Skin Tight Promise

We've got a bit of light fun today for

Written by Elaine Lee (of Starstruck fame, among other notables) for the 1995 Skin Tight Orbit collection, this was one of a set of stories put together under the premise of "Who said women can't write horny stuff?"

While the entire book was written by Elaine, each story in the volume was illustrated by a different artist. The three part tale, Promise Her Anything, featured artwork from Mary Wilshire, whose mid-80s work on Red Sonja is still fondly remembered by many. (Myself included) Among her other noteworthy works - she designed the iconic Blues Brothers logo.

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pages by Elaine Lee and Mary Wilshire for Skin Tight Orbit (1995)

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 25

So, apparently yesterday was Father's Day. Not something that surviving-parent-less hermits are generally prone to tracking. Nor something that sons of hermits are particularly good at noting, either. But it does seem to be something that girlfriends of sons of hermits are aware of, and so yesterday was confiscated from me. (But the food was good)

Back now, so let's get started on the new week with Gil Elvgren's lovely lady featured in Red, White, And Blue (Red, Hot, And Blue)* from 1966 -

Red, White, And Blue (Red, Hot, And Blue) by Gil Elvgren (1966)

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*(Not to be confused with the excellent Aids benefit album of Cole Porter music by the same name)

A-1 Weekend Funnies

Feeling like some old "Funnies" style comics, so let's jump back to the 1940s for some old strips from A-1 Comics. We'll be avoiding the main/cover features today - looking at some of the little back-up/filler strips instead.

Let's get things rolling with a quick single page strip with Dorry Dripple, by Bulford Tune -

Oh, hey! Let's sneak in an old caveman comic, Rocky The Stone-Age Kid, with art by Frank Engli. Four pages isn't going to earn him a spot in the caveman comics feature, but he can still rock the funnies here -

Ferdinand Johnson, of Moon Mullins fame, not to mention Texas Slim (whom we'll be mentioning soon anyway), brings us a short strip starring Little Mexico -

Another "South Of The Border" tale comes to us from the mysterious Macphail, a story of Inca Dinca -

Before Richie Rich, there was Teddy Rich, with art by Ted Miller (and son?).
Say... What was Richie Rich's father's name? (Actually, it was probably Richard and there's likely some numbers in there somewhere. (Thus spaketh III))

 For our final tale today, an 8-pager with both words and art from Macphail. This story of George And The Dragon, along with the Inca Dinca strip above, are the only two stories recorded in the Grand Comics Database by Macphail. So far as i know, this comprises the totality of his (her?) comic book work -

I find Macphail's style to be entertaining and wonder if there isn't more hiding out there, waiting to be discovered...

page art from A-1 Comics #s 2-6 (1946)

Saturday Solutions - Marvel Xword Trip

I usually wind up creating new images for the answers to most puzzles of this nature, but i liked the original enough to just try to clean it up to a usable level. The reason being that nice logo they plopped into the Hulk's space -

This week's puzzle came to us from the very first issue of F.O.O.M., back in 1973.
My apologies for not providing time frame for the puzzle yesterday when you were working on it.

puzzle & answers from FOOM # 1 (1973)

The "Other" Fly Girl

One of our ongoing topics around here is Fly Girls. When we use the term, it's referring to female comic characters who are aviators and, usually, adventurers. Usually, but not always. Previously we've looked at Jet Dream And Her Stunt-Girl Counterspies, Gale Allen And The Girl Squadron, Connie Kurridge, Flyin' Jenny, Canteen Kate, and Sky Girl.

Before we land on any others, let's pause a moment to look at one who wears the name  - Fly Girl.
The Fly was a superhero from Archie comics. One who was clever enough to think, "Hmm... Maybe a female sidekick would be better than a kid in shorts." And, so - Fly Girl.

For a quick look at the character and how she was portrayed, here's a trio of Fly Girl back-up tales from 1962, written by Robert Bernstein with art by John Giunta -

pages by Robert Bernstein and John Giunta for Pep #s 153 & 158 and Laugh # 136 (1962)

FF&G - Spectacular Marvel Xword Trip

As is likely rather obvious to anyone who reads this blog for any length of time, my mind tends to wander where it pleases, often heedless of my attempts to herd it toward my preferences. This week's edition of Friday Fun & Games is a result of that.

I started prepping this puzzle way back in August, during the first week of the King Kirby 100. Then my mind went off and designed that KK100 Crossword Challenge instead and left this sitting in the To-Do pile. Not entirely a bad thing - the puzzle came out well enough that it went off to the Kirby Museum and Kirby Collector magazine, but this old Marvel crossword challenge sat languishing and wasted.

I finally To-Did...

Due to the text size, those pages are double the usual width for easier reading when clicked upon.
And, like the puzzle says, see tomorrow's Saturday Solutions for the answers.

see tomorrow's Saturday Solutions for puzzle source (too)