tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317239062024-03-07T00:21:59.123-08:00Pappy's Golden Age Comics BlogzinePappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger2577125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-42630966595671860262022-01-31T00:01:00.003-08:002022-05-06T15:36:42.420-07:00Number 2597: When Madam Fatal could have been arrested<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2YsnfFemFMQswncSUaOkYmK-sSRh1NQF0FkoEetmQu5mR0dsXgHO2KHF3KiY9N0l5vYyUE4VrWKGO_mKsR6paVm2T4cn20lopvxpn3vaPupiCU4G2GycbwiejP65bR6pZlIbNJB9dAHRvcFjnqN6LjvGYoIDXpFX6H_II99hja1RNIx_t9A=s425" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="425" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2YsnfFemFMQswncSUaOkYmK-sSRh1NQF0FkoEetmQu5mR0dsXgHO2KHF3KiY9N0l5vYyUE4VrWKGO_mKsR6paVm2T4cn20lopvxpn3vaPupiCU4G2GycbwiejP65bR6pZlIbNJB9dAHRvcFjnqN6LjvGYoIDXpFX6H_II99hja1RNIx_t9A=w400-h285" width="400" /></a></div><p>It is no secret that the character, Madam Fatal, dressed as an old woman. Madam was risking arrest in several cities, including (or all places) San Francisco. It was illegal for a man or woman in less enlightened times to cross-dress. The actor, Richard Stanton, took up the role as the old woman to help him solve the crime of his daughter’s disappearance.<br /><br />Art Pinajian created the character of Madam Fatal, who appeared in Quality’s <i>Crack Comics</i> #1-22. <br /><br />I've also included a two page story of Slap Happy Pappy, who is yet another Li'l Abner take off. He was created by artist Gill Fox for <i>Crack Comics</i> #1, and continued on after <i>Crack Comics</i> #9 with stories and artwork by Jack Cole. <br /><br />Using a mirror as evidence, I, your aging blogger, Pappy, look more like Slap Happy Pappy every day.<br /><br />From <i>Crack Comics</i> #1 (1940):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj15yAu57yqG9jerE7tutnyS5228qpPBYL6VaZJAIx9QkEEniGRb7DF9RjzjIW4WTB8yxGuL6n_en0sKarkcn-tsKamypEBjskD0kTGqNOX-5xhiu4bp_mX04mfkX7LA__lDGYQoAAbvgFFlrbttJyFFgDXTuU58A_0x2S8E2c1A_IV4LIreQ=s1128" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj15yAu57yqG9jerE7tutnyS5228qpPBYL6VaZJAIx9QkEEniGRb7DF9RjzjIW4WTB8yxGuL6n_en0sKarkcn-tsKamypEBjskD0kTGqNOX-5xhiu4bp_mX04mfkX7LA__lDGYQoAAbvgFFlrbttJyFFgDXTuU58A_0x2S8E2c1A_IV4LIreQ=s320" width="227" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUABxYISbVz7jqt4DmAyeFym5kF1_l25u-CTc8r-LVKYfNBa2HFKGT8Gzj4Ve91TXZN7ak5fcD9LLfWB-RNrgHtG_uAmm---PD-OAzINObhtxyzXa4XZOfip55CFSfiHGLV4YeGZv2Cn2M8F2m_RgpXjYPasiX0OFsKtnS_IsqRLopdHjvPQ=s425" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="425" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUABxYISbVz7jqt4DmAyeFym5kF1_l25u-CTc8r-LVKYfNBa2HFKGT8Gzj4Ve91TXZN7ak5fcD9LLfWB-RNrgHtG_uAmm---PD-OAzINObhtxyzXa4XZOfip55CFSfiHGLV4YeGZv2Cn2M8F2m_RgpXjYPasiX0OFsKtnS_IsqRLopdHjvPQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Does anyone still use the phrase “the life of Riley”? It indicates someone enjoying a great life. The story here is called “The Life of Riley,” to indicate a criminal named Riley who has his own life of Riley after a successful robbery.<br /><br />It is a horror comic, so a good life can turn bad before the end of the story. At least for Riley.<br /><br />The artwork is signed by Myron Fass, who drew comic books for a few years. Fass began living the life of Riley when he started his own magazine publishing business after his career in comics. Fass’s magazines were lowbrow, but successful. I don’t believe any comics fan who collects 1970s materials was not aware of Fass’s Eerie Publications, which covered the sleasy magazine market well during those times. Fass died in 2006. <br /><br />From <i>Beware</i> #7 (1954):<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNeDsGV7SlptxZ-IFTdAE70zp8gmFD_bIZQ-TL-SJi-4GPDX5Zg2xhtfWmKbrbpRxPI_Mz4eoqyxiOFB8Dn0ShiLy6YM4sN2G47DRG5DAAhD9mhFzNL3prTjDvyJ7hUt9EqzvA24XePZ4scRuO7ECb-xgV-v9kZNjUehflJP-GsfD_0GJ9FQ=s1172" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNeDsGV7SlptxZ-IFTdAE70zp8gmFD_bIZQ-TL-SJi-4GPDX5Zg2xhtfWmKbrbpRxPI_Mz4eoqyxiOFB8Dn0ShiLy6YM4sN2G47DRG5DAAhD9mhFzNL3prTjDvyJ7hUt9EqzvA24XePZ4scRuO7ECb-xgV-v9kZNjUehflJP-GsfD_0GJ9FQ=s320" width="218" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgK_PbKROTZvTpHV3O_BnZanol3lsRzfgJoQFGYqsk-MsDdRPO8G30vqFvtTZbP9RVR2-vAB4QqJ7wkVtD7kNfPBp08jEmk48XEDWDMVmLfSCYq60rgN1S8OGzCsI6o-35tT-F0lk17sXO9wXCvGU5WFfqBHYZtUi9rgQJpEhuKSSoeeJ9SqA=s1168" style="margin-left: 1em; 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In the story we are told he is a man who gets what he wants. <br /><br />Jerry Siegel and Alex Schomburg are the writer and artist who did this story of a gallant gentleman/sex addict. Jon is not only the world’s greatest lover, he can fight, too. Swordplay! Even a scene of knife fighting! To Jon Juan a kiss is worth risking a fight with armed interlopers. He is immortal. On the make and doesn't die. A longtime dream of many men...although 'tis just a fantasy. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIVu5mtzrQcKO1TUkrFDF6F9v8HaczXIN737XpBm1g4h-5o3nJduXPx9QHF5KOA7i3QvuwMI4zXKv49FQEYBv6dDmoDFX6mMlcQbhacnUfYIiGkHV8NMKD7DRbR2qzQtwGt_zgvqEEs01R5THebU9yTWg0RioCniEJLeXoUQcFIW0LLNPsqA=s902" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIVu5mtzrQcKO1TUkrFDF6F9v8HaczXIN737XpBm1g4h-5o3nJduXPx9QHF5KOA7i3QvuwMI4zXKv49FQEYBv6dDmoDFX6mMlcQbhacnUfYIiGkHV8NMKD7DRbR2qzQtwGt_zgvqEEs01R5THebU9yTWg0RioCniEJLeXoUQcFIW0LLNPsqA=s320" width="213" /></a></div><p>The story was originally published in Toby Comics’ one-shot,<i> Jon Juan</i> (1950). I got it from a 1958 IW reprint, <i>Dream of Love</i> #8. 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As a DA he can’t put all of the crooks and criminals away, so at night he dresses up in a bright red costume and goes out to kick crook butts. The Public Domain superheroes website calls him a “vigilante,” which, to Brian, is okay. If he goes around the law, well then, why not? He’d probably only get bounced from office if the voters knew. Or maybe not. In the era Mr Scarlet and Pinky appeared the idea of a vigilante wasn’t as shady as it is now.