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Post by jason on Aug 10, 2024 16:23:32 GMT -5
Shared on Twitter:  First I’ve heard of this comic. I have read other British action comics - one was called Action - but not the one above. Never heard of Hazel, since these are all tv show based strips I youtubed it and got this: What was THIS doing in an action comic? |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 10, 2024 16:43:03 GMT -5
Shared on Twitter: First I’ve heard of this comic. I have read other British action comics - one was called Action - but not the one above. Never heard of Hazel, since these are all tv show based strips I youtubed it and got this: What was THIS doing in an action comic? Hazell was a British tv series, on ITV, in 1978, starring Nicholas Ball, as a Cockney private detective, based on a series of novels. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 10, 2024 16:47:16 GMT -5
ps From what I found online, about the comic, Hazell was the best-drawn feature in Target. Apparently, it was rather low rent and had a short publishing life. The artist was Harry North...  |
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Post by driver1980 on Aug 10, 2024 16:54:53 GMT -5
I managed to find this:  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 10, 2024 17:25:13 GMT -5
pps For those too young to have seen it (original run or syndicated) Hazel was a decent tv series, with Oscar-winning actress Shirley Booth. It was actually based on a comic, featured in The Saturday Evening Post....  It continued as a syndicated cartoon, after the Saturday Evening Post ceased operations. Booth won two Emmys, playing the character, to go along with her Oscar for Come Back Little Sheba. To me, Booth would always be Hazel and the voice of Mrs Claus, in The Year Without a Santa Claus. |
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Post by jason on Aug 10, 2024 18:01:28 GMT -5
Ah, I see, that extra "L" in the title explains a lot.
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 11, 2024 8:32:28 GMT -5
"Everybody knows" Stan Lee was the first to have Captain America throw his shield. Well that is another bit of accepted history that is wrong. (The story was long promoted by Lee and disciple Roy Thomas. )
Lee did indeed write a two page story in Captain America #3, (required by the US Postal Code) where Cap throws the his shield. The story appears between the second and third stories in that issue. But what do we see in the last Kirby and Simon story in that very issue? Why it's Captain America throwing his shield! Now we can believe one of two things. The young office assistant writes a little story to meet regulations, and Kirby stops in the middle of his 60 page a month workload to read it and incorporate the idea in one of the stories he is doing. OR Stan sees that Kirby art as it came into the office and uses the idea in his short story. Stan's story is in the book before the Kirby story, but there is no way to know what order Kirby and Simon produced them in. Technically Stan's story appears earlier in the book than the K&S one, but really, is that enough to give him credit for inventing this?
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Post by driver1980 on Aug 11, 2024 9:08:11 GMT -5
While we’re discussing UK comics, I do know of Action, which ran from 1975 to 1977 (it was criticised for its violent content). They did release a compendium around 1990/91:  A sample of strips:   I did like “The Steel Claw”:  |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Aug 11, 2024 10:16:58 GMT -5
I think GCD lists the compendium as Big Adventure Book. from 1988. It included Hookjaw and Dredger reprints from Action, and several other reprints from elsewhere. I think Ken Bulmer and Jesus Blasco's Steel Claw was originally published in Valiant in the 1960's. Dez Skinn's Quality Comics published four issues of Steel Claw reprints in the 1980s with covers by Garry Leach. The Lout That Ruled the Rovers was from mid-70s Valiant. Other memorable series in Action included the Rollerball rip-off Death Game 1999, which Tom Tully wrote before 2000 AD's Harlem Heroes and Mean Arena, Look Out For Lefty, also by Tully, which was criticized for showing football supporters throwing bottles on to the pitch, and Kids Rule OK, which featured a yob swinging a chain towards a fallen policeman on one memorable cover.    |
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Post by driver1980 on Aug 11, 2024 11:09:38 GMT -5
think GCD lists the compendium as Big Adventure Book. from 1988. It included Hookjaw and Dredger reprints from Action, and several other reprints from elsewhere. I think Ken Bulmer and Jesus Blasco's Steel Claw was originally published in Valiant in the 1960's. Dez Skinn's Quality Comics published four issues of Steel Claw reprints in the 1980s with covers by Garry Leach. The Lout That Ruled the Rovers was from mid-70s Valiant. Other memorable series in Action included the Rollerball rip-off Death Game 1999, which Tom Tully wrote before 2000 AD's Harlem Heroes and Mean Arena, Look Out For Lefty, also by Tully, which was criticized for showing football supporters throwing bottles on to the pitch, and Kid's Rule OK, which featured a yob swinging a chain towards a fallen policeman on one memorable cover. Thank you for the corrections and clarifications. I must say, I’d probably be keen to revisit The Steel Claw. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 11, 2024 11:40:48 GMT -5
I'm looking for the issue of Warrior, that featured "SS Death Camp-Criminal Battalion Go to Monte Casino For The Massacre."  Sadly, it appears that all copies were torn up by crazed medical students with stars embedded in their foreheads.  When I first heard of Warrior magazine, I thought it was the comic in the episode and a war comic, until I saw it and learned that Miracleman and V For Vendetta first appeared there (and Laser Eraser and Pressbutton, who were also reprinted, by Eclipse). Once I knew more about British comics of the period, especially the DC Thomson stuff, I understood more of the satire. I was aware that the UK still had lot of war comics and could tell by the title that it was a joke, but wasn't sure if they had used a real comic or not. Given some of the stuff in 2000 AD, I wasn't sure if that was a satirical strip or something they made up for the episode, at first. You couldn't see the title, so I thought it might have been a real comic, but a fake title, for the joke. This blog.... has an article with screen captures and enlargements which show that it was a fake exterior, possible pasted onto an existing comic. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 12, 2024 13:23:40 GMT -5
Twelve years ago today, we lost the legendary Joe Kubert.  His legacy loves on. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2024 16:42:40 GMT -5
Twelve years ago today, we lost the legendary Joe Kubert. His legacy loves on. -M Cheers to that, I feel like he elevated the game, left us such a rich body of work to continue to enjoy, and a shout out as well to his legacy of education with the Kubert School (my daughter even took a class with his granddaughter Emma there!). |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 12, 2024 17:15:51 GMT -5
It's a rough date for comic creators, we lost Mike Wieringo and Mark Gruenwald on this date (different years) as well.
-M
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 16, 2024 23:14:14 GMT -5
So, just stumbled across these. I am sure I had seen them before at some point, but probably while going through one of the Toth Genius books when I was on sensory overload and what they were didn't stick with me. These are 3 pieces of concept art Alex Toth did circa 1981 for Hanna Barbera for a Dial H for Hero animated series, that HB eventually passed on.    I've not really read much of the Dial H stuff in any of its incarnations, but if this cartoon had come out circa '81 or '82, I would have watched the hell out of it. -M |
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