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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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| The art on Mr Scarlet looks like either Joe Simon, or more likely Simon and Kirby. Their partnership had already begun by this point, and they did the first issue of Captain Marvel Adventures together for Fawcett as well soon after this issue of Wow was put out by Fawcett. |
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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 |