<br /><br />Mr Scarlet (and Pinky) were around for a few years as secondary characters, never getting their own comic book, unlike several other Fawcett heroes.<br /><br />What surprised me is that writer France Herron and artist Jack Kirby are given credit for creating Mr Scarlet. I should not be surprised, because I have always felt that Jack Kirby could come up with a superhero at the snap of his fast-drawing fingers. But in my opinion, Mr Scarlet seems mostly from hunger, derived from other superheroes.<br /><br />From <i>Wow Comics</i> #10 (1943). 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We watched Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Thriller, One Step Beyond, Outer Limits, and of course <i>The Twilight Zone.</i> Even if one had never watched the latter, today we know that the show’s title has taken on a meaning as part of our speech, “twilight zone” means to me an event that has a level of strangeness, not easily understood. Other definitions may vary, but people know it means something mysterious when they hear the phrase.<br /><br />There was nothing new about such stories with O'Henry-style endings, but the musical theme and host Rod Serling’s dramatic openings to the the stories have stayed in the culture for decades now...60 years at least. <br /><br />When I saw a <i>Twilight Zone</i> comic book I snapped it up. I showed this story from the Gold Key <i>Twilight Zone</i> #4 (1963) in 2007. 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Amazing Man (or John Aman, taking a test by some Tibetans who had raised him) could fight a cobra with his hands tied behind his back, and he could survive knives being thrown into his body. The writer of the letter called those events "thrilling." <p></p><p>It took me a couple of decades before I was able to see the origin story of Amazing Man, and I guess those panels are thrilling. (I was impressionable in those days.)</p><p></p><p>Bill Everett, who created, wrote and drew this origin story, moved on after a while. Centaur, the publisher of Amazing Man, went out of business, and Everett went on to other comic book character, including Sub-Mariner. </p><p></p><p>Everett died young, but in his time he was a “thrilling” good artist, just as that long ago comics fan claimed.</p><p>*The letter writer's name I don't remember. It was a long, <i>very </i>long time ago. <br /></p><p>From <i>Amazing Man Comics</i> #5 (actual issue #1, 1939):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS6PHRu3j2OKRPq1snebyT03dTIFFvyLRlRcUK2Otkkv28MRX1t3wZxCAabR2MlLcNjt6OvmjyITzrGdjBtzpks4jq2E6e8qeA_icA45zsn2o7FgGFTfafo4gbb5Cm8HyW8YwkcmKoB2Va_yViemgXqZPz1muwqzuFXjr-ftCuLH7jUgTwBw=s1135" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1135" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS6PHRu3j2OKRPq1snebyT03dTIFFvyLRlRcUK2Otkkv28MRX1t3wZxCAabR2MlLcNjt6OvmjyITzrGdjBtzpks4jq2E6e8qeA_icA45zsn2o7FgGFTfafo4gbb5Cm8HyW8YwkcmKoB2Va_yViemgXqZPz1muwqzuFXjr-ftCuLH7jUgTwBw=s320" width="226" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjISe3FkcoLOHiZEviQoUX5wOaClYnsGaRYozSZr7lOxKCT3d6iNPiEGZScOQfTKFNhj6RlUziyU4uXRLkmwv_1Q6Uv1j3WKVLprfpPq-pX1Dzd9lgLdudYhRVup8MclnQixvGp1qZ8VhBUp4mpkm_ds2J1DinRLnE7amgwEqpOmqaiJwk95Q=s1137" style="margin-left: 1em; 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H. Holmes...the gallows got him<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq44gWeU1TmApyHcLzzW8kAAnGetjgcp1yttbrn6AglxdykNqOdtXPIMct70JAU1EOv7DSTuIGzeryWCc1sOB1w7qCl_bqf9KqI0JDtO8GAyxacHscTp71nMm71tkLq7XzP47vVNb7RYcoNaODgcV6DhlbmVnK5rGFp_XrmQHy4A9mYwfaOQ=s435" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq44gWeU1TmApyHcLzzW8kAAnGetjgcp1yttbrn6AglxdykNqOdtXPIMct70JAU1EOv7DSTuIGzeryWCc1sOB1w7qCl_bqf9KqI0JDtO8GAyxacHscTp71nMm71tkLq7XzP47vVNb7RYcoNaODgcV6DhlbmVnK5rGFp_XrmQHy4A9mYwfaOQ=s320" width="294" /></a></div>Over 11 years ago I first showed this story of the notorious serial killer, H. H. Holmes. At the time I neglected to mention it contains one of the most egregiously violent panels in crime comics. In the panel Holmes kills a child with a knife. The action is done in silhouette, but the dead mother is in the foreground, with blood dripping from her dead mouth. I wonder if that panel might be the reason that Fred Gardineer did not sign the splash panel with his signature, something he was otherwise known to do? <br /><br />H. H. Holmes was born Herman Webster Mudgett, in 1861. He is the murderer known for the torture castle in Chicago. It is hard to tell what is true and what is exuberance from yellow journalists sensationalizing Holmes’s murderous lair. Holmes padded his own image as a killer. He lied about his body count, claiming to have killed people who were actually still living.<br /><br />Besides the gruesome violence mentioned, something in the last panel gives me pause. When Holmes is hanged he is wearing the same clothes as he was wearing in court when he was sentenced. Maybe, with his status as a murderer to live up to, he did not want to be hung in some ugly old prison clothes. Holmes was only 34 years old when the gallows got him, and perhaps he wanted to look stylish.<br /><br />From <i>Crime Does Not Pay </i>#53 (1947):<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-60_BljmZNLNLex0K0lRZ72npgnvxwV391MdtbS3lBFed1FNeS-bEwyYWDVOBTFlr4J9ULGqX6_5QzVwP4vO0PyGZIpKThnUhQBXqVzDIlDnNX4WUuCjn8-51a7nyVADxZw57YehrX2tzOH8imYC_YNbeyQTtIvMwGXybv-YYXkMS6IdnCw=s1108" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-60_BljmZNLNLex0K0lRZ72npgnvxwV391MdtbS3lBFed1FNeS-bEwyYWDVOBTFlr4J9ULGqX6_5QzVwP4vO0PyGZIpKThnUhQBXqVzDIlDnNX4WUuCjn8-51a7nyVADxZw57YehrX2tzOH8imYC_YNbeyQTtIvMwGXybv-YYXkMS6IdnCw=s320" width="231" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU46q5DZz49oUf6XHfcqSGzL8UIwlerKeIKZnDjT9Trso2YcsA_gbAUf_zULHWoy4RJgxNZJOW1nIMGHCNR8m2k8EPAr8nIABxhheBXtKqRwbh3xWT67AFbH9WRqWTOlZWpr-OEEDxpGOvWLuXBYc5911eR5W48hOMgemLFqR3GAIsXJP-8g=s1108" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Jack Schiff, editor, had changed the characters into one of those teams challenged by some science fiction creatures. Going back over a batch of coverless and poor condition comics I got years ago for a couple of dollars, including early '60s issues of <i>Blackhawk</i>, I have a different attitude. The stories are wild and oftentimes just silly, but nowadays, with my brain burned out by what seems like a million comic books that are wild and silly, I have at least decided to recognize Schiff by giving him something of a pat on the back. (Schiff is deceased, so it's symbolic at best.)