[MarkWarner]

I am not sure why but last week's book didn't perform very well comments wise. Hopefully a dose of pirates and adventure might spark a bit more interest.

So this week's book is Young Heroes #36 https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=14831. And the story we are concentrating on is the first one Jeremy Jones.

I also want to get to the bottom of who is Roger of Sherwood Forest ... is it Robin??? All will be revealed in the coming week!

BTW if anyone has any suggestions for books, please send me an email or forum message! I had to choose this one myself!!

[narfstar]

Suggestions: Charlton Premier 2 and 3 are both very popular at Charlton Arrow. Two very different books that are both good choices. Previous suggestion the second story in Thunderbolt. My vote for the worst superhero The Key from the first story in Key Comics 1. Soldier of Fortune 5 (pay attention to the last panel of each story). Peter Rabbit 7 the stories are only 2 pages long so whole book. Argo's Alley Oop 1 first story. Jim Dandy 3 first story. Blue Ribbon 3 RangATang story.    That should help for awhile

[narfstar]

I enjoyed the story. Pretty good and typical adventure with no big surprises. The art was good. Jeremy's cheer at making the first kill was interesting for the 16 year old. Like another day hunting deer. Impressing was a common British practice. The taking of a famous hero would not have been likely. They knocked out common men who got drunk. They took them out in the ocean and gave them a choice. Sign a contract to join the crew or no free ride hop overboard. 16 would have most likely been considered a man then. It was interesting that the smuggling captain was cheered with Jeremy in England instead of being jailed.

[SuperScrounge]

Jeremy Jones - Swashbuckling sedateness of the highest order! All sense of action and thrills toned down for those with sensitive stomachs. Yikes! How do you take shanghaiing, piracy and battles at sea and make them about as exciting as describing a round of golf? "It was the fifth hole, a 200 yard dogleg. I teed up, took my number 1 wood..." Well, at least the art was nice.

High Courage - Okay.

Prince Athel - Interesting. Seemed like it owed it's existence to Prince Valiant and since a Google search failed to turn up info on a real Prince Athel, I'm guessing he was made up.

A Fortune For You - Wow, I guess this was written before they knew how shy octopi really are. On the other hand it was more exciting than the first story.

Roger of Sherwood Forest - So basically Roger is Robin's Robin?  Not bad, although in a way it did feel like a Green Arrow story featuring Speedy.

The Outwitting of Captain Kidd - Nice little story.

Frontier Scout - Not bad, nice story to wrap up with.

[crashryan]

Quite a change of pace from last week's offering. reasonably good stories and solid, if unexciting, artwork. The biggest problem was that offering four stories plus fillers means each story has to cram too much into a small space. This is especially true of "Jeremy Jones," which packs into six pages enough material to fill an entire issue. The stories aren't bad, but most seem rushed.

I was surprised to see so much mayhem in an early Code-approved comic. True, there is no flowing blood, but there are a (threatened) hanging, a "hail of death" from shrapnel, pirates shot from the rigging, and dead settlers lying in the ruins of a burned cabin. Most of the violence is in "Jeremy Jones." I'm surprised the Code didn't mess with this story--this was around the time they were painting knives out of hands and leaving huge empty spaces in dialogue balloons.

[bowers]

This was a very short-lived title, running only three issues. An interesting concept that just didn't click with the readers. The "Jeremy Jones" character was probably the most original, yet also one of the least believable. This kid would put Errol Flynn to shame! Each of his three stories are pretty similar- he starts at the bottom and with pluck and hard work rises to save the day and return to a hero's welcome in England. Sounds a bit like something G.A. Henty might have written.This was probably the weakest story of the three, but still contained some pretty good action. Hey, we get the decks raked with grapeshot, galley slaves tossed to the sharks, and a decent little melee at the end. As SuperScrounge aptly pointed out, the next story featuring Prince Athel, or "Prince Fearless", was little more than a Prince Valiant knockoff. Art and story not bad but nothing new here. Really bad dialogue. I did enjoy the two-pager "A Fortune for You"- who can resist a deadly octopus tale? "Roger of Sherwood Forest" wasn't bad. Whitney's draftsmanship is pretty good, but he doesn't seem to be able to convey the feeling of action in his drawings. "Frontier Scout" seems to be  a Dan Hunter (Tomahawk's sidekick) knockoff . Good story  but the faux-western dialog was a bad distraction for me. All-in-all, I would have enjoyed this comic at age ten or twelve, and probably would have purchased it. Cheers, Bowers

[MarkWarner]

Blimey Jeremy Jones is a really brave lad! Aged just 16 he's already had two hero's welcomes. The story was harmless enough. But, I am pretty sure that a captured boat was not not to be sniffed at and I really doubt you'd deliberately set fire to one!

A nice one page text story ... but all this heroism is already getting a bit samey.

The next story are they being serious?? Prince Athel of Thuringia (known as Prince Fearless)  ... sounds like he is from Monty Python or Blackadder. I looked up and Thuringia actually exists. It is in Germany. A couple of bits of dialogue

"Doth the task appeal to thee? 'Twill mean a voyage across the seas ... to give the maiden safe escort!"

"I have need of food and fresh garb. Good fishermen, wilt though help me?"

Basically a standard story with TERRIBLE dialogue!

I rather enjoyed the art on the two page "A Fortune for You" as bowers quite right states who can resist a deadly octopus??

Roger of Sherwood! Hmmmm I very much doubt that the toll would have been 5 shillings, which I guess would have been around a year's money. This was not too bad at all, in fact I rather enjoyed it. As I did with the second text story the "Outwitting of Captain Kidd". Which was really rather good, with a nice twist and not a young hero in sight!

However with the last story, "Frontier Scout", normal service was resumed. I along with everyone else guessed the politician was Lincoln.

Verdict: A pretty tedious read, but some good art. Roger of Sherwood was fun as was the second text story. I'd probably give another issue a try purely on the strength of these two.

[paw broon]

So, young Mr.  Jones can fire a badly drawn flintlock and bring down a pirate in the crows nest of another ship from, what looks like, 50 yards away? He's good.  Then there is all that violence with no blood and guts.  Grapeshot would have made that deck look like a slaughterhouse.  Ah well, I dislike looking at blood and gore anyway and it is aCCA comic.
Oh dear, Mark is right, the dialogue in the Athel story is awful.  There was all that action, danger and a cunning plan but it didn't seem very exciting.  Pictures were nice though.
Really enjoyed Roger of Sherwood despite the corny bit with the sneeze in the cupboard.  And Robin and the merry men seemed to spring from nowhere, to save the day, at the end.  All good fun and I seem to always like Whitney's art.
The last story and we're back to terrible dialogue.  Enough to put me off.  Forgive my ignorance re. Lincoln, I wasn't aware of his enhanced strength.  Doesn't mention that in the history books.  Perhaps he is adistant predecessor of Peter Parker, holding that coach upright, just like Spidey with all those girders on that amazing cover.
Speaking of covers, I liked the one on this book.  Looked very handsome, indeed