Number 840
Tom and Peggy go to Venus
You've been on tenterhooks waiting for the conclusion to this Time Travelers opus after reading part one last week, haven't you? Operation: Peril #2, from 1951, picks up the story, crazy as it is.
Speaking of crazy stories, if you haven't had your fill, you can read another Time Travelers story from Operation: Peril #11 that I posted just over two years ago in Pappy's #399. In that posting I also answered a reader's query as to why I call some stories screwball. That story certainly qualified as screwball, as this does.
2 comments:
Yup, this is one loopy tale with no cliche unturned!
They went way out of their way to avoid showing Harry Truman's face! It's worst at page 2, panel 2: very bad composition (the portraits of Washington, a rather shifty Lincoln, and FDR; the huge dialogue balloon; and Truman's forehead - is he sinking in quicksand?).
I always noticed when comics tried to obscure the then-president's face, especially when everything else (profile, hair style, etc.) pointed to the White House occupant at the time the comic came out. I don't know if that was a sign of respect or not. Probably not, but it was another odd custom of comic books I used to wonder about as a kid.
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