<br /><br />In this story four of the Blackhawks end up in the “Secret Dimension,” but I must’ve missed the reason it is secret. Those Blackhawks are given super powers. The Blackhawk crew would later get themselves some super powers, but this story came out a few years before that happened.<br /><br />Story by Dave Wood, art by the team of Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera. 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="449" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmo59x9iiygwwQi1ruFF_ItceXghoukB93AOVWP3DIPFQJMjYXO1sZCcA6CbIIySygMCFy2hGeWzvt0ZOEqELm9E1lzq8qsmeUEYgdJGv4br0bzqk-5_qpXvD3K1rIXm4mR0xTvkAAKVCFUXq2v7UPCgSkN5ve_9Mv2kFFbKLGTSt5kddiQg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">I showed this story by John Buscema in 2009, in Pappy’s #616. Since I am having some production challenges of late I have decided to go to some of my older postings, which many of you have either a) never seen it, or b) have forgotten. <br /><br />Rest easy. They won’t all be re-runs.<br /><br />As I have exclaimed several times, John Buscema did some excellent work in comics over the years, capping off his career with Marvel Comics, where I thought of him as a one-man production department. My interest in his work in the early '70s, for instance, were the black and white Marvel magazines, especially Conan. By Crom! Buscema did the layouts and artists like Alfredo Alcala did the finishes. I can still look at the artwork in those moldering magazines with a sense of wonder.<br /><br />“Pipes of Pan,” drawn by John Buscema, credited with both penciling and inking. Story written by Richard E. Hughes, using the pseudonym, Bob Standish, for <i>Adventures Into the Unknown</i> #110 (1959). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtivYQTYPLmeXpPQltIH_g66MZxdBAWHOVop5XRMIMEbZYlrsYLJeFDwZniVEC49x9I_KHAiLfyNYlNJn4hrBhJeDdRgqxd0_Ur3WhjLVmJbGmRbIygjf0vbriYbLH_l8sp1mVLqSqkhdOUrFmEnJPckxkNuMKRg75jJpjNs68Z6u27tQ3MQ=s1160" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtivYQTYPLmeXpPQltIH_g66MZxdBAWHOVop5XRMIMEbZYlrsYLJeFDwZniVEC49x9I_KHAiLfyNYlNJn4hrBhJeDdRgqxd0_Ur3WhjLVmJbGmRbIygjf0vbriYbLH_l8sp1mVLqSqkhdOUrFmEnJPckxkNuMKRg75jJpjNs68Z6u27tQ3MQ=s320" width="221" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKde76A3-nw4hjw0SALuL5cG0DyRVuwL6Gtv4irKSWmnsr47rEtpEy2Au_Mte5diWQ7LUhMoSHTFfLI1Gju8wfRUVNVGck9AiPzC-HWKU1K_8jqOScwmPqBu-WjwkAKpU831uABQYQ7UO_dn9oYYjJ5huDMfGA7tsamztF1SUWsiGsvUQfdQ=s1178" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="400" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiG7trp1W9tdNrN5uBjybUZTl5OkR6C14NaODyleSsBuYzJjNjjKdAqlHsHgXNYBrjcYEg1xAqYi2H17cDLyKLpV-CnDjsHKyO-_ScP_BK_5oDi1DPwVtVmhB3sLuWsVjCsyfmIKK_kR6x4xmWLtYKDIN5Y3Qi4TdZzstswYy5U2NoYZKkyZg=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Despite the title of today's post, I am not sure the story, “Ol Witch Hazel and Her Niece, Little Itch,” is the actual debut of Little Itch. I looked at various sources, including the Grand Comics Database, and they list the story as the debut, but with a question mark. They are guessing, like me. <br /><br />You’d think a grown man would have better things to do than spend a morning looking for such arcane information, wouldn’t you? You’d be correct. <br /><br />Despite wasting time on the search, I am happy for the story, typical to me of writer John Stanley’s talent. My favorites from the Little Lulu comic books are Witch Hazel and Little Itch. This is the final story I am posting for the <i>Little Lulu and Her Special Friends Annual</i> #3, from 1955. 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The city fathers have brought to America a castle from Transylvania and rebuilt it as a museum for a park. It is said that at one time a vampire lived in that castle. <i>Ewwww..</i>.that is dumb, folks! In this comic book there is a mad scientist and a superhero who is a young boy in “real life.” One should not tempt fate by putting innocent people in a place where a vampire lived. After all, vampires don’t just die, do they? Everybody knows that...don’t they? Maybe not.<br /><br />This story appeared in <i>The Marvel Family</i> #4 (1946). According to the Grand Comics Database It is credited to C.C. Beck (with a question mark) for pencils, and inking by Pete Costanza. 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="450" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIsqtA7N8QzMZlJn-BrdCOAeAywy8AKc4dCCiVOlmwbdGDpss8tWF1SRW7eiNeIDKkYuZbp-RZl3yNqqWoemSBnrjfMYESxLxWX3xJkuTohQUGy5G3GdcnXR5UMfci8v0nvRn_zmrnRqeUgh0CCFfjf9ErnQxokc0P0FPI-ocUMmkvzDJ2Iw=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Newsboys, once a common sight in big cities, sold newspapers on the street. In the pre-television and pre-Internet days they hustled their papers to the many people on the sidewalk, morning and afternoon. Newspapers are becoming passé, and kids selling them on the street are gone. Jack Kirby and Joe Simon used newsboys as another kid gang. Their token adult was the Guardian, a civilian who put on a costume and used underage boys to help him fight.<br /><br />The Newsboy Legion, along with the Guardian, were created in the early '40s and got cancelled later in the decade. Simon and Kirby also created Boy Commandos, which followed much the same arrangement of team members. A male adult, and some underage boys. I have always assumed the boys were meant to bring interest to teenage and younger boys who would identify with some kids their own age kicking the butts of criminals or America’s enemies. That feature also came to an end in the late '40s.<br /><br />Jack Kirby could draw action, and perhaps it was about what he said a few times in interviews: when he was a kid he fought a lot. When people got socked in a Jack Kirby panel you know it had to hurt. In that way Jack could reminisce at the drawing board about the fists that had flown in skirmishes from his youth.