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Post by Duragizer on Dec 19, 2019 23:40:15 GMT -5
"Basil Wolverton"This guy's NUTS!  Explains why he gravitated towards Armstrongism. |
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Post by electricmastro on Dec 20, 2019 17:44:19 GMT -5
Space Smith and Stardust the Super Wizard by Fletcher Hanks from Fantastic Comics #8 (July 1940, Fox Comics).   |
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Post by junkmonkey on Dec 21, 2019 20:40:32 GMT -5
Fletcher Hanks is a somewhat hero of mine - his art anyway. From what I've read he was a bit of an arsehole as a human being. I love his bewilderingly stupid stories which, for the most part, consist of our hero - or heroine, he created Fantoma too - standing idly by while a grotesque villain puts into plan some monstrously destructive plan (usually involving bombing New York to rubble by massed aeroplane attack) before stepping in, when the bodies of innocent victims are knee deep, and biffing the bad-guys into some surreal hellish endless punishment with a casual ease that makes it look as difficult as tying a shoelace. Why didn't you do that 20 panels ago, before quarter of a million innocent people got murdered, you prick?! Seriously weird shit.
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Post by electricmastro on Dec 21, 2019 22:10:39 GMT -5
Dan Hastings from Star Comics #3 (May 1937, Dynamic Comics). Art by Fred Guardineer.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 22, 2019 13:36:00 GMT -5
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 22, 2019 23:13:06 GMT -5
I guess my favorite early comic SF title would be Spacehawk by Basil Wolverton. Lots of great aliens and imaginative machines! A lot of the others were very influenced by the Frank R. Paul pulp covers for their machinery, where as Basil seemed perhaps to draw more from household appliances of the time.   Agreed on Spacehawk... I have the Dark Horse reprints, a very entertaining title. Wolverton was definitely a bit off-kilter in his style. Instantly recognizable though... as a kid I loved the covers that he did for DC's PLOP! mag. |
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Post by electricmastro on Dec 24, 2019 2:22:30 GMT -5
More Basil Wolverton alien designs from Amazing Mystery Funnies #22 (July 1940, Centaur Comics).  |
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Post by Confessor on Dec 24, 2019 3:42:35 GMT -5
Basil Wolverton's so great. From Mystic #6, "The Eye of Doom"...  |
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Post by electricmastro on Dec 24, 2019 23:47:36 GMT -5
From Brad Spencer--Wonderman in Mystery Comics #3 (October 1944, Nedor Comics). Art by Bob Oksner.  |
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Post by profh0011 on Dec 25, 2019 10:08:15 GMT -5
WOW!! My favorite Bob Oskner are was on JERRY LEWIS. However, this page also reminds me of an early page from Tom Sutton on CAPTAIN MAR-VELL, between the bukldings and the color scheme.
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 25, 2019 11:55:44 GMT -5
From Brad Spencer--Wonderman in Mystery Comics #3 (October 1944, Nedor Comics). Art by Bob Oksner. Love that story... |
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Post by electricmastro on Dec 25, 2019 14:08:57 GMT -5
And now for a Nedor page from Jetta #5 (December, 1952), which is basically like Archie Andrews comics, but set in the future. It could also be described as The Jetsons before The Jetsons even existed. Art by Dan DeCarlo.  |
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Post by Farrar on Jan 12, 2020 11:50:44 GMT -5
Dick Giordano illustrated that Space Adventures #7 story...and a few months later here's Giordano work in the story "I Went to My Own Funeral" in S trange Suspense Stories #16:  |
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Post by Farrar on Jan 12, 2020 11:55:54 GMT -5
And a bit earlier than both of those Charlton stories was this from EC's Weird Science #14 from 1952, in which an Earth guy journeys to another planet where he ends up marrying a beauty. Art by Wally Wood!  Only he didn't realize that on that planet, at maturity women eventually evolve into men and vice versa.  These stories were around the time when Christine Jorgensen was in the news. |
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Post by electricmastro on May 16, 2020 14:44:47 GMT -5
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