When last we left off with Skyrocket Steele, i was off to hunt for the other issue #3 of Amazing Mystery Funnies to see if we could find out what happened next.
After consulting with Hamir, it didn't seem very likely that we'd find that next issue. Fortunately, we don't have to!
Fantagraphics released a multi-volume collection of Bill Everett's work nearly a decade ago. Damn nice of them.
So here's the cover to issue #3b, and the ongoing story -
The Fantagraphics collection is in two volumes - Amazing Mysteries, from which these pages come, and Heroic Tales. Both have lots of good stuff in them. They released another book the previous year - Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics. I haven't checked it out yet, but my expectations are high.
In that same post, i mentioned i was hunting for the first chapter of Tippy Taylor's tale since my copy was too trashed to use. I did find a digital copy, but it was little more that oversized thumbnails. I've done what i can to clean it up and enlarge it for easier reading and a better look at the artwork of George Loomis, so let's go visit Fantasy Isle, shall we?
On to chapter 2!
There were only 9 episodes in total for Tippy and Lilliput Fantasy Isle, so we'll be back to follow along and see what's in that cave...
After consulting with Hamir, it didn't seem very likely that we'd find that next issue. Fortunately, we don't have to!
Fantagraphics released a multi-volume collection of Bill Everett's work nearly a decade ago. Damn nice of them.
So here's the cover to issue #3b, and the ongoing story -
The Fantagraphics collection is in two volumes - Amazing Mysteries, from which these pages come, and Heroic Tales. Both have lots of good stuff in them. They released another book the previous year - Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics. I haven't checked it out yet, but my expectations are high.
In that same post, i mentioned i was hunting for the first chapter of Tippy Taylor's tale since my copy was too trashed to use. I did find a digital copy, but it was little more that oversized thumbnails. I've done what i can to clean it up and enlarge it for easier reading and a better look at the artwork of George Loomis, so let's go visit Fantasy Isle, shall we?
On to chapter 2!
There were only 9 episodes in total for Tippy and
page art by Bill Everett and George Loomis for Amazing Mystery Funnies #s 3b, 4, 17 & 18 (1938, 1940)