<br /><br />From <i>Star-Spangled Comics</i> #14 (1942):<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaOXqLg1eaDEjetVRdAQzKSABLPEujnm1VVYKKhMa4hqhXw0CHPo8aWBK5h21NGcLpFpV7mQ5i88TDFzs3hXPa8X6V2dipOAy3Fi-dfDchPailLcU3SUvHM-QS1UfQ6JVM94uF1LcAwEsh3OQm2mpOIU5Piqa4vfI2mmLMZqE6HJyi-RuxLg=s1074" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaOXqLg1eaDEjetVRdAQzKSABLPEujnm1VVYKKhMa4hqhXw0CHPo8aWBK5h21NGcLpFpV7mQ5i88TDFzs3hXPa8X6V2dipOAy3Fi-dfDchPailLcU3SUvHM-QS1UfQ6JVM94uF1LcAwEsh3OQm2mpOIU5Piqa4vfI2mmLMZqE6HJyi-RuxLg=s320" width="238" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXJwhQA68ap1NQqZdJyxMctM9wl7CeethG9dJT1Zzul5SFwT5_nXHbMXeXOCWDOFiThEIjNGPJHQZGuT_uPJ2YTSkX1MNrqjV86stCdlGXs1NV1XQkMNl94G0ymSlS1ymTLUzBBJ3zPDh6Qa9ozAZgfKvqAFqrkluNxXfuCCksilXwUFLCoA=s1053" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Her boyfriend, Ickky, feels threatened by her added height, and has to do something about it. It reminds me of an old advertising campaign for Adler Elevator Shoes, whose shoes could add 2 inches to a guy’s height. The slogan was, “Now you can be taller than she is.” They don't mention, “Unless she is wearing 3" or 4" heels or platforms, that is.” <br /><br />Ginger was published, as you have probably noticed, by those folks who gave us the Archie comics dynasty. Ginger lasted only 10 issues from 1952 to 1954. The artwork here is by Harry Lucey. <br /><br />“Shoes Your Partner” is from <i>Ginger</i> #6 (1953):<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibKT_HWT__7am9y6ROcoMBY69nngFjzzGoDm0WmNvXJtgsFaEqDnyJFgzejoTsx7LST3fueXhEVjdpSLrgmbd0eFxxUXu110yTZeVJtte9ijrLgH3MRqMif_SzvaZv91JJ30wuRi3CZauDjHaOPHKPNZIteo1DvNpKhhAHopRmzeOTAYyofA=s1136" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="799" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibKT_HWT__7am9y6ROcoMBY69nngFjzzGoDm0WmNvXJtgsFaEqDnyJFgzejoTsx7LST3fueXhEVjdpSLrgmbd0eFxxUXu110yTZeVJtte9ijrLgH3MRqMif_SzvaZv91JJ30wuRi3CZauDjHaOPHKPNZIteo1DvNpKhhAHopRmzeOTAYyofA=s320" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgskPy3pdUoZdpiVx2296YtnwMmSI1UlBTpzeth3f0oZiIcbFlDiMjssutrANIk1byI7qBL4HTxrFK5roGByZpvfe-nUNShJpa3bZoJ_pI8gxCinx1pA18bapI8N8cjhYFIw7RFxM-cP8bL-2xgFW_EblZ9J7f4kam1Q5ueF-JqcHC5zpJapQ=s1141" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1141" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgskPy3pdUoZdpiVx2296YtnwMmSI1UlBTpzeth3f0oZiIcbFlDiMjssutrANIk1byI7qBL4HTxrFK5roGByZpvfe-nUNShJpa3bZoJ_pI8gxCinx1pA18bapI8N8cjhYFIw7RFxM-cP8bL-2xgFW_EblZ9J7f4kam1Q5ueF-JqcHC5zpJapQ=s320" width="224" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOTaAz1yn0Rx-mXXGfJx59KGQ8MUbvDCmB_U7ZhQketYOxzQzx0JDhlmD0ivOwRxTdosG4gt-jQj039SCVf1c3kK-87QwSPJqtgpKI681AfoFcp-gdZOuiOLd1Lwkg3lrqahZH5LkAQKYE_jNMafndrqkWSnYk43JotGJoD28VVXo9oI7DMw=s1135" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1135" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOTaAz1yn0Rx-mXXGfJx59KGQ8MUbvDCmB_U7ZhQketYOxzQzx0JDhlmD0ivOwRxTdosG4gt-jQj039SCVf1c3kK-87QwSPJqtgpKI681AfoFcp-gdZOuiOLd1Lwkg3lrqahZH5LkAQKYE_jNMafndrqkWSnYk43JotGJoD28VVXo9oI7DMw=s320" width="226" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3B6hGi7hBGyxBEvOYZFeip3wkygYlz6SCeMuSFkSfOPZ9kjfyIj0bwo5fzIhXKDocEX0YFYFRj3PfTW1qrx5kjCvfyAruqv8MA4tyFExGb0lt2LzEIAPFQGAq_kLAd_0eDzCLC1HNm4-qEIXbx8ZuEO-qM7FO3PmqYnzmgFr9319E_dyEXg=s1137" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3B6hGi7hBGyxBEvOYZFeip3wkygYlz6SCeMuSFkSfOPZ9kjfyIj0bwo5fzIhXKDocEX0YFYFRj3PfTW1qrx5kjCvfyAruqv8MA4tyFExGb0lt2LzEIAPFQGAq_kLAd_0eDzCLC1HNm4-qEIXbx8ZuEO-qM7FO3PmqYnzmgFr9319E_dyEXg=s320" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOR5v6MSDSaVYE9f-YxIaVv8xrYfBk2QXDwdr8EcQcV6hr3HA2LMMLf5qbf1Fqus0IdYIsSICVXvyYpGs3P049ffTYYrsRiGpyF6InrhS4lT3RlvBWufRJbemPgMOKO7CZJ7RD3aOXIFLLiuVIBjhrjBUkCCRIfYPNaE5tKfD5-TQ4iM5mEw=s1131" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1131" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOR5v6MSDSaVYE9f-YxIaVv8xrYfBk2QXDwdr8EcQcV6hr3HA2LMMLf5qbf1Fqus0IdYIsSICVXvyYpGs3P049ffTYYrsRiGpyF6InrhS4lT3RlvBWufRJbemPgMOKO7CZJ7RD3aOXIFLLiuVIBjhrjBUkCCRIfYPNaE5tKfD5-TQ4iM5mEw=s320" width="226" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-61745610678127175592021-12-15T00:01:00.002-08:002021-12-18T08:34:31.691-08:00Number 2584: The Clock strikes midnight<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhisJkrJiz_EorTHu2ylUEtgQjwazRsS30W1aFoHm8ut6DAPidM38mZGc0xRwY0AZxVTa0tTbKaWutnmHnlMLdr0VOWuqDyiDx-PY05nUzzPwvg02nzMkRZWDBmp_ZYWbo8iqFQc_YTC3HIoEfMh7rX2eW_AzItevz8spgVZ_Oj04CpAJL2hg=s387" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="375" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhisJkrJiz_EorTHu2ylUEtgQjwazRsS30W1aFoHm8ut6DAPidM38mZGc0xRwY0AZxVTa0tTbKaWutnmHnlMLdr0VOWuqDyiDx-PY05nUzzPwvg02nzMkRZWDBmp_ZYWbo8iqFQc_YTC3HIoEfMh7rX2eW_AzItevz8spgVZ_Oj04CpAJL2hg=s320" width="310" /></a></div>The Clock, created by George Brenner, is known as the first masked hero in comic books. The Clock was yet another rich person who put on a mask, and went out to take on criminals. The pulp magazine heroes were the inspiration, and they were what the Clock was striving to be. Pulp magazines had a lot of text, and undoubtedly daunting for children to read. The Clock was a bridge between pulps and comics. He appeared first in <i>Funny Picture Stories</i> in 1936.<br /><br />Clock creator George Brenner went to work for Everett “Busy” Arnold. Brenner created other characters, including my favorite, Bozo the Robot. Arnold made Brenner editor of the Quality Comics line, but he was fired in 1949. (Some say it was because of drinking, although some dispute that. So, another mystery from the Golden Age.)<br /><br />In this story we have an element I call a dumb idea that for some reason works. The Clock sends the villain a business card that says he will strike at midnight, and he does. Despite being warned, the bad guy gets the Clock in his house. Only in the comics.<br /><br />I like a couple of things. One, when a henchman says about the District Attorney, “He has a ‘way’ with gals...ha-ha...if ya get what I mean.” Maybe the kids reading this comic in 1940 didn’t know what he means, but I get it. And in the very last panel the Clock, as Brian O'Brien, tells his friend and helper, Pug, that because he knows the Clock’s secret identity he can tell no one, even if it should mean <b><i>death.