A must read for ROBIN HOOD fans even though it offers mostly just nostalgic adventure storytelling with traditional and familiar tropes surrounding the legends of the titular character. Since I personally prefer the idea of a noble and heroic Robin Hood I very much enjoyed this comic and each story, notwithstanding its breaking no new ground. Though dating from the start of the popular UK TV series which starred Richard Greene as Robin , this comic could almost be a straight adaptation of the show, though the artwork tends to be relatively generic for the subject and not resembling the TV visuals at all. A very entertaining read from cover to cover and I greatly appreciate the upload! Robin Hood is just one of those characters that never gets old for me and I seek out all his incarnations.
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On page 17 in the Dynamo story, one of the hoodlums refers to him as Electro. Harold Weber must have been up late the night that he wrote this script.
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Weren't all the stories used in Crackajack Comics just comic book adaptions of original stories written by Dannay and Lee? I imagine Western's adaptation scriptors were given Pulp versions of those stories as guides to adapt. |
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on: April 27, 2024, 07:25:17 AM
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SuperScrounge said:
Quote Ellery Queen Compilation Wow, SuperScrounge, you get a gold star for going above and beyond the call of duty in reviewing all of the stories. Re the stamp one, I too wondered why they didn't come up with a better way to steal the stamp. I was a stamp collector back in my teenage years when I had a lot of penpals, and I would have thought they'd risk damaging both stamps by sticking them together. I'll make comments about some of the other stories when I wrap up. Have been a bit behind this week. Re the declining quality, I haven't checked if they had different writers. It's hard to come up with really good mysteries on a consistent basis, especially with a deadline looming. I wonder if they got sourced out to whoever was available, and not all of them were so good at distinguishing between straight crime stories and mysteries? Cheers |
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on: April 27, 2024, 06:23:14 AM
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I wonder how long it will be until some of those 'publishers' try selling print collections of the scanilations?
Although I believe that Robb's translations, at least, have copyright protection. |
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on: April 26, 2024, 09:24:01 PM
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The 3rd Dutch Beeldroman Scanlation has been approved and uploaded. That CB+ section now has 12 books translated to English uploaded.
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on: April 26, 2024, 08:41:45 PM
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GUNS (1990)
Big Guns and Big ‘Uns! (5 of 10) A mobster wants to ship high-tech Chinese weapons to South America-- thru Hawaii-- and so decides to kill several DEA agents there to lure them to Las Vegas, knowing one will come after him, because ten years earlier, he killed her father. What follows involves action, violence, nudity, and occasional comedy (but not really enough of the latter two). Andy Sidaris is at it again! Dona Spier, Roberta Vasquez, Cynthia Brimhall, Kim Malin, Donna Spangler, Lisa London, Liv Lindeland, Devin DeVasquez... how many Playboy Playmates (and the like) can you squeeze into one film? There's also Erik Estrada as the main baddie, Danny Trejo as his sidekick, George Cheung as his weapons supplier, Bruce Penhall, Michael J. Shane, Chuck McCann, John Brown & William Bumiller as DEA agents (more than usual this time, though some of them get killed off before it's over). The lesson I got from this movie is, if you're a criminal, operate in quiet. If you go out of your way to target cops-- especially Feds-- you might as well just be painting a target on your chest. (Actually, I think that was Lucky Luciano's MO as well.) "Taryn" (Hope Marie Carlton) left after 3 pictures (perhaps her character made off with so much money she decided it was better to separate herself from all these dangerous DEA missions?) and was replaced with "Nicole" (Roberta Vasquez, who's beautiful, but far more serious, maybe too much so, throwing off the balance the previous films had). "Shane Abilene" (Michael J. Shane) STILL can't hit a moving target, not even with a massive .44 Magnum, prompting Dona to yell at him, "Don't just DO something, STAND there!", before she blows up a mini-plane with a rocket launcher. DEA agent and stage magician "Abe" (Chuck McCann), interrogates 2 thugs and asks, "Do you know what's the difference between a magician and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist!" When confronted with a pair of sword-weilding ninjas, Donna just SHOOTS them-- the 3rd time such a thing happened in a Sidaris film! "Edy Stark" (Cynthia Brimhall), who in earlier films ran a restaurant as her cover, moved over to singing in nightclubs, so "Rocky" (Lisa London) took over the restaurant-- an