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Number 426


Santa Claus in trouble!


Ever have one of those nightmares? You're trying to go to work but you can't find your car, and while you're looking you're getting later and later, and things get more and more hopeless...I've had a few of those dreams. Santa Claus, at least in this story from Santa Claus Funnies #1, 1942, isn't having a nightmare; he can't find his sled and reindeer for real! On Christmas Eve, yet. Tsk. I guess he needs to get a better sled alarm system or something.


This is the first of four consecutive Thursdays featuring Christmas stories, finishing up on Thursday, December 25.













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Check out the classic "Santa in Wonderland" story featured in Pappy's #231 from 2007. It's a great story that got a lot of play around the Internet.
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Lois Lane's Other Signal Watch

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Heh, just happened to be reading another Lois Lane issue (#38, January 1963), and sure enough, there's another story about Lois with a signal watch, this time given to Lois by a phony Superman. Check out all the plot holes in this story:



Yep, a famous mobster left her a letter five years ago, but noble Lois and Perry haven't opened it, because, after all, the instructions said to wait five years.

But another mobster has long suspected that Gorcey had left information on the location of his loot with Lois, and has been bugging the Daily Planet for five years in the hopes that it would payoff eventually. So he gets one of his goons to have plastic surgery to look like Superman, and the fake gives Lois a signal watch, which will, of course, summon the mobsters when she locates the treasure.

So Lois opens the letter two days later, and learns the loot is hidden in a cave. She goes there to confirm it, and then signals "Superman" with her watch. When the crooks arrive, they start shooting:



Trapping Lois under debris. But (amazingly) the stalactites falling changed the frequency of the signal watch so that it summons Supergirl. She saves Lois and captures the crook. And at the end, they hold out hope that Lois may yet get a (third) signal watch:



I checked the next few issues, but there were no letters from readers clamoring for Lois to get her own means of summoning Superman.
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Number 425


Wally Wood gets into the Spirit


The story of the last few weeks of The Spirit are told in this excellent book from Kitchen Sink Press, published in 1983. After a run of a dozen years the Spirit Section wound down, but did it with a flourish. Wally Wood stepped in, and over a script with layouts from Jules Feiffer, did a well illustrated sequence of the Spirit on the moon.

This sequence is from the original art, which I culled from one of my forays onto the Internet, pirating--errrrrr--I mean saving online artwork and comic book stories. With this you see the rich texture that Wally Wood added to every panel he drew. It didn't always come out in the printing of the era; comics were cranked out on huge high-speed web presses. But he had a lot of pride in his work and it showed. Wood also did the lettering, which like his drawing, is instantly recognizable.







As a bonus, and especially for our Spanish speaking Pappy's readers, here's a story from El Spirit #19, published in Mexico in the late 1970s.








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Number 424



Star Pirate again



This story is scanned from Man O'Mars #1, an IW reprint comic book from 1958, reprinting a one-shot Fiction House comic book from 1953, also named Man O'Mars. It in turn was comprised mostly of reprints from 1940s Planet Comics. It's where I lost the trail on this story.

I showed you the only other Star Pirate strip from my collection here. The earlier story, from 1946, was signed by Murphy Anderson. This one isn't signed, and the art is a bit more polished, so it could be Murphy later on, after he'd worked more at this craft.

What I like about this story is its look at the future based on its present. It's grounded in its 1940s origins. The devices seem exotic, but also contemporary. There was a mythology that grew up during and after World War II about "the world of the future," which looked a lot like the 1940s, but with science-fiction looking labor-saving devices, houses, and personal transportation. That mythology of the future didn't include the mythology of centaurs, though, which also appear in this story.








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