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[profh0011]

I've heard that Spotnicks song under a different name-- I'm pretty sure it was by The Space Cossacks (late 90's).  Ivan Pongracic, from Croatia, also Washington DC, is also in a band called The Madeira (middle-eastern surf), together with Patrick Connor, who previously fronted another of my fave bands-- Destination: Earth!

[profh0011]

And now, following a bit of a delay...

You've read the novel! You've seen the movie! Now-- read the comic!
  Dell's FOUR COLOR #614 (late 1954) presents...

Jules Verne's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

adaptation by Gaylord DuBois / art by FRANK THORNE!!!
Gloriously, painstakingly restored! (Trust me, folks, this looks BETTER than when the comic was NEW.)

Part 2 of 3:
http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/01/jules-verne-part-4.html

[paw broon]

You mentioned surf and I suddenly remembered a '60's surf group who weren't the Beach Boys or Jan and Dean. The Rip Chords were around at the same time and I had one of their 45 singles. Actually, I suppose they were more a hot rod band.  But the music was the same type.  Obscure here in the U.K. but I'm sure you know all about them
I found this article about them today.  All news to me!
http://zeegrooves.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/it-was-50-years-ago-today-hey-little.html
And here they are from you tube:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6FmZCT0Zc
At the risk of boring the socks off you, I mentioned Nero and The Gladiators, so try this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL-hRKqqRLU
Group X were an organ based band and their single had about the longest title of a British single:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPGMokiOTUc

Just to be silly and from a bit earlier, Lord Rockinghams 11.  I loved this when it came out:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wioh5qUj7fM

Just about to download, page by page, that excellent "painstakingly restored" Frank Thorne comic.  What a job!

[profh0011]

"Just about to download, page by page, that excellent "painstakingly restored" Frank Thorne comic.  What a job!"

10 more pages to go.  I'm putting WAY more effort into these than I normally do with interior pages.  But then, it is a special case.  It's probably one of-- if not THE-- oldest comics in my collection. And I got it for FREE.  I figured it was called for.

When I get done with this, I'm planning to clean up the newspaper version, which is another one of those where it's almost impossible to really appreciate the thing at the website it was already posted at.

I still can't believe HOW MANY different comics versions there are of 20,000 LEAGUES!! It's insane.

[profh0011]

I just started my 5th blog! This one will be a bit different, as it will be a (hopefully) permanent showcase for my REVIEWS.

Professor H Reads COMICS

http://professorhreadscomics.blogspot.com/2014/03/introduction.html

[profh0011]

And now, here it is... THE EPIC CONCLUSION!!

You've read the novel! You've seen the movie! Now-- read the comic!
  Dell's FOUR COLOR #614 (late 1954) presents...

Jules Verne's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

adaptation by Gaylord DuBois / art by FRANK THORNE!!!
Gloriously, painstakingly restored!
(Trust me, folks, this looks BETTER than when the comic was NEW.)

Part 3 of 3:
http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/01/jules-verne-part-5.html

[profh0011]

My online tribute to Jules Verne continues!

What could be more perfectly fitting to follow up the Frank Thorne version of
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA than the Jesse Marsh version?  Oddly enough, as far as I know, this is the only comic in my collection by Marsh. 

Because of the various formatting done with newspaper strips, depending on which paper it appears in, or when it's collected in a magazine or book, some versions have additional or fewer panels than others, or have panels cropped or expanded.  The coloring also changes from version to version.  As I'm setting this up on my blog, I decided to follow the tradition and re-format it AGAIN, to best show off the art.  I'm also trying to include as many panels as possible.  Right now, the biggest, high-quality images I have also have the fewest panels, so I'm using that and taking the "extra" panels from the other, lower-quality versions.

In one instance, I had a high-quality version in French-- where I replaced the text with brand-new lettering I did myself in English!

I wanna give a big thank you to Jimmm Kelly for clueing me in about the existence of this version in the first place, as well as pointing me to the websites that had scans posted.  (If you're reading this, Jimmm, please let me have the links again, as I want to include them on the blog as I did with the BOY'S LIFE material.)

Here's the first 4 Sunday installments... enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-6.html

[profh0011]

Now this is a bit maddenning.  Back in November, Jimmm Kelly told me about the 1954 newspaper strip version.  Took awhile, but he found a couple of websites it was posted at.

I downloaded all the scans I could, but hadn't had a chance to really look at it too close until now.

It looks like there were 22 weeks-- and at the moment, I'm missing 8 of them!!  (Weeks 7, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19 & 21)

It looks like I may have a few of these in Foreign editions-- but aside from not being able to read those, the foreign scans are at some site called INDUCKS, and the images I have access to are very small & low-quality.


So, anybody have any of this stuff?

[jimmm kelly]

I'll have to do a bit of hunting around on the internet to find them. As I recall, I found them originally just by dumb luck while I was looking for something else. So I'll have to repeat my dumb luck and see what happens. If I turn up those links I'll either post them here or point to where they can be found.

[profh0011]

After seeing how many images I set up on the blog page to cover 4 Sunday installments, I decided to set up 5 whole pages in advance for this one story.  This way, all 5 will be together in the same month, in case anyone uses the blog "archive" section. Nice and organized.

It's looking like I may (at least for now) use some of the low-res Foreign scans to fill in for the missing English (U.S.) versions.  It's beginning to feel like one of those really old movies that's been cut to pieces over the years, pieced back together a bit at a time in a "restoration" process.