interesting bit of continuity in these things. Edy's role REALLY expanded in this one (and it looks like her breast size did as well, but that may just be her push-up bras). The film opens (and closes) with Edy singing onstage, in what I can only think it a tribute to the Dean Martin-Matt Helm film THE SILENCERS (1966). And it suddenly hits me, lead character "Donna Hamilton" almost has to be a tribute to author Donald Hamilton, creator of Matt Helm! Looking back over posters for this film, I find the original was quite misleading. It said, "James never had this kind of help!", and pictures a smiling Erik Estrada with Dona Spier & Cynthia Brimhall, as if he were the hero of the picture-- but he's the MAIN BAD GUY! I wonder why Andy Sidaris didn't have a cameo in this one? (Or did I miss him somehow?) |
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on: April 26, 2024, 06:38:32 AM
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Robb said:
Quote Ellery Queen #2 (1952) – (Ziff-Davis) Thanks for the extra info, Robb. I really like the cover art. It puts me in mind of the sort of lifestyle magazine illustrations that were popular in the 1950s and 1960s, only they'd be advertising some product or illustrating a 'nice' fictional story rather than having a girl about to be maimed with a red-hot poker. Quote The Death Parade I guess this is the comic book equivalent of click-bait. You buy the comic for the promise of the 'Wholesale Homicide' and action depicted on the cover, but the actual stories are more pedestrian. Quote I didn't understand the exact relationship of Ellery's father (Inspector Queen) to the city police force in this story. I assume that he is a detective (perhaps the head of the detective department of that city's police force). But Ellery, a private detective, calls his father to join him in unofficial activities that should be handled by the police, WITHOUT him! Such situations wouldn't occur in real life. Yes, it's not really made clear in the comic. My recollection is that Richard Queen is just an inspector with the police and that he brings in Ellery to help solve the case. Doesn't happen in real life so much, though I'm sure the police would bring in consultants at times. However, without the amateur detective (or private eye) butting in, the police wouldn't solve half the fictional cases they're given Quote Smythe of Scotlandyard - 1-Page Gag Yes, probably just meant to be some light entertainment, but it's pretty corny and seems out of place given the readership they seem to be aiming at with the cover. Quote Overall Assessment Yes, I think we're all agreed that there is not much in the way of clue-finding. The Crackajack collection is better at that. Thanks for your comments. Cheers |
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on: April 26, 2024, 06:21:45 AM
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Panther said:
Quote Re the TV show, I didn't know it existed, would have been in the period when regular TV watching was not a part of my life. I am tho, a fan of Tim Hutton's Nero Wolfe series. I have most of them on DVD - probably some I haven't watched there. Have to dig those out again! Thanks for digging up that link, Panther. I remember the Ellery Queen TV show and could never understand why it was cancelled. There was a real interaction between Ellery and the audience in working out the clues. I loved it. Quote The Death Parade What does the title have to do with the story? It's a bit obscure, but maybe it's just meant to refer to the fact that there were a series of murders. I agree it's not the best title. Quote Reading it now and as I do, I'm wondering why the candidate was in the back seat. A dead giveaway. I think most of us agree it wasn't much of a mystery. Twelve pages aren't a lot of space, but I've seen stories that have fewer pages than that do a better job of placing the clues. It reads more like a crime story rather than a mystery. Quote A Killer's revenge I hadn't noticed that until you pointed it out. At first, I thought he was falling down, but Ellery's tied to a tree, so he hasn't done anything to the crook. Quote Re the 'CrackerJack Funnies' material, all the Ellery Queen stories have on the splash Page, Sounds like you've uncovered a better mystery there, Panther. Thanks for your comments and extra bits of info. Cheers |
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on: April 26, 2024, 06:09:05 AM
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Started by Quirky Quokka - Last post by Quirky Quokka | ||
Hi everyone
Australian Panther and Morgus both mentioned 'Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine', which started in 1941 and is still going. It's one of the most highly-regarded mystery/crime magazines. Here's a link to their site: https://www.elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/ Morgus also mentioned 'Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine', which started in 1956 and is also still going. Here's the link to that: https://www.alfredhitchcockmysterymagazine.com/ Interestingly, both magazines were bought by Dell Publishing. Apparently, Dell published three Ellery Queen comics in 1962, but we don't seem to have them on CB+. It would be interesting to compare. Cheers |