</i></b> Pug agrees. In my opinion, asking someone to die for you is really asking a lot, if ya get what I mean.<br /><br />From <i>Crack Comics</i> #1 (1940):<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZPKqsVoIdlK-YS-SOEo2eLjoMOEcfEKoLMTivPRzLB5TDXIBwzVREra4-6Gfj7FzAcY3e698ywD-0J2zBHGDYa01M4YqTzn59WgI7JTu6ygU46qAQA_brNJJYOpF4y3bKANcsKVTrQubAwmJofOJiJTIuqQ6yi42SZF3M2QOcBWYqZBdSEg=s1133" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1133" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZPKqsVoIdlK-YS-SOEo2eLjoMOEcfEKoLMTivPRzLB5TDXIBwzVREra4-6Gfj7FzAcY3e698ywD-0J2zBHGDYa01M4YqTzn59WgI7JTu6ygU46qAQA_brNJJYOpF4y3bKANcsKVTrQubAwmJofOJiJTIuqQ6yi42SZF3M2QOcBWYqZBdSEg=s320" width="226" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHaUlZbTMQ4GfNpA2yg25xDKZaNv6xuB7t0uh3t01L5WyKi20U-jexSRcc2-mFr_lLr07-la7Y0piGqP5-jga4wXGKaQRW4THd_zxhKo613qspdGsYuYtqkJQjUyCxlRAJFlmnTAlLxYluuI_vaSKervnz6qnfC3E86z9JdBCsRVXJDVR0TA=s1120" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="395" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhccnKbSZBqfiqLldDZqZfFwEOIBVN4PJure872_-_GgqQnVSRMYL86gMylsgX1K553Tl6PyaX5ww-rpRHjPP7yyYCf5oeOSyP9tDRE1EWpWmCWn7TAorKk51p0tiU9x_ztZCu5/s320/CDNP26-JOHN-LEE-IS.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Englishman John Lee, often called John “Babbacombe” Lee, was sentenced to death and met the hangman in 1885. The gallows trap door did not open, and after three attempts to hang the murderer, his sentence was changed to life imprisonment. <br /><br />The version of John Lee, surviving execution as told in <i>Crime Does Not Pay</i> #26 (1943), has the basic story of Lee fairly straight, but the ending is fanciful. The problem is that Lee’s further fate, after prison is mostly unknown. Some say his fate brought him to the United States after deserting his family in England, the rotter! Lee is purported to have emigrated after deserting his wife and children. It makes for a good story, anyway, which makes it sound a lot like folklore. <br /><br />Art by Dick Briefer.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6SX_I-z-G1EOvWmBXbcBiipR4GKkZ1BcTg_BTt9po7ATH86Gt5lRUC78pMVOOqlPmyiAzwBEjfJ6zjDfz_YF5ikLirNdPnm7xp5mdTrJjEVcH3AEs-mbZEeo5B8xtG5L5LjMz/s1145/CDNP26-21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1145" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6SX_I-z-G1EOvWmBXbcBiipR4GKkZ1BcTg_BTt9po7ATH86Gt5lRUC78pMVOOqlPmyiAzwBEjfJ6zjDfz_YF5ikLirNdPnm7xp5mdTrJjEVcH3AEs-mbZEeo5B8xtG5L5LjMz/s320/CDNP26-21.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtPKEwrzg2GrzZJLkoL2x7TdzYSvs_kf2RA1AU1bsWlYCqMgqF5wzUjqyuP07-GCF6DBXm2rSOak_HWB6wV4mtZv5bH3EM-QYqfn7moqmwEgcm12P3N5aECqsnYjMKTF_VbLk5/s1137/CDNP26-22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7vMt-Y-t9rlAYgcyaB-rulzyYAUt5kU5WH9c6-JNonDlrjmho_gxO_2M90iLWdeFp7LUnfn6AK7NYmlSQUXRhFE5tV0bGNlvrPxMZ-irXs24WyHq34RI534H0JaMnuA0rSBb/s484/BB02-WITH-HIS-CAESTUS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7vMt-Y-t9rlAYgcyaB-rulzyYAUt5kU5WH9c6-JNonDlrjmho_gxO_2M90iLWdeFp7LUnfn6AK7NYmlSQUXRhFE5tV0bGNlvrPxMZ-irXs24WyHq34RI534H0JaMnuA0rSBb/s320/BB02-WITH-HIS-CAESTUS.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><i>The Brave and the Bold</i> was a comic book created as a wholesome entertainment for young readers, those who were now buying censored Comics Code-approved comics, that is. The idea was simple: create three feature characters for the title, make them historical. Even the Comics Code would pass a bit of historical mayhem. Golden Gladiator was one of the characters, along with Viking Prince and the Silent Knight. Of the three Golden Gladiator must not have attracted much attention, despite some excellent (as usual) dynamic artwork by Russ Heath. <i>The Brave and the Bold </i>#6 was the last appearance of the Golden Gladiator.<br /><br />In this story from <i>The Brave and the Bold</i> #2 (1955), we are told that Golden Gladiator is good in the ring. We don't get to see the bodies piled up as entertainment, but we get the gist of it. Golden Gladiator’s girlfriend, Lucia, cheers for him, while her uncle, “Wily Cinna,” hates Marcus (the Gladiator’s real name).<br /><br />I wondered if Attila the Hun and his hordes were around during the heyday of the Romans, and then read this online: “Attila the Hun was one of the most fearsome enemies that Romans ever faced.” For me, that is a history lesson in one simple sentence. What got my attention in the story was that Attila took on the Gladiator by himself, while surrounded by his own army, then kept banging with his sword an iron bracelet on the Gladiator’s wrist, which must have been given to Golden Gladiator by an ancestor of Wonder Woman.<br /><br />Ed Herron wrote the story.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0mI1zbDt81S7P_GnZESWp7lgxS7omuggCu5OHREw6btMmm3OGOePztg4QC8ceUj0V213h2-DI_JySbMbT6_3uXBZFVtFjy4rTZLKZhllYUU9wnVIx-w7SZLOCDIROfHVgVNxg/s1178/BB02-03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0mI1zbDt81S7P_GnZESWp7lgxS7omuggCu5OHREw6btMmm3OGOePztg4QC8ceUj0V213h2-DI_JySbMbT6_3uXBZFVtFjy4rTZLKZhllYUU9wnVIx-w7SZLOCDIROfHVgVNxg/s320/BB02-03.JPG" width="217" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="400" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij6hEEJBvnrkfsCxOsEe5KJkjBlzmiiRYS5S1gaKxERxON1W4XW-TMYiWvGBmhNcvUnOPmQQobTwcV_LhYfmNt68a1rn1uKIIRpu8w6ALcGuAB6rnUCfugCQzXLILLJIzV2syx/s320/SM35-ALL-RIGHT-BUSTER.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Today a fun 7-page story from the 1954 issue of <i>Sub-Mariner</i> #35, drawn by Sub-Mariner creator, Bill Everett. The story adds an homage to <i>The Creature From the Black Lagoon</i>, a popular movie from that year. (The Creature movie was released March 5, 1954, and the <i>Sub-Mariner</i> comic was probably put on sale in June, 1954). Everett loved weird characters, and he must've been impressed by the design of the movie creature.