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Hi Gang
DCM is proud to host new scans from
SteveD of several issues of
Fawcett's Comic Comics - each featuring the wacky humour of Basil Wolverton!
Steve has also produced an Amazing collection of
The Complete Mystic Moot by Wolverton with a very indepth introduction that is well worth your time.
Take it away Steve...
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The COMPLETE MYSTIC MOOT AND HIS MAGIC SNOOT: AN INTRODUCTION by SteveD.Fawcett Publications really had it all going for them. By 1946, aside from being a very successful magazine publisher, they had a comic book division that was giving industry-leader DC Comics a real run for their money, often outselling DCs primary character
Superman with their own
Captain Marvel; some would say Fawcett actually had the better stories, and the better character.
What else Fawcett had was
Basil Wolverton. By the Spring of 1946 this unique creator, who had already proved himself with singular features such as
Spacehawk for Novelty Press and
Powerhouse Pepper and
Flap Flipflop, the Flying Flash for Timely had joined the Fawcett talent roster with his equally unique strip
The Culture Corner in the publisher’s flagship
WHIZ COMICS, and, in Fawcett’s relatively new title
IBIS THE INVINCIBLE, spun out from a backup feature in
WHIZ, Wolverton introduced what was at the time—and remains today-- a rarity in the comics medium: a parody of the title character appearing in the character’s own book. That character was
Mystic Moot and His Magic Snoot, and for an all-too brief time the character appeared in Ibis and in Fawcett’s brief-lived humor anthology
COMIC COMICS in little four-page story-gems that featured everything that Basil Wolverton did well in his humorous comics, and then the character vanished like the mystical magician he was, never to appear again.
Collected here for the first time anywhere are
ALL of Wolverton’s magnificent Mystic Moot missives, from clean, high-grade all-paper scans, in chronological order, with a funny, exhaustive and fascinating introductory essay by SteveD. who compiled the collection primarily from his own books. We also have every issue of
IBIS and
COMIC COMICS that Moot appeared in, in their entirety (or almost in their entirety, one issue of Comic Comics remains incomplete as of this writing but there’s Moot there for you [If anyone reading this owns #3 PLEASE consider scanning it or letting a DCM staffer scan it for you!]) for your perusal, download and enjoyment. So let’s look back with disdain on DCs destructive lawsuit of Fawcett that put them out of the funny-book business, because we have here one of the prime cuts from the Fawcett farm that remains even today a savoury and tasty repast for any comics aficionado.
-SteveD-------
You can find lots more Wolverton on DCM in the following links:
BingBang Buster by Wolverton Collection (Lev Gleason)Culture Corner by Basil Wolverton, The Complete (Fawcett)Spacehawk in
Target Comics Vol 1 #5 to Vol 3 #10 and Vol 4 #6
Space Patrol in
Amazing Mystery Funnies Vol 2 #12; #18 ; Vol 3 #19 to 24
Meteor Martin in
Amazing Man #25, 26
Scoop Scuttle in
Daredevil Comics #12-20, 22;
Horse Feathers 001;
Silver Streak Comics #20, 21 ;
Captain Battle, Jr. #2 and
Candy Comics (Wm. H. & Wise) #1-3.
From Here To Insanity v3 001Dramatic stories in
Mister Mystery #7, 11, 18.
Weird Chills 001 (1954)Weird Mysteries #1 to 5
Weird Tales of The Future #2, 3, 4, 5, 7 (lots of Wolverton in these)
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