Safety Sunday! (or The Captain Was A Lieutenant (There Can Be Only One))

I do believe we're overdue for an Un-Comic; it's been a fair bit.

For the unfamiliar, Un-Comics is what we call comics that didn't appear in standard comic books. They may have appeared in magazines, books, industry publications, etc.,.

Today, we've got a major comics star doing some public service work - Captain Marvel and the Lieutenants Of Safety. (actually written by Otto Binder and drawn by C.C. Beck!) versus Demon Danger and the terrible hazards of Kite Flying -

Don't you feel safer now?

There were three of these public service comics published in 1950. Next times, the deadly dangers of Climbing and Darkness!

Be good, stay safe, and take your meds -

page art by C.C. Beck from Captain Marvel And The Lieutenants Of Safety #1 (1950)

Saturday Solutions On Saturday

Our recent quiz might have been Close Enough to Friday, but i figured an extra day wouldn't hurt and so we're back on track for our answers.


01) Camp Comics
Not familiar? Perhaps if you were stationed on a military base in 1942 you'd have been more likely to see them.

02) Christine Baranski played the evil warlord in Fake Purse Ninjas -

03) In Orbit working to keep the planet from being blown apart while the Avengers were busy with Thanos -

04) Transylvania 6-5000

05) Viy

06)Need another hint? Maybe a closer look at the couple in the skybox...?

Did it help?

Here's where you can find Jeff Goldblum playing a lecherous disco owner -

And you get The Commodores, too!

07) Archer & Armstrong.

The picture came from Ninjak Vs. The Valiant Universe.

08) This -

Look - I told you to watch Harley Quinn.
Second season has already reached the midpoint.

09) Luke, Jessica, Matt, and Danny -

Y'know...  these guys -

10) Nikopol and Horus.

11) John.
While this first poster may be more visually striking, the second one features both Bark Lee and Clancy Brown, so it is clearly superior -

12) At the Toronto International Battle Of The Bands -

While scoring fewer points, this is also an acceptable answer -

13) Smoking Grass, obviously -

14) Jack Kirby's hand was on the sketchpad -

He was an anonymous Police Sketch Artist on The Hulk -

15) Cyborg on Doom Patrol chastised -

How does that make Literal Sense?
Jane's Silvertongue manifests her own words to use as weapons...

...so one can literally be impaled by them.

16) These celebrities...

...briefly. 

17) This Guy-

If you really want to appreciate the gravitas Peter Dinklage brings to his role in Game Of Thrones, watch him toss it all out in Knights Of Badassdom. The contrast highlights his skills. (Though you couldn't tell it from that shot above)

18) Kekko Kamen

19) Red Hat

Both of our silhouetted superheroes can only be fully revealed in our Adult Content back room. You can see them here.

20) Brodie...

...in the movie (and the band of the same name) Deathgasm -

21) Robot Bastard!

screens from the vids in which they originated

Feature Feature - Once Upon A Rainbow

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.

page art by Al Plastino from The Arrow #3 (1941)