How A Movie Serial Is Made - The Vigilante by Mort Meskin (1947)

Real Fact Comics #10 (Oct., 1947), DC Comics
Script: Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger and Bernie Breslauer;
Pencils: Mort Meskin; Inks: George Roussos

Back in 1947, DC's Vigilante was popular enough to get his own 15 chapter serial starring Ralph Byrd from Columbia Pictures. Although his movie career did not take off, The Vigilante had a long run as a back up feature in Action Comics from 1941 to 1954. He was also a member of The Seven Soldiers of Victory and he still turns up periodically in the DC universe despite the seemingly annual reboots and reimaginings.

A beautiful cover by Mark Chiarello for The Vigilante's 1995-6,
4-issue mini-series.


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Here's a great story from 1950 featuring the art of the under-appreciated Dan Barry. Barry did memorable stints on the Tarzan and Flash Gordon newspaper strips.

An earlier splash page by Bob Lubbers from Action Comics #130 (March, 1949).






Action Comics #149 (Oct., 1950). Vigilante © DC Comics.
Art by Dan Berry





The Vigilante even has his own action figure!

The Fox by Irwin Hasen (March, 1941)

Story by Joe Blair; Art by Irwin Hasen

Another great adventure of The Fox from Blue Ribbon Comics #10, March 1941, atomicly enhanced for your pleasure!

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The Fox is © the current copyright holders.

The origin of The Fox

The Fox by Alex Toth

Devils of The Deep (1940)

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Blue Ribbon Comics #3, Jan. 1940 (MLJ)
Script: George Nagle, Art: Edd Ashe

One of only two "Devils of the Deep" stories ever published, this second one bearing no relation to the first.

You'd think that this weird little gem would be so obscure that no one else would ever have noticed it, yet Coles Comics also posted about it earlier this year. Go read about the possible Jack Cole connection.

The Atomic Surgeons now return back to the Future.
Stay tuned for their next appearance.

Krypto's Family Tree (Superboy, 1966)

Superboy #126, Jan. 1966. © DC Comics
Story: Otto Binder; Pencils: Curt Swan; Inks: George Klein

Kryptonian scientists have no problem testing experimental formula on animals, but only if they're thirsty. Since the drug obviously works, whatever became of the race of winged Kryptonian supermen?

Kryptonian scientists also have no problem endangering children during their experiments, but we've seen this before in old comic stories.

Why is the average dog smarter than the average Kryptonian scientist? If the dogs had of been in charge I'm sure they would have figured out a way to keep Krypton from exploding!



Too bad comic books today don't have stories half as imaginative, fun & well-executed as these.


Apparently Krypto gave rise to his own ancestors!
Bizarro family tree am backwards!

Dinosaurs You Didn't Know About

Two pages of dino-information from the underground comic Forbidden Knowledge over at the Palaeoblog.