The Step-Father, Uncle and Grandfather of Invention

As mentioned, we're returning to visit with Supersnipe and his crew this weekend.

Let's start by checking in with Ulysses Q. Wacky, Unlimited Inventor & Genius. Truth be told, very few of his inventions work out as he had planned. In fact, there may be only one truly successful working invention to come out of Wacky's workshop. He created it at the end of volume one, and it returned at the beginning of volume three.

Let's take a look, shall we?

Yeah - this one would never sell these days...

page art by George Marcoux from Supersnipe v1#12 and v3#1 (1943, 1946)

Girl Guerrila, Not Gorilla Girl

No Friday Fun & Games today. Still in rebuild and reload mode on the systems here, but have at least moved enough data onto the new desktop to get a quick post up.

With our recent look at "Comics" McCormick, we were looping back around for another look at Supersnipe. While we're heading there, let's take a quick peek at another of George Marcoux's characters from the series - Roxy Adams, Girl Guerilla.

She first appeared to torment Koppy McFad back in '43 in Supersnipe #9 - both in the lead feature and the text story. In the years that followed, she had 9 more adventures, one of them being another text feature. We'll take a closer look at her after things are back in what passes for order around here. Meanwhile, here's her first solo story to give you a look at Roxy -

Okay - back to work on the machines and the data. Hopefully things will be back to full function by the morrow. (Maybe two morrows, we'll see...)

page art by George Marcoux for Supersnipe v.3#01 (1946)

Sunday Matinee Triple-Feature-In-One

Welcome back to our weekend visit with old friends. We've got something special for the main feature on today's matinee - a triple team-up with Supersnipe, Ulysses Q. Wacky and Herlock Domes.in a full length adventure; 25 full pages from back when other heroes were only getting 8-12 for their stories. Or less.

First up though - Jet Dream and her Stunt-Girl Coutnerspies!
For our bracketing tales this time, let's focus on the newest S-GC, Ting, whom we met yesterday. First, a two-spy mission with just Jet & Ting -

We've seen before how Supersnipe has crossed paths with other superheroes like Doc Savage and The Shadow. This time our heroic trio (no, not the ladies) teams up with a hero of a different kind...

And, finally - the penultimate episode of Jet Dream - The Terror Of Ting-A-Ling

 

We've covered about half of the Stunt-Girl Counterspies' adventures this past week. I'm sure the other half will show up before too long. (After all - the artwork is already prepped & ready to go.)

Jet Dream by ?? and Joe Certa for The Man From UNCLE #s 14 & 21, Supersnipe by Ed Gruskin & George Marcoux for Supersnipe v3 #3 (1967, 1968, 1946)