One of the things fans of Golden Age Comics have to accept going in is they’re pretty much going to encounter the same collection of calcified tropes and types over and over again, the same assortment of mystery men, cowboys, aviators, two-fisted soldiers of fortune and magicians. So you’d better get used to it, even learn to like them; I have and I do but even I, who loves a good Mandrake the Magician imitator something fierce sometimes despair of the terrible sameness and long for something truly sui generis.

Which brings us to The Snowman by John Giunita and Frank Frazetta (!) who appeared exactly once in Tally-Ho Comics #1. Weird almost always brings you at least half way to good, and this mix of science fiction, epic fantasy and whimsical kid’s fantasy is weird all the way.

There’s a part of me that would love to see a revival of a character with this much untapped potential, and being decades ahead of its time Snowman requires no “updating”. But then, who could possibly do it justice?