664 - Continuing with more from Emile's collection

After the posting of a Hi-Res Mandrake Sunday strip, let us go back to more Hi-Res Phantom strips from Emile's collection.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/osm7apshw50wkko/D222_-_The_New_Recruits_-_2008-01-07_-_2008-05-03_-_17_weeks-Incomplete.cbr

http://www.mediafire.com/download/8kp8cjr32fv0bf2/D223_-_The_Mysterious_Guardian_-_2008-05-05_-_2008-08-30_-_17_weeks.cbr

http://www.mediafire.com/download/dmdijtp1hcxnlgf/D224_-_Justice_for_the_Python_-_2008-09-01_-_2008-12-27_-_17_weeks.cbr

http://www.mediafire.com/download/vr6r5kjb8xrilbf/D225_-_Crocco_Island_West_-_2008-12-29_-_2009-04-25_-_17_weeks.cbr

http://www.mediafire.com/download/c8s2v1naaaf8d5s/D226_-_The_Unknown_Commander_-_2009-04-27_-_2009-08-22_-_17_weeks.cbr

Shower your thanks on Emile and enjoy the stories.

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Number 1549: Action, please!

“Power Nelson, Futureman,” from Prize Comics #16 (1941) uses the Jack Kirby template of early comic book art. Action, action, action. The art is attributed to Paul Norris, a journeyman who drew for decades, comic books, pulps and comic strips.

 Copyright King Features, original art for a story illustration by Norris from 1947.

The breathless pace of the art covers up a lot of deficiencies in the story. Our eyes are so busy goggling the punches thrown (even by a girl) that we don’t have time to think that it is just WWII comic book silliness.

Norris, born in 1914, died in 2007.

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Paid in Full / Out of My Mind

Two stories from the Dec '51 issue of Astonishing #7, the first one possibly art credited to Harry Lazarus (looks like him to me), --and the second tale by John Romita! And how about that cool cover from the ever awesome Joe Maneely! My copy of this issue has definitely seen better days...

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Number 1548: Thug and the Goodguy

Alan J. (Jim) Hanley was a cartoonist who had a most appealing style inspired by the early Fawcett Comics and C.C. Beck, with some Walt Kelly thrown in. Hanley was not only a talented cartoonist, he had a social conscience and incorporated it into his Goodguy character, the star of his fanzine, Alan Hanley’s Comic Book.

In this strip, which ran for seven weeks in the mid-'70s in weekly two-page installments of The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom, Hanley's satiric target was the trend toward more violence in the comic books, represented by Conan. His humor is never acerbic or bitter, but he makes his point.

Hanley died tragically in a car crash at age 42 in 1980. When I looked up Hanley for this blog the first listing I found for him was my own from 2008. You can read it here in Pappy's #258. It includes a tribute from his friend, cartoonist Jim Engel.

Eddie Eddings is another cartoonist who impressed me with his very funny strips in The Buyer’s Guide, also in the mid-'70s, and in this instance, also satirizing Conan the Barbarian. Eddie is still as funny as ever. He has a religious blog, Calvinistic Cartoons. Even if you’re a heathen like me you can enjoy it for Eddie’s sense of humor.

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19th Annual HAASHOW Highlights

Taking a quick breather from the comics for a bit with a handful of horror highlight photos I snapped at the 19th annual Halloween and Haunted Attractions Show here in STL last weekend (see more highlights from the 17th annual HAASHOW HERE!) The fine, frightening folks in the scare industry really know how to top themselves each and every year, making this show one of the most awesomely creepy convention experiences ever! Masks, costumes, props, concessions, you name it-- if it's part of your haunt then this show has got it! I also bought a cool Frankenskull mask from my pals at Trick or Treat Studios, --I even met actress PJ Soles and she signed my Carrie and Halloween dvds! Enjoy the pix, and find out more about HAASHOW by clicking HERE!

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