tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post8524598329746933815..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 2445: All in color for a nickelPappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-58417916393108906142020-08-18T07:03:43.288-07:002020-08-18T07:03:43.288-07:00Daniel, coincidentally, I just read a short bio of...Daniel, coincidentally, I just read a short bio of Wilkie Collins in a 2011 New Yorker. I do remember the canopied bed story I showed, which came from an EC Comic.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-18884726880476271532020-08-18T07:00:01.762-07:002020-08-18T07:00:01.762-07:00Thanks, Wm...Good catch on the redundancy in his n...Thanks, Wm...Good catch on the redundancy in his name, but I still like the alliteration of Warlock's name.<br /><br />Thanks for the note.<br /><br />P.S. When I was in the Army (many years ago) we had a doctor whose name was Docter. Doctor Docter. I thought he was lucky that physicians went into the service as officers at the time he was a Captain, so he was referred to by his rank. I'm sure that over his career, military or civilian, he heard many jokes about his name.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-12700672378770134342020-08-11T12:00:06.405-07:002020-08-11T12:00:06.405-07:00This is utterly fantastic. Thanks Pappy- I'd l...This is utterly fantastic. Thanks Pappy- I'd long loved the covers of Nickel Comics I'd see either in books about comic history or in price guides but this is the first time I've gotten to enjoy the interiors. I feel I should actually send you a nickel now. <br /><br />Also, 'Warlock the Wizard' is such an entertainingly thorough name. It's like a character called 'Doctor the Physician' or something. Wm Byronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03211622568047874639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-37164919182114597632020-08-09T06:00:30.759-07:002020-08-09T06:00:30.759-07:00Plainly, the editors at Fawcett imagined the reade...Plainly, the editors at Fawcett imagined the readers of <i>Nickel Comics</i> to be very childish. It at least made sense for them to imagine the average age of the readers as lower than that for 10¢ comic books. <br /><br />I'd not realized how primitive were the first Bulletman story! It would have been rather better had Jim Barr not bulked-up over-night. <br /><br />I was amused by Dagoo's line “The gods are saving us for a worse death.” The interaction with the giants under Steve's rule somewhat echoes that of Vincey and Holly with the Amahagger in <i>She</i>. <br /><br />It is a bit surprising that only one throttling occurs in the Warlock story, and that by the villain. We've previously discussed <a href="http://www.online-literature.com/wilkie-collins/2114/" rel="nofollow">“[The Traveller's Story of] a Terribly Strange Bed” by Wilkie Collins</a>, in which a canopied bed is designed to suffocate the person sleeping in it. Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.com