Friday, May 25, 2012

Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Success is No Accident"

For the final time, if the story seems familiar...
...it's because this is yet another re-write of a story of the Fox Comics version of Phantom Lady published several years earlier!
Both ironically and appropriately, this final Phantom Lady tale in Wonder Boy #18 (1955) is based on a story that appeared, not in Phantom Lady, but All Top Comics #9 (1948), entitled "Killer Clown".
This is the final Golden Age Phantom Lady tale on this blog, but it's not the last one in our archives!
There's one more tale, from Phantom Lady #22 (1948), featuring our heroine at the 1948 London Olympics!
It'll appear in our new "sister" blog, Heroines™, when the Olympics open on July 27th!

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Reading Room: JET DREAM "Farmer Brown Fiasco"

It's difficult fitting a team into only four pages...
...so Jet Dream usually had solo action stories or a team-up with one of the Stunt-Girl Counterspies!
Unfortunately, because of the 4-page per story limitation, the individual Stunt-Girls never had any real characterization.
Add Joe Certa's passable art using the same facial features for all the female characters, and the only things differentiating the women were hair color and stereotyped accents.
Script for this tale from Man from U.N.C.L.E. #17 (1968) by Dick Wood, art by Joe Certa.

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Man the Kremlin Applauded"

Though she lost her own title for the second time in 1955, Phantom Lady battled on...
...in new stories as a second feature in Ajax/Farrell's Wonder Boy!
Script for this tale from Wonder Boy #17 (1955) is probably by Ruth Roche.
However, the art is not by Matt Baker, and, while competent, is hardly the classic cheesecake we've come to expect of Phantom Lady!
Be here next week to see Phantom Lady's final Golden Age appearance (not counting reprints)!

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Monday, May 14, 2012

Reading Room: JET DREAM "Day of Infamy"

Is one of the Stunt-Girl CounterSpies a traitor?
Jet Dream must discover the truth in only four pages before it tears the team apart...or worse!
Didn't Ting-a-Ling do something similar because her family was threatened several issues ago?
Script for this tale from Man from U.N.C.L.E. #16 (1968) by Dick Wood (who also wrote the earlier tale so he should have remembered), art by Joe Certa.
(To be fair, Ting wasn't a member of the StuntGirls at that point...nit-pick, nit-pick...)

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "What Price Protection?"

Once again, if the story seems familiar...
...it's because this is yet another re-write of a story presented in the Fox Comics version of Phantom Lady several years earlier!
The first version of this tale appeared in Fox Publishing's Phantom Lady #17 (1947) and called "Soda Mint Killer", as shown HERE, but it's toned-down both in terms of sexiness and violence in the new version published in Ajax/Farrell's Phantom Lady #4 (1955)!
So both stories in this issue are re-writes of earlier tales!
Script in both versions probably by Ruth Roche.
However, this time the art is not by Matt Baker, and though adequate, is no match for the original!
This was the final issue of Phantom Lady, but not her final Golden Age appearance!
Be here next week to see what we're talking about!

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Reading Room: AMAZING ADVENTURES OF HOLO-MAN "Birth of a Hero" Conclusion

Art for this page by Don Heck and Joe Giella
During a demonstration to President Jimmy Carter of a new thermonuclear power system, Dr Jim Robinson, inventor of the system, is sucked into a wormhole where an alien being gives him laser-based powers, then returns him to Earth...
I'm afraid you'll have to miss it since the "next issue" (presumably the next book/record) never came out!
Art for this page by Don Heck and Joe Giella
Pencils (uncredited) by John Buscema, inks by Joe Giella.
The only other Holo-Man art was the two splash pages (by Don Heck and Joe Giella) that bookend this blog entry and the painted cover by Bob Larkin based on the Heck-Giella splash page.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Reading Room: AMAZING ADVENTURES OF HOLO-MAN "Birth of a Hero" Part 1

The only super-hero created for audio...
...was based on the concept of using lasers to create holograms, a purely-visual technology!
Holy Irony!
 The startling story continues...
Written by Barry Von Name.
And though the art is attributed solely to Joe Giella, the pencils are clearly John Buscema, with Giella's inking.
You could either get the book/45 record in record stores or mail away for the book/record and a pendant using coupons like this found in Marvel comics. (I never saw one in DC titles!)
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