Blazing Comics 03 Sep 1944. From Enwil Associates, Mega-Publishers of the mid-40's, who also brought us Meteor Comics, Patches, Red Band Comics, Blue Circle and Red Circle Comics for a combined total of 17 terrific issues....well, maybe they weren't quite that big....but this is an interesting title. I love odd ball comics, and this one fits into that category quite nicely, thank you very much! This one starts off with The Green Turtle, who fights the Japanese in China with his faithful Indian...ahhhh Chinese companion, Burma Boy. The art is not bad at all and and the unknown artist does a great job on the flowing Turtle cape, which you see more of than the hero's face. Actually you never see his face at all, which I'm sure was going somewhere, but I've never seen another issue, so I don't know what the writer had in mind. Also in this issue is Black Buccaneer (who, by the way, wasn't, as this was 1944 and that concept wouldn't arrive for another twenty or so years). Red Hawk is next, who is an American Indian battling the Japanese from his red fighter plane. His outfit is shirtless, complete with head band, single feather, arm bracelets, fringed pants and mocsasins. Blacks weren't the only ones to be sterotyped back then. Jun-Gal is the next feature, who of course is the White Goddess of the savage Tagoma tribe. All of the natives are drawn in the stereotypical fashion of those times, and they even threw in a Red Bandana wearing Mammy character. This took it over the top for me as it so dates the story and the period. As I said, this one is Odd!!
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Topic: Enwill: Blazing Comics 03 September 1944 (Read 2243 times)
