Before Brightburn, Before Superman...

What happens with super powers in the hands of a child? The terrible potential of super powered toddlers is not a new topic for fiction. In fact, the notion pre-dates comic book heroes like Superman by decades. (But a few years after Hugo Hercules)

Let us meet Lovely Lilly, who had her brief run in the newspaper comics back at the end of 1906 and beginning of 1907. Lilly comes to us from the mind and quill of Carolyn Wells, back before she turned her prolific pen to mystery tales. The lovely renderings of Lilly are by George Frederick Kaber, who is better known for his paintings. The strip only lasted a couple of months, and not a lot of them survive today.

The comics typically let us see what happens when a child of power encounters the dangerous creatures dwelling in this world. Here we have the Hippo, the Crocodile, and the Tiger...

Wasn't she sweet?

strips by Carolyn Wells & G.F. Kaber (ca. 1906)

Day After Funnies

So, yeah - I missed Sunday again. Pretty much missed the entire weekend, and i wasn't even off doing my Naruto imitation or anything. Just missed it. (When everyday is the weekend, it's hard to notice the real one sometimes. Of course, that doesn't explain why i've been missing days, so let's move along...)

Anyway, here we are once again with Monday Sunday Morning Funnies featuring our old fave, Ellis Chambers. Our first two comics are from Two-Bit The Wacky Woodpecker. These were some of the last strips published from Chambers that weren't reprints from early books. As are all of today's tales.

The first story was drawn at an odd aspect ratio which required a spot illo to fill the space on a typical comicbook page. This is the drawing used:

It appeared at the bottom of each page of the tale. I've omitted it here, since we're presenting the stories and not the comics, to allow a slightly larger display size in the page code:

The second tale in the book was more typically formatted -

Two-Bit ran for only 3 issues, but these are the only two stories signed by E.C. that appeared in the book.

Meanwhile, other Frisky Animals were running around. This one is unsigned, but believed to be Chambers' work, and he has done other Senor Tamale stories, lending further credibility to the assumption.

Since we're not completely certain that the above tale is indeed from Ellis Chambers, here's one more to make sure we have 3 today. Marmaduke Mouse and King Louie from Marmaduke's own title -

Hmm...
I think i see and Marmaduke & King Louie and Egbert & The Count post coming up the street...

page art by Ellis Chambers from Two-Bit The Wacky Woodpecker #1, Frisky Animals #50, and Marmaduke Mouse #24 (1951, 1952)

No, It Was NOT Comics Code Approved

While gathering some bits on one Odd hero about whom i wanted to talk, i noticed a rather egregious error in the Grand Comics Database.

According to their entries, Captain Klep (originally from Dave Angus, Nick Landau, and personal favorite Kevin O'Neill) only appeared in 4 issues of Tornado before it merged with 2000 AD.

I beg to differ -

It would be more accurate to say that the Captain appeared in all but 4 issues of Tornado. You'd still be wrong - but not by much. He was in, or rather - on the back cover of - all but 5 issues.

back page art from Tornado #s 1-7, 9, 12-18, 20, & 22 (1979)

RPG Maker MV Again

While technically featuring nudity and inherent adult situations, it feels rather ridiculous to put this in the Adult Content back room of the blog. 

What we have here is a sprite template sheet for RPG Maker MV aka RMMV. You see, This City that i've been playing with now has a Hellfire Club, and some extra props were needed for background characters. So here we have Male & Female Walk Templates for both Yoked and Cuffed, along with a Ball Gag sprite that can be overlaid to fit either gender. (Contrary to popular opinion, i view gender as biological and completely separate from sexuality and personal identity. So the game world has only 4 genders - Male, Female, Both, Neither. (yeah, there are aliens and cybernetic lifeforms, so it gets broad while being narrow))

Appropriate leather outfits and such haven't been taken past the single frame design stage at this point. If i remember, i'll post outfits at a later point, after completion. For now, you'll just have to drop in what you've got. There are also Hadaka versions, but who uses those, right? (Well, after the Lactacid incident...)

Obviously, the Character Generator will not be able to adapt to the restrained walk frames, so outfits and character heads will need to be overlaid manually.

Meanwhile, for those who are thinking "Hmmm....   Hellfire Club! We need X-Men!"- Fret not.
You can grab them, along with a whole host of other Marvel heroes for your game, from Galactic God's collection. That includes pretty much all of the MCU and the Marvel Netflix shows, as well. And GG makes battlers, too, for those who use the in-game fight systems for RMMV.

crap by -3- for RMMV Users & This City (2019)

That Famous International Note Giver, Cookie Fortune

As expected, suffering some internal backlash from the previous postings. I'm dealing with it, and don't really care to kvetch about it.

So here's a quickie post to fight back a bit, with Philo Kvetch to fill in...

Yeah, a lot of comedians had comics over the years. Surely you recognize who's playing Philo, right?

Unfortunately, nobody seems to know the creators for this, or any other tale, from his book.

that guy as Philo Kvetch back in (1965)

better credits when we talk about him later, eh?