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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: KevinP on August 06, 2014, 07:06:15 AM
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I'm reading the recent download of BLUE BEETLE #37. I love GA comics, but this one contains errors that my 5 year old friend and future paleontologist Gabriel could correct. In "The Adventure Inside the Earth," dinosaurs are called mammals, a carnivorous brontosaurus with stegosaurus plates on its back is identified as a Tyrannosaurus, and a Dodo bird looking creature with feathers is a pterodactyl. In the name of Pellucidar I'll give them the hollow earth, but it defies suspension of disbelief when the cavemen they meet are ancestors of the three people accompanying BB - right down to the physical resemblance and even their names - only they can't be ancestors because no one has travelled back in time; the prehistoric world is contemporaneous with the surface world.The bad cavemen instantly figure out that he is called Blue Beetle. BB says at one point that he is "introducing 20th century battle tactics into the prehistoric ages" - but since when is riding a dinosaur into battle a 20th century tactic? (grabbing it by its tail and swinging it around a few times has tamed it.)The bad guys have a secret lair that no one has been able to find - except the "Tyrannosaurus," who carries BB there in his jaws. The bad guys also recognize the Sign of the Blue Beetle. The next page has a letter writing contest whose winners get to go with BB on another grand adventure. just like Virginia and Doug in this story - whose parents were never consulted and who almost got eaten by a dinosaur, a "pterodactyl" and some giant snakes, burned by a flow of lava and dropped into a flame pit. What fun! As Doug said, "This is better than books!"
As I said, I love GA comics despite, or maybe because of, the crazy stuff like this. Keep 'em coming!
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From what I've heard Blue Beetle was among the most inconsistent of heroes from one story or even page to the next. It does make one wonder how it managed to hang on so long for Fox/Charlton.
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I don't think it's public domain but liked the Connie --Frank Godwin's one page detective strips.I don't know how many were produced but they must have had some sort of newspaper run.Some were quite ingenueous.Thanks also to the all the artists who's work lives on in the golden age comics on this site.Some amazing art and entertainment.
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I don't think it's public domain but liked the Connie --Frank Godwin's one page detective strips.I don't know how many were produced but they must have had some sort of newspaper run.Some were quite ingenueous.Thanks also to the all the artists who's work lives on in the golden age comics on this site.Some amazing art and entertainment.
Are you saying Godwin produced another strip that was one-page detective stories? Or are you saying these were incorporated into Connie. I don't think I've seen either and I've seen lots of Godwin's work. It is my understanding that much of Godwin's work. like Connie, is PD because it was produced for the Philadelphia Ledger Syndicate that did not renew.
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NEVER apply logic in general to comic books!!!
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From what you say, Joe Gill {he was Charlton's main wrier}, but not this story.
Geo
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Answering an earlier question, at a certain point the Connie Sunday ran complete-in-one-episode detective stories I know because I have a number of them in tab form. The "mysteries" are pretty lightweight. The art is done in Godwin's older, more "design-y" style rather than his famous fully-rendered pen drawings. A bottom feature called "The Wet Blanket" is appended. Unfortunately there are no dates on my tearsheets. From various clues I believe they date from the early 30s--perhaps 1934? I know that by 1937 Connie Sundays had become serialized adventures in Godwin's mature style.
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Thanks, Crashryan. I'd love to see scans if possible. I assume these are in PD as some were reprinted in Famous Funnies (e.g. #7 has 340805 3400812, #34 has 340826) and not removed from our files here.
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Okay, I'll dig 'em out and scan them. I bought them decades ago out of The Menomonee Falls Gazette.
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Hi guys,
Just to be extra safe perhaps sharing them on CB+ would be for the best.
Thanks,
-Yoc
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Oh yeah scan them for CB+