Once upon a time in the 1950s...
Though many have claimed the title over the decades, Rod Hathaway is my Space Detective. Well, technically, he's the secret identity and Avenger is the Space Detective. Teena is Teena - she doesn't need the extra name.
Together they starred in four issues from Avon in 1951:
Their first adventure was written by Walter Gibson (creator of The Shadow), and drawn by comic legends Joe Orlando and Wally Wood. That's some serious pedigree papers.
Let's go ahead and take a look at that story:
The title also featured back up tales, like this one starring Lucky Dale, Girl Detective with art from Warren Kremer:
There was also the occasional bit of silly fun...
(Actually, that was a reprint from 1938's Cocomalt Big Book of Comics)
Orlando and Wood didn't stick around long on the title, just the first issue and the frontpiece for #2. Somebody did a nice job taking over for them, but nobody knows who drew most of the remaining stories. Greg Fawcette did some nice work, as seen in the 3rd frontpiece at the top of the page, but most tales are uncredited. Up until less than 10 years ago, they had been attributed to Wally Wood, but that has since been established as incorrect. Here's a short tale from #3 for a look at the work:
If only we could hire Space Detective to investigate the mystery artists...
Though many have claimed the title over the decades, Rod Hathaway is my Space Detective. Well, technically, he's the secret identity and Avenger is the Space Detective. Teena is Teena - she doesn't need the extra name.
Together they starred in four issues from Avon in 1951:
Their first adventure was written by Walter Gibson (creator of The Shadow), and drawn by comic legends Joe Orlando and Wally Wood. That's some serious pedigree papers.
Let's go ahead and take a look at that story:
The title also featured back up tales, like this one starring Lucky Dale, Girl Detective with art from Warren Kremer:
There was also the occasional bit of silly fun...
Orlando and Wood didn't stick around long on the title, just the first issue and the frontpiece for #2. Somebody did a nice job taking over for them, but nobody knows who drew most of the remaining stories. Greg Fawcette did some nice work, as seen in the 3rd frontpiece at the top of the page, but most tales are uncredited. Up until less than 10 years ago, they had been attributed to Wally Wood, but that has since been established as incorrect. Here's a short tale from #3 for a look at the work:
If only we could hire Space Detective to investigate the mystery artists...
pages from Space Detective #s 1-4 (1951)
Now that's what I call art. Why don't they draw comicbooks like that anymore? There ARE a few artists who do of course, but not nearly enough. And Teena deserves a 'Babe of the Day' spot.
ReplyDeleteOrlando and Wood were both artists and master craftsmen. Anybody that can keep up with their work enough to have been confused for Wood for over half a century was doing some mighty fine art. I wonder who it was?
DeleteI think Teena might have to share that BotD spot with Dale. Kremer was doing fine work trying to capture the wet & windswept fabrics to accentuate her look rather nicely, too.
(Actually, i need a name for that sort of feature. You already use Babe of the Day. Odd Beauties or anything that keys to this blog just isn't going to sound right.)
How about 'Daily Doll' or 'Daily Dolly'? Or 'Bombastic Babes', or even just 'Doll of the Day'?
DeleteI'd likely avoid any Daily reference, simply because i'd be far too lazy to do it every day. Not to mention how terribly distracting preparations for posting would be.
DeleteI've thought about going with something Retro or Vintage based, but then i'd want to break theme very early on. Remember i made mention of using Hara Mikie to inaugurate the feature - she's from just the last decade and change.
Hmm... since i'm likely to pull from a wide period of time (photographically speaking), and from around the globe, maybe some sort of Panopticon reference. If only Pervert and Peeper weren't so alliteratively apt.
If you called it 'Doll of the Day', it wouldn't necessarily denote that there's going to be one every day, just that the Doll is for the day she appears. (If you know what I mean.)
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