Arkadin Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Gasoline Alley had a number of fantasy Sunday strips, like this one from 1930 with Walt and Skeezix entering a world of crazy modern art! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Gasoline Alley had a number of fantasy Sunday strips, like this one from 1930 with Walt and Skeezix entering a world of crazy modern art! Great stuff. Thanks for posting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted April 30, 2013 Author Share Posted April 30, 2013 Gasoline Alley had a number of fantasy Sunday strips, like this one from 1930 with Walt and Skeezix entering a world of crazy modern art! Those Gasoline Alley Sunday pages are some of my favorites. I was a fan in the sixties and seventies but discovered it was even better in the thirties and forties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted April 30, 2013 Author Share Posted April 30, 2013 BZ used to sing praises for Roy Crane's work on Capt. Easy. and Schomburg added some nice covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted April 30, 2013 Author Share Posted April 30, 2013 Gasoline Alley had a number of fantasy Sunday strips, like this one from 1930 with Walt and Skeezix entering a world of crazy modern art! Great stuff. Thanks for posting them. Star comics published Gasoline Alley reprints with LB Cole covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I've posted these in the Australian GA thread, but since no one actually reads that, I thought I'd share them here. Here's a beautiful 1942 Sunday comics adaptation of an Australian aboriginal dreamtime legend by Mary and Elizabeth Durack. Elizabeth was a well known artist in her own right, Here's a Hal Foster inspired (I'm guessing) strip from 1941. The sabre-tooth tigers are awesome. This one I'd have called a Barks knock off (artwise - the gag is lame), except that it dates from 1942! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkadin Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 (edited) Very nice Captain Easy, BB! That title seems to have inspired many of the next generation of comic creators. Another influential strip - a precursor to Peanuts - was Percy Crosby's Skippy. Skippy was probably the first comic to become a hit movie, way back in 1931. The Skippy film starred Jackie Cooper (much later to play Perry White in Superman) and won the Oscar for Best Director. Here's a full page 1930's Skippy from my collection. Edited May 3, 2013 by Arkadin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameri Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 3rd appearance of Flash Gordon and 1st appearance of Ming (1/24/33) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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damonwad Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Wow, 3rd Flash and 1st Ming. Great speceship action in the other one also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted May 4, 2013 Author Share Posted May 4, 2013 3rd appearance of Flash Gordon and 1st appearance of Ming (1/24/33) That one is really nice. Ming was the most famous villain in comics, I think. (After Black Pete, maybe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 Jerry Siegel may have thought about this 1931 strip when he created Superman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 My father-in-law saved this one for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 Batman was a little more graphic than usual in this Sunday page with a hanging man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 I think there were several Nedor issues, four colors and platinum series starring Jiggs and Maggie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 (edited) Although this one is from 1945, some newspapers continued to publish full page Prince Valiant comics in the sixties. Foster was amazing. Edited May 5, 2013 by BB-Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted May 6, 2013 Author Share Posted May 6, 2013 Mac Raboy did a great job on Flash. He was the artist working on the strip when I was young. I didn't know about Raymond until many years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BB-Gun Posted May 6, 2013 Author Share Posted May 6, 2013 Dickk Tracy dailies got more attention than Superman when Bonnie was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
