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| "Kirby pencils and inks identified by Greg Theakston'
and by me on looking at the first page.
This is a very non-Fawcett pice of work. Here he almost makes the Shadow look like a wimp. Made me see the character in a whole new light.
Re Atom Blake, It's impossible for me not to wonder if Alan Moore had read the character's origin before he came up with Tom Strong. |
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| Gotta say... another amazing scan as always. Could be a touch darker... but still looks really good the way it is.
Thanks for this and all your previous and future hard work!
(Wish more scanners would release a more pure raw looking version before they molest it with crappy edits trying to make the pages more white.) |
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| I'm struck by how much Mr Scarlet resembles Plutos. The biggest difference is in their hoods: one horn vs. two. |
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| Just for a moment, Mr Scarlet was genuinely scary and dangerous. Then along came Pinky... enjoy this issue while you can! |
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| Actually, as soon as Otto and Jack Binder take the character in their own hands, in issue #2, he becomes less meancing and vigilante-esque. Pinky is just the icing on the cake (appearing in issue #4), that definitely transforms him in a more classic costumed hero. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | Winter 1940-41 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Comic Story | The Coming of Mr. Scarlet (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mr. Scarlet [Brian Butler] (introduction) |
| Notes | Kirby pencils and inks identified by Greg Theakston.
Letters credit identified by Greg Theakston and later Harry Mendryk on the Jack Kirby Museum web page http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2369, 31 October 2008 (retrieved 15 December 2014). |
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| Comic Story | Enter: Atom Blake (9 pages) |
| Content | Characters: Atom Blake (Intro) |
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| Comic Story | The Mad Scientist (9 pages) |
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| Activity | Puzzlettes (1 page) |
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| Comic Story | The Rocks Bossi Case (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | Terror Valley (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Kruger (Villain; Intro; Death); vulture-men (Villain; Intro; Death) |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | The Rescue of Major Cambon (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | The Submarine Detector (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | Our Strange Planet (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | The Lost Treasure of Ruma (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | The Capture of El Diablo (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Atom Blake; The White Rajah; Zimbos witch doctor; Jack Jenkins; Mister Scarlet |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
More details about this comic may be available in their page here |
