tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post5416350766958806652..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 2560: Cracking the CodePappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-77379501935093022542021-10-10T13:55:15.023-07:002021-10-10T13:55:15.023-07:00Wm, not a bad comparison, considering that when th...Wm, not a bad comparison, considering that when the story appeared on the stands that former president was 8 years old. Going in a few pages of the story I see some facial expressions that look familiar to me from the ex-president.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-49923735901895118282021-10-10T13:49:58.431-07:002021-10-10T13:49:58.431-07:00Daniel, thanks for reminding me of Ken Landau'...Daniel, thanks for reminding me of Ken Landau's former pre and post censorship story. <br /><br />His artwork in that story, especially the monsters, are as weirdly goofy and ugly as I had seen in a comic book from my era, when the Comics Code ruled supreme.<br />Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-6270572118736301042021-09-27T21:06:41.974-07:002021-09-27T21:06:41.974-07:00Is no one else going to bring up the slight resemb...Is no one else going to bring up the slight resemblance to the last President in that opening splash?Wm Byronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03211622568047874639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-13601198240404640782021-09-27T03:01:39.818-07:002021-09-27T03:01:39.818-07:00In Nº 691, you offered us a pre-code version and a...<a href="https://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/02/number-691-pre-codepost-code-this-is.html" rel="nofollow">In Nº 691, you offered us a pre-code version and a more thoroughly reworked post-code version of a different story illustrated by Landau.</a> <br /><br />In the original, serialized version of H. Rider Haggard's <i>She</i>, a character was killed by having a heated metal pot placed over his head. Before the novel was published as a volume, it was decided that the scene were too terrible, and so the character was accidentally slain by a bullet, passing through the body of one of those trying to kill him with that heated pot. <br /><br />But Caton Harsh seems to have been not so much <i>killed</i> as <i>transformed</i>. In the post-code world, characters could be transformed by <i>bathing</i> in activated chemicals — that, after all, was part of what happened to Barry Allen. I imagine that ACG could have won a challenge with the CCA over that panel, but didn't want to fight about it; ACG may even have made a preëmptory change, and told themselves that it improved the story (fear of the unseen, and all that). <br /><br />I note that exit lines for the paths of the bullets remain in the post-code panel. But they are largely swallowed-up by the radiant lines. Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.com