The Hungry Horde

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Ba, 30 tháng 4, 2013

Mr. Karswell turned another year older on May 1st, and while taking a much needed / extended break, found himself again very fortunate to have friends who'll do some dirty work for me, err-- him! An anonymous friend sends in these scans, a fun and freaky Jon Blummer vampire tale from the January 1953 issue of Adventures into the Unknown #39, followed by a great birthday illustration by Haunted Horror cohort-- Art Fuentes! Get ready for another month of vintage horror hits and other assorted mayhem!









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Number 1358: Boyoboy, it's the Little Wise Guys!

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Hai, 29 tháng 4, 2013


We have a theme week going, ”Boyoboy! Week” featuring kid gangs of Golden Age comics. Today we have the longest running of all, the Little Wise Guys from Daredevil Comics.

The group of youngsters first appeared in 1942, and lasted until publisher Lev Gleason closed his comic book line in 1956. This war-themed story is from Daredevil Comics #29 (1944), and Daredevil doesn’t appear until page 10 of the 16-page story. Oh, the ignominy —  the title character upstaged by a bunch of street kids!

The story features a torture scene, and off-camera more tortures and murders are alluded to. The cover, signed by Charles Biro, does not represent a scene in the book, but it is one of those covers sure to attract attention on the newsstand.

Drawn by Carl Hubbell, one of Biro’s regular artists, with script credited to editor Biro.

















More Daredevil! First without the Little Wise Guys, and then one with them. Click on the pictures to go to the posts.




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Number 1357: Boyoboy! The Boy Heroes

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Chủ Nhật, 28 tháng 4, 2013

We’re beginning another theme week, “Boyoboy! Week,” where we’ll see some of the kid gangs of the Golden Age. I’ve got posts featuring Boy Commandos, the Newsboy Legion, and the Little Wise Guys following up today’s posting of a Boy Heroes strip from Harvey Comics' All-New Comics. A group I won’t be showing is Young Allies, because that bunch included Toro and Bucky, two superhero sidekicks. Our kid gangs are strictly from the streets, and while they might be heroes, they aren’t super.

The Boy Heroes were created by Louis Cazeneuve. The group mainly operated in Europe during the war years, making eight appearances in All-New. To begin this adventure in Transylvania they seem confident, boasting as they motor along, “Boy, we sure took care of them dratted Nazis back in Rumania, eh, kids?”

“Sure, we did! Dey’re duck soup!”

But of course the boys soon end up in the soup, and being in Transylvania they are fighting, of all things, a werewolf. I assume the idea behind having young boys behind enemy lines fighting Nazis was to feed into the fantasy of the young readers back home that even those too young to enlist could accomplish heroics during the war. In real life American kids were urged to collect scrap and buy savings stamps to aid in the war effort, but in the comics they could do what they really wanted to do — kick butt!

I’ve shown this story before back in the early days of this blog, but I’ve re-scanned the pages. Art attributed to Louis Cazeneuve, from All-New Comics #10 (1944):













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D141 - The Treasure Chest _(1963-12-18 to 1964-03-28)

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Bảy, 27 tháng 4, 2013

I am presenting here the latest Tarzan daily strip that just concluded its reprint run. The story is "Tarzan and The Treasure Chest". Covers a lot of things like the Nazis in North Africa and also a love affair between a Muslim girl and an ex-Nazi Christian guy. Let us have more inter-religious and inter-racial love and marriages.

As usual it goes without saving that this comes from the collection of Emile. So all thanks and credit are owed to Emile.

Download the strip from here

Enjoy,

Venkitachalam
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Number 1356: Sam Hill's Double Trouble

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 26 tháng 4, 2013

Sam Hill, Private Eye was a short-lived series from Archie Comics. Sam, a bow-tie wearing keyhole-peeper, was a smartass, wise-cracking, two-fisted private eye in the tradition of the time. Sam had the advantage of being drawn by Harry Lucey, who was one of Archie’s top artists. He showed with this series he could draw more than teenage hijinks. He could draw just as sexy and as action-packed as the genre required.

This story, “The Double Trouble Caper,” is from Sam Hill #1 (1950).








In 2011 I showed another story starring Sam Hill. Click the cover pic to see it.



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HAUNTED HORROR #4-- IN STORES NOW!

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Năm, 25 tháng 4, 2013

HAUNTED HORROR #4 is now available at finer comic shops everywhere, (and if you're at C2E2 this weekend grab your copy there!) Overflowing with more glorious reprints of petrifying pre code terror tales from Andru, Esposito, Sekowsky, Elkin, Mastroserio, Katz, and more! Among the stories of deadly harpies, groping ghosts, evil puppets, vicious vegetation, and The Devil, today THOIA has a sampling of a few other things to be found splattered all over said pages-- plus another nice preview can be found HERE thanks to CBR! Get your copy before it sells out!









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