COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Weird Comics #12
If nothing else, Victor Fox’s Weird Comics lives up to it’s name, It’s pretty much equally divided between a couple of sensationally lame superheroes and some just plain weird features. Headlining, for some reason, this issue is The Dart and of course his partner Ace the Amazing Boy. When I saw Ace on the cover wielding a baseball [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, November 1912
For our November entry of our monthly Cartoons Magazine Centennial Year Good Ol’ Days posting, we start with a page not appropriate to our times… But, then, these are supposed to be the “Good Ol’ Days”. Art above by Guy Spencer, Rogers, Ernest E. Burtt, and others. Below, a page appropriate to all times, Good [...]
World Series Baseball: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
This being Day One of the World Series, we look back to the Series of a century ago, with help from the November 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Above, struggling to keep one’s hands on the news of [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, October 1912
Welcome back again to another round of nostalgia for those Good Ol’ Days of one century ago, which we all so fondly remember from our youth (if you’re Methuselah, with selective amnesia). Courtesy of the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. And what would be the paradise of the Good Ol’ Days, without a snake [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
It’s time again for our monthly Cartoons Magazine Centennial Year Good Ol’ Days potpourri, looking back to the September 1912 issue. End of Summer cartoons, above, by Kin Hubbard (creator of Abe Martin) and Ralph Everett Wilder, and below, by Billy DeBeck and others. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons [...]
Draggin’ Cons # 734
Let’s start with this brief but amazing gallery of Steranko X-Men covers from the sixties. http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-grooviest-covers-of-all-time.html Here Steve-some other Steve, not me-surveys the seventies Atlas weirdie, Planet of the Vampires. http://stevedoescomics.blogspot.com/2012/08/atlas-comics-planet-of-vampires-1.html Here we see a few examples of Tommy Hogg, a newspaper strip from one hundred and seven years ago! http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2012/08/obscurity-of-day-tommy-hogg.html Finally today, [...]
COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Single Series 22 Iron Vic Part 2
As promised, this time I present part two of Single Series 22 Iron Vic where we discover just how amnesiac Vic goes from being an evening wear wearing vigilante to a professional baseball player. He just…kind of does. Seriously, cartoonist Bernard Dribble wastes no time getting Vic out of the crime busting racket and right into [...]
Seven Wonders of the Sports World, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 1
< From the Chicago Daily News, and the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, we have the “Seven Wonders of the Sport World”. Included amongst the “wonders”, are baseball players Walter Johnson and Ty Cobb, boxer Jack Johnson, and tennis player May Sutton. Click on the above picture, to view the cartoons in greater detail. [...]
COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Comic Revue #2 Hap Hopper
Most of us know, if only by reputation, the usual suspect list of famous old comic strips. But the wonderful thing is, for every one of those there was a full dozen of others you’ve probably never heard of, which have disappeared without a trace. Which is why we owe a profound ‘thank you’ to [...]
Baseball: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 2
Cartoons Magazine‘s Summer series of Baseball cartoons continues, with extracts from the July 1912 issue. Above, Clare Briggs on when the Washington team moved. Below, Briggs again, and John Campbell Cory. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Doug Wheeler
