Thursday, July 29, 2010
Steve Ditko's First Changing Man (1960)
Steve Ditko’s Shade: The Changing Man debuted in 1977 from DC Comics, with story and art by Ditko, and dialogue by Michael Fleisher. Many creators have recycled old ideas more than once, and we can’t help but wonder if Ditko recalled this old story he did for Marvel when he came up with the initial concept for Shade.
Presented below is a mash-up of what a Changing Man book might have looked like if it came out from DC during the early 60’s.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Batman In The Future! (1950)
You know that any story that opens with the lines, “Look Robin – The Bat-Signal! We’re wanted back on Earth!”, is going to be a lot of fun! Give me the Sci-Fi, ‘Zebra’-Batman from the 1950’s over the psychopathic version on the stands today…!
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Batman #57 © DC Comics
Script: Bill Finger; Pencils: Bob Kane (Batman & Robin figures only)
& Lew Schwartz; Inks: Charles Paris
and...
Friday, June 11, 2010
The Metamorphosis of the Gkmloooms (1952) by George Evans
Fawcett’s “World of Fear” showcased a lot of top talent – like the underappreciated George Evans, and featured some genuinely creepy stories that would not have been out of place over in the EC horror comics. This tale presents Atomic Surgery at its most disturbing. Poorer summer blockbuster movies have been made out of slimmer ideas than this.
Centenary of Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s Birth
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (June 11, 1910 – June 25, 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, marine biologist and ocean explorer, known for his extensive underseas investigations. He was co-inventor of the aqualung which made SCUBA diving possible (1943).
Cousteau the developed the Conshelf series of manned habitats, the Diving Saucer, a process of underwater television and numerous other platforms and specialized instruments of ocean science. In 1945 he founded the French Navy's Undersea Research Group. He modified a WWII wooden hull minesweeper into the research vessel Calypso, in 1950. From Today In Science History
Here’s salute to the great man with a showcase of covers from our favorite undersea adventure series:
SubHuman is © M. Ryan and M. Schultz. All art © M. Schultz
Cousteau the developed the Conshelf series of manned habitats, the Diving Saucer, a process of underwater television and numerous other platforms and specialized instruments of ocean science. In 1945 he founded the French Navy's Undersea Research Group. He modified a WWII wooden hull minesweeper into the research vessel Calypso, in 1950. From Today In Science History
Here’s salute to the great man with a showcase of covers from our favorite undersea adventure series:
SubHuman is © M. Ryan and M. Schultz. All art © M. Schultz
Sunday, June 6, 2010
The Blank! by Angelo Torres (1956)
A nice little tale with art by Angelo Torres who is still going strong more than 50 years after this story was published. This would have been from towards the start of Torres' career and was probably knocked out over a weekend with the help of rest of the ‘Fleagle Gang’, including Al Williamson (layouts?; e.g., panels 3 & 4, page 2) and Frank Frazetta (figure work?, especially on Dora, e.g., bottom of page 2).
Things don’t look too good for the professor. Perhaps the young lovebirds should have given the old guy a better alibi than "there are blanks in my memory” to explain their ‘disappearance’!
Monday, May 31, 2010
Robin Dies At Dawn! (Batman, 1963)
One of the great 1960's iconic DC covers for an otherwise dopey story. The editors must have released how good the cover was because they tried to tie three otherwise separate stores in to a 3 part ‘epic’. As we saw two days ago, the ‘Ant-Man’ story (part 1) has little to do with this story (part 2). Part 3 has a brief flashback to part 2, but is mostly about Batman catching bad guys while wearing a gorilla suit.
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