I’m on a Charlie Chan kick 0

[Simon Comics]

Those Simon and Kirby issues of charlie chan are great. Some splashes are by a young carmine infantino. Great work

[Larryw7]

On 11/16/2020 at 8:44 AM, Chicago Boy said:

Were the Mr. Wong movies a rip off ? 

Yes. They kept Karloff employed during the horror ban of 1937-38, but most of them are boring. Mr. Motto with Peter Lorre were.pretty good though.

[Chicago Boy]

1 hour ago, Larryw7 said:

Yes. They kept Karloff employed during the horror ban of 1937-38, but most of them are boring. Mr. Motto with Peter Lorre were.pretty good though.

Thx. Didn’t know there was a horror Ban. Interesting.  

[Sqeggs]

15 hours ago, Larryw7 said:

On 11/16/2020 at 8:44 AM, Chicago Boy said:

Were the Mr. Wong movies a rip off ? 

Yes. They kept Karloff employed during the horror ban of 1937-38, but most of them are boring. Mr. Motto with Peter Lorre were.pretty good though.

I just read the first Mr. Moto book, reprinted by Otto Penzler's Mysterious Press. Completely different than I expected. Motto is a Japanese agent doing his best to bump off the hero, an American pilot. According to the introduction, the book originally appeared as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post and had been commissioned explicitly as a copy of Charlie Chan. I assume that in later books in the series, Moto morphs into being the hero. 

[Sqeggs]

I've got most of the S&K issues and the later DC series. Photobucket has become so nonfunctional that I can't find many of the scans. 

 

 

Edited November 19, 2020 by Sqeggs

[Chicago Boy]

3 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

I've got most of the S&K issues and the later DC series. Photobucket has become so nonfunctional that I can't find many of the scans. 

 

 

Those are gorgeous ! 

[Sqeggs]

I give up trying to sort out the pics in the last post. I accidentally posted the CC 6 in its original Brand X slab and in wiping it out duplicated the image of the book in its CGC slab and the other books seems lost in the wilds of PB.

[Tri-Color Brian]

26 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

I give up trying to sort out the pics in the last post. I accidentally posted the CC 6 in its original Brand X slab and in wiping it out duplicated the image of the book in its CGC slab and the other books seems lost in the wilds of PB.

I told you years ago to get a flickr acct. 

[Sqeggs]

7 minutes ago, Tri-ColorBrian said:

35 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

I give up trying to sort out the pics in the last post. I accidentally posted the CC 6 in its original Brand X slab and in wiping it out duplicated the image of the book in its CGC slab and the other books seems lost in the wilds of PB.

I told you years ago to get a flickr acct. 

But I keep hoping PB will finally improve. I know, I know, a triumph of hope over experience. 

[Pat Calhoun]

[Larryw7]

20 hours ago, Chicago Boy said:

Thx. Didn’t know there was a horror Ban. Interesting.  

Yeah, the censors in the USA were unhappy with gruesome material, and England decided to just outright ban the films, so the studios stopped making them.  But then in 1938, a theater in LA ran a double feature program of Frankenstein and Dracula, and it proved so popular they the. theater ran the films 24 hours a day. Universal saw this and did a double feature release all over the country, and the movies made even more money.then they did during their original run. Thus ended the horror ban.

 

 

[Mucheee1]

My wife loves Charlie Chan. Here are a few she has collected over the years with Charlie on the cover.

[Sarg]

On 11/19/2020 at 4:07 AM, Larryw7 said:

Yeah, the censors in the USA were unhappy with gruesome material, and England decided to just outright ban the films, so the studios stopped making them.  But then in 1938, a theater in LA ran a double feature program of Frankenstein and Dracula, and it proved so popular they the. theater ran the films 24 hours a day. Universal saw this and did a double feature release all over the country, and the movies made even more money.then they did during their original run. Thus ended the horror ban.

 

 

I never heard that. Great history, made even better with the photograph!

[BB-Gun]

I collect those Simon and Kirby covers. 

I also found three different Chan movies on Epix TV.  All are good detective stories but Rochester was probably more inappropriate than the Chan family.

[Hap Hazard]

Here's my Charlie Chan run and the two issues of Zaza  this title morphed into.

[Mucheee1]

A few more Charlies ...