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Re: Sea Hound 2

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crashryan

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Re: Sea Hound 2
« on: March 06, 2022, 04:30:03 AM »

This comic features an unusual storytelling format. The story moves from log entries to standard comics to first-person text stories and back. Very interesting. The art by Jon Blummer and Harold DeLay is good, though Blummer draws itsy-bitsy airplanes (notably the PBY Catalina)!

Link to the book: Sea Hound 2
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Captain Audio

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Re: Sea Hound 2
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2022, 06:21:36 AM »


Blummer draws itsy-bitsy airplanes (notably the PBY Catalina)!


Actually thats a very poor rendition of the PBY.
The large fixed outrigger floats are more like those of a British Sunderland.
The folding outriggers of the PBY were actually double duty , serving as wing tip extensions while in flight. This was an unusual if not unique feature of the PBY. Being part of the wing the floats were necessarily no longer than the wing was wide.
The very wide bottom of the Catalina made it so stable in the water that it didn't need larger outriggers.

A side note. Much of the PBY's success in bombing Japanese vessels was due to its secret stealth feature. Light bulbs were fitted to the leading edges of the wings and photo sensors fitted to the rear of the aircraft. When coming in at near wave top altitude out of the sunrise or sunset the sensors controled the brightness of the bulbs so the exact amount of light was projected as the ambient light behind it. Thus no silhouette only a line of light indistinguishable from the background.
Not entirely invisible this did fool the eyes of lookouts and gunners on the enemy ships till it was too late.
The code name for the device was either "Glimmer" or "Glamour", either name would have been well suited to this  near magical cloaking device. "Magical" in the sense of a stage magician's bag of tricks. In fact the best stage magicians were recruited by the allies to develop such tricks to fool the enemy.
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crashryan

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Re: Sea Hound 2
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2022, 10:07:22 PM »

I was aware that the PBY wasn't drawn very well, but by now I'm used to comic book artists merely approximating things like planes and cars. What struck me is that when it came alongside the Sea Hound the plane was barely the size of a motorboat. I think the passengers had to shrink themselves in order to board.

Interesting about the "cloaking device." My dad flew in Catalinas before the war. He told me they carried a sail and a collapsible mast in case of a forced landing at sea. I never heard of anyone actually using them.
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