महाबली शाका और जन्नत महल- 3D

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सभी कॉमिक्स प्रेमियों को IUnknown का प्रेमपूर्ण नमस्कार| आज हम आपके लिए लाये है, तीन आयामी कॉमिक्स की शृंखला की अगली कड़ी 'महाबली शाका और जन्नत महल' | आशा है आप महाबली शाका से परिचित है | यह डॉयमंद कॉमिक्स का हीरो है जोकि  वेताल और टार्जन से 'inspire' हुआ है | अपनी सादी पोशाख में  वोह बिलकुल वेताल की तरह दिखता है और उसी की तरह जहाँ वो मुक्का मारता है, वहाँ नागचिन्ह लग जाता है | कुछ भी हो कहानियां अच्छी है और आशा है कि आपको पसंद आएगी |

इस कॉमिक्स का स्कैनिंग मैंने किया है और सादे पन्नों की सफाई करने में प्रभात ने अपना कमाल दिखाया है| मुखपृष्ठ और अंतिम पन्ना एकदम फटा पुराना था, फिर से  अब नया लगता है | 


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Strange Footprints

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If your part of the world is as sweltering hot as my part of the world currently is, then a trip to some fearful frozen tundra is just what The Devil ordered. It's one more story this month from spotlight Standard Comics artist Rocco Mastroserio, and it's not only our last tale of July 2010, but also our last tale from the June 1953 issue of Adventures into Darkness #10. See you in Arghgust, Fright Freaks!






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D2-022 Mezmo (26-Dec-1956 to 23-Feb-1957)

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 30 tháng 7, 2010

Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
Art: Dan Barry
Summary: As Flash, Dale and Zarkov return to the Forest Kingdom after their dramatic adventures on Mongo (read D2-021 Rob and Bey's Wonders of Mongo), a lonely man makes his way to the same destination in search for work and a complete break with a troubled past caused by his special powers.

After a chance meeting with Flash and his friends, Mezmo is soon up and running with his own business, but a string of accidental ‘miracles’ brought about by his visionary power lead to an uncontrollable stampede to the city, bringing a deadly epidemic in its wake....

(Source of summary: www.ipcomics.net)

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It's from Emile's e-collection. All credits go to her & "Allen Lane" who scanned it.
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Super-Swipes #5

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There are swipes and then there are SWIPES, and this is one of the latter. I talked awhile ago about the first appearance of Sun Boy from the Legion of Superheroes, and how large parts of that story were swiped from an earlier tale, but at least in that case the ending was significantly different.

Not so with this story, which introduces Legion member Star Boy:


The plot and most of the dialog are swiped from Adventure #195:

It would be tedious to point out all the similarities in the two stories, so I will settle for just highlighting the major plot points. In each case, Lana is annoyed that Superboy ignores her new dress. She gets an idea how to make him pay more attention to her from a movie:


Meanwhile, Superboy is surprised when he receives a summons to meet another super-powered youth outside of town. It's Marsboy/Star Boy. There's a brief discussion of how the youth gained his super-powers (in each case from a passing comet). In each story, there are two escaped criminals, one of which has been caught while capturing the other requires Superboy's help due to a super-power limitation:


In each case Lana Lang overhears the conversation and threatens the other super-powered lad with secret identity exposure unless he agrees to help her make Superboy jealous. Lana gets permission from her mom to visit the homeworld of the other boy with a demonstration of his ability to protect her:


In each story, the other super-lad takes Lana to his home planet, where he lavishes gifts upon her, including weaving a special cloth. In each case, Superboy, who is secretly aware of her plot, gripes about how odd it is that these heroes give her so much attention:


In each story, Superboy returns with a beauty in tow, explaining to Lana that she was indeed right: Girls from another planet are far more fascinating. Seeing her plans go awry, Lana pretends that the air on the other super-lad's world is affecting her, but:


This leads Lana to admit that she had blackmailed Marsboy/Star Boy into pretending to be wild about her. There is a slight difference in the two stories here, as in the Star Boy tale Superboy admits that he knew Lana's scheme all along and only pretended to be interested in the other gal. But in the end of both stories, Lana decides that while he may not be any closer to her, at least he's farther away from that interplanetary hussy.

A couple of notes: Marsboy had appeared a few times prior to Adventure #195, but as far as I know, this was his swan song. And Star Boy is shown as having dramatically different powers than the making objects heavy ability he would have during his Legion appearances. Indeed, his powers here virtually mimic Superboy's.
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Number 781


Backwoods gal makes good!


This story, from St. John's Cinderella Love #13, 1953, feeds into a stereotype of country folks, if you see it as something of Li'l Abner, only done more seriously. Betty Lou lives with her lazy pappy and hard-working mammy in Arkansas, where she has to walk 30 miles to a hog-callin' contest. Betty Lou is accosted by Hurd Maxwell, a hillbilly her pappy is having a feud with. Hurd has rape on his mind, but he's interrupted by the movie feller from Hollywood. That's where this unlikely story veers from stereotype into outright fantasy, and the story ends with Betty Lou a movie star. (I don't write these things...I just post them.)

Maybe Hurd Maxwell had been reading some of these paperback books of the era, where backwoods girls are mighty sexy, and mighty easy.



John Benson's excellent book on St. John's love comics, Romance Without Tears, is still available from Amazon.com. "My Prince Charming" is not included in Benson's book.








