The Captain Was Heroic

As you may have noticed, i've been off in my own weird world for a bit. And not simply because this one is so overrun with fools and villains lately. I've been deep diving into The Third Colony and getting all sorts of scattered things done...  Added a lost cave network, expanding the cast (we've passed 100 characters in the world now), working on scene renders and scripts, creating a dynamic party system (no - not handling members of your party as you trek down into a dungeon - handling guests, clusters, and conversations at a social gathering).

Don't worry, i'm not doing another graphic dump from the game today. Much of the recent work either doesn't lend itself well to that sort of thing, or it needs to be in the back room. (Like the current scene in work with Pairadax and Pink Cherry 'pranking' Kelly during her initial physical examination for Registration.) I was just rambling on why i've been cut off from the outer time flow.

Today, let's wander on back to places we've been before - sorta. Call it an Old School Triple or something.

We haven't run any Flash Gordon parodies in a bit, and we're behind on our Fan Press coverage - so let's combine and visit a zine we haven't looked at previously: LOC - Fandom's Forum.

Actually, we're just going to look at a few comics from LOC today. We should definitely be back sometime soon to take a deeper gander at the text and the (Major!) players involved. But, for now, let's join Tom Linehan as he brings us Flush Going -

Hmm...
Fan Press. Flash Gordon Parody. That's two, but i said a Triple, so we need one more familiar bit. 

Okay, we'll stick with Tom and LOC and we'll add in more early fanzine work from Kurt Busiek as he and Tom team for Captain Heroic and Side-Kick -
 

...but it doesn't stop there!...
 

It promises to continue, but did it?
Frankly - I don't know. I'm missing the next issue (#7 if anyone's got it and wants to enlighten us, or, y'know -Kurt, if you wanna speak up...?) and it didn't appear after that point so far as i can determine.

However, if we jump back almost 40 years, we can find Captain Heroic on Boom Boom Brannigan's turf... 

Hey! There's an Old School Triple!
It all worked out, i guess.

page art by Tom Linehan and ??? from LOC #s 3, 4, & 6 and Prize Comics #46 (1944, 1981, 1982)

Well, Of All The Wacky Races!

It's Sunday?
When did that happen?
(Beyond the obvious "today")

Seems i skipped ahead again. So let's turn to our favorite Funnies maker for some Sunday Morning Funnies to help us get caught up. Of course, i mean Ellis Chambers. Here's a trio of his comic craziness, starting with one that turns things on their head (once again)...

It's purely my own speculation, but i suspect that strips done in this looser style may have been the result of some of those infamous late night heroin binges...

(As we can see (or hear) from that second panel, cartoons influenced more than Ellis's visual style(s))

Let's wrap with another EC superhero strip. We've seen multiple Cosmo Cat stories, and Super Dog from Ellis. Here's his 'cousin', Superfox -

That one was a popular story, published 3 times between 1947 & 1958 in Daffy Tunes and two editions of Holiday Comics. (We went with Daffy Tunes for the original colouring)

page art by Ellis Holly Chambers for Daffy Tunes #12 and Prize Comics #50 (1945, 1947)

Worldbeater & Unggh?

A brief divergence whilst the brain reboots...

Do ya know Worldbeater and Unngh (and later in the run, JoBlo, the Martian who learned to speak English by listening to radio commercials)? I'll forego giving you the set-up just now - it's laid out in most every splash page below.

Originally written and drawn by Fred Morgan, the fifth tale was drawn by Maurice del Bourgo, and then August Froehlich took over art chores on the strip. (Fred Morgan continued writing while also drawing other strips like Air Male and Flying Fist & Bingo. (Don't ya love those names?))

Usually when i'm doing one of the features, i only use the splash panels. But we're going to go with full pages today, simply because the bottom after the splash often recaps the weirdness ongoing in the series-

Some Odd is more odd than others, y'know?

page art by Fred Morgan, Maurice del Bourgo, and August Froehlich from Prize Comics #s 38-48, Headline Comics # 15 (1944)