Showing posts with label 1970. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970. Show all posts

19 June 2020

Freedom! Think You Can Keep It?

50 years ago, give or take a couple of months, a full century after the end of the Civil War, Denny O'Neil stood up and asked a question that was LONG overdue...


It might seem odd to focus on a white man on Juneteenth, but it's not without reason. Denny died last week - another timely reminder and warning. 

Meanwhile, another white...  well, no - i can't lie and call that weak child a 'Man'. Our fake pres has clearly established he's anything but, and far to weak to Ever man up. So -

Meanwhile, our fake president is leading primitives who would gladly see slavery re-established. (No, modern corporations aren't working to bring back slavery - they know serfdom is much cheaper, and easier to apply to all 'races' ... Equality!) All part of his push to make America great again by taking it back to the days of a Mad King, before Americans died to free themselves from the whims of one deranged individual.

We've reached a point where we're not moving forward, and evil, greedy addicts are working desperately to drag us back and shove us down. They're already selling the notion that the "Middle Class" was a fleeting accident that shouldn't really have happened, not the result of Americans fighting for their fair share and being gunned down in the streets by government troops working for the corporate owners. 

Of course, since we give power over to Addicts and Sociopaths, it's no surprise that they take everything they can grab as well.

Black Americans are on the forefront. They experience the Boot every day and know how terrible it can be. And worse, they're viewed as disposable - as are we all to varying degrees.

We're at one of those tipping points where things could actually get better, but you can be damned sure that the money junkies are going to do everything in their considerable power to make it worse instead.

All Lives Matter.

You may have heard that from some who are trying to deflect from Black Lives Matter. The statement is true - but it means that all of us - Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White, Green, Blue - All Of Us have an obligation to defend and protect All Lives.
Otherwise, none are safe and all of us are diminished.

And, dude - if you think your white ass is safe and secure... Where's your weekend?
The simple concept of "Working For The Weekend" has already been taken away. In most cases these days, the company now owns you around the clock, seven days a week.

As the junkies keeping sucking up an ever increasing share to fill that need fore MORE, the lines between black & white flat out disappear. 

Don't be a fucking idiot.

Protect and support your black sisters and brothers - or nobody's going to be left to support and protect You.

panel art by Neal Adams from Green Lantern #76 (1970)

25 March 2020

This Post Is Rated GP

Somewhere between the Challengers Of The Unknown and the Blackhawks existed the Ghost Patrol.



So, who were these guys?

Originally written by Ted Udall and Emmanuel Demby with art by Frank Harry, (good luck figuring that out from the page credit below), the Ghost Patrol debuted with their origin in 1942 in the pages of Flash Comics...


Things sure worked out better for them than for these guys...


Like the Blackhawks, the Ghost Patrol continued well past the end of World War II - until 1949 - appearing in most issues of Flash Comics between #s 29-104. And, like those other guys, they sometimes had trouble finding direction without the war that spawned them. Things evolved and changed, with John Wentworth now scripting...


...things always change...

(Thanks, kiff57krocker)

...except   War. War Never Changes.

There was a Ghost Patrol that appeared in Our Army At War in 1963, but that was some other guys. They were Infantry. 
Fred, Slim and Pedro seem to have moved on from this realm.

page art by Frank Harry from Flash Comics #s 29, 38, & 70, panel art by kiff57krocker (1942, 1943, 1946, 2019)


(Yes, i've been playing FallOut games again)

07 March 2020

Reterno

Well, i think we've got things sorted around here. But now it's time for my monthly foraging run down the hill. So, quickly...

Here're the next two Adam Eterno stories i teased Thursday. We don't know the creators, but perhaps Gordie can enlighten us?

UPDATE: Indeed, he can. These stories are drawn by Colin Page. Thanks and a tip of the hat to the Kid from Crivens!







It's been said before, but -

I'm Off!
Chicken & cherries await.

page art by Colin Page from Thunder #s 5-8 (1970)

05 March 2020

Waiting With Eterno

Well, finally!

I've been waiting for hours to be able to use the system, sadly in part due to operator error. I set some system maintenance to running before heading off to sleep. I woke up to find a confirmation button waiting since about 2 minutes after i blacked the screen.

Amusingly enough, the seemingly eternal wait has relevance to today's topic. Once again, fingers wiggle and affect things half a world away. Kid recently posted about a Black Max collection (among other things). I finally caught up to it, and had to go digging back into Thunder for what we both perceived to be missing - Adam Eterno.

Let me first say that Thunder, despite the name, was quite quiet when it cracked onto the scene. Little might one suspect what lurked within from that first cover...


Somehow i doubt a great number of you would rush out to grab Phil The Fluter comics, unless perhaps the flute was metaphoric. I assure you, it was quite literal.

The second issue might have grabbed your attention. Instead of Ozzie, The Amazing Jumping Kangaroo being the highlight, they offered Black Max's Bat -


The cover for #3 offered Free Peelers (sorry, folks on this side of the water - those are stickers, not strippers) and from #4 onward the cover featured Famous Firsts (worth coming back to take a gander). But of Adam Eterno there was never a hint; somewhat appropriate for a man moving invisibly through history.

Fortunately, we're not limited to covers. Here are the first two short tales introducing our second Adam-Out-Of-Time from the UK -
 




Next time up in Thunder #s 5 & 6, Adam Eterno: Cowboy.
After that, This Guy -


I suppose we should follow along, eh?

page art by Tom Kerr from Thunder #s 1-4 (1970)