Golden (and Platinum) Age Comic Book Characters Go To The Movies 0

[Robot Man]

Fu Manchu must have been popular in the day. Here is a promo pin for another one of his films...

[Electricmastro]

27 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Fu Manchu must have been popular in the day. Here is a promo pin for another one of his films...

Fu Manchu appeared in 1938 and 1939 issues of Detective Comics, but wasn’t really featured by anyone else in comics after that until 1951 by Avon, likely due to China being an ally of the US against Japan in World War II, and thus companies like Quality, Columbia, and Eastern Color decided to feature what was said to be the more Chinese-friendly character of Charlie Chan.

Edited July 14, 2020 by Electricmastro

[Cat-Man_America]

3 hours ago, Electricmastro said:

Fu Manchu appeared in 1938 and 1939 issues of Detective Comics, but wasn’t really featured by anyone else in comics after that until 1951 by Avon, likely due to China being an ally of the US against Japan in World War II, and thus companies like Quality, Columbia, and Eastern Color decided to feature what was said to be the more Chinese-friendly character of Charlie Chan.

Actually, Fu Manchu was a popular featured character in Detective Comics from issue #1.  The first issue, from early ‘37, prominently featured the diabolical doctor on the cover.  In pulp literature and films of the 1930’s, Dr. Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan were both quite popular with the public.  Of course, it could be argued that bias may have been involved in Hollywood producers only hiring Caucasian actors like Boris Karloff and Warner Oland to portray Asian leads in feature films, but those were different times.

[Cat-Man_America]