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| 'Lost City'( Part 1 adapted here) was a Serial in 12 parts.
William Boyd played the villain, believe it or not.
Looks like a good effort for a serial.
Part 1 (Collected)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrKsUGotU4Y
Part 2 (Collected)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bIXexq7zng
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| Took a look at this as it’s a live topic.
Great cover and Futuro art from Reed Crandall. I loved the packed activity inside every frame and of course the US Futurians reminded me a little of the Watchmen. The script itself was underwhelming – but I liked the allegory that Hitler killed Truth!
Madame Strange was interesting – great pencils from Pagsilang Isip, who Google tells me was a Filipino artist – I’ve always liked Filipino comic books – Mars Ravelo’s Darna, of course, being an alltime favourite. The storytelling was somewhat jagged and we won’t mention the appalling racial stereotypes but a fair yarn none the less.
In my efforts to carry out rigorous research, I watched The Lost City on Youtube – someone has to. Although there clearly wasn’t a lot of money available, I’ve seen worse productions – the set design was good in parts. The comic book adaptation was fairly accurate with great pencils from Rudy Palais. The threat to erase Claudia Dell’s mind doesn’t seem like much of a threat bearing in mind the absence of any apparent brain cells in her character - and the Living Dead Men weren’t as scary as some Year 10s I’ve had to teach on a wet Thursday after break – but overall, well worth the read. |
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| Ahh, the Golden Age of comics, so full of potential, but also so disturbingly racist. Loved Madame Strange new costume by the way. |
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| "The Lost City" was an independently-produced 1935 serial and it was kept in circulation for a number of years by Sherman Krellberg on the states-rights market, including a feature-length version. The villain of the film is William "Stage" Boyd, not to be confused with William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd. |
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| If you check out the Rangerhouse Archives #5 - Lost City Collection you'll read more about the serial along with some fun extras like posters, etc.
Some guy named Yoc did the graphic design for it. |
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| This book was uploaded by Rangerhouse in July of 2012 (almost 10 years ago). Why is it at the top of our "Latest Comics" list??? All the others are comic books and related-type books and newspaper comic sections that have been uploaded during the last few days. |
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| Publication | January 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD (U.S.A. and Canada); 0.15 USD (Foreign Countries) | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Reed Crandall artist credit from Rudy Palais and his copy of the original cover proof as shown to Roger Hill (story posted to GCD-Chat list by Roger Hill on 14 August 2018). |
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| Cover | Jap War Spurs Futuro to Kidnap Hitler |
| Featuring | Futuro |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Futuro |
| Notes | Reed Crandall artist credit from Rudy Palais and his copy of the original cover proof as shown to Roger Hill (story posted to GCD-Chat list by Roger Hill on 14 August 2018). |
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| Contents | Table of Contents (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: various (other figures) | Inks: various (other figures) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Futuro; Kid Bagdad; The Octopus; Madame Strange; Bud Wilson; The Great Zarro |
| Notes | Each feature has a drawing, a teaser blurb, and a page number. Scan provided by Frank Motler, and used to reorder the sequences in this index.
Reed Crandall Futuro figure artist credit from Rudy Palais as told to Roger Hill (story posted to GCD-Chat list by Roger Hill on 14 August 2018). Per Palais, Crandall was originally scheduled to do work on the Futuro feature, but his heavy workload prevented that and the Futuro feature went to another artist to work on. |
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| Comic Story | Futuro Kidnaps Hitler and Takes Him to Hades! (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Because of all that Hitler has been doing on planet Earth, Futuro decides that maybe Hell is the place for him and takes him there. Hitler can't stand it and wants out of there as quickly as possible. |
| Featuring | Futuro |
| Content | Genre: Superhero; War | Characters: Futuro (introduction); Benito Mussolini (villain); Futurians [Faith; Justice; Freedom; Truth; Courage]; Nimbus (dog); Schmidt; Violet; Orchid; Iris |
| Notes | Futuro's lone appearance. |
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| Synopsis | Twelve-year old Bud tries to join the army and causes trouble. |
| Featuring | Khaki Kid |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Bud Wilson |
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| Synopsis | Zarro becomes an officer of the U.S. Army Air Corps Intelligence to fight war enemies. |
| Featuring | Great Zarro |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Great Zarro; Major Whalen; Rags; Heinz; Fritz |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | How readers can get 2 U. S. Defense stamps. |
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| Comic Story | How He Became Master of the Gigantic Genie (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kid Bagdad is sent to get a cask for the Caliph. |
| Featuring | Kid Baghdad |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Kid Bagdad; Caliph of Bagdad; The Unholy Three |
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| Synopsis | Madame Strange seeks to stop the evil plans of The Octopus, who has decided now to seize American planes for his Emperor. |
| Featuring | Madame Strange |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Madame Strange (American girl reporter); Perry (U.S. Navy's ace spy chaser); The Octopus (villain); Octopus' gang (villains) |
| Notes | Last appearance.
Last panel blurb alerts readers to look for the next Madame Strange story which will reveal if The Octopus survived from drowning. However, this was the last story and that outcome never was published. |
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| Synopsis | A hat store is giving away hats based on someone's personality. |
| Featuring | Willing Willie |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Willie |
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| Comic Story | The Lost City (Part 1) (17 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zolok, master of the Lost City seeks to rule the world. |
| Featuring | The Lost City |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Bruce Gordon; Dr. Manyus; Reynolds; Natcha Manyus; Zolok; Tom Dolan; Dr. Colton; Andrews; Burke; Gorzo; Hoogo; Appolyn; Pierre |
| Notes | Movie adaptation story continued from Choice Comics (Great Comics Publications, 1941 Series) #3 ([April] 1942).
Rudy Palais artist credit from Rudy Palais and his copy of the original cover proof as shown to Roger Hill (story posted to GCD-Chat list by Roger Hill on 14 August 2018). |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Promo for the continuation of the Lost City story in upcoming issues of Great Comics and Choice Comics. |
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| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photograph) | Inks:?;? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Zolok (photo of William 'Stage' Boyd); Hoogo (photo of Sam Baker); Bruce Gordon (photo of Kane Richmond); Dr. Manyus (photo of Josef Swickard); Natcha Manyus (photo of Claudia Dell) |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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