tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post616052219467775740..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 2548: “Do my bidding through your frozen brains...”Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-23748467563610312222021-08-22T09:44:38.531-07:002021-08-22T09:44:38.531-07:00Smurfswacker, you may have guessed correctly what ...Smurfswacker, you may have guessed correctly what really happened to the strip. Different writers, maybe no ideas passed from editors. It is the way I visualize the world of comic books in their earliest days. A stricter outline of who the character was or was supposed to be went right over everyone's heads. Why not? Who read these things anyway? Kids! No need to be strict with a character when deadlines approached and the youthful readers probably didn't care much about the character, anyway.<br /><br />Perhaps in a sexy way, which would have been my reaction as a boy, but not for details and/or stories.<br /><br />Thanks for your note.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-53517623714930227622021-08-22T09:31:57.593-07:002021-08-22T09:31:57.593-07:00BillyWitchDoc...I loved those comic strips from my...BillyWitchDoc...I loved those comic strips from my time reading Boys Life in the mid to late '50s. Its been so long I am weak on the details, but it might be fun to to go back and see if I could spot the artists you name. A couple of years ago I did go through the internet compilation and the magazine was actually better than I remember it as a kid.<br /><br />My parents subscribed to Boys Life for me, but I didn't think to keep any of the printed magazines, and if I had tried my mom would have tossed them in the trash incinerator anyway.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-33929692506576768982021-08-22T09:19:37.682-07:002021-08-22T09:19:37.682-07:00Daniel, it isn't me being cautious around femm...Daniel, it isn't me being cautious around femmes fatales, it is the femme fatales who want nothing to do with me.<br /><br />Of course, if a femmes fatale did approach me I am too old and tired to run, so I guess I would just have to give up and let the femmes fatale have her way.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-7926823605864282982021-08-16T21:30:20.496-07:002021-08-16T21:30:20.496-07:00Beautiful, powerful, seemingly ruthless villainess...Beautiful, powerful, seemingly ruthless villainesses who are reformed or otherwise made sympathetic over fictional arcs are quite common. Haggard's Ayesha is an extreme case. These imagined women are expressions of the <i>anima</i> — a construct of characteristics complementing the manifested characteristics of their creators and of much of the audience — and the evolutions of these fictional women accommodate the attraction to the <i>anima</i>. <br /><br />In real life, you're wise to be cautious of <i>femmes fatales</i>, especially as a heterosexual male.Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-15639430092413069182021-08-16T14:43:02.199-07:002021-08-16T14:43:02.199-07:00"The Sorceress of Zoom" was such a delig..."The Sorceress of Zoom" was such a delightfully screwy series. Every episode seems to have been written by a different writer with a different idea of what the series was about. She was bad, she was good, she was stalking a hapless mortal and putting spells on his girlfriend, then she wasn't, and so on. The art wasn't quite as erratic, There were a couple of standout episodes but mostly the drawing was simply lousy. The series is such a mess that I can't help but like it.Smurfswackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11807173070389349098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-18657004623272516272021-08-16T04:12:24.645-07:002021-08-16T04:12:24.645-07:00A tale as old as time. The Sorceress reminds me of...A tale as old as time. The Sorceress reminds me of the Empress of Eilerua from Al Stenzel's <i>Space Conquerors!,</i> a fun little serial strip that ran in <i>Boy's Life</i> Magazine sporadically throughout the '50s, '60s and early '70s, written & drawn by George Evans, Lou Fine, Gray Morrow and others over the years. The Empress was also an "evil" ice queen who eventually joined up with our heroes and ultimately settled down with one of the crew in the finale.<br /><br />If interested, <a href="https://planettom.livejournal.com/294248.html" rel="nofollow">Planet Tom</a> has an index (with commentary) that leads directly to (almost) every strip, and all <i>Boy's Life</i> content including other great comics, via Google Books.BillyWitchDoctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14311279565432013472noreply@blogger.com