Let's take a break from the puzzles and games and such. We're already getting enough silly entertainment from the president.
Seriously - how big of an idiot do you need to be in order to use Captain Bligh as the image you want to project?
Let's see - he steals, gets caught, and has the man flogged for daring to suggest he might have done it. He murders crewmen with his cruel need to establish his personal superiority, real or imagined. He makes bad decisions that screw things up, then punishes everyone else for it. He tries to cover his ass and make himself look good at the cost of those in his charge. His crazed actions eventually push them to deal with a deranged maniac in charge. And when it all finally goes to trial, the captain is protected by his own, but even they are forced to admit that he should never have been made captain in the first place.
Hmm...
Maybe he's actually not too far off the mark for a change. (Not on the current alleged mutiny, of course. That would require him actually having authority to be usurped, which he does Not. He's still operating on a child's idea of what the President is and can do. (And a child's idea of what a Man is, for that matter. Not to mention many ridiculous childish notions - like not being man enough to admit when you're wrong doesn't make you always right))
Anyway...
While he's busy holding up relief checks so he can put his brand on his current failing business, let's get the hells off this planet for a bit.
Meteor Martin was another Basil Wolverton character from back in 1941. He only had two strips of which i'm aware, so let's take a look at both, shall we? These come from the final two issues of Amazing Man, #s 25 & 26 -
That's one confusing final blurb. The comic appeared in Amazing Man, not Stars & Stripes. Nor did Wolverton ever work for any publication with that name, so far as i can determine. Certainly not the newspaper for those in military service.
So, i guess maybe the answer was "No."
Seriously - how big of an idiot do you need to be in order to use Captain Bligh as the image you want to project?
Let's see - he steals, gets caught, and has the man flogged for daring to suggest he might have done it. He murders crewmen with his cruel need to establish his personal superiority, real or imagined. He makes bad decisions that screw things up, then punishes everyone else for it. He tries to cover his ass and make himself look good at the cost of those in his charge. His crazed actions eventually push them to deal with a deranged maniac in charge. And when it all finally goes to trial, the captain is protected by his own, but even they are forced to admit that he should never have been made captain in the first place.
Hmm...
Maybe he's actually not too far off the mark for a change. (Not on the current alleged mutiny, of course. That would require him actually having authority to be usurped, which he does Not. He's still operating on a child's idea of what the President is and can do. (And a child's idea of what a Man is, for that matter. Not to mention many ridiculous childish notions - like not being man enough to admit when you're wrong doesn't make you always right))
Anyway...
While he's busy holding up relief checks so he can put his brand on his current failing business, let's get the hells off this planet for a bit.
Meteor Martin was another Basil Wolverton character from back in 1941. He only had two strips of which i'm aware, so let's take a look at both, shall we? These come from the final two issues of Amazing Man, #s 25 & 26 -
That's one confusing final blurb. The comic appeared in Amazing Man, not Stars & Stripes. Nor did Wolverton ever work for any publication with that name, so far as i can determine. Certainly not the newspaper for those in military service.
So, i guess maybe the answer was "No."
page art by Basil Wolverton from Amazing Man #s 25 & 26 (1941)
That particular Stars & Stripes was kind of a spin-off series from Amazing-Man, originally carrying all the same features. For a time, serialized strips actually continued from one title to the other, most notably Mighty Man's extended confrontation with the Witch.
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I knew Stars And Stripes was a small comics publisher, but i've never seen a Stars & Stripes comic. Except in the sense that i used to read the newspaper comics in Stars & Stripes when we lived in Asia. Stateside Comics stopped publishing just about the time we left the USA.
DeleteObviously a conspiracy to try to deny me my comics. That worked about as well as my dad throwing out all those early Fantastic Four issues and other comics. Just made me want them more.
Hmm...
I may have wandered. Where were we...?
Oh, right! I'm going to have to go digging through the run of Amazing Man. I've got a burning itch to know - Did Mighty Man and Minimidgit ever team up?
(For any folks reading along, it might help to know that Mighty Man had size changing powers as well being Mighty)