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJkLXvgZe6nntOXU8ZDid-ucSlfwcb92IsI1M6cmj6PSjM7Ccpkb02uxIPyZFrVGUdJ9M3LvnckgFz-F8rgEXCd5Fd8FM_kw4nNLPVQwNDlphF2tnlIlLlImCbkNrY_KJT5Q5/s693/Close-up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJkLXvgZe6nntOXU8ZDid-ucSlfwcb92IsI1M6cmj6PSjM7Ccpkb02uxIPyZFrVGUdJ9M3LvnckgFz-F8rgEXCd5Fd8FM_kw4nNLPVQwNDlphF2tnlIlLlImCbkNrY_KJT5Q5/s320/Close-up.jpg" width="231" /></a></div>“Elmer” is an amphibious man, created by another in the long list of comic book mad scientist-villains, Professor Zunbar. The twist here is Elmer is frightened by water. 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Hughes, was inserted into stories a few times over the years in ACG’s supernatural comics, as they were referred to in house. This pre-Code story, “Adventure into Witchcraft,” has some panels of Hughes listening to a writer’s problem of not being able to write a good story. The ACG way in a story with a writer and an editor was having the writer encounter the type of situation for real to give his fiction some credibility. To the fictitious depiction of Hughes, that is.<br /><br />Harry Lazarus was an artist who worked for ACG, both pre-Comics Code and post-Comics Code. He was a solid professional artist, which to me showed he could tell a story. He worked for several other publishers, also.<br /><br />The story is from <i>Out of the Night</i>, a comic book ACG added to its list of supernaturals. ACG titles were apparently doing well in those days. I like the panels with Hughes at his desk with his door advertising not only <i>Out of the Night</i>, but <i>Adventures Into the Unknown</i> and <i>Forbidden Worlds. Out of the Night</i> ended in late 1954 after 17 issues. <br /><br />From <i>Out of the Night</i> #5 (1952):<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggfDfDQ54TZ4YhnCYuTKP8UetcevWbduc52qvaYm8Iabv6XJlCOIbDCUCOU95AVt3e5hu3luN6XVoKPmqFo7o2ZspYqK4PTG1QP04CGwUUBPM1VIp8PNfTIp90a15qHiR9kdk8/s1158/OOTN05-19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggfDfDQ54TZ4YhnCYuTKP8UetcevWbduc52qvaYm8Iabv6XJlCOIbDCUCOU95AVt3e5hu3luN6XVoKPmqFo7o2ZspYqK4PTG1QP04CGwUUBPM1VIp8PNfTIp90a15qHiR9kdk8/s320/OOTN05-19.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3c0wFxWoq0B6mafJuexFR4WhGlgo1trQaJPTmlS46TUhqeXE65X3MJ0yjcpMmD1BG0KGChnceLAFVtTLVGz_krG4thEj3ywSepgT3K2_GllRBSGqpHWNmPF1oJ7J12VHwmGA/s1178/OOTN05-20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Simon and Kirby moved on to Hillman, and then Prize. The latter publisher was aptly named. Simon and Kirby hit the prize with romance comics for Prize.<br /><br />Stuntman may have suffered a bit by changing tastes among comic book readers. Stuntman wore his circus costume, then added a helmet and went from circus stuntman and daredevil to two-fisted costumed hero. The artwork is dynamic, but costumed heroes were passé, and if comic books truly glutted the market, then many potential readers might not have seen it. It is also possible the distributors didn’t give shelf space to a comic book with no sales record.<br /><br />Harvey not only published the original <i>Stuntman </i>#1, but also reprinted “Killer in the Big Top” twice, in <i>Black Cat</i> #9 (1948), and <i>Thrills of Tomorrow</i> #19 (1955). What I think is precedent is the first page banner that asks the reader to “Save this first issue of Stuntman comics...it will be a valuable souvenir someday.” <br /><br />From <i>Stuntman</i> #1 (1946):<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCV5QLKAWMo-xBvQxgzMQgy86mCK-3lyioLi493CVg9gqerZahyphenhyphen4YPGRjCQFt02m_hsEp2TgsUygCtcNIAfAfrmRBkBHB17PscbxO8rqRNuKWREHbfz3MDEVGhfAcWWvmeUuC/s1147/SM01-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1147" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCV5QLKAWMo-xBvQxgzMQgy86mCK-3lyioLi493CVg9gqerZahyphenhyphen4YPGRjCQFt02m_hsEp2TgsUygCtcNIAfAfrmRBkBHB17PscbxO8rqRNuKWREHbfz3MDEVGhfAcWWvmeUuC/s320/SM01-01.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKeY8zkbCCoD6nP2_CMG2LsVL49GIgfCYcaJHESgI9ynzuSs0Hf5V4ZP1gVRzaJXlsxcijbx_pqC9jxbhE-CHg4pihiYiTU6p26q4hn4gdl9hoezgjkdvMmi3jfiHttH7X67d/s1150/SM01-03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I put on my tuxedo and stand on the dais declaring the award to my readers. The Thanksgiving Turkey Award has been given every year since the inception of this blog, with the exception of one Thanksgiving (and perhaps someone out there gave thanks that I didn't show it that year). The Award, as I usually say at this time, is judged and given by me and is up to my choice alone. This year I have broken one tradition, which is to find a story (singular) to present, instead I am giving two stories. Both are by the inimitable Fletcher Hanks. Hanks got the Award last year, also, which makes him the first repeater in our yearly tradition.<br /><br />With Hanks it is almost too easy, but stacked up against other comic book creators from the early years of the comic books, he was then an original, and still lives in our hearts as the man whose creations, artwork, dialogue, etc., are unique. I say “unique” although several comic book creators from the late '30s and early '40s had their own bizarre visions, but no one seemed to be as bizarre as Hanks, and that isn’t just my opinion, but the opinion of everyone who writes about Hanks. <br /><br />I rarely give four turkeys as an award, but Hanks undoubtedly gets about as close as one can get to my vision of a perfect turkey, therefore today’s choice earns the rare four turkeys.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPfNhGfxoJrgXPH19WfCrJdP7MoiFE0FCak1CXQNmikNPS9MCaPgFiGOEweBg8hiTlN46CfnIYtlzcVT3Y8pFQUsa5PvoAY9zaqcavyRJLoJRQ9qlC0BH_t2DJP2dGRqO7Ap2G/s507/ScreenShot_20211117053359.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="507" height="87" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPfNhGfxoJrgXPH19WfCrJdP7MoiFE0FCak1CXQNmikNPS9MCaPgFiGOEweBg8hiTlN46CfnIYtlzcVT3Y8pFQUsa5PvoAY9zaqcavyRJLoJRQ9qlC0BH_t2DJP2dGRqO7Ap2G/s320/ScreenShot_20211117053359.png" width="320" /></a></div>The episodes of “Space Smith” and “Stardust” by Hanks were published in the same issue of <i>Fantastic Comics</i> #3 (1939].