Number 1372: Dastardly drugmaker vs phighting pharmacist!

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 24 tháng 5, 2013

I give Black Terror some credit for having an unusual secret identity for a costumed hero. He was Bob Benton, a pharmacist. We don’t think of those guys as crime fighters as such. But I knew a pharmacist who wasn't afraid of crooks. He was my former pharmacist, Mark, who was 5'3" and slight of build, and who took off across a parking lot after a man who had just stuck him up for Oxycontin. Mark didn't need a mask or cape; he had a golf club, a flapping white pharmacist's jacket, and righteous anger. He was able to subdue the robber, whose drug habit had apparently left him unable to get far by running. The story made the local news and when I asked Mark about it he said, “When he gave up he asked me, ‘do you think you could give me a half dozen Oxys before I go to jail?’” I’m not sure even Black Terror could have handled the situation better than Mark.

Black Terror, and his young buddy, Tim, get on the bad side of ex-con, drug inventor Sinistro, who has created a drug to bring out the animal in man. My feeling about people with such talents using them for crime has been mentioned in the past. Anyone who could come up with such a drug could make a fortune peddling it to a drug company. It’s better than stealing. It just doesn’t make for good comic books.

From America’s Best Comics #2 (1942):















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Number 1371: Babes gone bad

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Tư, 22 tháng 5, 2013

In crime comics bad girls were usually blonde, and they wore red dresses. Those things translate to scarlet women. Not only are such females criminals, but they probably have spent many nights standing under lamp posts luring innocent guys to moral doom. Trust crime comics to warn us of the evils of blonde hair and red dresses.

“The Female Of the Species” is from Fawcett’s Down With Crime #5 (1952). Art by Maurice Gutwirth (?); “Marie Swain, ‘Rod-Baby!’” is from Avon’s Gangsters and Gunmolls #3 (1952). Artist unknown. (Also unknown is why in one panel Marie is called Sally.)

















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Number 1370: Doiby’s ruint derby

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Hai, 20 tháng 5, 2013

Paul Reinman was an American comic book journeyman who was born in Germany and emigrated to the U.S. at a young age. He worked in comics from at least the early forties to the mid-seventies. His work is instantly recognizable, and he drew thousands of pages over a long career.

Green Lantern was one of the features he worked on during his time at DC in the 1940s. This entertaining story, which takes place in the time of King Arthur, is a pretty good example of the DC superheroes of the era whose time ended in 1949, only to be revived in different form about ten years later. By then Reinman was long gone from DC, working at Marvel, ACG and Archie. Reinman died in 1988, at age 78.

Doiby Dickles was Green Lantern’s sidekick, supposed comic relief. I find the character annoying, like I did the Three Stooges knockoffs who showed up with The Flash in his comics. I suppose they were there so the main character had someone to talk to, like Woozy Winks in the Plastic Man stories. The difference was Woozy Winks was actually funny.

From All-American Comics #72 (1946):














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D142. Tarzan and The Fox - 1964-03-30 (7699) to 1964-05-09 (7734) - 36 days

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Chủ Nhật, 19 tháng 5, 2013

I am presenting here the latest Tarzan daily strip that just concluded its reprint run yesterday. The story is "Tarzan and The Fox". Classic art by John Celardo.

As usual it goes without saving that this comes from the collection of Emile. So all thanks and credit are owed to Emile.

Download the strip from here

Enjoy,

Venkitachalam
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Number 1369: Tarzan the spider-man

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Last time we saw Tarzan he was helping Queen La take over a lost city of cavemen (Pappy's #1333). Today we have another Dell Tarzan story featuring another queen, another lost city, and a really big spider.

After you read the story, read our favorite œconomist, Daniel, and his explanation for why spiders cannot get this big, from a comment to the blog, Four Color Shadows.

“The Webs of Arrack” was written by Gaylord DuBois and drawn by Jesse Marsh. From Tarzan #25 (1951):

























More Tarzan stories. Just click the pics.

Happy 100th birthday, Tarzan:


















Jungle Déjà Vu:
















 Tarzan boy:

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