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)

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)

Brief Oddities

We've got an extra post with a smattering of oddities, as mentioned above, and no real theme beyond having accumulated in the blog files. And, y'know... being Odd.

Here's a beautiful and mysterious first page from Omandu -

You may perhaps wonder where the figure absent from the white space in the middle has gone?

He escaped to the cover -

I admire an artist who is wholly committed to the work over the modern obsession for Branding. In fact, the only way to know that this is the cover for The Little Book Of Inner Space #1 is from the indicia box, hand written at the bottom of the first page -

Sadly, this seems almost completely forgotten today. The Grand Comics Database has almost no info, only the front cover.
Every time i put together a list of titles to update in their database, i lose it.
Somebody remind me after a bit and see if i've entered the particulars on this comic.

Elsewhere in Time and California...

What's this crowd waiting for...?

...the chance to party with Mary Fleener! 
Why me not there?

For a purely odd sidestep in time and space, yet somehow reminiscent of now, here's a one-pager from Look Magazine's second issue, just over 80 years ago...

And buried way down here is the single page comic that started this post going. A simple piece in every way, that works so nicely from the team of Ross Andru and Mike Esposito...

Omandu say bye-bye -

pages from The Little Book Of Inner Space #1, Life Of The Party, Look v.1#2, and Get Lost #3 (1937, 1954, 1972, 1996)

Departing Ditko Days

We've got just enough room left in the week for one more visit with Steve Ditko. Let's start where we left off, with some stories from the mid-50s...

This is The Voice Of ODD!, so let us take a hard turn into Odd territory for some completely different Ditko -

He even brought us the cover to that issue...

...and it was hardly his only trip into weird comedy...

This one was rarely seen, originally slated for Plop! and published in the Amazing World Of DC Comics, we get Steve Ditko working with Steve Skeates and Wally Wood -

And now we seem to have looped back around to where we started...

...so i guess it's time to move along...

page art by Steve Ditko (and Wally Wood) from Spellbound #29, Mystery Tales #s 40, 45, & 47, From Here To Insanity #s 10 & 1 (v.3), Amazing World Of DC Comics #13, and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1955, 1956, 1964, 1975)