Before They Were Fractured

As we watch what happens when Fake President meets Real Crisis and wonder how much better things might play out if we had an adult in charge, let us contemplate these Words To Live By -

"They're not as important as saving the world from COVID-19 and POTUS-45 but I can actually do something constructive about them." -M.E.

(M.E. is ALWAYS Mark Evanier)

Focus on your world close at hand and you can make good use of our current Down Time, and maybe even avoid driving yourself a fraction as crazy as our fake president.

(BTW - for those who are confused as to what Obamagate is since fake president cannot explain it when asked - it's daring to be tolerably competent and make plainly obvious what a complete and useless fuck-up our current 'leader' has proven to be.)

So, let's turn away from the ongoing effort to ignore and wish away the trump flu while hiding the death toll his incompetence has caused*, and instead lose ourselves in some more friendly twisted fantasies. 

Today's offerings come to us from the man who brought us "Comics" McCormick and the Minute Movies - Mr. Ed Wheelan. Here are a half dozen of his Foney Fairy Tales for you to enjoy -

I hope that helped.

page art by Ed Wheelan from Comic Calvacade #s 15 & 20, Green Lantern #34, Sensation Comics #62, and Wonder Woman #s 19 & 21 (1946, 1947, 1948)

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*(It is VERY worth remembering that Fake President is currently pushing for punishing those who mishandled the Trump Flu crisis (see China by his words) and prosecuting former Presidents for perceived crimes.
After all this is over, those are two things we should very strongly consider, according to his own words. Make America Great Again - Prosecute Rich Criminals)

That Time They Did A Comic About The Drugged-Out Cheating Harvard Athlete

My, oh, my - how things change with time.

These days a performance enhancing pill popper winning college competitions and breaking records would be viewed as a vile cheat and possibly a scummy addict. 80 years ago - not so much.

Coming to us from Harry Francis Campbell, the man who brought us Dr. Synthe, meet Harvard loser, the scrub of the Track team, Dash Dartwell. With a name like that, you know he grew up dreaming of running fame.

Fortunately, with right drugs...

Of course, when you're popping pills in public, you're likely to attract the attentions of the criminal element...
 

What?
You didn't think Cosmo Cat was the only one to take out bad guys like that, did you?

And so the pill popping and cheating continued...
 

Perhaps even then they realized the rather cringeworthy nature of Dash's powers. By the time we reached his fourth and final tale he had appeared in three different titles. Or maybe it was just that Centaur was on it's last legs and books kept folding on him.

Either way, here's the last time we saw Dash dashing -
 

Yes, i know - it was viewed more as a super vitamin rather than a drug. And science had a better reputation in those days. But it's still odd how perspective so radically shifts in just a few generations.

Let's hope we get some good shifts soon, huh?

Note that while Dash used the Human Meteor moniker, there was another...

page art by Harry Francis Campbell from Amazing Man #s 21 & 22, Stars And Stripes #2, and The Arrow #3 (1941)

Alec Could've Been Great

We're back with another edition of

Alec The Great comes to us from the first issue of Joker Comics back in 1942. Creator, writer, and artists are all lost to history, as are any plans they may have had for the character. What we're left with is an introduction to a character who might have been a lot of fun. And another character inspired to become a superhero by reading a comic book. (Always fun, eh, Mindbender?)

Meet the right man to clean up crime -

Nope. Not This Magazine nor any other.

But then, if he had, this wouldn't be a ONES Upon A Time feature, would it?

page art by ??? from Joker Comics #1 (1942)

Zorching Zimmy Zilch

Zing...

Zowie?

Zip.

zource Joker #11 (1943)