Showing posts with label Feature Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feature Comics. Show all posts

06 May 2020

Follow-Up Follies

Just like the title says, today we're doing some follow-ups on previous posts. Maybe even grab at a dangling thread or two in passing. The first of which goes back to The Spider Widow from Frank Borth.

When we were looking at her, i said we'd come back to see when Spider Widow met Spider-Man. You might not have waited as long as some of those mentioned upcoming posts, but it's been more than plenty long enough...



Oh, come on! You knew it wasn't that Spider-Man since Pete didn't get bit for another couple decades. 

Let's jump to more recent posts now with the second Un-Comic featuring Captain Marvel And The Lieutenants Of Safety. As teased last time, in this one we face the dangers of Climbing!


Our second second is the next strip in the series featuring the original Hank And Lank, by Frank Thomas, in which the Sooper Sweeps decide to join the Army...


One more Hank And Lank, Sooper Sweeps strip remains.

Bonus Sorta Follow-Up:
Here's a strip that got squeezed out by time and circumstance when we looked at Champ Comics. The writer and artist are unknown -


Proof that a child could do a better job than what we have now?

(BTW - If you notice any tags missing from this post, it's because blogger limits the total number of characters to 200, but flat refuses to tell you how many you're currently using so it's nigh impossible to correct without just randomly throwing some out. I really wish they had somebody who uses the system doing the design work. Especially since they always ignore any feedback, questions, or suggestions.)


page art by Frank Borth, C.C. Beck, Frank Thomas and ??? from Feature Comics #66, Champ Comics #23, Camp Comics #2, and Captain Marvel And The Lieutenants Of Safety #2 (1942, 1943, 1950)

09 April 2020

Clash Of "The Two 'Fightingest' Gals In The History Of Comic Books!"

We're back watching Frank Borth have fun with The Spider Widow, Phantom Lady, and The Raven in the pages of Feature Comics and Police Comics back in 1943. It may be some of Borth's earlier comics work, but he's already bending boundaries as he goes.

For example, the characters know they're in comic books...



...and they know other comic books...


...and, as you can see from Raven's first word balloon, they even know in which titles they appear...




And so our heroes came together and found peace...


...but only a month or so later, Frank would be drafted to war (for the second time) and that would be the end of The Spider Widow and the strange relations between our heroic trio.


page art by Frank Borth from Feature Comics #s 69 & 70 and Police Comics #21 (1943)

08 April 2020

The Spider Widow's Boy

You may recall that we were recently looking at Frank's Girl - The Spider Widow - and left off just as The Raven was about to appear on the scene. And then as we peeked at Frank's Other Girl - Phantom Lady - we saw the same mysterious Raven showing up. The Frank in question is, of course, Frank Borth, whose work we've been enjoying around these parts. He created, wrote, and drew The Spider Widow, and both wrote and drew the episodes of Phantom Lady in question.

Let's rejoin the Spider Widow and see how this all connects, shall we?




Next time: They actually connect

page art by Frank Borth from Feature Comics #s 60-62 (1942)