Showing posts with label 1948. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1948. Show all posts

15 May 2020

Before They Were Fractured

As we watch what happens when Fake President meets Real Crisis and wonder how much better things might play out if we had an adult in charge, let us contemplate these Words To Live By -

"They're not as important as saving the world from COVID-19 and POTUS-45 but I can actually do something constructive about them." -M.E.
(M.E. is ALWAYS Mark Evanier)

Focus on your world close at hand and you can make good use of our current Down Time, and maybe even avoid driving yourself a fraction as crazy as our fake president.

(BTW - for those who are confused as to what Obamagate is since fake president cannot explain it when asked - it's daring to be tolerably competent and make plainly obvious what a complete and useless fuck-up our current 'leader' has proven to be.)

So, let's turn away from the ongoing effort to ignore and wish away the trump flu while hiding the death toll his incompetence has caused*, and instead lose ourselves in some more friendly twisted fantasies. 

Today's offerings come to us from the man who brought us "Comics" McCormick and the Minute Movies - Mr. Ed Wheelan. Here are a half dozen of his Foney Fairy Tales for you to enjoy -








I hope that helped.


page art by Ed Wheelan from Comic Calvacade #s 15 & 20, Green Lantern #34, Sensation Comics #62, and Wonder Woman #s 19 & 21 (1946, 1947, 1948)

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*(It is VERY worth remembering that Fake President is currently pushing for punishing those who mishandled the Trump Flu crisis (see China by his words) and prosecuting former Presidents for perceived crimes.
After all this is over, those are two things we should very strongly consider, according to his own words. Make America Great Again - Prosecute Rich Criminals)

13 April 2020

Trump Flu Blues Prevention II - Building With Edison Bell

Once upon a time people had to entertain themselves on a regular basis. Philo was still staring at corn fields and Net was for fishing. What's a poor bored person to do?

I've made no secret of my fondness for boy genius/inventor comics, and i think we can find a bit help from some of them. So, let's jump back about 80 years and get some advice on how to build some fun from one we've yet to meet - Edison Bell.
















By this point, you might be wondering "Who the hell was Edison Bell?" (because it rhymes)

Let's visit Blue Bolt #1 and get a peek, shall we? 


Edison was around for quite a while. The Grand Comics Database lists nearly 200 appearances (likely including some reprints)

Next time we visit with him, we'll look at more of his comics and not just the Make'em pages that appear at the end.

page art by Harold DeLay and Ray Gil from a bunch of Blue Bolt issues between v.1#1 and v.8#10 (that numbering is clunky, no?) (1940-48)

23 March 2020

The Adventures Of B-69-0

Okay - made it back with a short bit of amusement. Here's a quick dose of Odd to brighten up your day, Dogpatch style -


...and so it goes...

page art by Al Capp from Sparkle Comics #10 (1950)
(repackaging newspaper comics from Dec1948-Jan1949)