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#020.Comics based on Indian Mythology

Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Năm, 5 tháng 6, 2008

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Number 319



Tom Gill's Haunted Honeymoon



Tom Gill, who died in 2005 at age 92, was a longtime--very longtime--comic book artist. His chief claim to fame was drawing Dell's The Lone Ranger for over 20 years. He began drawing the series with issue #38, August 1951. Here is a two-page sequence from that issue, showing his strong sense of composition and solid drawing technique.


"Haunted Honeymoon,"* from Boris Karloff's Thriller #1, October 1962, showed he could draw something besides six-guns and horses. It's an enjoyable, lightweight fantasy about a newlywed couple getting advice from an older couple…who just happen to be dead. It was probably inspired by Thorne Smith's Topper. Jokes about wedding night stiffs will be cheerfully ignored.


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*Yes, I'm aware this title was used for a movie with Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner.

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#019.Some missing Indrajal comics' covers

Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Ba, 3 tháng 6, 2008

There are scans of "Anurag Dixit". All thanks & credits for providing rare pearls go to him .
Enjoy.

9-1964-Phantom-Thugs in Denkali


11-1965-Phantom-The Phantom's Treasure


12-1965-Phantom-The Phantom is Chained



19-1965-Phantom-Moogoo's Dolls


162-1972-Phantom-The Diamond Mountain: Soundless Voices


170-1972-Phantom-Deadly Trio

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Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Hai, 2 tháng 6, 2008


Number 318



Who R U?



Two four-page stories by Joe Sinnott. Both titles begin with the word "Who," both appear to be cast with the same leading man (although he's wearing a Kirk Douglas chin-dimple in the second). The first, "Who Is Nokki?" was published in Journey Into Unknown Worlds #54, and "Who Steals My Brain" is from Mystic #51, both post-code Atlas Comics, dated a month apart: November and December 1956 respectively.

"Who Steals My Brain" is a sort of Atlas/Marvel signature story, where aliens come to earth to check us out and then decide not to invade because of some attribute of humans they don't understand or that scares them. It's a good thing all of those hundreds of alien races who did the reconnoitering before invasion and backed out didn't get together and join up to kick some Earth ass.

Good, effective art from Joe, who is one of my all-time favorites from the Atlas/Marvel gang.










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Worst Cover Ever?

Người đăng: Unknown on Chủ Nhật, 1 tháng 6, 2008



This is about as bad as they get. Let's start with the "non-action shot. Yes, old Lash may look menacing with the whip coiled in his hand, but it's not very dynamic. Second, note the plain white background. Third, look at the body proportions; there's something very weird about that left hand--it looks like a bad cut and paste job,

Fourth, look at the inscription: To All My Pals, Sincerely, Lash LaRue. Lash was never eloquent and flowery in his inscriptions, but he does manage to convey an image of sincerity. Fifth, look at the perhaps ominous blurb at the top, "More Pages of Stories".

Lash LaRue made it through to #46 for Fawcett, and then was picked up by Charlton for another 38 issues, so it made it through the entire decade of the 1950s. The series was based on an actual Western actor whose shtick was that he could really use the bullwhip for which he became famous. According to Wikipedia:

La Rue also made frequent personal appearances at small-town movie theaters that were showing his films during his heyday of 1948-1951, becoming the only cowboy star most children of the time ever got to see and meet in person. His skillful displays of stunts with his whip, done live on movie theater stages, also convinced young western fans that there was at least one cowboy hero who could do in real life the same things he did on screen.


Here's a clip from the climactic battle in a Lash LaRue western:



You know what that reminds me of? All the martial arts movies of the 1970s!
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