In the Shadow of the Atomic Age 6 6

[walclark]

 

 

[Scrooge]

Great books guys I have that Atomic War! issue on my want list ...

 

Pre-baby, I had time or I should say the ambition to do more of the following categorizing of activities in Crime books ... but, well, I never find the time.

 

 

 

 

Sorry that the second panel is not showing as well.

 

One interesting aspect of these stories is that, as much as the critic of the comic books focused on juvenile deliquency and criminal activities, Law Enforcement (L.E. in the chart) was not innocent + deadly accurate:

 

while crooks shot 17 times, they killed 11 people, but, thanks to their training (?), the Law Enforcement personel in these stories was deathly accurate: 9 shots fired, 9 crooks dead

 

Still, there are 20 deaths (only one off-panel) so let's say 19 deaths drawn in these few stories, so we get a 19 / 56 = 0.339 deaths per page. In other words, a child would see a death every third page in these crime comics.

[frozentundraguy]

Interesting and detailed analysis on the two crime books. (thumbs u

 

 

#61

 

 

My earliest Gene Autry book.

 

#37

 

[Scrooge]

I think I need an intervention. I read a Roy Rogers comic today (see below, # 93) and I enjoyed it

 

Who had the coolest swag / collectible / merchandise? I saw a LOT of Roy Rogers stuff advertised in the books in the short stack of RR I recently got in the mail? So, did Roy have the best stuff? Or another cowboy? Would love to hear from folks that'd know more than I do as I have no clue when it comes to non-comic stuff like that.

 

[Scrooge]

Oh, and so The Lone Ranger is not jealous, here's # 31, the last cover illustrated in this style -

 

[BangZoom]

Who had the coolest swag / collectible / merchandise? I saw a LOT of Roy Rogers stuff advertised in the books in the short stack of RR I recently got in the mail? So, did Roy have the best stuff? Or another cowboy? Would love to hear from folks that'd know more than I do as I have no clue when it comes to non-comic stuff like that.

 

 

I would've guessed Roy, but a quick look at an edition of Hake's Price Guide to Character Toys lists only 11 pages of Rogers merchandise, compared to 21 pages for Lone Ranger.

[Scrooge]

BZ, thank you for running the search and The Lone Ranger would make sense :thumbsup:

 

From one to the other, I believe I got this issue of Dale Evans b/c, let's face it, how many ostrich riding covers are there out there?

 

It wasn't a terrible read either, this being a DC and all, though the plots are of the "same old same old" variety.

 

Nevertheless, I discovered something I never knew: Dale Evans was the first blogger ever!!

 

 

[Scrooge]

I thought the ostrich cover would get no love.

 

I have posted a few Atlas War books but not only did Combat Casey, Cookie, Combat Kelly waged the Korean War but so did Private Joe Burch and Sgt Mulvaney in the pages of G.I. Joe a nice long series of the Atom Age.

 

We catch them here in issue # 16 (Oct. 1952) and I assume the lady on the cover is Lilith, a friend of the boys who appeared before.

 

 

All the art I scanned is attributed in the GCD to Henry Sharp, of whom I know nothing, but I know that his art is caniff-esque and resembles in execution that of Harrison. I let you be the judge of the resulting effect.

 

Not scanned are the typical antics of the Yardbirds by DeCarlo.

 

The Sign of the Tigress story - The story of saving Lilith and her sister is sandwiched by the opening and ending with Mulvaney's view on dames.

 

 

 

Here we have a photographer coming to the front lines and finds a way to be useful by piercing through the Reds' camouflage -

 

 

 

[Scrooge]

A couple of weeks back, I got the last Lassie issue illustrated by Baker I was missing, # 21 -

 

[damonwad]

That's a great looking Lassie, Scrooge. I just read a few for the first time and enjoyed them. I'll definitely get more.

 

I just noticed the Dale Evans ostrich cover you posted. Another classic DC "riding an ostrich" cover. Second only to Detective #67 (Penguin cover).

[adamstrange]

I thought the ostrich cover would get no love.

I liked the ostrich cover and the exaggerated motion of the gaucho pulled off his horse. (thumbs u

[Cat-Man_America]

I thought the ostrich cover would get no love.

 

Trust me, Scroogy, no one on THIS board will ostrich-ize you for it!

[buttock]

I typically pass over Hillman books, but couldn't resist this white-paged beauty. The cover is pretty intense!

 

[sacentaur]

Super nice copy, and definitely an attention grabber.

[adamstrange]

Intense, indeed!

[buttock]

This one isn't nearly as intense, but I couldn't turn down the blatant racism. I was trying to think of which vintage comics have racist slurs in them. I know KDF 2.8 has a story where someone is called a "spic", and there's the Youthful series "Redskin", but they have to be few and far between.

[buttock]

I thought the ostrich cover would get no love.

 

I have posted a few Atlas War books but not only did Combat Casey, Cookie, Combat Kelly waged the Korean War but so did Private Joe Burch and Sgt Mulvaney in the pages of G.I. Joe a nice long series of the Atom Age.

 

We catch them here in issue # 16 (Oct. 1952) and I assume the lady on the cover is Lilith, a friend of the boys who appeared before.

 

 

 

Lilith was flashing leg way before Angelina Jolie.

 

[comicjack]

You can't anymore Atomic than this!

 

[AJD]

With these ones I have 10 of the 15 in this fabulous run.

 

 

 

[AtlasFan]

BZ, thank you for running the search and The Lone Ranger would make sense :thumbsup:

 

From one to the other, I believe I got this issue of Dale Evans b/c, let's face it, how many ostrich riding covers are there out there?

 

It wasn't a terrible read either, this being a DC and all, though the plots are of the "same old same old" variety.

 

Nevertheless, I discovered something I never knew: Dale Evans was the first blogger ever!!

 

 

 

Wow, who would have thought that the world's first online newspaper would have come out of a Dale Evens comic book. Boggles the mind...