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tigers and traitors: classics illustrated 166

24 Friday Jul 2015

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Classics Illustrated, Classics Illustrated 166, Colonel Munro, Frederick Barbarossa, Gilberton, India, Jules Verne, mechanical elephant, Nana Sahib, The Steam House, Tigers and Traitors

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Classics Illustrated #166: Tigers and Traitors adapts the Jules Verne story The Steam House. Verne’s loquacious style and many of his scenes are simplified and compressed in this 1962 adaptation for younger readers, but the main plot and adventure remain intact. A British group hell-bent on shooting many tigers travels India using a steam-powered mechanical elephant.

Verne uses a historical figure named Nana Sahib in this story. Nana Sahib took part in the Sepoy Revolt, which you can read about in the text pages following the main story. (Today, this event is often called The Indian Rebellion of 1857, and Verne’s original narrative refers specifically to events in Cawnpore and Lucknow.) Nana Sahib’s fate following the revolt remains a mystery, and Verne takes that mystery as the starting point for this fictional adventure.

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As a tale of two cultures, The Steam House seems to favor the British imperialists as the heroes of the narrative. In the original text, Verne spends a bit more time exploring the culture and religious beliefs of India as encountered on the journey. Verne’s original description of the Sepoy Revolt also spends time describing the horrors committed by both sides. But, his scenes which build sympathy for the Indian characters are largely eliminated in this adaptation. And, as a work of historical fiction, one can hardly fault The Steam House for portraying the British as the victors of the central conflict.

Nevertheless, a student of the culture and music of India will undoubtedly find this adaptation sadly one-sided. If the treatment of Indian characters and the wanton slaughter of animals for sport are offensive, then we should perhaps reserve our offense not for the book but for histories of exploitation and the attitudes of the ruling class which Verne portrays in this story. In the final panel, ending the life of an Indian man is counted towards a goal of murdering 50 tigers, a statement which says less about the ferocity of the killed man than it does a colonialist attitude that the men they ruled were no better than beasts.

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The story also has little use for women other than as motivating factors for male revenge, with Colonel Munro and Nana Sahib each having sworn vengeance for killing the other’s wife. If you’re looking for a strong female lead, you won’t find her in this book. The steam house is a boys’ club on wheels, a glorified version of a fort or treehouse with a ‘no girls allowed’ sign hanging on the door. (Plus, the back-up story about a German king in this issue fails to include a single female anywhere in the story, not even in faces in the background.)

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But, as lovers of the visual splendor of comic book art, our biggest criticism of the adaptation is the lack of huge, awesome panels dedicated to the majesty of the mechanical elephant. Surely the wonder of this steam-powered beast merits the reader’s and the artist’s attention, not to mention the savagely ironic imperial subversion of the form of the welcoming elephant-like Indian god Ganesha for use as a tool to trample and ravage the continent, its animals, and its people. (For a modern take on the mechanical elephant, visit the page of the French theme park full of mechanical animals, including a giant walking, rideable elephant that sprays water from its trunk: Les Machines de L’Île.)

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Gilberton Company, the Classics Illustrated publisher, printed this book three times: in 1962 (identified as HRN 165), 1964 (HRN 167), and 1966 (also HRN 167). You can find them in MyComicShop, though they are rarely in stock. We ordered this copy from a Canadian seller on eBay at a steeply discounted price due to the torn cover. Depending on condition, this comic typically retails for $6 to $30 or more. (We also discovered some unrelated illustrated adaptations of the story, one in Spanish and one in Turkish, but we have yet to see those publications.)

In the gallery below, you will find a cover-to-cover scan of the complete issue, including a brief biography of Jules Verne, a text page about the Sepoy Revolt, a text page which concludes a short story by Guy de Maupassant, and a five-page illustrated history of the German king Frederick Barbarossa.



















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Enclosed in a Globe of Pure Force is a Submicroscopic Insect!

