Alex Toth's ZORRO and the "Ghost of the Mission" Part 2 (1958)
We saw Part 1 yesterday. Here's the exciting conclusion. My thanks (and Zorro's) once again to Marty Nelson!
View ArticleForgotten Stories: THEIR GUARDIAN FROM HELL by Norbert Davis (1937)
This post is a rerun from dang near ten years ago, but I wanted to read it again and figured somebody else might like to, too. "Their Guardian from Hell" appeared in the March 1937 issue of Star...
View ArticleTOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 11 (1951)
Thanks once again to Larry Paschelke! (In case you're wondering, those yellow splotches on the sides of the dailies are from the nasty 1951 glue used to paste them into a scrapbook.)
View ArticleJIM BOWIE and the "Blade of Guilt" (1959)
Big Jim Bowie, as portrayed by Scott Forbes, appears in this big honkin' story from Four Color #993, dated July 1959. Thanks a heap to "darkmark" for scanning it for comicbookplus. Art is credited to...
View ArticleForgotten Stories: "Waterfront Wildcat" by Robert Turner (1944)
Is this tale from Blue Streak Comics #8 (1944) by the same Robert Turner who penned pulp stories in the forties and mystery paperbacks in the sixties? Seems likely, but I don't know. But this guy did...
View ArticleTOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 12 (1951)
More marvels from the Larry Paschelke Archives.
View Article"Capt'n Courage" by RAFAEL ASTARITA (1951)
Some time back I posted a tale featuring the very cool art of Rafael Astarita (that's HERE). Here's another one, from White Princess of the Jungle #1, back in July 1951. Thanks to "movielover" for...
View ArticleLENA THE HYENA - College Mascot?
You're probably familiar with the saga of Lena the Hyena - how back in 1946, Al Capp announced a contest for his readers to depict "the ugliest woman in the world," and persuaded Frank Sinatra,...
View ArticleForgotten Stories: "Robots Can't Lie" by ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM (1941)
Dan Turner in outer space? No, not really, but it makes you wonder what might have been. This is the first science fiction saga I've seen from Mr. Bellem, so I find it sorta interesting. What will...
View ArticleTOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 14 (1951)
You'll note the "Space Dust" featurette is missing this time, due - no doubt - to the newspaper rather than strip-clipping young Larry Paschelke. In the coming weeks, sometimes it's there, and...
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