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Plastino's JFK Story Now Where It Belongs

Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Năm, 20 tháng 3, 2014

At the JFK Library in Boston:

Superman has finally soared into the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
Legendary comic book artist Al Plastino thought he donated the 10 hand-drawn comic strips of Superman teaming up with John F. Kennedy decades ago, but the artwork somehow fell in the hands of a private owner.
In December, comic book publisher DC Entertainment bought the black-and-white artwork and donated it to the library.
Plastino died in November at the age of 91. His four children, grandchildren and wife attended the exhibit opening on Thursday.
“We are just thrilled that these came home to where they belong,” said his daughter MaryAnn Plastino Charles, who made the trek from Alabama.

Kudos to DC for doing the right thing.
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#663 - A Black and White version of Mandrake Sunday strip no 22 again from Emile

Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Năm, 13 tháng 3, 2014

Though this adventure takes place when Mandrake and Lothar traveled on the ship Argos, this is not considered as part of the "Flame Pearls" series.

Emile has provided us with a Hi-Res Black and White version of this story. The first panel is as follows:



The full story can be downloaded here. Shower your thanks on Emile.

You may also recall that a color version of this story, culled out and edited by Paulo had been posted in this blog, a couple of years ago. That story can be downloaded here. The first panel looks like this:





















Enjoy,

Venkit
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#662 - Continuing with Emile's collection

Người đăng: lecuongle on Chủ Nhật, 2 tháng 3, 2014

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Those Pesky Asteroids!

Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Tư, 26 tháng 2, 2014

And comets, meteors and rogue planets! Here's another thing I noticed in my reading of the Action Comics starting with #200. Superman seemed to spend half of his time saving Earth from one asteroid or other bit of cosmic debris after another.

 Action #204:
It took awhile for the next one to come along, but after that it was Katie bar the door.  Action #221:


Action #222:
And #223:
Action #227:
#229:
Action #232 featured not one, but two near impacts:
In some cases, these asteroids/comets/meteors performed functions similar to Red Kryptonite later in the Silver Age.  For example, the comet in #221 imparted to Superman a magnetic power that was handy at times, but gave him headaches in his secret identity as Clark Kent.  The meteor in #232 ended up giving Superman the powers of Superman Junior.  The meteorite in #204 appeared to force Superman to perform all his super-feats while standing on his head.  And the comet in #227 was thought to have caused his X-ray vision to become uncontrollable.

I'll see if there are any further examples of this.  I seem to recall that one of the episodes of the Superman TV show in the 1950s also featured Superman saving Metropolis from an asteroid.
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The Man in the Background

Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Ba, 18 tháng 2, 2014

I've been remiss in posting a lot lately, but I've also been reading a lot of comics that fall outside the target of this blog; I'm working my way through a couple of series, including the 1970s Flash issues and Cerebus. But as it happens, I got a hankering to read the Action Superman stories starting from issue #200, and I began noticing the man in the background of a lot of scenes set at the Daily Planet offices. And I do mean a lot. Action #200:
Action #202
That's the only instance I can find so far of him having any lines, but he appears quite often:
Sometimes he's portly, sometimes he's rather svelte:
But the pipe and the bald head are absolutely ubiquitous. Well, the bald head is, occasionally he does take the pipe out of his mouth:
He's also the little man in this picture which was pointed out by longtime commenter Ralph C:
There's not really any mystery here; apparently Superman artist Wayne Boring put editor Mort Weisinger into a lot of panels as an inside joke.
Update: For a more biting look at Mort Weisinger from Boring, check here. Hat tip to commenters Wordsmith for the suggestion and Diane for the link.
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#661 - Back to Emile's collection of Hi-Res Phantom strips

Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Bảy, 15 tháng 2, 2014

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#660 - The latest Tarzan strip

Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Bảy, 8 tháng 2, 2014

Here is the just concluded reprint of a Tarzan daily strip. Artwork by one of my most favorite Tarzan artists - John Celardo.

This was collected and sent to me by Emile.



Download the story here from Emile's original Link.










Enjoy and express your thanks to Emile.
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