13 Monday Jan 2014

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Bob Powell, first issue, golden age, jet powers, magazine enterprises, meteor, wasp

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This panel comes from Jet Powers #1; Magazine Enterprises, 1950.
The Thing in the Meteor.
Artwork by Bob Powell.

Bob Powell’s work also appeared in the first issue of Race to the Moon, in the stories The Invasion and Disc Jockey.

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Jukebox Comics: Jazz Biographies

26 Thursday Dec 2013

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Famous Funnies, golden age, Jazz, Jazz Comics, Jukebox, Jukebox Comics, music

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We ran these biographical jazz comics from 1948’s Jukebox by Famous Funnies as a series in our first year here on Mars, but you might have missed them. Now you can read them all in one post!

Retailers don’t often carry these in stock, although you can find a few issues on eBay every now and then. We are so grateful to the Digital Comic Museum for these scans!

 













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I Saw the End of the World!

27 Sunday Oct 2013

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What a great page from Steve Ditko! The rest of this issue of Strange Tales is pretty awesome, too – a personal favorite of ours. Jack Kirby and giant ants to lead off!

Collectors’s Guide:
– From Strange Tales #73; Marvel, 1960

Prototype issue (Ant-Man). “Grottu, King of the Insects!” with pencils by Jack Kirby; “I Saw the End of the World!” with art by Steve Ditko; “I Was Captured By the Mole Men!” with art by Don Heck; “I Am a Walking Time Bomb” with art by Paul Reinman; plus a two-page text story, “The Tree.” Kirby cover pencils. Cover price $0.10.









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I Was Trapped in the Nightmare World!

26 Saturday Oct 2013

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Collector’s Guide:
– From Strange Tales #74; Marvel, 1960.

“Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!” with pencils by Jack Kirby; “Beware the Hands of Hundu” (art by Don Heck?); “I Was Trapped in the Nightmare World” with art by Paul Reinman; “When the Totem Walks!” with art by Steve Ditko; and a two-page text story, “The Whirlpool of Gairloch.” Kirby cover pencils. Cover price $0.10.









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From Here to Insanity: 20,000 Lugs under the Sea, by Julius Vermin

15 Thursday Aug 2013

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20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Charlton comics, Comet Feldmeyer, From Here to Insanity, giant squid, golden age, Jack Kirby, Julius Vermin

from here to insanity - (2)You have enjoyed our 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea posts featuring the Moby Books adaptations and Pablo Marcos artwork. Now, let’s just keep proving that Jack Kirby did it all – including a giant squid! Today you will find in our gallery a six-page story from 1955, published by Charlton Comics, that spoofs the Jules Verne classic.

Just for fun, we threw in a one-page superhero spoof from Uncle Jack, too: Comet Feldmeyer and his lovable companion The Electronic Nuisance! Consider yourself a major geek if you get the “Dial M for Myrtle” comics reference, and move to the head of the class.

Collector’s Guide:
– from From Here to Insanity #11; Charlton, 1955.
All art by Jack Kirby other than four pages out of the 68-page issue.

Underwater adventures also await you in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!




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Jack Kirby’s Captain 3-D!

13 Tuesday Aug 2013

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Captain 3D, golden age, Harvey Comics, Jack Kirby

One of our guest bloggers, Kandou Erik, covered Captain 3-D by Jack Kirby for us in detail. We refer you to that post! Since then, we found scans of the entire issue you might like to see. Enjoy!

Collector’s Guide:
– From Captain 3-D #1; Harvey, 1953.
Pencils by Jack Kirby; Inks by Steve Ditko.













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The Scorn of the Faceless People!

11 Sunday Aug 2013

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Bill Draut, Black Magic, dreams, golden age, Headline Publications, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Mort Meskin

mars logo strange world of your dreamsIn this nearly forgotten issue of Black Magic from 1950, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby again tackled a subject of great interest to them in those years: dreams.

Mort Meskin and Bill Draut also contribute to this issue. We saw their work alongside Kirby & Simon in Strange World of Your Dreams and other golden age gems.

