Flivver Flipping

Instead of waiting another year, let's spend this weekend on the third (and final) tale of The Enchanted Flivver from Capt. Frank Moss and Frank Borth. It's another 60 page story so we'll break it into two parts - 30 pages today, 30 tomorrow.

This one is well suited to our times - we've gender flipped the lead, as you can see on the cover for this tale -

You didn't think that was strictly a modern phenomenon, did you? 

If you missed the previous episodes, the first tale was serialized into six parts:  One / Two / Three / Four / Five / Six
The second story ran like this one, only two parts:
One / Two
 
Now on with conclusion of the trilogy...

To Be Concluded tomorrow.

page art by Frank Borth from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact v21 #s 11-20 (1966)

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)

Mel Alert

Looks like it's going to be one of those days...

As you may know, Mel Tormé signals a lack of blogging today. If things change, i'll post later, but it's not looking good.

Meanwhile, for all the people furious at the rump in charge for epic stupidity regarding a global outbreak - there's an up side to what spews from our human prolapse: He's working to make it lethal to believe Fox news.

Stupidity Kills.

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)