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"Since New Fun was a tabloid, and the features modelled after newspaper strips, the initial features were mostly 1 page or 1 page with a topper (which in newspapers as here might be placed below the main strip).
New Comics, as a half-tabloid,…"
New Comics, as a half-tabloid,…"
"Thanks, Jeff. It wasn't those, though: I didn't know them! I think the Green Lantern one is likely to have been the model for the Shazam! cover.
The Ka-Zar cover is visually close to The Brave and the Bold #141. It also reminds me of Action Comics…"
The Ka-Zar cover is visually close to The Brave and the Bold #141. It also reminds me of Action Comics…"
"In the Captain's early DC thread, should I post comments on stuff covered more than a couple of days ago as sub-posts on that part of the conversation, or as an ordinary latest comment?"
"I will reply but I'm about to lose my connection, forgive me."
"Other rising genres were romance, funny animals and teen humour. For a good while they were significant components of DC's line. At the turn of the Silver Age Marvel's longest-running properties were "Kid Colt", "Millie the Model" and "Patsy…"
"British comics go back further than American comics. Examples include Comic Cuts, Illustrated Chips and Film Fun. So defining what a comic book is by the standards of Golden Age or Silver Age US comics seems to me wrong."
"The cover of Ka-Zar the Savage #32 might be a homage. It reminds me Shazam! #34, but there might be something closer. Isn't there one where the hero's about to deliver rough justice and the background character is saying "No, x! He's innocent!""
"Re Bucky, reportedly he was really named after a friend of Simon's. There's a character named Bucky Williams in the penultimate S&K instalment of "Blue Bolt", which was done at the same time. Cap's Bucky is introduced in Captain America Comics #1 as…"
""Doctor Occult" was the first horror feature in US comic books. There was a little horror content before it in Mandrake the Magician, but "Doctor Occult" went further than it had at that point. Siegel's later use of horror in "The Spectre" was more…"
"You won't be able to use this one as I can't find evidence, but I remember an Australian TV ad for potato crisps of the 1970s or 1980s that featured a superhero called Captain Snack. The ad depicted him using comics-style panels. He wore a…"
"I had forgotten offering suggestions in this thread. What shocks me is I don't seem to have advocated Captain Desmo, who is so obviously the character I'd think to suggest reviewing a thread where I didn't is like looking into a parallel universe.…"
"The stories from the first two years of "Spy" are comedy-adventure and enjoyable for their high spirits and female co-lead, although the plots are always slight. You might find them worth a look. Siegel and Shuster may have been the only people…"
"Sandman's wirepoon was introduced in Adventure Comics #61, before his costume change. The issue was also the debut of Starman and was reprinted in the Millennium series. The GCD doesn't know who wrote the Sandman one but notes the Millennium edition…"
"To close out, here's a story from Fawcett's first horror issue, This Magazine is Haunted #1 (1951). The artist was Sheldon Moldoff, who devised the title:
And finally, here's a grim story from Ziff-Davis's Weird Thrillers #4 (1952), with a bit…"
And finally, here's a grim story from Ziff-Davis's Weird Thrillers #4 (1952), with a bit…"
"Here's another wild tale from Fawcett, from Worlds of Fear #7 (1952):
And here's a grim one from Worlds of Fear #10 (1953):
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And here's a grim one from Worlds of Fear #10 (1953):
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"ACG was active as a horror publisher prior to the Code. In the Code-era it was an active fantastic stories publisher. Here's a story of musical horror from Adventures into Unknown #59 (1954), one of the later pre-Code issues:
Many issues of ME's…"
Many issues of ME's…"
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