Very simple post today - let's look at some Supersnipe covers.
Okay - let's look at a bunch of them - say, a dozen and a half. In addition to what we've already seen, that'll encompass most of the George Marcoux covers. I'm limiting this look to only those he did, though there were almost as many done without him.
I think that rather than any elaborate sorting scheme, we'll just go chronologically.
Note that blurb for the Pig Latin special course. That was a one page series that went on for over a year, pretty much just listing the Pig Latin version of various words for kids to memorize by rote instead of just getting them to use the rules and sort it for themselves.
I think this may have been the single oddest feature of the title, in its way.
NEW! Dotty Loves Trouble!
Yep - they added a 'girl's comic' to round out the book.
And the final, posthumously published, Marcoux cover:
I lied, kinda.
While those covers are indeed chronologically presented, my favorite three were withheld for the end here. Perhaps not surprisingly, they are the most phantasmagorical of his covers.
While other strips get blurbs on the cover, Supersnipe's frequent partners Ulysses Q. Wacky gets only one mention above, and kid detective Herlock Domes, none at all. (And, yes - that image that just popped up in your head is probably fairly close - deerstalker cap and all)
Of course, there was this one...
Not only does that mention Wacky on the cover, but it's actually a Wacky story that's the basis for the cover. Ulysses and Supersnipe team up to tunnel to the center of the Earth. Guess what they find...
Okay - let's look at a bunch of them - say, a dozen and a half. In addition to what we've already seen, that'll encompass most of the George Marcoux covers. I'm limiting this look to only those he did, though there were almost as many done without him.
I think that rather than any elaborate sorting scheme, we'll just go chronologically.
Note that blurb for the Pig Latin special course. That was a one page series that went on for over a year, pretty much just listing the Pig Latin version of various words for kids to memorize by rote instead of just getting them to use the rules and sort it for themselves.
I think this may have been the single oddest feature of the title, in its way.
NEW! Dotty Loves Trouble!
Yep - they added a 'girl's comic' to round out the book.
And the final, posthumously published, Marcoux cover:
I lied, kinda.
While those covers are indeed chronologically presented, my favorite three were withheld for the end here. Perhaps not surprisingly, they are the most phantasmagorical of his covers.
While other strips get blurbs on the cover, Supersnipe's frequent partners Ulysses Q. Wacky gets only one mention above, and kid detective Herlock Domes, none at all. (And, yes - that image that just popped up in your head is probably fairly close - deerstalker cap and all)
Of course, there was this one...
Not only does that mention Wacky on the cover, but it's actually a Wacky story that's the basis for the cover. Ulysses and Supersnipe team up to tunnel to the center of the Earth. Guess what they find...
Supersnipe covers by George Marcoux (1943-46)
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