Greetings! Almost two years ago, I mentioned on this board that I was developing a webcomic using Golden Age public domain artwork. As it happened, real life intervened and I never got very far with it. Which didn't matter in the slightest because it was just a bit of fun. However, now that I have a bit more time to devote to such trivial pursuits, I've revisited the idea, and I'm making considerable progress. I won't give you a link because there isn't one yet; I think it best to complete a sizable portion of the story before I start posting it so that, in the happy event that enough people like it for the weekly deadline to matter, I will never, ever feel rushed to the point that it's not fun any more.
Incidentally, if your memories are long but not quite perfect, I'm not that "American Rabbit" guy - I don't think he was having any fun at all. I certainly have no intention whatsoever of spending 40 hours a week producing a webcomic, because that's just insane! Though in the extraordinarily unlikely event that it somehow pays better than having an actual job, I might reconsider my position on that. But since that almost never happens unless your webcomic's a D&D rip-off concerning the angst-ridden adventures of a bunch of wet blankets who appear to have rubber gloves on their heads, it's no fun at all, and it's called Goblins, I might as well forget about it.
Anyway, here's what I wanted to ask. Since I'm using the collage method, my storyline is of necessity a wee bit random - in this I am indebted to Max Ernst, my favorite Surrealist and the uncredited inventor of the graphic novel (he created the first 3 - look him up on wikipedia if you don't believe me). However, certain sequences, notably the prologue, require me to find specific imagery. In particular, Hitler.
The Grand Comics Database is unfortunately no help here. Yes, it directs me to numerous comics from the appropriate era. The trouble is, this list, which was apparently compiled by someone with OCD, grants Adolf "character" status in any war-story in which he is mentioned and therefore appears in one panel to illustrate the narration. Obviously, the number of 40s and 50s comics in which Adolf Hitler is shown in one panel is immense. Could you help me avoid wading through an absurd number of irrelevant war comics by suggesting some issues to be found on this site in which Der Führer is actually a significant character in the story?
In case anyone's worried, my comic is in no way pro-Hitler. The backstory is that in 1945 the Nazis, in a last desperate bid to win WW2, hit the Allies with some sort of nuclear weapon they'd built in a terrible hurry. I was inspired by a true story about I forget which scientist on the Manhattan Project. This guy figured out that letting off a nuclear weapon in Earth's atmosphere might just possibly start a chain-reaction resulting in all the nitrogen fusing together, and begged his superiors not to test that first A-bomb in New Mexico just in case he was right. However, beating Japan quickly was more important than the remote possibility of incinerating the entire planet by mistake, so they let it off anyway. Fortunately he was wrong.
I am taking this very serious premise to its illogical extreme. The Nazis trigger an ill-advised explosion of such magnitude that it breaks reality, meaning that everybody now lives in a Golden Age comic-book. They're fully aware of this and not too happy, but they're stuck with it. Some adapt better than others. And since there's no author, it's a very fractured and random Golden Age comic-book. I am of course being very silly indeed. But, going by Golden Age rules, Hitler must be a significant supporting character. As the archetypal Supervillain, there's absolutely no way he can ever be permanently got rid of. However, he's constantly frustrated by the equally unavoidable fact that he's forced to attempt to conquer the world in ridiculous ways involving giant robots and gorillas and such when he knows conventional weapons would be far more likely to succeed.
Therefore I'm looking for comics in which Hitler appears for long enough to interact for a page or two with my other characters, and is of course in an almost permanent state of frustrated rage. If he gets killed in a really nasty way, so much the better; I'd like to make it a running gag that Adolf constantly returns from the dead for no apparent reason complaining about how much his last death hurt. I have no political ax to grind whatsoever (unlike that "American Rabbit" guy), so the use of Hitler as a character is just black humor in arguably poor taste. However, I will be portraying him as an immortal monster who never really gets to be the slightest bit monstrous because the new rules render him ridiculous, and he knows it, and that's his own private Hell.
So there you go. Volume 1 is well advanced, and I want to complete it, or nearly so, before posting anything online, for the aforementioned reason. But because the opening section has to be more logical than the rest, it's particularly hard to piece together. I need plenty of pictures suggesting that Hitler might be having a tantrum because firstly, his superweapon backfired disastrously, and secondly, he can't take advantage of the resultant chaos. So basically I want plenty of comics in which Hitler rants and raves and orders his generals to do Very Bad Things, and then gets punched in the face and thrown in a volcano. All suggestions will be appreciated, even if they aren't used.
