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| fred guardineers work on the marksman series is some of the best art of the golden age in my opinion.would have loved to see his take on super man and wonder woman. |
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| Last 'Bozo the Robot' A sad ending. Is this story Brenner's comment on its cancellation?
The 'Jester' story here is a case of truth being stranger than fiction. There was a real life case of this happening which was used in the TV series 'Homicide: Life on the Street' which was adapted from 'Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets', a non-fiction book by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, based on his experience following a Baltimore Police Department homicide unit. Well worth reading.
Oh, and I nearly forgot. Yet another 'Lady Satan' |
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| The Marksman story certainly seems to have been inspired by the 1941 Spirit story that Feiffer reprinted in The Great Comic Book Heroes, with similar blocks of text, lots of prophecies, a babe with a gem and a curse, and the doomed guy's drunken wandering to his… aw, shucks, I already used 'doom' in this sentence… fate. *** Then again, they could have both been inspired by a movie or something that I've never seen! *** At any rate, it moves right along, and the art is good. *** Special bonus! A character named Schultz-Klink! Now you have to wonder if a creator of "Hogan's Heroes" was inspired, in turn, by this story! (It was popular to call the non-com Axis grunts "Schultz" — Warner Brothers used that at least once — but Klink makes it a nice, tall coincidence!) *** It even ends just like the Spirit story. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, with Midnight up front and all. I remember the Spirit story so well because it was my introduction to the character, and not coincidentally, it was when I became a Spirit fan, reading it first in sixth grade. I became a Feiffer fan right about the same time. *** (Sorry about the asterisks. They wouldn't let me use paragraph returns. I think they were afraid I'd hurt myself.) |
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| Out of curiosity I read the Spirit story and the Marksman story. Yee gods and little fishies it was a full-on ripoff. Some names and details were changed, but it's basically the same script. Although given the connections between Quality and the Spirit was it okayed behind the scenes? |
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| Publication | March 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Daffy (inset) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Characters: Kid Eternity; Mr. Keeper; Captain Triumph |
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| Synopsis | Doc Wackey shows his latest gadget to the army and destroys half the city in the process. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); O'Toole; Private Klink |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | The Amber Trap (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Madame Doom is killing people with plastic to make them horrifying exhibits to demoralize the Allies. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Madame Doom (villain); Professor Stultz (villain); Colonel Atwater; Ted Winston; Bob; Anderson; Waterson |
| Notes | Writer credit by Craig Delich.
Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43). |
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| Comic Story | Collecting Scrap (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kids gather scrap metal for the war effort, then get into a scrape over who owns the scrap. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Henry Doaks; Elmer; Percy; Hugh Hazzard |
| Notes | Finial appearance of the "Bozo the Robot" feature.
Final Golden Age appearance of the Bozo the Robot character. Next appearance in Starman (DC, 1994 Series) #64 (April 2000). |
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| Synopsis | McGinty, upset when he reads his own obituary in the paper, along with the Jester, barely escape Lady Satan, who is the strongarm for a woman that marries men for their life insurance policies. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Penelope (villain); Lady Satan (villain) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Later swiped for the Nitro story, "Nitro Meets the Scorpion" Dime Comics #24 (Bell Features). |
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| Comic Story | Heiress Still Missing (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Larry gets hired for a stunt job, but it's all a plot to pin a murder on him, if he doesn't die in the stunt that is. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Dinah Shane; Wenner |
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| Synopsis | While walking around town Wun hears the tailor offering to give someone a cuff in the pants. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo; Sam |
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| Synopsis | The Marksman is in El Nefud to get a cure for a disease from a discredited doctor. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Dr. Valdu (villain); Shamar Valdu; Schultz-Klink; Abdul; Zoga |
| Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2013-5-4.
Valdu gets called Valdo once.
Story swiped from The Spirit story of July 20, 1941. |
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| Text Story | Man of Fire (1.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jimmy learns of a tribe torturing white men by stretching them out. |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tarku; Bannock; Jimmy Christian; Jack Nicols; Geld van Staadt |
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| Content | Characters: Hendrickson; Blackhawk; Olaf; Chop-Chop |
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| Synopsis | Daffy searches for Deke, her former (crooked) wrestling manager, who has fled to the big city. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Sports | Characters: Daffy Dill (introduction); Deke Parsons (villain, wrestling manager) |
| Notes | Story reads like there were earlier chapters, but there weren't.
Daffy is an Amazonian woman wrestler. |
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| Comic Story | The Spider's Web (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Spider runs a protection racket, and Rookie is determined to break him. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; The Spider; Dagger; Letti; Joe |
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| Featuring | Metro Publications |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Featuring | American Seed Company |
| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photograph) | Inks:?;? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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