Number 254Dead man's chestBob Oksner sure could draw cute girls. He could draw anything, actually, and was one of DC Comics' best caricaturists. He drew both Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope comics for years, because he had a good [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Hai, 28 tháng 1, 2008
Number 253Operation MonsterHere's a doctor who thinks it's a good idea to hide his surgical mistakes in the attic. Instead, he should've kept up his malpractice insurance."Operation Monster" is from Harvey Comics' Chamber [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 25 tháng 1, 2008
Number 252Alan J. Hanley was a real GoodguyThe late Alan J. Hanley was a talented cartoonist/writer who self-published in the 1960s and '70s. He loved Captain Marvel and funny animal comics of the 1940s, and his comic strips [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Tư, 23 tháng 1, 2008
Number 251Who dunnit? Fred dunnit!Fred Guardineer, one of the best of the early comic book artists, turns in another excellent job with this "Who Dunnit" feature from Crime Does Not Pay #57, November 1947.Don't worry, Fredfans, [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Hai, 21 tháng 1, 2008
Number 250Some people call him the Space Cowboy…It's Pappy's #250, and to mark the occasion I'm bringing you an entire issue of one of the most screwball science-fiction comics ever. Charlton's Space Western Comics was a [...]
Lessons in Bad Characterization: Brave & Bold #64
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Bảy, 19 tháng 1, 2008
The Brave & Bold team-up stories of the 1960s pose a problem for Batman fans. They're bad, but that's not really the crux; there were many bad stories during the Batman Silver Age. The problem is that they were created [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 18 tháng 1, 2008
Number 249Tales Too Terrible To TellTales Too Terrible To Tell is a magazine published from 1989 to 1993 dedicated to reprints of old horror comics. It's the old "so bad it's good" syndrome. Or even, "so bad it's really [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Tư, 16 tháng 1, 2008
Number 248"Me and Whizzer McGee…"Phantasmo, who appeared in Dell Comics' The Funnies #45-63 back in the early 1940s, was really Phil Anson. Thanks to some training by some lamas in Tibet Phil could leave his body, become [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Hai, 14 tháng 1, 2008
Number 247Shriek of ArabyThis past weekend Karswell showed us a gruesome horror story by Howard Nostrand from 1954. In the story I'm showing from Harvey Comics' Flip #2, also from 1954, Nostrand tries his hand at humor and [...]
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 11 tháng 1, 2008
Number 246Supermouse and the Timid GiantWhat would writers do without fairy tales, nursery rhymes or folk tales? Probably have to actually look for a plot beyond Mother Goose or the Brothers Grimm. The surprise is in the [...]
