Well, if anyone is curious, i won't be stimulating the economy this week. Trekked out to the bank to make my monthly pull before next week's supply run - no sign of any stimulus was to be seen.
What we do have to see today is a new feature, with a logo and everything -
ONES Upon A Time is dedicated to the comic book equivalent of One-Hit Wonders - characters who appeared only a single time though planned for longer. So stand-alone stories are naturally ineligible.
Today we feature The Rainbow.
Jim Travis made his single heroic appearance in The Arrow #3 in 1941. Written by Ed Herron (Bat Masterson, Captain Midnight, Challengers Of The Unknown, Green Arrow, and many others) and drawn by Al Plastino (Ferd'Nand, Superman, Superboy, Two Decades of DC Covers, among Many others), The Rainbow had a more-than-solid creative team. And he sported one the more uniquely designed costumes with a very odd hood & cape combination.
What The Rainbow did not have was a home. The third issue of The Arrow was its last, and the Rainbow dissipated into the limbo of lost comics.
Note that at this early time, he used the full Alfredo Plastino, later almost always seen as 'Al' Plastino.
Hmm...
Even that next issue blurb seems to know The Rainbow would not be returning. They left where he would be appearing blank.
What we do have to see today is a new feature, with a logo and everything -
ONES Upon A Time is dedicated to the comic book equivalent of One-Hit Wonders - characters who appeared only a single time though planned for longer. So stand-alone stories are naturally ineligible.
Today we feature The Rainbow.
Jim Travis made his single heroic appearance in The Arrow #3 in 1941. Written by Ed Herron (Bat Masterson, Captain Midnight, Challengers Of The Unknown, Green Arrow, and many others) and drawn by Al Plastino (Ferd'Nand, Superman, Superboy, Two Decades of DC Covers, among Many others), The Rainbow had a more-than-solid creative team. And he sported one the more uniquely designed costumes with a very odd hood & cape combination.
What The Rainbow did not have was a home. The third issue of The Arrow was its last, and the Rainbow dissipated into the limbo of lost comics.
Note that at this early time, he used the full Alfredo Plastino, later almost always seen as 'Al' Plastino.
Hmm...
Even that next issue blurb seems to know The Rainbow would not be returning. They left where he would be appearing blank.
page art by Al Plastino from The Arrow #3 (1941)
