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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 4, 2015 21:42:51 GMT -5
I'm thinking about this for the Comics Reading Challenge, and I'm having a hard time coming up with ongoing "Fantasy" comics published pre-1970. Stuff like Jingle Jangle Tales is "Children's Humor" to me, and I guess I consider "Knight" comics - Valor, Black Knight, Silent Knight, etc... a genre unto themselves, more historical fiction then fantasy.
Plenty of individual STORIES, sure, especially post-code, and I can think of a few comic STRIPS but I can't think of any ongoing fantasy series published in comic books
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2015 22:00:23 GMT -5
I'd be interested to see what anyone comes up with. Some of those old strips are very comic book like though. I'm thinking of getting into Prince Valiant. I just got a library card and they have a nice stack of the hardcovers. At the price though, if I like volume one, I'll probably just start buying them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2015 23:14:40 GMT -5
More strip than comic book, but Little Nemo in Slumberland was an ongoing fantasy series for 21 or so years. A lot depends on how you define fantasy though.
Tarzan while a jungle comic is a fantasy comic as well with lots of fantastic elements such as lost civilizations, remnants of fallen Atlantis etc.
John Carter appeared regularly in Dell Four Color as well, and planetary romance is a sub-genre of fantasy. In that vein Flash Gordon would also be a fantasy comic, i.e. space fantasy, a sub-genre of fantasy as well.
Most pre-70 fantasy series were anthologies rather than one ongoing feature though. Fantasy saw a massive surge in popularity through the 60s though, with Tolkien and sword and sorcery paperbacks gaining a lot of traction in the market and that really didn't trickle into comics until the 70s. At most you had fantasy themed super-heroes a la Dr. Strange where you had a fantastic mystical milieu as the backdrop for semi-super-heroic fiction.
-M
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 5, 2015 11:21:26 GMT -5
Charlton's Hercules comes to mind, and DC's Nightmaster in one issue of Showcase.
ACG's anthologies tended to include whimsical fantasy stories.
At Marvel, the Arkon story in Avengers and the Serpent Crown story in Sub-Mariner introduced some fantasy elements into their superhero universe.
If you can find them, there was a Mexican comic book starring Conan and Belit in the 50s and 60s - La Reina de la Costa Negra (The Queen of the Black Coast).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2015 14:17:45 GMT -5
Nightmaster had a 3 issue run in Showcase, not one. 84-86 I want to say.
-M
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Post by MDG on Aug 5, 2015 15:02:50 GMT -5
Depending what you consider fantasy, Gold Key titles like Turok and Mighty Samson...
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Post by gothos on Aug 5, 2015 15:49:46 GMT -5
Don't forget Kubert's VIKING PRINCE! i've never read the series in sequence, but one essay asserted that it starts out as historical fiction, with the Prince fighting mundane menaces, and then shifts into full frontal fantasy, where the hero battles sorcerous villains like "the Ice King."
I think Conan was being revived in special limited printings by Arkham Press roughly in the same era the Prince got going, for what that's worth.
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Post by berkley on Aug 5, 2015 17:07:53 GMT -5
Eerie and Creepy must have included a few fantasy stories in their pre-1970 issues, I imagine.
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Post by MDG on Aug 5, 2015 20:36:57 GMT -5
Eerie and Creepy must have included a few fantasy stories in their pre-1970 issues, I imagine. Yes, most issues through the Goodwin era had at least one. Ditko did a couple of very good fantasy stories at Warren. |
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