Emile has provided us with a high resolution version of this story - the last installment in that series.Download the story here.A couple of strips are in B&W while the rest are in color. Luckily I had these strips in [...]
#678 - S021 The Flame Pearls-VIII The Hungry Isles (11-09-41 to 04-12-42)
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Sáu, 8 tháng 8, 2014
#677 - A contribution from Celso Nunes
Người đăng: lecuongle on Chủ Nhật, 3 tháng 8, 2014
Celso Nunes is a "Phan", who is very active in groups related to our favorite masked hero in purple. I was pleasantly surprised when I got a note from him asking if I would be willing to share his scans. So here they are.https://www.dropbox.com/s/u9apicvvom0y23h/The%20Phantom%20001%20%282003%29.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/973nh1esmw47dyt/The%20Phantom%20002%20%282004%29.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/6kagckmybzyio3u/The%20Phantom%20003%20%282004%29.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/166usn5qheb3ytx/The%20Phantom%20004%20%282004%29.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/egzxgt88p1k2fsw/The%20Phantom%20005%20%282005%29.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/tzcqy1q27kpk8qq/The%20Phantom%20006%20%282005%29.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/8ebdnpjg2vcsxrw/The%20Phantom%20007%20%282005%29.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/25zuj7rkxfbz9lk/The%20Phantom%20008%20%282005%29.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/0ivduwgugffbwu6/The%20Phantom%20009%20%282006%29.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/j1p86pguywtrar3/The%20Phantom%20010%20%282006%29.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/y9ys05hc27zcmgh/The%20Phantom%20011%20ctc.cbrhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/orxee9muuused1p/The%20Phantom%20012.cbrThere [...]
I'm Sure You've Heard This Before....
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Sáu, 25 tháng 7, 2014
Usual comic book serendipity thing. I was poking through some back issue bins at the local comic shop and I came across some issues of a comic called Myth Adventures, liked the cover art and picked a few up.So I'm reading these stories and really [...]
676 - D149_-_The Castle in the Jungle_-_1965-07-28_(8115)_to_1965-10-16_(8184)_-_70_days
Người đăng: lecuongle on Chủ Nhật, 20 tháng 7, 2014
Here is the latest reprint of a Tarzan daily strip story, coutesy Emile. This had also been reprinted in a comic book in India, which had been posted long time ago in this very same blog.Download the story here and shower [...]
Angel & Ape #2
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Sáu, 18 tháng 7, 2014
Of all the quirky titles that DC published near the end of the Silver Age, this must surely be the oddest. Well, side from Brother Power the Geek. This happens to be the only issue I own; I don't think I've even [...]
Swiped and Then Swiped Again
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Ba, 8 tháng 7, 2014
Mort Weisinger's enthusiasm for swiping story ideas from earlier issues of Superboy does not seem as high as it was for Adventure Comics, but here's a pretty impressive example of a double swipe. For starters, here [...]
675 - Some Flash Gordon Sunday strips
Người đăng: lecuongle on Chủ Nhật, 6 tháng 7, 2014
Courtesy, Emile, we have some Flash Gordon Sunday strips. S176 was the last Sunday strip drawn by Dan Barry (the brother of Sy Barry, who drew the Phantom). S177 was a reprint of an earlier Dan Barry comic strip. S178 thru S188 was drawn by a group of [...]
Mort Weisinger's Idea of Funny
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Năm, 3 tháng 7, 2014
What the? From Superboy #72 (April 1959):Why would he put that postscript in there? He had to know that there were plenty of Superboy readers who were still at the age where they believed in Santa. It's hard [...]
A Wink from Clark
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Ba, 1 tháng 7, 2014
Reading through the Silver Age Superboy, I noticed how many stories ended with this:The winks tend to happen at the end of secret identity stories; I'm sure there are plenty of examples in Superman as well.This is somewhat [...]
#674 - The latest Mandrake daily reprint
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Bảy, 21 tháng 6, 2014
Courtesy Emile, we have the color reprint of D270, a story called Alibi Algie.This idea of an identical twin being in a different place at the same time as the perpetrator of a crime was a favorite theme in a few very successful [...]
Some Lesser Swipes
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Tư, 18 tháng 6, 2014
As I mentioned the other day, I have been working my way through the mid-1950s Superboy issues looking for more swipes by Weisinger and company. I came across two more, although these were not quite as blatant. [...]
The Secret Origin of Pete Ross
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Tư, 11 tháng 6, 2014
I've been working my way through the mid-1950s issues of Superboy, looking for more stories that were later swiped by Weisinger, and the first one I found is rather significant.Did you know that Pete Ross' original name [...]
