Showing posts with label Spitfire Saunders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spitfire Saunders. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

Reading Room: SPITFIRE SAUNDERS "Whip"

...here's the original (and longer) version of the tale, starring a totally-different heroine from Spitfire Comics #132 (1944)!
Spitfire Saunders made only two appearances, in successive issues of Elliot Comics' Spitfire Comics, which despite the high numbering of this issue (#132), only had two issues!
The art on this story about an extremely competent female spy is by journeyman artist Paul Cooper, working for the Iger Studios, who also supplied art to Ajax/Farrell (where the re-worked version appeared) and Fox Comics.
It's unknown who did the art modifications on the Phantom Lady version of the tale, but odds are Ruth Roche did the extensive editing and re-scripting.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Satan's Seal"

This is one of the most unusual Phantom Lady tales you'll ever read...
...because it wasn't meant to be a Phantom Lady story!
In fact, this story in Ajax/Farrell's Phantom Lady #1 (1954) originally appeared a decade earlier, featuring a different character battling Nazis (not Commies), in another publisher's magazine!
The first version was published in Elliot Comics' Spitfire Comics #132 (1944), starring female spy Spitfire Saunders in the first of only two appearances...
...but we're out of room (and time), so you'll see the complete Spitfire Saunders story tomorrow!
Besides, you'll probably want to open both entries in side-by-side tabs or windows so you can compare the stories!

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Friday, March 23, 2012

The Mystery of the Spitfire who Became a Phantom!

Phantom Lady will be back next week, when we show you how this story...
...was altered/transformed/morphed into this story...
...in a tale of publishing, print production, and paste-ups!
It's a two-day, two-for-one deal you won't want to miss!

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