Number 1484: Swastika over New York!

The Boy Commandos spent the World War II years kicking Axis butt, and in the postwar era they spent at least part of their time kicking surviving Nazi butt. Nazis were a great subject for comics — and fiction in general — in those years directly after the war. In real life many top Nazis had escaped justice after the Allied victory, and there were always those persistent rumors that Hitler was still alive.

“Swastika Over New York” is from Boy Commandos #29 (1948). Art is by Curt Swan and Steve Brodie, according to the Grand Comics Database...which also makes a guess the story is by France Herron.

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Here is another postwar Boy Commando story, this time about Hitler. Click on the thumbnail.

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Number 1483: The Moon-Struck Unicorn by George Carlson

It’s been a long time since I showed anything by cartoonist/illustrator George Carlson, and it’s time to make amends with a couple more zany tales from the master. Carlson, as I’ve mentioned before in this blog, was an old-timer, a cartoonist like Ed Wheelan, drawing funny pictures many years before comic books were invented.

During the run of Jingle Jangle Comics Carlson usually contributed two stories per issue. In this issue, #13 (1945), he gives us a moon-struck unicorn with a worn-out shadow, and another short story of his Pie-Face Prince of Pretzleburg.

After you read the stories I have links to two other posts featuring Carlson.

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Click on the pictures for more Carlson craziness. These are from Jingle Jangle Comics #'s 7 and 13 respectively:

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#652 - The latest Phantom - Mandrake combo

This past Thursday was Thanks Giving here in the USA. People got to be with the ones they loved and shared their happiness. It was a period of reflection of who they were and who they were thankful for.

For me it turned out to be really bad as my computer went kaput on the day before ThanksGiving. I got it repaired and I am back now.

This story has the Phantom, Mandrake, Lucifer and of course Narda, Diana and a trio of gun-wielding beauties all in bikinis. 

This strip was forwarded to me by Emile. And here is the original link from where you can download the story.

Enjoy the (belated due to my computer problems) ThanksGiving gift from Emile and send all thanks to him.

Venkit

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Number 1482: Captain Venture and the Land Beneath the Sea

Dan Spiegle was a comic book artist who did his journeyman work mostly for Dell/Gold Key. When Gold Key shut down Spiegle moved on to other publishers, including a stint on Blackhawk for DC, and even working on Hanna-Barbera comics like Scooby-Doo. Spiegle's earliest work was mostly in Westerns, and for a long time he was the go-to artist for television adaptations like Lawman and Maverick.

Spiegle not only drew horse operas, he could draw space operas with equal skill. He drew Space Family Robinson (later Lost in Space, to cash in on the popular TV series which had lifted the premise of Space Family Robinson.) The Captain Venture strip was a backup in Space Family Robinson/Lost in Space, from issues #6 to #30. Later Gold Key reprinted two issues of reprints of these strips. What I’m showing today are the reprints from issue #1 (1968).

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