Showing posts with label Frank Bolle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Bolle. Show all posts

22 July 2019

I've Got Curly Hair And Straight Shoulders!

Finally managed to crawl out of the cave for a bit yesterday and visit a few of the neighboring blogs. (That tells you how internalized my head has been of late, when visiting web pages feels like going out) Rip Jagger launched a post in the Dojo from Nyoka, a Jungle Girl who's been waiting in the wings here for a bit. So, i'm feeling prompted to do the same. Sort of. In both cases, Nyoka is just the launch point, not the focus (as yet).
But don't blame him for my deranged brain.

Meet Pistol Packin Patty
Or Pistol Packin Pattie
Sometimes both in the same story.


As is all too often the case with old comic characters, both the writer and artist who created Patty/Pattie are unknown. She had a very short career in the comics, only 10 2/3 pages and never more than 2 pages at a time.

Patty first appeared in the pages of Nyoka The Jungle Girl #3 in the spring of 1946...



That was her only appearance in Nyoka. Thereafter, her stage was in Hopalong Cassidy, beginning with #3 of that title...



After those 3 tales, she switched to a single page format. According to Jerry Bails, from this point on Frank Bolle was handling the art chores. I'm highly disinclined to argue with him in general nor in this particular...






For those who might be curious, the bottom third of the page was an advert for Doctor Death! appearing in This Magazine Is Haunted, not one for wart cream (which did have comic book ads back in them ancient days). Terribly wasted opportunity.

After that, Patty packed her pistols and rode off the comic page and into the sunset. 
Or limbo.

On a totally unrelated side note of things i bumped into out there on the web...
Huzzah! Marvel announced that we'll finally be getting a real version of The Mandarin in the upcoming Shang Chi film. And they signed Tony Leung to play him.
However, they weren't saying in the article i saw which Tony Leung. There are two big Hong Kong stars with that name. And then there's the one HBO signed to make a movie thinking that he was one of the other two.
I doubt Marvel would make that mistake, so it's going to be Leung Chiu-Wai or Leung Ka-Fai - both of whom could do a fine job with the role. I'd rather have seen Yuen Wah, but i'm not going to complain.

Okay...  now we're done.

page art by ??? and Frank Bolle for Nyoka The Jungle Girl #3 and Hopalong Cassidy #s 3, 4, 7, 33, 38, 57, & 60 (1946, 1947, 1949, 1951)

05 June 2018

More UFO Nattering

UFOs are, by nature, odd and mysterious things that are frequently confusing to the perceptions. So i guess it's rather natural that the comics seem to follow suit.

I mentioned last time that Gold Key's book, UFO Flying Saucers, continued for another 6 issues beyond the 7 issues that i originally had on hand. And that Whitman published another 5 issues. (Note that Gold Key and Whitman are both divisions of the same company - Western Publishing) While digging through the archives last night, i found another 12 issues from Gold Key - they changed the title to UFO & Outer Space with issue #14. The series continued through #25 in 1980.
And so the stack has grown...

Meanwhile, we've got more of the speculative pieces from those first seven. Eschewing dramatic presentation structures, let's open with perhaps the most interesting speculative possiblity -

ARE THE UFOS LIVING BEINGS? (art by George Roussos)


WHO FLIES THE SAUCERS??? (art by Frank Bolle)


WHERE DO FLYING SAUCERS COME FROM? (art by Luiz Dominguez)


Of course, it's always good to have a handy identification guide for spotting UFOs...

MODERN TYPES OF UFOS AND FLYING SAUCERS (script by Leo Dorfman, art by Rocco Mastroserio)


UFO'S THE SHAPE THEY'RE IN (art by Luiz Dominguez)


As mentioned previously, much of the book was dedicated to case studies of UFO encounters. We haven't looked at any of those as yet, so let's close out this post with a story that combines those with the speculative works which we've been viewing...

DO CREATURES FROM OUTER SPACE WALK THE EARTH??? (art by Frank Bolle)


"It is possible that somewhere in the universe, someone is reading a horror story about a fellow creature who explored a distant planet and was attacked by four horrible little bipeds."
Yeah. I can see that. "Horrible little bipeds" being how human beings were known to galactic society seems believable.
(Hermit, remember?)

page art from UFO Flying Saucers #s 1, 4, 6, & 7 (1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975)