Collector’s Guide:
The first three issues of Black Magic are now collected in a Kindle version!
– Originally from Black Magic Vol. 1, #2
Headline Publications, Dec. 1950
Produced by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

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Cover art by Jack Kirby. The Scorn of the Faceless People!, art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; dream analysis story. The Cheerful Old Lady in Black!, art by Mort Meskin. The Cloak!, art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; Paul Darvas orders a new cloak, only to receive a cursed cloak from Asmodeus himself. Out of Your Mind text story. I’ve Seen You Before, art by Bruno Premiani. Yesterday You Died!, art by Bill Draut; When Grace Hanley is looking to buy a house she sees a ghostly image of a murder that has yet to happen in that house. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price

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Fear Walks on Four Feet!

25 Thursday Jul 2013

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mars logo dinosaurSo many things work against this piece of golden age nonsense: disastrous dinosaur depictions, colors fading into putridity, and lots of development to squeeze into four pages. Somehow, they pull it off. This is Bernard Krigstein, isn’t it?

If not, then it’s Paul Reinman, who did the artwork on the totally terrifying… Laundry Machines?

Oh dear god… those shirts! They’re… cleaning themselves! NNNOOOOOOOOO

One thing is for sure: First panel, Final page of the story. That is none other than the Free States Leader in DMZ! Yeah! That might be one we want to paint. The Free States Rising chapter of DMZ is one of our all-time favorite story arcs.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Strange Tales #61; Marvel, 1958.

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Alarming Tales 1: The Cadmus Seed by Jack Kirby!

14 Sunday Jul 2013

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In 1957 and 1958, Jack Kirby created artwork for Harvey’s six-issue series Alarming Tales. These hard-to-find stories from the Golden Age showcase Kirby’s early flair for science fiction.

You will see familiar themes like Martians, strange dimensions, conscious robots, and alien worlds. You will witness harbingers of future sciences like genetic engineering and cloning.

And, you will see a few ideas Kirby revisited decades later in his original stories. Behold the walking dogs and rats of “The Last Enemy” who resemble the animalistic characters of Kamandi, and a flying chair that would get an upgrade to seat Metron of the New Gods. Enjoy!

Collector’s Guide:
– From Alarming Tales #1-4; Harvey, 1957-1958.

Issues #1-3 are now collected in a Kindle version!



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Mystery in Space: Astronomy Features!

25 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Last September, we ran a series of educational pieces from Mystery in Space. After we collected Giants of the Telescope, Our Amazing Universe, and Our Strange Universe, we had a batch of astronomy pages left that didn’t fall under any of those headings.

They’re still cool, though, so we present to you the remaining astronomy features today. Enjoy!






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Captain Science: The Dark O’ The Moon!

21 Friday Jun 2013

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We discovered Captain Science in a Caliber Press reprint called Buried Treasure. They created a fine black and white re-print of “Captain Science and the Insidious Dr. Khartoum!” Love the Wally Wood artwork!

Like many Golden Age Comics now in the public domain, you can find Captain Science scans at the Digital Comic Museum. Or, you can collect the original issues of Captain Science.




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One of Us is a Martian!

18 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Al Williamson, Beware the Robots, golden age, Martian, One of Us is a Martian, robot, Steve Ditko, Tales of Suspense

One of us is a Martian. It might be …you! Come to think of it, we’re all Martians, here! So, let’s rock this Steve Ditko tale from the golden age of science fiction comics and see what happens.

We’re also including an Al Williamson piece called Beware of the … Robots! Yes, the next time someone complains about machines taking their job, you can confidently say, “Let ’em!” We’ve got better things to do!

Thanks to The Warrior’s Comic Book Den for hipping us to this sci-fi classic. They’ve got some great Al Williamson pieces there and much more.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Tales of Suspense #4; Marvel, 1959.





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Jack Kirby Crime: The Capture of “One-Eye”!

