From Action Comics #458 (1976)
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Lex Luthor Is A Terrible Hypnotist!!
It's really too stupid complicated to explain here...
...but Lex Luthor is trying to get Black Canary and Green Arrow to kill each other!
How?
But it turns out that Lex picked the wrong JLAer to hypnotize!
What the how, now?!?
Hells, yeah. So stand by for several pages of Dinah kicking Luthor's bald ass!
Sadly, Luthor used to invisibility watch to escape. But on the good side, that was enough to break the spell!!
Awww...
From Action Comics #458 (1976)
From Action Comics #458 (1976)
Monday, January 29, 2018
Manic Monday Triple Overtime--The Fakest of Fake News!!
Reminder: Sandra Knight's father is a U.S. Senator...
Unfortunately...
So what gives?
WHAT?!?!? And they don't even have a blue checkmark!
But first, a trip to the appliance store!
But their investigation provides a seemingly impossible result:
Yup--in the sky, which was the internet of the 1940s!!
Good thing the Knight family is filthy rich, and has their own plane!
Bad guys always give themselves away!
To to go all Vice-Admiral Holdo on them!
Dang, that's cold, Sandra.
Anyway, the culprit turned out to be dad's campaign manger, because Senator Knight was just to damn incorruptible!
So, if you're going to try to scam an election, A) pick a senator who doesn't have a super-hero for a daughter, and B) make sure you have parachutes!!
From Phantom Lady #20 (1948)
Anyway, the culprit turned out to be dad's campaign manger, because Senator Knight was just to damn incorruptible!
So, if you're going to try to scam an election, A) pick a senator who doesn't have a super-hero for a daughter, and B) make sure you have parachutes!!
From Phantom Lady #20 (1948)
Manic Monday Bonus--War is Hell(ishly Expensive)!
Nick Fury is gonna tell us why WWII was so damned expensive!
Keep buying those war bonds, kids!!
From Sgt. Fury #3 (1963)
From Sgt. Fury #3 (1963)
Manic Monday--Jim Rockford And The Angry Square Inch?!?
Of all the great, ridiculous comic book ad scams, this may have been the greatest:
$1 for one square inch of Florida property?!?! Sign me up!!
You have to wonder if this was a total scam, or there really was some bit of land tucked away in the back of a swamp somewhere. 1 acre of land would translate to 6,222,649 square inches. So that would be a cool $6 million--plus you made the suckers pay for their own stamps!!
But of course it wasn't real, and certainly no more legally enforceable than buying a piece of the moon.
But what if it were real? And what if, years later, everyone who had purchased a square inch as a kid began to meet with a grisly fate? And it turned out the land was now valuable, because they discovered oil or uranium, or it's where the cartel hid a huge parcel of drugs and they have to secure the land before the developers do, and the last holdout won't sell and hires Jim Rockford to investigate and...
This is why I'm not allowed to write TV series re-launches based on old comic book ads.
From Tarzan #257 (1977)
You have to wonder if this was a total scam, or there really was some bit of land tucked away in the back of a swamp somewhere. 1 acre of land would translate to 6,222,649 square inches. So that would be a cool $6 million--plus you made the suckers pay for their own stamps!!
But of course it wasn't real, and certainly no more legally enforceable than buying a piece of the moon.
But what if it were real? And what if, years later, everyone who had purchased a square inch as a kid began to meet with a grisly fate? And it turned out the land was now valuable, because they discovered oil or uranium, or it's where the cartel hid a huge parcel of drugs and they have to secure the land before the developers do, and the last holdout won't sell and hires Jim Rockford to investigate and...
This is why I'm not allowed to write TV series re-launches based on old comic book ads.
From Tarzan #257 (1977)
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Superman's High-Iron Diet
Lois has just made a donation to the Brentwood Rehabilitation Home, a sort of private juvie for "incorrigible boys," which cares for them and teaches them useful trades.
Ah, but Clark has heard rumors that it's not such a nice place--and it turns out he's right! They're running a child labor sweatshop, with the wards forced to work from dawn until midnight making things the evil proprietors then sell in "other states," all the while starving the kids and using evil guard dogs (Black Satan!) and the like.
So it's time for Superman to bust up this joint! And let me tell you, there's plenty of dangerous crap in this "rehabilitation home":
Suffice it to say, Superman rousts them, Lois finds evidence aplenty to convict them (after getting rescued twice!), and a "swell" superintendent is put on charge of the home.
But now where will Kal-El find hot poker and anvils to eat?!?
From Action Comics #27 (1940)
Ah, but Clark has heard rumors that it's not such a nice place--and it turns out he's right! They're running a child labor sweatshop, with the wards forced to work from dawn until midnight making things the evil proprietors then sell in "other states," all the while starving the kids and using evil guard dogs (Black Satan!) and the like.
So it's time for Superman to bust up this joint! And let me tell you, there's plenty of dangerous crap in this "rehabilitation home":
But now where will Kal-El find hot poker and anvils to eat?!?
From Action Comics #27 (1940)
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Bold Fashion Choics--Some Soldiers Get To Break The Rules!!
A sergeant is lecturing his fresh troops on the importance of wearing your uniform properly:
But...
Cue George Baker Selection's Little Green Bag...
True dat.
From Sgt. Fury #3 (1963)
From Sgt. Fury #3 (1963)
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