Showing posts with label Lions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lions. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2016

How To Avoid A Marriage Proposal, Golden Age Style!!

Jim Corrigan has a date....but the lovely Clarice has an ulterior motive!



Yeah, telling her the truth is clearly not an option...? Because you're kind of a super-hero ghost, right?

"What a spot," indeed! How ever will you get out of this, Jim?


Ah, the convenient lion attack stratagem!




What a convenient rampage! [SPOILER ALERT: Despite his pretty much total power over time and space, the Spectre was not responsible for jungle animals running amok in the city. It was one of those dang scientists and their damn teleportation rays...]

Remember...the Spectre is this powerful...

...but he's completely nonplussed by a woman wanting to talk about tying the knot!

The key takeaway from today's lesson: when you're girlfriend is pressing for marriage, and you don't want to admit that you're technically dead, just wait for the inevitable lion attract to distract her!!

From More Fun Comics #73 (1941). Showcase #61 is from 1966.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Overheard Conversations--Our Future Leader

Yeah, kid, I'm Voltron...
A 5 or 6 year old boy, watching some young lions (5 months) play around with each other in the Lion Habitat at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, with wonder in his voice:
Daddy, are those robots?
You see, where you or I would see the majesty of nature, the noble beauty of the King of the Beasts, this lad saw robots. Lion Robots. Lion robots fighting each other in a glass enclosure for our amusement.

We have found our future leader. I will follow this child and his holy visions anywhere he might lead. Seriously.