Post your favorite Golden Age panels here!

[Shield]

For those of us who enjoy reading these stories; post some panels you've looked at that had an effect on you, ones you remembered thinking "woah" when you looked at.

 

I begin my humble offering with a panel from Pep Comics #8, September 1940. In the Sgt. Boyle story, the Sgt. is hired to rescue a U.S. general's daughter who was in Antwerp, Belgium. The city had not yet been under siege from the Nazi's, but it was expected any time. (Historical note: In January of 1940 2 million Nazi troops had been sent to the borders of France and Belgium, only for the attack to be held up until the weather improved. On May 10th, 1940, the invasion occured of Antwerp. Pep Comics #8 was on the stands in July of 1940, just after the invasion).

 

The Sgt. finds the general's daughter, and as he's carrying her out of the city he comes across the following:

 

 

 

 

 

Knowing a bit about the history and coming across that panel, that story and panel stuck out in my mind. Just thought I'd share.

 

[ft88]

I guess I always liked the ads for other books. Not in the same vein as the impact you are talking about but it always gave me a smile to see an ad for Batman #1. It may have been necessary to market it in 1940 but today I'd buy one panel for ten cents. From Superman 5 11 13 24 and 73.

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/5paper.JPG

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/11paper.JPG

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/13paper.JPG

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/24paper.JPG

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/73paper.JPG

[kryptonitecomics]

I guess I always liked the ads for other books. Not in the same vein as the impact you are talking about but it always gave me a smile to see an ad for Batman #1. It may have been necessary to market it in 1940 but today I'd buy one panel for ten cents. From Superman 5 11 13 24 and 73.

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/5paper.JPG

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/11paper.JPG

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/13paper.JPG

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/24paper.JPG

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/73paper.JPG

 

 

These images make me sick, I can't even imagine what it would be like to have a chance to purchase a Batman #1 off the shelf

 

 

Man, where's a time machine when you need one

[Shield]

I guess I meant panels involving actual stories, not ads for other comics. I can appreciate what has been posted, but it's out of context for what I was going for. Any others?

 

 

[aardvark88]

May have been out of context, but historically interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[supapimp]

I guess I always liked the ads for other books. Not in the same vein as the impact you are talking about but it always gave me a smile to see an ad for Batman #1. It may have been necessary to market it in 1940 but today I'd buy one panel for ten cents. From Superman 5 11 13 24 and 73.

 

yeah! i just love those kind of ads in early SA marvels.

[ft88]

Well I am an 80's reader and a Golden Age collector so myabe I am not your audience but I do like the interiors. I could send you the X-men Phoenix saga, Daredevil Miller (227-233 not 158-181) panels or Batman Dark Knight story but I am betting that is as common as the comics themselves.

 

I suppose I am enamored with the nostalgia more than the actual stories and art. Though the art is more classic IMO though the stories are very slow. Here is one more, that, looking back makes me wonder when Superman stopped "jumping" and started flying.

 

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/605515/16paper.JPG

[Scrooge]

Probably not the kind of "whoa" you had in mind but this one jumped out at me when I read the book. Here are the crooks hanging at the local "swank night club" and in the background this balloon dancer attracts the attention of the party. This is out of All True Crime 49.

 

[rjpb]

Here are a couple I already have scanned. The first is from Amazing Detective 13- a Bill Everett series that I think is the best electric chair sequence ever done.

 

 

The second is from Batman 84, and should put to rest speculation on the nature of Batman & Robin's relationship

 

[Timely]

Probably not the kind of "whoa" you had in mind but this one jumped out at me when I read the book. Here are the crooks hanging at the local "swank night club" and in the background this balloon dancer attracts the attention of the party. This is out of All True Crime 49.

 

 

Reminds me of cover to Bold Stories #1

 

Timely

[supapimp]

[Zonker]

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[Arty]

[ghoulaid]

I like this panel because rarely did comics refer to themselves:

[rjpb]

Thanks for reposting those panels - I don't know what happened - they showed up at first, then I went back in to edit a spelling error - and the images previewed fine - but showed only as text when posted.

[Lantern]

For those of us who enjoy reading these stories; post some panels you've looked at that had an effect on you, ones you remembered thinking "woah" when you looked at.

 

Sticking with the various themes that were begun by Shield, I present....

 

Two Fisted Tales #25 : A story titled "Buzz Bomb" by Severin & Elder.

 

"Turn your ear to the east! ssh! Listen! Can you hear it? A deep sputtering, roaring, throbbing, growling hum...DO YOU HEAR IT? Now look! Look sharp...up there, high in the dirty sky. Do you see it moving all alone way up there? Well, listen to me! You are looking at a...BUZZ BOMB!"

 

"A Buzz Bomb, moving through the sky of a bleak December morning in the year 1944! A jet propelled bomb, the latest brainstorm of the German High Command!

A pilotless bomb moving like a dumb monster straight on its course! A robot, winging out of Hitler's Germany to kill allied soldiers!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the tension this panel builds. Where is the Buzz Bomb going to hit? Is it going to hit us? Could this be the end? The simple use of Hollywood style zoom in to show the increasing uncertainty of the soldiers is excellent. Not to mention, the beauty of EC's war books is that the men in this panel really could die in the next panel. It was not like Sgt. Rock who you always knew would survive the impending threat. So, as the reader, you never really knew if they were going to be alive in the next panel or not.

 

 

[Shield]

That's what I'm taking about, Lantern!

 

 

Here's one that needs no captioning (Archie Comics #2, 1943):

 

 

[Shield]

And one more than needs no intro (Zip Comics #8, 1940):