Black Hood turns from a costumed hero to a private eye. The stories are fun and the art is good. The villain has one of the best names ever: Needlenoodle!
By The Australian Panther
Re Needlenoodle.
Two thoughts:
- This is one even Chester Gould might be jealous of.
- Zippy the Pinhead anyone?
zippythepinhead.com
By jeremyct
Nice art by Irv Novick, expressive and inventive; one of
those comics you wonder whether the young Steve Ditko was reading.
By Ricku
I'm not into costumed hero books, but this is genuinely good. As noted, villain and story owe to Chester Gould, and is pulled off really well. 2 stories are really one long tale, allowing for added development.
By Johnny L. Wilson
The Black Hood vs. NeedleNoodle: The observation that this villain seems very Chester Gould is well-taken. I'm started to like Irv Noren's inks more and more. I wasn't expecting the revelation in this story to be taken so calmly, but it set up the next part of the story nicely. In addition, I loved Babs' line "Gotta' see a typewriter about a story!" I thought the green and yellow river on p. 11 brought up feelings of pollution when I saw it, but it just demonstrates working with the limited palette of the day.
Gloomy Gus: Sometimes, these little comedies are better than others. This one worked for me, maybe because I loved "Pete"'s clever line in the last panel. I snickered.
The Green Beard: This little text story was fairly obvious, but I thought it was clever in its execution.
NeedleNoodle Strikes Back: I liked the classic noir elements in this story and particularly liked the inks when Hood discovers the hideaway within the hideaway. I loved the Hansel & Gretel approach that Babs tried with the punch board tokens and thought it was ironic that the classic con game punch board was put to good use.
A bit of a joke on me was that I thought it was amazing that Babs didn't run her stockings getting into the box car in one scene. So, I was surprised when it was covered in the very last panel of the story.
I really enjoyed the whole run of Black Hood Comics uploaded to this site.
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