Showing posts with label Silver Streak Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silver Streak Comics. Show all posts

24 January 2020

I Would Have Expected Johnny Dark

Okay, okay...
You can have a real post today, too.

As you may recall, when we were looking at the line-up in Daredevil Comics, we saw Pat Patriot's first splash. Not this guy, who came out the same year (1941)...


...we're talking Pat Patriot, America's Joan Of Arc! Here's her first tale which accompanied that introductory page (repeated here for convenience)...


Hmm... 
We need an Odd Bit - they've been running light lately. 
How about this one...

Both Pat Patriot characters were created & written by Bob Wood (with Charles Biro on America's Joan Of Arc - the two using "Chuck" Woodro as a combination name) Wood is also the artist on the one-pager. To my knowledge, after deciding to use the name for the latter strip, the former character never appeared again.

Patricia's first adventure was noticed by TPTB, leading to a second...



Despite the seeming physical toll taken by her adventures, Pat was soon engaging in all sorts of excitement...



...even donning underwater Iron Man armor to battle a big octopus in the first story confirmed to be drawn by Frank Borth...



It would be decades before we saw such a spectacle again...



...or maybe not...

identified page art by Frank Borth and Bob Wood from Daredevil Comics #s 2, 3, 5, & 7 and Silver Streak #10, screen cap from Giant Woman Vs. Big Octopus (1941, 1942, 2011)

23 November 2019

Connie's Curious Cousin Ken?

As you may recall, one of the very first Fly Girls was Connie Kurridge, debuting way back in 1927.

Just over a dozen years later, another guy came along with a similar name. Perhaps, as was often the case, the same family name was given different spelling as they immigrated, and Kurridge became Kurage? Perhaps this is all a bit of damnfoolery?

Perhaps.

But, Joe Simon brought us Ken Kurage and the Solar Patrol in the second issue of Silver Streak Comics at the beginning of 1940 -


But, Ken didn't have Connie's staying power. In his second tale, Kurage became Keen as he downsized from Solar Patrol to Planet Patrol...

(Sorry - I don't have this one, and microfiche was the best i could find)

...and the following issue he lost both Joe Simon and the colours blue & yellow...


A couple issues later he faded into the aether, another hero lost in space...

page art by Joe Simon and ??? for Silver Streak Comics #s 2-4 (1940)