Showing posts with label 1977. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1977. Show all posts

13 July 2019

Bedtime Gory

Continuing from yesterday morning, it's Twilight Of The Heroes - a classic tale from the golden days of yore by Ron Wilber. When reading along, remember that this was back in 1977 - so long ago that my then wife and i were still expecting our first child when it was published in Rocket's Blast Comic Collector. Long before the 'Dark Age' of comics, and way back when we could only dream of characters from different companies ever appearing together.

Some dreams are decidedly more twisted than others...


...and that being the case, we've had to put this tale in our 'back room' - The Other Voice Of ODD! - to keep things tolerably Safe For Work (and the search engines) here on the main blog.

Head on back and enjoy this odd and unique bit of hidden comics history.

page art by Ron Wilber for RBCC #s 143-146  (1977)

23 June 2019

So! It's YOU, Louise!

Let's get back to the Blonde Phantom...


Blonde Phantom Comics ran for only 11 issues between 1946 and 1949. But she got around during that time. Not only did she have her own book, she had strips in Sub-Mariner Comics, Namora, Sun Girl, Marvel Mystery Comics and Blackstone The Magician, whose splash panels we see here -


These were typically short (four page) tales. For examples of the stories, here are her two appearances from Sun Girl #s 2 & 3 -



When she showed up in Marvel Mystery Comics, she was the big star up front on a cover the heroes later made famous as The Invaders - Captain America, the Human Torch, and the Sub-Mariner -


She showed up on two more covers.* Once damsel in distressing for the Human Torch...


...and once more to party with Torch, Subby and Sun Girl...


Louise had seven adventures in MMC, the splash for one of which is featured at the top of this post. Here are the other six -


After 1949, it was off to comics limbo for her, as we saw in Sensational She-Hulk.


But - she did escape limbo once in the '70s, a dozen years before she managed to become a supporting character for Jennifer...

story art by Bill Black

We can see how desperate she was to leave limbo if she showed up for just those two pages, eh?

Some may wonder at why we didn't see the Blonde Phantom in the sequence that closed out the Sensational She-Hulk comic, which we saw at the end of our first post on Deadpool's Big Green Mama.

The thing is - we did! In perhaps the sneakiest way possible.

As you might recall (or can follow that link above to go back and look), Millie The Model was introduced as the hidden 'villain' in those pages.

So, so sneaky...

Story art by Ken Bald


art from Blackstone The Magician #s 2, 3, & 4, Submariner # 27, Sun Girl #s 2 & 3, Marvel Mystery Comics #s 84-91, Bizarre Tales #1, Millie The Model #2 (1946-1949, 1977)

*(Oops.
I just noticed that she appeared on one more cover for Marvel Mystery Comics - #86. Sorry, it's not scanned & prepped. It's a split focus cover, with her hanging out with a couple of pirates on the bottom right. That means there were 8 stories, also.

That help?)

08 December 2018

Stellar Tribulations

Did everyone enjoy yesterday's Hide & Seek edition of Friday Fun & Games?

Yeah, still trying to get my peripatetic mind to wander back this way. We'll get there. Xmas is coming - that'll give it something to focus on here, eh?

Meanwhile, let's jump back a few days and revisit that issue of Rocket's Blast ComicCollector from which we pulled Don & Bill's Star Wars/Oz comparison. Star Wars, as you might recall, was making a big splash back in 1977 and unsurprisingly that was not the only reference in that issue. In fact, we got a short comic tale from Ron Wilber, whose work we've seen previously in Twilight Of The Heroes.
Wait - Did we get to that before the crash? Hmm...
If not, we'll go there soon.

For now, here's Ron's Star Woes from RBCC #139. Due to word size and density, these pages are a tad larger than usual for easier reading -



Actually, RBCC #139 was a Star Wars Special Issue, so there's plenty of other SW material, including artwork from Ralph Fowler, Steve Fabian, and others as well as a Mark Hamill interview. If i can get my brain to cooperate, we'll peek a bit more at the issue this weekend.

page art by Ronald Wilber for RBCC #139 (1977)

04 December 2018

The Wicked Sith Of The West


One of these days we'll finally get to The Pertwillaby Papers, Don Rosa's old comic from the Rocket's Blast ComicCollector. But, for the moment, let's jump back to 1977 when the first Star Wars movie was released. Here's a lovely observational piece from Don, aided & abetted by William Fugate:


Slowly getting back on track...

page art by Don Rosa and William Fugate for RBCC #139 (1977)

07 August 2018

Gray In Grey

I need to make my monthly supply run and pick up the new hard drive, so minimal words this morning. While i'm off being too busy, y'all enjoy a trio of short black & white tales illustrated by Gray Morrow from the old days of Creepy magazine -





page art from Creepy #s 26, 55 & 87 (1968, 1973, 1977)