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Wonder Comics
Date | Number: 13 | Lang: English (en)
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   By Starman
Great Schomburg's cover
   By The Australian Panther
All round good comic. Had an Epiphany yesterday reading some original Raymond Flash Gordon. Have always wondered why 'Flash' was such a strong template for science fantasy back in the day. (Stories like Wonder Man and Dick Devens here for example) and I realized that 'Flash' was the Star Wars of its day. The standout here for me is the Jill Trent story. Damsels in distress covers aside, its surprising how many strong female characters there were in the Golden Age.
   By positronic1
Apparently you've never seen the original Flash Gordon serials. Lucus stole the opening 'caption crawl' summaries (moving from bottom to top of screen/receding in perspective) in Star Wars directly from those used to summarize the ongoing storyline at the beginning of the chapters of Flash Gordon. The comic strip itself was William Randolph Hearst's response to the popularity of BUCK ROGERS (since 1929). After the success of TARZAN (beginning the same day as Buck Rogers), Edgar Rice Burroughs sought in vain to interest Hearst in carrying a Sunday strip adaptation of ERB's John Carter of Mars, but Hearst was evasive on a commital (probably because HE wouldn't own the strip outright) -- so instead, Hearst combined elements swiped from ERB's Carter of Mars stories with the premise of the then-popular science fiction novel by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, and turned it over to Alex Raymond to draw. As science fiction, it wasn't exactly intellectual stuff, but seeing the romantic fantasy world of Mongo created by Raymond left an indelible impression on its audience.
  
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PublicationAugust 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every other month
 
ContentGenre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Wonderman [Brad Spencer]
 
Comic StorySpace-Cold for Conquest (12 pages)
CreditsJob #: CC403
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Lilith (Villain); Dr. Voodoo (Villain); Immortal Emperor (Villain); Thermodons (Villain, Introduction); Solaris (Villain, Introduction)
NotesNo. Pluto is about four BILLION miles from Earth (on average).
 
Comic StoryThe Case of the Black Sheep Murder! (10 pages)
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery; Teen | Characters: Joe (villain, introduction); Joe's gang (villain, introduction); Mrs. Duncan (introduction); Trixie Duncan (introduction)
 
Text StoryHopi Magic (1 page)
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentGenre: Western-frontier | Characters: Vincent Loughlin
 
Comic StoryDesign for Death! (9 pages)
ContentGenre: Superhero
 
Text StoryControl Tower (1 page)
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentGenre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Jeff Kinney
 
FeaturingYa Just Can't Win!
ContentGenre: Humor
 
Comic StoryTomorrow's Treason! (10 pages)
ContentGenre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dr. Sturm (villain, introduction, death?)
 
Text StoryJungle Gods (1 page)
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Frank Kelsey; Professor Donald Kelsey (his father)
 
CreditsJob #: CC-921
ContentGenre: Humor
NotesFour 1-panel jokes.
 
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