<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gCrQWS-GA009fPPyjlwg5-9FUkDr5-D8b5D7GbdhyphenhyphenYgPZcZac5wXI87HRzOYsk1X24SMrvQ8WOiUGyX2hs6-Hx8VHze_Du6h6cbxN82fZVz7ewP_O5wcVHZo5sVtw3z-4nxC/s402/JJ7A-YOU-CANNOT-HIDE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gCrQWS-GA009fPPyjlwg5-9FUkDr5-D8b5D7GbdhyphenhyphenYgPZcZac5wXI87HRzOYsk1X24SMrvQ8WOiUGyX2hs6-Hx8VHze_Du6h6cbxN82fZVz7ewP_O5wcVHZo5sVtw3z-4nxC/s320/JJ7A-YOU-CANNOT-HIDE.jpg" width="318" /></a></div>Jo-Jo Congo King was yet another white man swinging from trees in the comic book jungle. Published by Fox Features, and done for Fox by the Jerry Iger shop, where artists, even one or two, did the actual drawing in the familiar Iger style.<br /><br />Fox had a comic book called <i>Jo-Jo Comics,</i> which was designed for young children. It was canceled and the former title became the Congo King's name. It was done because second class mailing permits were expensive. Keeping the title, albeit with totally different contents, made it possible to continue the title and not have to pay for a new permit. A tactic I have mentioned a few times in this blog.<br /><br />The Public Domain web site gave the names of women, who appeared as Jo-Jo’s girlfriend (“love interests," as claimed by PDSH). In this story the voluptuous two-piece garb wearer is Gwenna. Other names of the sexy female leads are Geesha, Yolda, Safra, and Mioa. Jo-Jo’s girlfriend list was packed.<p></p><p>From <i>Jo-Jo</i> #7A,* 1946:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWYXTQXsCNq0idsyp6SywKGITkN4QbMCd9_3j7ow6gr2w7ca6um1mgpLn5l6DCjzaM9qgkbdAKeFiWdrnmaJJw_xhY_3PLI936Do2ND2aU9es1-alt578-NTj7MKExz_FuwaHF/s1115/JJ7A-03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1115" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWYXTQXsCNq0idsyp6SywKGITkN4QbMCd9_3j7ow6gr2w7ca6um1mgpLn5l6DCjzaM9qgkbdAKeFiWdrnmaJJw_xhY_3PLI936Do2ND2aU9es1-alt578-NTj7MKExz_FuwaHF/s320/JJ7A-03.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAOXnLAeXwfBYBXWWjqCv4O7ArCwBjOPpl0S-oOm4DBsvfBoVsoM6Y6ucUe7wOBXCbQhnXbRQJexXqzMwOMVLgSXzkG4TX-dWQ7lS8bxfzLrb38PLgrqiWS3R6oNzBhTg3TM9_/s1097/JJ7A-04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAOXnLAeXwfBYBXWWjqCv4O7ArCwBjOPpl0S-oOm4DBsvfBoVsoM6Y6ucUe7wOBXCbQhnXbRQJexXqzMwOMVLgSXzkG4TX-dWQ7lS8bxfzLrb38PLgrqiWS3R6oNzBhTg3TM9_/s320/JJ7A-04.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglszh5cjfbvHy1WLyMoOQOR7-SZpiI0RJYui9gvjycOirMUBFffSd2HAdyN6ay9PcGkRVbc6VPZ5wtZyZC2I-vd1NY9_V5r3lRw9tJtqBDqcpg7AzZcg2fb4-YFryJu6j6pBB0/s1097/JJ7A-05.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglszh5cjfbvHy1WLyMoOQOR7-SZpiI0RJYui9gvjycOirMUBFffSd2HAdyN6ay9PcGkRVbc6VPZ5wtZyZC2I-vd1NY9_V5r3lRw9tJtqBDqcpg7AzZcg2fb4-YFryJu6j6pBB0/s320/JJ7A-05.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEild_SO2XyMBVO4CZjU8_7KqG5IGIKQU0i0yborIBHwUzB3B7qnAHhxT6eAlE52QSsoGlpfi8s_4j5HOexeR3kFUlTXQ-7EKp-z1wWb9YHEma3xNaWkA2KE47BiWR-WJhoeahY0/s1089/JJ7A-06.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1089" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEild_SO2XyMBVO4CZjU8_7KqG5IGIKQU0i0yborIBHwUzB3B7qnAHhxT6eAlE52QSsoGlpfi8s_4j5HOexeR3kFUlTXQ-7EKp-z1wWb9YHEma3xNaWkA2KE47BiWR-WJhoeahY0/s320/JJ7A-06.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincpx9CgBtFgWWeHlLTECguT9zLfzqCD1Z91pSVmnfKTKkccxTDDGe1ViMeOTzwqqJy8M9Wr4DaEvKcCNVpvSocjtDQyfEStKM-ilpNXz6TwsJIL0e8hsBS0uiVAWXtmu38R9S/s1101/JJ7A-07.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1101" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincpx9CgBtFgWWeHlLTECguT9zLfzqCD1Z91pSVmnfKTKkccxTDDGe1ViMeOTzwqqJy8M9Wr4DaEvKcCNVpvSocjtDQyfEStKM-ilpNXz6TwsJIL0e8hsBS0uiVAWXtmu38R9S/s320/JJ7A-07.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG5hXMsU0Sj0YCL_Y7NLqQyCdIupHsw0Aft0mNmP5HdOvCIapZWF2izdi9As-XfKOAnFaIFsoisQb4qMrdL_yQBlTTVfh2wOCw6AZz4ywvQb44R2l1d2QjDu8OYlBl8ewFlQHc/s1089/JJ7A-08.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1089" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG5hXMsU0Sj0YCL_Y7NLqQyCdIupHsw0Aft0mNmP5HdOvCIapZWF2izdi9As-XfKOAnFaIFsoisQb4qMrdL_yQBlTTVfh2wOCw6AZz4ywvQb44R2l1d2QjDu8OYlBl8ewFlQHc/s320/JJ7A-08.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><p>*There were two issues numbered “7”, so for purposes of keeping track, one is #7A, the other #7B. This story is from #7A. The Grand Comics Database says, “There are two #7s. Numbering is corrected with #14, skipping #13.” Skip #13? Was someone at Fox Features superstitious?</p><p>Come back tomorrow for the annual Thanksgiving Turkey Awards. <br /></p><p></p><p><br /></p>Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-65230236562644704552021-11-22T00:01:00.006-08:002021-11-22T00:01:00.206-08:00Number 2576: The comic artist who became the fine artist<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn5jXmiGoQa-8uFIHH2k16yvqAW6Jplj59AysJY1CA1Z8Xzy-gkaUCJ_pyyD5iviQYxZ4hodEhK1gDCPbw5-3CmJSQJuq9WcTsqsl8c3En6aO8MCKdh_oX5UPJUCM5h_U343Rc/s516/RR08-IT-WAS-THEN.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn5jXmiGoQa-8uFIHH2k16yvqAW6Jplj59AysJY1CA1Z8Xzy-gkaUCJ_pyyD5iviQYxZ4hodEhK1gDCPbw5-3CmJSQJuq9WcTsqsl8c3En6aO8MCKdh_oX5UPJUCM5h_U343Rc/s320/RR08-IT-WAS-THEN.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">A few months ago I showed a story by artist Everett Raymond Kintsler. It was a romance comic, like today’s posting. Far back in my past (50 years ago...yikes) I saw a couple of Kintsler comic book stories and thought his work didn't belong in comic books. My prejudices at the time were that comic book stories should look more like comic books than illustration. My complaint was that Kinstler’s art style looked more like those illustrations in slick magazines. Comic books just seemed like a whole other place, and purpose, than the illustrative work Kinstler did. I have changed my mind over those years, and now see his work as being solid story telling, but drawn with lines that were in vogue during the time of James Montgomery Flagg. Kinstler said more than once that Flagg was his inspiration, so an acolyte of Flagg ended up drawing comic books. Kinstler never disavowed his years in the comics, and I am sure they helped him learn how to draw just about everything needed in comics, which was also useful in his later art career.<br /><br />Kinstler left comics and went into fine art. I admire that. He went on to do some great work. He died in 2019, age 92.