16 Sunday Jun 2013

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Early issues of Justice Traps the Guilty feature legendary collaborators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby producing “true” crime stories. The lives of criminals seemed to fascinate Kirby, and he would return to the subject twenty years later with In the Days of The Mob.

Collector’s Guide: The first three issues of Justice Traps the Guilty are now collected in a Kindle version!
– From Justice Traps the Guilty; 1947-1953, Prize/Headline.



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I’m Not Marrying Any Creature from Mercury!

14 Friday Jun 2013

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Carl Wessler, golden age, Jay Scott Pike, World of Fantasy

In this short story from World of Fantasy, a man hesitates to start up conversation with a lovely lady standing in the rain one night. But, the reader gets a glimpse of the strange events that would unfold if the man had actually worked up the nerve to talk to her. We don’t want to spoil it for you, but it involves aliens!

Atlas published 19 issues of World of Fantasy from 1956-1959. Stan Lee edited the series and wrote many of the stories. Besides golden age sci-fi greats like Joe Orlando, Joe Manelley, and Angelo Torres, World of Fantasy featured artists who would become big names at Marvel and DC afterward. Just to name a few: Bill Everett, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnot, Don Heck, Ross Andru, Jack Abel, Dick Giordano, Jim Mooney, Steve Ditko.

We haven’t had any luck tracking down a reprint collection of these. If you know of one, leave a comment for us!

Collector’s Guide:
– From World of Fantasy #2; Atlas, 1956.
Script by Carl Wessler, art by Jay Scott Pike.



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with this suit i can search out all the buried treasure hidden in the earth!

19 Sunday May 2013

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This would be a fun panel to paint! If this bit of dadaist adventure doesn’t deserve the Lichtenstein treatment, nothing does.

 
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Just a little something we excavated from the archives at Magic Robot!
This is off the meter in obscurity, so give yourself the blue ribbon geek award if you can source it.

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Jack Kirby Crime: Gun Moll!

19 Sunday May 2013

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Early issues of Justice Traps the Guilty feature legendary collaborators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby producing “true” crime stories. The lives of criminals seemed to fascinate Kirby, and he would return to the subject twenty years later with In the Days of The Mob.

Collector’s Guide: The first three issues of Justice Traps the Guilty are now collected in a Kindle version!
– From Justice Traps the Guilty; 1947-1953, Prize/Headline.





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Jack Kirby Crime: The True Life Story of Alvin Karpis!

12 Sunday May 2013

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Early issues of Justice Traps the Guilty feature legendary collaborators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby producing “true” crime stories. The lives of criminals seemed to fascinate Kirby, and he would return to the subject twenty years later with In the Days of The Mob.

Collector’s Guide: The first three issues of Justice Traps the Guilty are now collected in a Kindle version!
– From Justice Traps the Guilty; 1947-1953, Prize/Headline.





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Jack Kirby Draws Your Dreams #10

02 Thursday May 2013

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In 1952, comics legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created 4 issues of a unique series about dreams. Also on board for the trippy ride were Mort Meskin and Bill Draut.

Strange World of Your Dreams contained fictional dream-themed stories with an EC Comics or Twilight Zone vibe. But, each issue also featured one or more “You Sent Us This Dream For Anaylsis” segments. Lucky readers got their dreams drawn by Jack Kirby (or Draut, in some cases) along with an analysis by “Richard Temple.”

Collector’s Guide:
The first three issues of Strange World of Your Dreams are now collected in a Kindle version!
– Originally from Strange World of Your Dreams; Prize, 1952.
– Scans courtesy of the Digital Comic Museum

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Jack Kirby Crime: Alibi?

28 Sunday Apr 2013

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Charlton comics, crime, golden age, Jack Kirby, Jack Kirby Museum, Police Trap

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s work on Police Trap has been well-documented at The Jack Kirby Museum. The collaborators watched their publisher fall to pieces, and they found Charlton was willing to help continue the title. Police Trap #5 was the first Charlton issue, but it would only last through #6.

Collector’s Guide:
– From Police Trap #5; 1955, Charlton



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