AJD Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 We interrupt your daily Australian pence copy bulletin for this just in: Here are some of the innards - a dragon that looks like it wandered out of a Chinese New year parade... ... and a couple of pages from the Flint Baker story. Our heroine gets some action with a blaster later in the story, but she's a clothes horse for a 'how does that stay up?' outfit in the first few pages! Harry Lime, Brandon Shepherd and 1950's war comics 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 In the same box as the Planet was this little gem. This comic is surprisingly thick - 32 pages, with 30 pages of story of a single row of panels each. Earlyish Barks (1946), complete with the long necked version of our hero. The story was reprinted in WDC&S #571 (1992), which I dug out for this UTC combo. Given that atom bombs had been used to destroy whole cities by then, and the industrial scale of the operation had been reported (though not in detail) there is a very peculiar idea of what an atom bomb might entail... 1950's war comics, Rune and Lucky Baru 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lime Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 A is for Atom . It seems strange to trivialise it from our perspective but in 1946 atomic power was considered the answer to most of mankind's problems. FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 23 hours ago, Harry Lime said: A is for Atom . It seems strange to trivialise it from our perspective but in 1946 atomic power was considered the answer to most of mankind's problems. I have also contemplated buying some of the 'your friend the atom' type giveaways from time to time. The dawn of the atomic age was simultaneously dreadful and optimistic - an interesting period. FoggyNelson, Harry Lime and 1950's war comics 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 7 minutes ago, AJD said: I have also contemplated buying some of the 'your friend the atom' type giveaways from time to time. The dawn of the atomic age was simultaneously dreadful and optimistic - an interesting period. I have never purchased a give-away but have thought about getting a few Big Boy give aways, have you heard of them .⁉️ Or Big Boy restaurant.⁉️ Lucky Baru, 1950's war comics and ComicConnoisseur 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 22 hours ago, FoggyNelson said: I have never purchased a give-away but have thought about getting a few Big Boy give aways, have you heard of them .⁉️ Or Big Boy restaurant.⁉️ I think I've seen them on eBay from time to time. I have never heard of the restaurants though. FoggyNelson and 1950's war comics 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Baru Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 22 hours ago, FoggyNelson said: I have never purchased a give-away but have thought about getting a few Big Boy give aways, have you heard of them .⁉️ Or Big Boy restaurant.⁉️ I've heard of them and eaten at a few. They had the statue out front. FoggyNelson, Brandon Shepherd and 1950's war comics 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AJD Posted April 30, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2018 I'm still waiting to find a copy of the original comic, but I got a very nicely done reprint of this one: The artist was Stanley Pitt (written by Frank Ashley). There are two schools of thought on Pitt's work. One has him as the best Australian comic artist, and the other is wrong. Here are a couple of interior pages: porcupine48, Brandon Shepherd, 1950's war comics and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lime Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 I can't see anything to complain about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony D Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 His art work looks very much like Alex Raymond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 On 1 May 2018 at 7:07 AM, Tony D said: His art work looks very much like Alex Raymond. Yes, agreed. This is Raymond. And this is Pitt 1950's war comics and Point Five 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 I sometimes pick up moderns with tribute covers to golden age things in my focus. This is one of those. @Brando- will be proud. Brandon Shepherd and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 16 hours ago, AJD said: I sometimes pick up moderns with tribute covers to golden age things in my focus. This is one of those. @Brando- will be proud. It's funny, I guess the soldiers are meant to be Nazis but they can’t show swastikas like on the real 1940s covers? It kinda looks like Supes is getting hit by friendly fire. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 You raise an interesting point. Germany has pretty strict rules about the display of the hakenkreuz (swastika) and I recall an Austrian boardie showing photos of an Austrian/German convention with US wartime GA comics clearly displayed with swastikas (one book was Captain America 1). He said the "authorities" are a little lenient when it comes to historic context - but I can imagine that they are pretty vigilant regarding its display. Just a guess, but I think the editorial decision not to display swastikas may have been a "political" one driven by sales and marketing. Point Five, 1950's war comics and porcupine48 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 5 hours ago, Point Five said: It's funny, I guess the soldiers are meant to be Nazis but they can’t show swastikas like on the real 1940s covers? It kinda looks like Supes is getting hit by friendly fire. Yeah, good point. The tank is fairly close to a Tiger IV, the 'potato masher' grenades and the helmets are sorta kinda right, but the uniforms don't look right to me - at the very least they are an odd mixture of winter and summer kit, but with American styling. And colouring them all olive drab tends to make them look less German and more American as well. It now makes sense that all those Schomburg covers had big swastikas and helpful little signs that say things like 'floating Nazi fortress'. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 16 hours ago, AJD said: Yeah, good point. The tank is fairly close to a Tiger IV, the 'potato masher' grenades and the helmets are sorta kinda right, but the uniforms don't look right to me - at the very least they are an odd mixture of winter and summer kit, but with American styling. And colouring them all olive drab tends to make them look less German and more American as well. It now makes sense that all those Schomburg covers had big swastikas and helpful little signs that say things like 'floating Nazi fortress'. I have no knowledge of WWII uniforms, but that was my gut feeling as well. The styles here feel way off for 1940s Germany, and it takes me a second read to get there. To Duffman's points, Nazi imagery even in the context of a tribute cover would be controversial in the US today, and I'm not at all surprised the artist didn't show actual swastikas. But it feels like 'some' signifiers are missing that these guys are the enemy. (Maybe generic black armbands on the soldiers would have helped a bit... I feel like I've seen that on covers somewhere before.) 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 Placing a WTB ad for Australian pence comics has turned out great. Nobody had one to sell me, but I got pointed towards a couple of sellers who did. This just in from Doug Sulipa. Here's an UTC of a pretty gritty 'The Hawk' story. Also some nice GGA and creative use of the panel border here. Before I got this I thought I was chasing 38 Australian issues of Jumbo Comics. With this one, and Komic Kazi's postings, I now know there are 48, and two specials. I've revised my estimated completion date to 2053 now. 1950's war comics and Brandon Shepherd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Is that as a high a grade in hand as it seems in the scan? Very nice - any idea who the cover artist is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lime Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 That is a very nice looking copy. And who doesn't like a spot of flagellation in the harem. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 7 hours ago, AJD said: Placing a WTB ad for Australian pence comics has turned out great. Nobody had one to sell me, but I got pointed towards a couple of sellers who did. This just in from Doug Sulipa. Nice Jumbo Lion cover !! i like the lighter blue cover , i have not seen that that hue before and it stands out...... !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