Starting this Sunday, August 1, a special theme month for Pappy's. Each week will feature a genre of comics. First up, "Science Fiction Week," followed by "Crime Does Pay" week, "Un-super Superheroes" week, and finally, "Comical Comics" week. I had a great time finding stories to fit into the themes and I believe you'll enjoy them.
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Super-Dad

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Tư, 28 tháng 7, 2010



For some reason, these stories appeared to be popular with readers in the Silver Age, because there were several. In this particular tale, Pa Kent doesn't really gain super-powers. He is struck by a bolt of lightning while wearing a Superman outfit that a tailor had designed as a gimmick, and becomes convinced that he is a Man of Steel. The story features one of the more convenient comic cliches of the Silver Age:

Thus the tale revolves around Superboy helping his dad perform super-feats until he can recover. In the course of the plot, Pa Kent becomes something of a laughingstock of the town. But everybody is surprised when:

However, it turns out that Pa Kent had eventually realized he wasn't really super-powered and pulled a fast one on the townspeople and his son:

Comments: I particularly like the twist ending to this story; Pa Kent seldom got the last laugh in the Silver Age.

The next example of this type of story came exactly a year later, in Adventure #236:


This story starts with Jonathan Kent questioning his usefulness as a parent:

Of course, if he really wanted to help his son, he would have suggested that the lad stop bringing back strange objects from alien worlds, a frequently disastrous practice that Superboy continued as an adult. And so it is with this story, as the Lad of Steel brings back a rod from outer space that has an unexpected effect:

So Pa Kent becomes Strongman, and "helps and guides" Superboy in his patrols of Smallville. Of course, not being used to super-powers he frequently makes mistakes, and indeed is more of a hindrance to his son.

An amusing subplot involves Lana Lang's mother, who becomes Pa Kent's secret identity snoop just as her daughter had been for years to Superboy:

I don't think Lana's mom made many appearances in the Silver Age; I can't recall another story featuring her prominently.

Anyway, Pa Kent soon finds out that super-powers and a secret identity are a mixed blessing, and when his abilities wear out eventually he decides to leave the heroics to his son. There is a touching moment at the end:

Comments: The sweet ending redeems this tale. The Kents didn't get enough credit in the Silver Age. Sure, Superboy got his super-powers from his Kryptonian parents, but he got his moral upbringing from Jonathan and Martha, and that was easily more important in making him a superhero.

But Super-Dad was far from finished:

No surprise, it's our old friend the alien object that gives Pa Kent his powers:

This time Jonathan has no intentions of allowing his son to even share the glory:

And indeed it seems like Pa has been jealous of his son's abilities all along. But then Superboy discovers the truth when his "dad" meets one of his robots:

It turns out that the Super-Dad in this case is actually Jax-Ur, an escaped Phantom Zone prisoner, making his first, but by no means last, appearance in the Silver Age.

I suspect that there were more Super-Dad appearances in the Silver Age, but those are the three I know. I don't know of any cases where Martha Kent became Super-Mom. Anybody?
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एस्ट्रिक्स और ज्योतिषी

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जहाँ तक मुझे याद है, हिंदी में कुल मिला कर मात्र ६ एस्ट्रिक्स प्रकाशित हुए थे| मेरा परिचय एस्ट्रिक्स  से हिंदी के ही माध्यम से हुआ है| सबसे पहली हिंदी एस्ट्रिक्स थी, "एस्ट्रिक्स ओलिंपिक खेलों में", जिसने मुझे इस पात्र का आजीवन दीवाना बना दिया| मुझे याद है कोई अगस्त या सितम्बर १९८२ की बात है, एक दुकान पर इंद्रजाल और कुछ अमर चित्र कथा खरीद रहा था| पास में कुछ  इंगलिश एस्ट्रिक्स भी थी, जिनकी कीमत कोई ५० रूपये और साथ में ही हिंदी ५ रूपये मात्र की| उठा कर  देखा,  कागज साधारण लेकिन कॉमिक मजेदार लगी| खरीद कर घर लाया, कितनी बार पढ़ा होऊंगा, कह नहीं सकता| फिर शुरू हो गयी हर अगले अंकों की तलाश|

अनुराग भाई के पास उपलब्ध पांच में से  तीन पहले ही पोस्ट कर चूका हूँ | आज प्रस्तुत है एक और  विरल  हिंदी  एस्ट्रिक्स:  "एस्ट्रिक्स और  ज्योतिषी"| संवादों का अनुवाद प्रसंसनीय है|
  • १९७२ - मूल प्रकाशन  फ्रांसीसी भाषा में और मूल श्रृंखला में उन्नीसवीं (अब तक केवल ३४) कॉमिक
  • १९८३ - प्रथम हिंदी प्रकाशन (अभी तक आखरी भी ), हिन्दी एस्ट्रिक्स श्रृंखला में तीसरी कॉमिक 
यह कहानी है एक ऐसे प्रपंची की जो एक ज्योतिषी (भविष्यवक्ता) का ढोंग कर सीघे-साधे गालवासियों से खूब पैसा बनाता है| कुछ समय तक "बांटो और राज करो" नीति सफल होती है| लेकिन अपनी ही करणी का फल पहले से भी बुरी तरह भुगतता है, और जहाँ  एस्ट्रिक्स महाशय हों - कुछ और भी हो सकता था क्या? बोया  पेड़  बबूल  का , आम  कहाँ  से  खाय|

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