Meanwhile, a little more of Ed Wheelan's "Comics" McCormick - The World's No. 1 Comic Book Fan. As mentioned last time, he had just shy of a dozen adventures, but they were fairly unlimited in scope. Let's take a look at those splash panels -
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| McCormick's second story introduced his first recurring villain - The Octopus. |
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| The Space Pirates would return as well. Both the Octopus and the Pirates return for the tales in his final issue. |
Fat And Slat #4 featured the above two tales, and "Comics" McCormick's only cover. Sadly, the title folded and the promise of more next issue was never realized.
We didn't run the splash panels from yesterday's stories - nor to his first story to appear. Here's that first tale in its entirety -
art by Ed Wheelan from Terrific Comics #s 2-6, Cat-Man #28, and Fats And Slats #s 1-4 (1944, 1945, 1947, 1948)
Pretty cool seeing a comic book fan going in comic-book style adventures before comics were geek culture. The early 1900s newspaper comic style being used in the 40s is pretty interesting as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm rather fond of the notion, too. If you haven't looked at the entries on Supersnipe, you might want to do so. He's a favorite around here (13 posts and counting), and takes his adventures out into the 'real' world.
ReplyDeleteThere's also a post on one of the earlier types of the character from old newspaper comics, Bobby Make-Believe.
Like i said, i'm fond of those who use their imaginations for adventure.