You may recall, from the long gone days of last weekend, this image of Supersnipe's imaginings of The Man Of 1955:
That strange child's head on a man's body showed up again in the following issue. We see young KoppyMcTodd McFad in the hoosegow, tossed in to calm him down after a minor rampage with bees...
...and the pattern was set. Whenever imagining himself as an adult, he always visualized himself as he is now, but with the superhero body. Later in that same issue, he teams up for the first time with Ulysses Q. Wacky for an adventure that expanded the scope of the book in a mildly insane way:
I find myself mixed with admiration and horror at the placement of the advertisement in the story like that. But, we digress...
And so, with the second issue of his comic, George Marcoux has effectively opened Supersnipe up for unlimited story telling.
But the breaking down of barriers wouldn't stop there. In that same issue...
Supersnipe interacting with real, honest-to-comics superheroes?
More next time...
That strange child's head on a man's body showed up again in the following issue. We see young Koppy
...and the pattern was set. Whenever imagining himself as an adult, he always visualized himself as he is now, but with the superhero body. Later in that same issue, he teams up for the first time with Ulysses Q. Wacky for an adventure that expanded the scope of the book in a mildly insane way:
And so, with the second issue of his comic, George Marcoux has effectively opened Supersnipe up for unlimited story telling.
But the breaking down of barriers wouldn't stop there. In that same issue...
Supersnipe interacting with real, honest-to-comics superheroes?
More next time...
pages from Supersnipe #7 (1942)
I always thought Supersnipe's real last name was "McFadd"--was "McTodd" a variant I didn't know about? As I've mentioned, this is a feature that I've read more about than actually read.
ReplyDeleteRight you are, mostly. I, and that picture, led you slightly astray. There's only 1 'd' in McFad - despite the double dd in the image text.
ReplyDeleteMcTodd was because i was writing half asleep to get the post up, and just glanced at the text to remember the last name. Bad dog.
I overstruck the error and added corrected name.
Thanks!