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.
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)