<br /><br />From <i>Realistic Romance</i> #8 (1952):<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF0MuzDzT2yZXDmob54-oMq4WWYHqusqNCjL0GSpx5ZknLCd7ATGB1CD9Of8K15su_Y9RAtzB4Rnadnf9kh7S6-pxON62xHBV7d1N83501uH7CZe6CSNO0dm1wniUoU_9aA6-3/s1194/RR08-03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF0MuzDzT2yZXDmob54-oMq4WWYHqusqNCjL0GSpx5ZknLCd7ATGB1CD9Of8K15su_Y9RAtzB4Rnadnf9kh7S6-pxON62xHBV7d1N83501uH7CZe6CSNO0dm1wniUoU_9aA6-3/s320/RR08-03.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFXfo_wBXuqNEvtrV3I3OkhQVFH4zNy1PNwvUUlQNfhK-A7VaP9dUJZ2bY086yylT444a_BYvX7SWfarvVMhhYuPRJzNKxs6kj1oQ-2Bhmk82Mf1ckVARAWCf5nFHuE5k-I4nq/s1185/RR08-04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Furry and brown. It’s unusual, but also not colorful enough for super hero fans of the era.<br /><br />How many characters of the early war years were in the armed services, and when the enemy struck the home front, dropped their uniforms for a (usually) colorful, masked character? Twilight, in that way, is not very original, but his parrot, named “Snoopy,” is colorful, at least.<br /><br />Artist John Cassone did his usual superb job on the drawing. 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When it comes to Spurs Jackson and his fellow cowpokes on the ranch, they keep running up against creatures and characters from space. You know Spurs and friends are the good guys because they shoot straight whether their adversaries be local or from other planets. <br /><br />Walter Gibson, who made his living for years churning out two Shadow novels a month for The Shadow pulp magazine, created <i>Space Western.</i> He wrote the story I am showing today. Here's hoping Gibson didn't get ripped off. (After all, “the Shadow knows!”) I believe that Charlton was a shoestring operation, and it looks to me that over the years they did most of their comic books on the cheap. That is my opinion, of course. <br /><br />Stan Campbell did the artwork, and he did a good job mixing the old West scenarios with drawings of flying saucers, and in this story, creatures with bullet heads and long fangs. 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="386" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM2ozSgc9ZWEsWeV2HYHC9TKBH8RTJOWTZZhxu7I7WbcAZCekqblZzN-yJgQtNs_rf_a9KdCkDodFrvNmlVNHxWfbdLYquUuWuv8qSsWmikKEyYB-acPuND2xH-eijVtdwj6OD/s320/AIWW21-JOE-LISTEN-JOE.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>When it comes down to dictators, I think Adolf Hitler gets some sort of recognition for being one who definitely stood out in a crowd. Humanity has put up with a lot of dictators in the past...too many for me to count...but Hitler just steals the thunder from among the rest. Maybe it was that Charlie Chaplin did a splendid satire of Adolf in the movie, <i>The Great Dictator.</i> Hitler was fun to caricature.<br /><br />This short story from an Atlas horror comic shows a craven Hitler after years in hell. Adolf tries to get some historical figures to vouch for him, telling the devil he was really a good man, so he can get out of hell. <br /><br />The ending originally puzzled me. He finally calls on someone named “Joe” for help. Who the hell is Joe? I thought perhaps it was Joseph Goebbels, but Goebbels died in 1945 and had probably been stoking the fiery furnaces ever since. Then I hit on Joseph Stalin. That gave me pause. If ever there were true enemies, Stalin and Hitler fit the definition of enemies. I’ll stick with Stalin because it seems right to me, although I am not sure. Stalin died on May 1, 1953, and the date on the comic book is August, 1953. So it was big news that year, and perhaps the writer jumped on the idea. Basically, the last dialogue in the story, for me, that is, seems to point to Joe Stalin. Which only leaves why Hitler would want to implore Stalin to tell the devil that Hitler was a good guy. <br /><br />The story is from <i>Adventures Into Weird Worlds</i> #21 (1953), with Sam Kweskin's signature for the artwork.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZg-S7piWQJmIFttN6MNXZTMFAZPCHjoOuGn-wTedbn-6NdWvsI9y_KO8O9TS6Ay4HlVP6mgDGwAQjZlN1CkD-gSnvaTqpJmBQZ8C-tlSApJgq0jJmwX_41Bp-dEV8e-kCgdP1/s1198/AIWW21-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZg-S7piWQJmIFttN6MNXZTMFAZPCHjoOuGn-wTedbn-6NdWvsI9y_KO8O9TS6Ay4HlVP6mgDGwAQjZlN1CkD-gSnvaTqpJmBQZ8C-tlSApJgq0jJmwX_41Bp-dEV8e-kCgdP1/s320/AIWW21-10.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghWmvI31XdQ8x9K8snQhbkCKX9klZUkHuQCVQ7G43s3KLLsOfrKMpsHEJ5rOFzkU-tvG1lnBWt1VOJMdfplPfZrrWGhAZGLLX7qRofTU-4ryO337PYnxv8uQRAriAbkvJKzkIe/s1179/AIWW21-11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1179" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghWmvI31XdQ8x9K8snQhbkCKX9klZUkHuQCVQ7G43s3KLLsOfrKMpsHEJ5rOFzkU-tvG1lnBWt1VOJMdfplPfZrrWGhAZGLLX7qRofTU-4ryO337PYnxv8uQRAriAbkvJKzkIe/s320/AIWW21-11.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCWmMOCrGnhR93Ed8fxsDTq-YZg6oWmy0CDnTgvTxZNLm2mtKQAgOPvSGjLKvNw1hzgF4TsUW4YGrKocu1MvvObzTTND1Si7Pi73veZKtzTT1GcjF3o6RXoUf0oP4wPMjWbIH/s1179/AIWW21-12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1179" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCWmMOCrGnhR93Ed8fxsDTq-YZg6oWmy0CDnTgvTxZNLm2mtKQAgOPvSGjLKvNw1hzgF4TsUW4YGrKocu1MvvObzTTND1Si7Pi73veZKtzTT1GcjF3o6RXoUf0oP4wPMjWbIH/s320/AIWW21-12.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1N1opdUh3yzm61Fla7uyu7gHplN0usQ22BUswMXpLqpkwEACVByuPaDf7zoroApBOueioqX4tPmu6BbNMwQdJEXNHWRHgB2kPZFhV7qARJLqICpih5uWVQe3iSz3mvZ4jjuQ/s1184/AIWW21-13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1N1opdUh3yzm61Fla7uyu7gHplN0usQ22BUswMXpLqpkwEACVByuPaDf7zoroApBOueioqX4tPmu6BbNMwQdJEXNHWRHgB2kPZFhV7qARJLqICpih5uWVQe3iSz3mvZ4jjuQ/s320/AIWW21-13.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUleLu-aVNtNudIP9W6MfPg5S1MUERJCnDhJr9Qx_yoOy-qtM5wHmUtfDlVIPYxTWKI1zyukeKmCo1JV6qb_ntoITGsu6uelZrUIxDHaOkV1OIxYehqUe0l7sAhiladDtgRjN/s1196/AIWW21-14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUleLu-aVNtNudIP9W6MfPg5S1MUERJCnDhJr9Qx_yoOy-qtM5wHmUtfDlVIPYxTWKI1zyukeKmCo1JV6qb_ntoITGsu6uelZrUIxDHaOkV1OIxYehqUe0l7sAhiladDtgRjN/s320/AIWW21-14.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.com5