If you're all caught up, let's join Bobby & Henrietta at the air show...
As the caption said, to be continued (and concluded) ... tomorrow.
page art by Frank Borth for Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact #s 292 & 293 (1960)
13 July 2019
Stand By For The Feature Attraction This Afternoon
If you've been reading along this week, you know that we've been serializing the first tale of The Enchanted Flivver from Captain Frank T. Moss and Frank Borth. (If you haven't been reading along, you might want to go back and read the first four posts in this series.)
If you're all caught up, let's join Bobby & Henrietta at the air show...
As the caption said, to be continued (and concluded) ... tomorrow.
If you're all caught up, let's join Bobby & Henrietta at the air show...
As the caption said, to be continued (and concluded) ... tomorrow.
Bedtime Gory
Continuing from yesterday morning, it's Twilight Of The Heroes - a classic tale from the golden days of yore by Ron Wilber.
When reading along, remember that this was back in 1977 - so long ago
that my then wife and i were still expecting our first child when it was
published in Rocket's Blast Comic Collector. Long before the
'Dark Age' of comics, and way back when we could only dream of
characters from different companies ever appearing together.
Some dreams are decidedly more twisted than others...
...and that being the case, we've had to put this tale in our 'back room' - The Other Voice Of ODD! - to keep things tolerably Safe For Work (and the search engines) here on the main blog.
Head on back and enjoy this odd and unique bit of hidden comics history.
Some dreams are decidedly more twisted than others...
...and that being the case, we've had to put this tale in our 'back room' - The Other Voice Of ODD! - to keep things tolerably Safe For Work (and the search engines) here on the main blog.
Head on back and enjoy this odd and unique bit of hidden comics history.
page art by Ron Wilber for RBCC #s 143-146 (1977)
12 July 2019
Does This Machine Have A License To Fly?
Welcome back for another chapter of The Enchanted Flivver from Capt. Frank T. Moss and Frank Borth. As we saw last time, Bobby has learned to control Henrietta, and now he's ready to show off what she can do...
On to our next chapter! We're doubling up so we'll finish the story on Sunday...
Well, yes - of course it's continued tomorrow.
On to our next chapter! We're doubling up so we'll finish the story on Sunday...
Well, yes - of course it's continued tomorrow.
page art by Frank Borth for Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact #290 (1960)
It Started In January 1955 When The Police Discovered The Body Of One Comics Code Official...
Thus did it begin...
Late last year, while presenting Ron Wilber's Star Woes from the old Rocket's Blast Comic Collector, i realized that i hadn't yet run his classic Twilight Of The Heroes despite having thought i had. Perhaps i was confusing it with The Massacre Of The Innocents, another strip from RBCC which did run previously. Or perhaps my deranged mind was playing tricks on me once again.
Regardless, it's past time for another dive into those old zines and long past time for this tale to appear. However, we're going to break it up for a couple of reasons. The first is length - the story runs for 32 pages. You need a bit of room when telling an Epic, y'know. So we'll break the tale into two posts.
Moreover, we're also going to break this first post as well. After Wonder Woman shows up, it soon becomes NSFW. Fortunately, that's why The Other Voice Of ODD! exists. We can run the uncensored pages safely behind the adult warning.
Twilight Of The Heroes ran over several issues of RBCC, beginning in #139 - the same issue which featured Ron's above linked Star Woes tale.
Yeah, that got pretty grim. And that's just the beginning. However, next chapter Wonder Woman shows up (and shows other things) and so, as mentioned above, we're going to have to move the rest of this tale to our 'back room' for adult content.
Head on back past the age check for the rest of the first half of the tale, and we'll continue on the morrow.
Late last year, while presenting Ron Wilber's Star Woes from the old Rocket's Blast Comic Collector, i realized that i hadn't yet run his classic Twilight Of The Heroes despite having thought i had. Perhaps i was confusing it with The Massacre Of The Innocents, another strip from RBCC which did run previously. Or perhaps my deranged mind was playing tricks on me once again.
Regardless, it's past time for another dive into those old zines and long past time for this tale to appear. However, we're going to break it up for a couple of reasons. The first is length - the story runs for 32 pages. You need a bit of room when telling an Epic, y'know. So we'll break the tale into two posts.
Moreover, we're also going to break this first post as well. After Wonder Woman shows up, it soon becomes NSFW. Fortunately, that's why The Other Voice Of ODD! exists. We can run the uncensored pages safely behind the adult warning.
Twilight Of The Heroes ran over several issues of RBCC, beginning in #139 - the same issue which featured Ron's above linked Star Woes tale.
Yeah, that got pretty grim. And that's just the beginning. However, next chapter Wonder Woman shows up (and shows other things) and so, as mentioned above, we're going to have to move the rest of this tale to our 'back room' for adult content.
Head on back past the age check for the rest of the first half of the tale, and we'll continue on the morrow.
page art by Ron Wilber for RBCC #s 139 & 140(1977)
11 July 2019
I've Just Had A Blious Attack!
The What If Fairy Hears The Magic Words
Sometimes you get an idea that just doesn't quite work. One such case comes from early on in Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact, premiering in the first issue - The What If Fairy. Who the creators are is unknown to modern man. (I've seen some speculation that the artist signed the next to the last panel, but it seems clear to me that it's another figure working the field, like those to the right) Here's the first strip...
Naturally enough, they followed Salt with Pepper...
While cute, the gimmick was clumsy and wasted too much of the available panel space on the framing sequences. It lasted only four episodes. Issue #5 featured the first of the more direct approach - The Story Of Tin ...
The simple and direct approach worked better. And we even got to see that it was done by Iris Vinton and Addison Burbank, so - bonus! It's always so nice to have those credits when looking back across the decades.
Naturally enough, they followed Salt with Pepper...
While cute, the gimmick was clumsy and wasted too much of the available panel space on the framing sequences. It lasted only four episodes. Issue #5 featured the first of the more direct approach - The Story Of Tin ...
The simple and direct approach worked better. And we even got to see that it was done by Iris Vinton and Addison Burbank, so - bonus! It's always so nice to have those credits when looking back across the decades.
page art by ??? and Addison Burbank from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact #s 1, 2, & 5 (1946)
(And, yes - we'll be back this afternoon with the continuation of The Enchanted Flivver.)
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