," "Popeye: The Great Comic Book Tales by Bud Sagendorf," and "The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Story."

D2-039 Flash Without Dale

Art: Dan Barry 

Summary: Returning to New York after the dramatic events surrounding the Skorpi invasion (read D2-038 The Matter Transmitter), a devastated Flash is told by Dale that their relationship is over and that she is going to marry another man.

Having watched Dale drive off with her fiancé, a deflated and confused Flash accidentally ends up on a pleasure satellite, where he is drawn into a dangerous youth culture of fast and careless living where death can snatch you away at any moment...

(Source of summary: www.ipcomics.net) 

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Very thankful to Col. Worobu who sent some missing strips from this series. All credits go to him & "Allen Lane" who scanned and first shared at net.

Number 812

Phantom Fliers

Two important ties to the golden age of comics have been lost with the deaths in 2010 of Frank Frazetta and Al Williamson . Both of them lived a long time and have prodigious bodies of work. Williamson stayed within the relatively small world of the comics, whereas Frazetta went into the larger world and the stratosphere of artistic recognition.

"The Phantom Fliers", from ACG's Out Of The Night #4, in 1952, is credited by the Grand Comics Database as being a Williamson-Frazetta collaboration. It seems rushed, and I'm not seeing much of Frazetta in it. The slapdash nature of some of the artwork may have kept them from signing it. Despite what may have been a hurried job to meet a deadline, I still see things that made Williamson and Frazetta stand out as comic artists. The rest of the issue is done by competent artists from the ACG stable, and is somewhat dull. Despite some artistic shortcomings, "The Phantom Fliers" is not dull, and is the highlight of the issue.