Crimebuster
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 6, 2014 17:32:20 GMT -5
Yeah, I just got this last year. Boy was I surprised to find it was full of Tomahawk reprints! Still, I didn't pay much and the cover is cool.
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Post by Action Ace on Nov 6, 2014 19:36:49 GMT -5
 Mom bought this for me. It was all Tomahawk reprints.  However, I did like a couple of the stories and I still have it. What? No Superman at all? What a bait-and-switch. He does appear in the framing sequence pages illustrated by Curt Swan. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 6, 2014 22:06:18 GMT -5
I was old enough not to have fallen for this...but I did:
I totally thought the whole book was going to be in the style of this cover and I thought it was going to be the greatest ever...but it wasn't
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 6, 2014 23:49:23 GMT -5
Little Ish saw this cover on the newstands and had images of a Godzilla-sized Batman smashing Gotham in the most spectacular action packed story ever imagined. Robin squashed like a bug, Commissioner Gordon buried under a toppled skyscrapper, the JLA called into action in a desperate attempt to halt the destruction. Then I read the story. Then I wrote a nasty letter to the editor  |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 7, 2014 7:33:43 GMT -5
I got one issue of Tomahawk where he meets a Neanderthal who's the last of his kind hiding in a cave in New England. And he has a pet pterodactyl. That...that sounds like the best story ever. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 7, 2014 11:14:54 GMT -5
I got one issue of Tomahawk where he meets a Neanderthal who's the last of his kind hiding in a cave in New England. And he has a pet pterodactyl. That...that sounds like the best story ever. It's the only issue of Tomahawk I've ever owned, though I think I've read one or two other Tomahawk stories in reprints. It's Tomahawk #109. The Comic Book Database says the Neanderthal story was written by Bill Finger.
I was going to post the cover but I couldn't find it on the Internet! (The Comic Book Database has a blank space where the cover should be.) But I did find a cover from the same era that shows how WACKY DC Comics were in the mid- to late-1960s:
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 7, 2014 11:39:42 GMT -5
I haven't read the caveman story in Tomahawk for a long time, but I just glanced through it. Wow! It's a whole flock of pterodactyls, not just one. The caveman's name is Gog and the British are forcing him to help them because they have taken the pterodactyl eggs and are threatening to destroy them!
Well, Tomahawk and the Rangers step in and save the eggs and so Gog becomes their friend. And the Rangers attack a British war ship while riding the pterodactyls. And Gog dies at the end, blowing up the ship. So sad.
I think I said it was New England earlier but I didn't actually see any geographical indications of where this story takes place. I'm going to read it a little more carefully. (I can't believe I never noticed this was a Bill Finger story!)
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 7, 2014 11:51:40 GMT -5
It boggles my mind that Tomahawk lasted until 1972. And the last regular artist was ... Frank Thorne!
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 7, 2014 12:05:56 GMT -5
It boggles my mind that Tomahawk lasted until 1972. And the last regular artist was ... Frank Thorne! The Son of Tomahawk series that replaced the regular Tomahawk strip at the end of the run is the part I am interested in. I'm slowly putting together a run of it. The stories take place when Tomahawk is much older - maybe in his 60's or even early 70's - and he has moved to the frontier, married a native woman and has a grown son named Hawk. All the covers are by Joe Kubert.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2014 15:24:48 GMT -5
I present...Tomahawk #109  -M |
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 7, 2014 16:03:14 GMT -5
Green Lantern 33  I didn't realize until I read the issue that Batman wasn't in it! I had no idea it was just a gimmick cover until after i got home! Here's another Green Lantern comic that has no Batman at all:  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 7, 2014 17:55:58 GMT -5
It boggles my mind that Tomahawk lasted until 1972. And the last regular artist was ... Frank Thorne! The Son of Tomahawk series that replaced the regular Tomahawk strip at the end of the run is the part I am interested in. I'm slowly putting together a run of it. The stories take place when Tomahawk is much older - maybe in his 60's or even early 70's - and he has moved to the frontier, married a native woman and has a grown son named Hawk. All the covers are by Joe Kubert. Well worth reading. Great art on the covers and inside. Tomahawk himself is a little bit too geezerish as Thorne draws him, but that book's heart is definitely in the right place. The later Tomahawk issues, when Adams did a batch of covers and Thorne did the interiors, are also good. If you liked Son of, you'll appreciate those, too. (Although I am a sucker for Fred Ray's art, too.) Tomahawk sure did hang in there for a while, didn't he? Continuously published for about 25 years, with long runs on the cover of Star Spangled and 20 years in his own title: nothing to sneeze at. (Even a snuff-induced sneeze). |
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 7, 2014 17:59:29 GMT -5
I haven't read the caveman story in Tomahawk for a long time, but I just glanced through it. Wow! It's a whole flock of pterodactyls, not just one. The caveman's name is Gog and the British are forcing him to help them because they have taken the pterodactyl eggs and are threatening to destroy them! Well, Tomahawk and the Rangers step in and save the eggs and so Gog becomes their friend. And the Rangers attack a British war ship while riding the pterodactyls. And Gog dies at the end, blowing up the ship. So sad. I think I said it was New England earlier but I didn't actually see any geographical indications of where this story takes place. I'm going to read it a little more carefully. (I can't believe I never noticed this was a Bill Finger story!) Tomahawk is a little-known treat. I love the series. No rules, no limits, nothing too weird, and yet it all works. A little Sgt. Fury, a little Jack Schiff SF, a smidgen of Silver Age super-heroics, the War that Time Forgot every other issue, later on relevance by the powderhorn-ful, and a Revolutionary War setting that was more than a little flexible: what could be better? |
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Post by fuzzyblueelf on Nov 12, 2014 18:03:08 GMT -5
 Wow so Optimus is going to become humongous in this issue? and is that Starscream he's crushing!? Yeah none of that happened. |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 12, 2014 18:12:36 GMT -5
Wow so Optimus is going to become humongous in this issue? and is that Starscream he's crushing!? Yeah none of that happened. It also didn't end up being a 4 issue limited series  |
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