[profh0011]

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 2!
This is getting like one of those film restorations where they have chunks missing, and have to assemble the most complete print they can from various sources.
"Collision speed... FULL!"

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-7.html

[crashryan]

It's great to see samples of this rare strip. This adaptation has some of the best Jesse Marsh art I've seen. I'm not crazy about Marsh; much of his work strikes me as hasty and clunky. Not this time. Marsh seems to have put special care into the project. I note that, like Frank Thorne, Marsh had plenty of reference for the submarine and other props, but was called upon to make up his own character designs.

[profh0011]

Having reached a point where I was completely missing a strip, I decided this was a good time to do a Google search and see if I could find anything.  A search for "Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales" brought up a lot, but nothing related to 20,000 LEAGUES, apart from a download site which required a "premium account", and a collector who was selling some of the original strips (including 4 I'm still missing). Nice, but both outside my range at the moment.

http://oldsundaycomics.com/sc1540.htm

A 2nd search, this one for "20000 Leagues Jesse Marsh" found a Frencxh website with several of the strips posted in nice 1,000 pixels wide images.  These include some panels I'm missing, or only had LOW-quality versions of!  Ironically, the top of their page has an image of the Frank Thorne Dell Comic issue, errnoneously attributed to having the Jesse Marsh version inside.  (Anyone who bought that would be disappointed, if only because it's NOT what they thought it was.)

http://mobilismobile.free.fr/oeuvres/fiche.php?id=99

[profh0011]

Some of these panels I only have in B&W. I'm probably gonna replace them with the COLOR versions, while at the same time using the English lettering instead of the French. (I just love Photoshop!)

[profh0011]

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 3!
This gets more frustrating as it goes.  3 out of the next 5 installments are currently MISSING.  This includes the entire battle with the GIANT SQUID, which is virtually the centerpiece of every version of this story, including most book covers and promotional artwork.  But I'm setting these up right now anyway, in the hope that the rest will turn up eventually.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-8.html

[profh0011]

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 4!

Annoying, 4 out of the last 8 Sunday sections are (as of 4-1-2014) MISSING.  But I'm going to finish setting these up anyway, and hope that the rest turns up eventually.

One terrific thing, Marsh's art looks SO MUCH better with the panels blown up to the size I'm presenting them here.  It's probably close to the size they were originally printed when a Sunday newspaper strip used to take up the full width of a regular newspaper page.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-9.html

[profh0011]

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 5!

I'm frustrated that 2 out of the last 4 episodes are currently MISSING... but at least I do have the FINAL episode, even if it is in B&W.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-10.html

[profh0011]

I've been a been remiss in updating the ongoing threads in my Facebook group the last few days, but it's mostly because I've been racing like mad to get this Jesse Marsh project finished! Funny enough, as far as I know, I don't have even one Jesse Marsh comic in my entire collection! But I'm sinking all I have into making what scans of this one I found online look as STUNNING as possible.

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 1!

Yes, having polished off the end of the story (give or take the ones I'm completely missing), I'm now going back and UPGRADING what I already have, in some cases adding new panels I didn't have and in others replacing B&W panels with COLOR ones from a Portuguese version (while at the same time replacing the Portuguese text with ENGLISH text, either from the B&W version, or in a few cases, with MY OWN lettering).

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-6.html

[profh0011]

Okay, now I'm satisfied... well, at least for now.

20,000 LEAGUES by Jesse Marsh... PART 2!

I re-processed the 5th Sunday strip, which was a Portuguese scan, and replaced the English text to make it SHARPER.  Simply, this version is as good as it's gonna get, UNTIL I find some MUCH-better scans.  Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/03/jules-verne-part-7.html

[paw broon]

This might only muddy the waters but there is a lovely adaptation of 20000 Leagues which appeared  in Look and Learn, a British weekly, in the '70's.  Art by Bill Baker.  The full story is available to read on Steve Holland's Bear Alley blogspot:-
http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/20000-leagues-under-sea-part-1.html
Steve has been very kind in allowing CB+ to use his scans of 2 Lesley Shane newspaper strip stories.

[profh0011]

Ah, thanks, but I got that one already (I forget who steered me that way).  You can find the sampling I posted in the 2nd half of the "overview" feature.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2013/09/jules-verne-part-2.html

It really is completely NUTS how many different comics versions there is of this one story!

Heck... there's (at least) 4 different comics versions just of the 1954 movie!   

[crashryan]

Yet another 20,000 Leagues just appeared over on the site devoted to famous Swedish-American illustrator Gustaf Tenggren...artwork he did for a Danish Jules Verne series ;published in 1922. Here's the link:

http://gustaftenggren.blogspot.com/2014/04/rare-tenggren-books-discovered.html

[profh0011]

Cool stuff.  I did include a set of paintings from an early version of the book, and a couple of other samples of illustrated versions of the book.  Mostly, though, I'm trying to focus on comics versions.

By the way, has anybody read CAPTAIN GRANT'S CHILDREN-- or seen the film adaptation?  As far as I know, it's only been filmed ONCE-- and by Disney!!  I actually managed to see it in theatres twice-- about 30 years between viewings, too.  (I was only about 4 when it came out!!)

[narfstar]

Never heard of Captain Grant's Children

[crashryan]

Disney made "Captain Grant's Children" as "In Search of the Castaways."