After You've Opened Your Presents, Enjoy These Yuletide SuperHero Tales...
Merry Christmas!
(We're taking New Year's Day off, but we'll be back to Russkie-Smashing on January 8th!)
Showing posts with label Fawcett. Show all posts
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Monday, December 25, 2023
Monday, October 17, 2022
He's Coming...
But, before that, we're doing a special four-day presentation of his origin (and only Golden Age appearance)...and his Bronze Age revival!
Be Here Tomorrow!!!
(because you really don't want to piss him off!)
Be Here Tomorrow!!!
(because you really don't want to piss him off!)
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Holiday Reading Room CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES "Plot Against Christmas"
He's not a captain in the Kree starfleet (or his son) or the other, female, Human/Kree Captain...
...or even the Silver Age android who briefly bore the name.
This is the original guy, the one who yelled "SHAZAM!", starring in a Christmas tale about a miser who...well read it for yourself...
This Yultide tale from Fawcett's Captain Marvel Adventures #42 (1945) was illustrated by Pete Costanza with touchups by C C Beck.
The writer, who owed a great deal to Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", is unknown.
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Shazam
Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal
Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal
Monday, September 10, 2018
MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Epilogue: Mr Mind LIVES!"
...because, like almost all great comic book villains, the little SOB had an ace in the hole...
When DC revived the Marvel Family (after putting them out of business almost 20 years earlier), instead of rebooting the series, the creatives had arch-villain Sivana freeze them (and himself, accidentally) in "suspendium" to explain why they hadn't aged!
After an earthquake hits the museum, Billy/Captain Marvel digs out the museum-goers...
...where writer E Nelson Bridwell (who was DC's resident "continuity fanatic" counterpart to Marvel's Roy Thomas) and penciler Kurt Schaffenberger (who had worked on Fawcett's Marvel Family titles from the mid-1940s until they were cancelled in 1954) finally told the story!
Note: there are no footnotes in these SHAZAM! tales referencing Captain Marvel Adventures #46 (1945), where Mr Mind met his (supposed) demise!
Why?
1) when SHAZAM! #2 was published in 1973, there were no reprints of the Monster Society of Evil serial...nor any Captain Marvel stories in print due to the terms of the DC/Fawcett lawsuit!
2) When SHAZAM! #31 was published in 1977, DC had reprinted some of the Fawcett Marvel Family stories, but had already perceived reprinting MSoE would be problematic due to the racist content of several of the chapters!
(Of course, this was before the Direct Market and comic book stores in almost every city/town/village!)
Note: there are no footnotes in these SHAZAM! tales referencing Captain Marvel Adventures #46 (1945), where Mr Mind met his (supposed) demise!
Why?
1) when SHAZAM! #2 was published in 1973, there were no reprints of the Monster Society of Evil serial...nor any Captain Marvel stories in print due to the terms of the DC/Fawcett lawsuit!
2) When SHAZAM! #31 was published in 1977, DC had reprinted some of the Fawcett Marvel Family stories, but had already perceived reprinting MSoE would be problematic due to the racist content of several of the chapters!
(Of course, this was before the Direct Market and comic book stores in almost every city/town/village!)
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Friday, September 7, 2018
MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter XXV: the End of Mr Mind!"
...and now on with the final chapter of this mind-bending (no pun intnded) serial!
Mr. Mind would reappear only in flashbacks in Fawcett's various "Marvel Family" titles.
When DC revived the Marvel Family in SHAZAM!, it was revealed Mr. Mind had survived!
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter XXIV: the Undersea Monster Brigade"
...yep, it's the bad guy who's about to meet his demise!
For a kiddie-oriented strip, this serial's pretty damn lethal!
Pity the World's Mightiest Mortal doesn't have x-ray vision like Superman, eh?
Of course, that might have helped end the copyright infringement trial sooner than it did...
D.C. (then National Comics Publications, Inc) found itself squaring off with Fawcett Publications, Inc. in a 1941 lawsuit challenging publication of Captain Marvel (now known as “Shazam”).
It took several court decisions, a 1948 trial and 13 years of litigation before Superman ultimately prevailed in 1954 when Fawcett agreed to settle amidst a decision to leave the comic book business altogether.
Note, we have the secret code...
...from the back of the Captain Marvel Club Membership Card (shown here)!
And, no, we're not going to translate it for you!
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter XXIII: Mr Mind's School for Evil!"
...when did Mr Mind have time to set this operation up?
When you think about it, having a "school for evil" is a great idea, which both Marvel's TaskMaster's Academy and DC's H.I.V.E. Academy took even further!
Note, we have the secret code...
...from the back of the Captain Marvel Club Membership Card (shown here)!
And, no, we're not going to translate it for you!
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