Great cover:
Also, great cover blurb!!
And for once, the cover is
100% accurate!
See?
It turns out in
Generic Town, USA, there's a grove of trees that no one will cut down!
Why? Let's ask the oldest geezer that we can find!
Well, that's a pretty good ghost story, but that's all it was...until
Hobo Namor a nameless tramp almost set the trees on fire!
That was enough to deter anyone from cutting those trees.
Anyone, that is, except for rugged capitalist
Mike Stone!
But things don't go so well...
Wait--wouldn't dynamiting them destroy the wood hat you're trying to harvest? Wasn't that the
point of the whole operation??
Meanwhile, in a seemingly unrelated plot development, Mike buys a suit! Just because!!
But maple trees have no time for clothes shopping!
Holy shit!!!
But...
Boo! I'm blaming the
Comics Code for that lame cop-out!
And so...
And that was the last time the
Maple Leafs were ever perceived as a threat...
[Yes, I know that is cheap and inaccurate joke. The Maple Leafs were quite good in the 60s. But really, it's only hockey, so who cares...?]
From Strange Suspense Stories #33 (1957)
I was going to make a hockey joke when I saw the title, but you already went there.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the cover is NOT 100%. Look closely at the leaves on it...
Yup. I decry the 100% accurate cover label for the same reason. Them ain't maple leaves.
ReplyDelete"Ezra Miller, the oldest man hereabouts". And yet, ~60 years later(!), he'd be hired to play the Flash in the DC Cinematic Universe. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteWhat, you'll believe that magic leaves can fly, put out fires and kill people, but they can't disguise themsleves by changing shape?
ReplyDeleteShape changing? Those dirty Maple Leaves must be planning to cross over and invade from Canada!
ReplyDeleteWe're both too close to the border, and now we know too much...