tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post3375340912944318596..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 2079: Skyman flies inPappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-10096424705578179692017-07-25T13:57:52.796-07:002017-07-25T13:57:52.796-07:00Daniel, good thing the Germans didn't have the...Daniel, good thing the Germans didn't have the Internet for really wreaking havoc!Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-79676164100501119162017-07-24T03:55:12.131-07:002017-07-24T03:55:12.131-07:00With work of this quality, Whitney was one of the ...With work of this quality, Whitney was one of the better comic-book artists in 1940. But indeed his style didn't evolve much further, and the middle of the pack caught-up with him. <br /><br />The relationship between the upper torso and the legs of the Skyman seems less bizarre than it would later be. (But, if I recall correctly, eventually his appearance moved away from the freakish.) <br /><br />The Skyman may have had a peculiar device for causing his plane to remain suspended in the air, but the Batman had a device for causing his autogyro to remain suspended in the air, and autogyros are just much cooler than airplanes. <br /><br />The anti-war comic books had foreign saboteurs acting within the territory of the United States <i>to get us into war</i>, which doesn't make a lot of sense unless these were <i>false-flag</i> operations by the British or by their allies. Actually there <i>may</i> have just such an incident at the World's Fair, with a bomb planted at the British exhibition (which bomb killed two American police officers and wounded others). <br /><br />The pro-war comic books had agents of the Axis engaged in sabotage within the territory of the United States … uhm… <i>just because</i>. There wasn't even an <i>attempt</i> to make sense. In reälity, the Axis found itself already in a secret and limited war with the United States. While sabotage could impair the ability of the US to pursue war of <i>that</i> sort, sabotage would risk igniting pro-war sentiment within America, so that the US could engage in an open and far less limited war. Naturally then, there just wasn't a lot of sabotage before Pearl Harbor (and in fact there doesn't seem to have been much subsequently). Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.com