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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

What Would Women Talk About Without Men?

Before you get excited, a text story from the pages of Dizzy Dames is no deeper than its comics pages.

Still this is worth the time to read this one page story from Dizzy Dames #5.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Shock Gibson Meets The Black Cat and Captain Freedom

Shock Gibson is having a hard day. There is a mass of Nazi planes headed for the United Sates, he can't make a quick get away from his First Sargent, and he is quickly finding he is in the kind of trouble he won't live though on his own.

Find out the story behind the cover.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Too Many Boy Friends

Kathy wasn't a romance comics, but it did often have a romantic comedy based plots. The text story below is a bit more serous than the normal Kathy fair, but it fits well for the Season of Love!

From Kathy 11

This story is by Mickey Marks. From what I can piece together he/she spent most of their comics writing career most of his writing for on comedy features. He also worked on on issues of Blue Bolt (Novelty Press) as "Mickey Klar Marks" You can some of the comics he/she wrote for here. Mostly though he embraced the 'funny animal' genre.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Talk about Talkies by Mary Patrick

A little historical object interest from More Fun Comics #10 (May, 1936)

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The Evil Oak

Oooo! Tree Scary!

Here we a a short crime story written by Gardner Fox (Paul Dean) and illustrated by Creig Flessel from Atomic Comics #1, a reprint from Detective Comics #4.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

"The Duel"

From The World Round Us #30....

Art by Unknown

EDIT (10/02/2012): Oh dear, this is a mistake. This comics is from 1960. It isn't golden age at all. Bad filing on my part! Please take Mary Marvel's tears as an apology.

Mary Marvel #4 (1946)

Monday, April 30, 2012

"Lovely Little Mouse" from Campus Love #1

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Panama Boy: Perdo Helps The United Nations

"Panama Boy: Perdo Helps The United Nations" was something of a random aside in Exciting Comics #51.

Here let us call it an artifact in time.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Dr. Mid-Nite Thinks Fast

I try to avoid sharing golden age DC. They already had so much coverage, and so many reprints. But I love Doctor Midnight in all his forms.

So, join the Doc as he faces "Snakey" Scarlotti who is out for revenge! From All Star Comics #6, story by Charles Reizenstein with art by Sheldon Mayer.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Wild Desire (Untamed Love #1, Jan. 1950)

She plumb sick of him!

One last bit of love before the month comes to an end. ♥

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Stories By Famous Authors Illustrated

Stories By Famous Authors illustrated was a 1950s, 13 issues series of adaptations from literature. Stories were usually 32 pages with two or three text stories at the end of the issue. Issues #1 through #5 were reprints of Fast Fiction with different covers, put out a year earlier. Stories By Famous Authors has some great history (and covers) on it's front page,

"This series was first produced by Seaboard Publishing as Fast Fiction and provided competition for the more well known series, Classics Illustrated. The series used some of the same artists as that series, including the well known and very well regarded Henry Carl Keifer. Clearly Albert Kanter, the Father of the Classics Illustrated series wasn’t impressed to have another publisher muscling in on his idea and was also angered that Keifer was also churning out some of the Seaboard stories - Hamlet and She refer - and so Kanter bought the upstart in 1951...In fact, if you own The Red Badge of Courage, number 98 in the Classics Illustrated series, then you have what was planned to be number 14 in the series from Stories by Famous Authors and was purchased by Gilberton at the same time as the purchase of the publishing rights for the 13 issued. That is why The Red Badge is only 32 pages long..."

Famous Authors Illustrated #1 The Scarlet Pimpernel

Famous Authors Illustrated #2 Captain Blood

Famous Authors Illustrated #3 She, art by Vincent Napoli

Famous Authors Illustrated #4 The 39 Steps

Famous Authors Illustrated #5 Beau Geste adaptation by Dick Davis; art by Henry C. Kiefer.

Famous Authors Illustrated #6 Macbeth, adapted by Danna E. Dutch; art by Henry C. Kiefer

Famous Authors Illustrated #7 The Window (text story: The Boy Who Cried Wolf)

Famous Authors Illustrated #8 Hamlet, adapted by Danna E. Dutch; art by Henry C. Kiefer (see it here) (Text stories: The Christophers, The Skeets calls for Skill, and Everyday expressions)

Famous Authors Illustrated #9 Nicholas Nickleby

Famous Authors Illustrated #10 Romeo and Juliet, adapted by Danna E. Dutch; art by Henry C. Kiefer

Famous Authors Illustrated #11 Ben Hur (text stories: The Word of Law, Te Cheating of Hadschi, Escape from War Prison)

Famous Authors Illustrated #12 la Svengali (text stories: William Tell, The First Commandos, The Rajah Takes A Census)

Famous Authors Illustrated #13 Scaramouche