In the early Golden Age, superheroes helped the "little guy"...
...when sleazeballs took advantage of honest citizens' dire financial straits!
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Reading Room: BLUE BEETLE "Loan Shark Racket"
Friday, June 8, 2012
Reading Room: JET DREAM "Fall to Freedom"
The Stunt-Girl CounterSpies go back to their roots...
...unfortunately, for one of them, the roots include Nazis!
Remember, when this story from Man from U.N.C.L.E. #19 came out in 1968, it was only 23 years since the end of World War II, so those pesky Nazis were still pretty spry, especially in spy fiction!
For example: Baron Strucker was battling Nick Fury both in the 1960s in Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and in the 1940s in Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos!
Blackhawk, himself a WWII vet, was still fighting various hidden Nazi factions until his first series ended in 1968!
Nazis also popped up in the Matt Helm, Flint, and James Bond films, as well as the Man from U.N.C.L.E. tv series.
Story by Dave Wood, art by Joe Certa.
This is the penultimate Jet Dream short story.
Next week, we'll be presenting the final four-pager (which features the return of a past foe), then we're moving over to our sister blog, Heroines™, for the complete full-length one-shot tale that ended Jet's original run!
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Reading Room: ONE-SHOT HEROES Blue Flame
Who looks like the Human Torch and acts like the Human Torch...but is blue instead of red?
The Blue Flame, that's who!
Nope, S. Aitan, you won't meet Blue Flame again.
Nor will anybody else...ever!
Even though the story implies the Blue Flame's been around for awhile, he never appeared anywhere except this one appearance in Four Star's Captain Flight #11 (1947).
The writer is unknown, but the art is credited to Zoltan Szenics, who was primarily a letterer, but did several stories as a penciler or inker.
Perhaps it was a tryout for Timely Comics that didn't sell, and was reworked.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Reading Room: JET DREAM "Captive Jet"
What happens when you take "Jet Dream" out of...
...and the team has to rescue their erstwhile leader?
"Jet-A-Reeno"???
Well, it ain't no "Hawkaaa!", but it'll do.
It's good to know they can function without Jet's leadership when necessary.
Script for this tale from Man from U.N.C.L.E. #18 (1968) by Dick Wood, with vastly-improved art by Joe Certa.
(We can finally tell which StuntGirls are which!)
(We can finally tell which StuntGirls are which!)
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Friday, June 1, 2012
Reading Room: BLUE BEETLE "Armored Car Robbery"
The Blue Beetle dons his blue chain-mail costume for the first time...
...and displays the BeetleMobile in it's only appearance, ever!
(Lucky for him no one recognized him as policeman Dan Garret!)
Next issue he gains the mask, and by his fourth appearance the long-sleeved look he was to keep for the remainder of his career.
This story from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #2 is credited to the the pen-name "Charles Nicholas", but was written by Will Eisner and illustrated by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski, who later used the name for all his comic work until he retired.
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