Fox Comics Appreciation Thread! 20 20

[TheEyeSees]

Nice sleuthing P5!!

[Point Five]

 

I wonder if some of the Science #4 figures come from previous sources as well.

 

I never considered pulp-to-comic swipes but I bet there's a lot more of them out there.....

 

[TheEyeSees]

I know that WEIRD #4 is a DEAD RINGER for an earlier Marvel weird-menace pulp (MYSTERY TALES, March 1940) ... when I get time, I'll try to post it. Its even more blatant than the one you found, P5!

[Point Five]

[whomerjay]

Posted this in Skybolt's GGA thread but not here:

 

Shot with HP Scanjet 8300 at 2007-11-14

 

Have wanted to collect the run for years now but this is the only one I've been able to snag thus far. Slow and steady I guess...

[Point Five]

Wow, beautiful copy Ray! If you're going to start with one Science, that's probably the one to do it with...I think it may be the toughest of the run. Very nice!

[whomerjay]

Thanks Jon, hope to find a #3 as nice someday, but I'd settle for one that simply presents well.

[HouseofComics.Com]

Hmm, maybe down the line I should collect covers with Corsairs on them. That would be a lot of fun in a Black Sheep way.

 

 

[buttock]

Posted this in Skybolt's GGA thread but not here:

 

Shot with HP Scanjet 8300 at 2007-11-14

 

Have wanted to collect the run for years now but this is the only one I've been able to snag thus far. Slow and steady I guess...

 

[TheEyeSees]

Thanks Jon, hope to find a #3 as nice someday, but I'd settle for one that simply presents well.

 

Hey Ray,

 

Beauty #4!! I agree w/ Point Five, its got to be the toughest, esp. in that grade!

 

#3 will be a breeze ... at one point there were three nice ones available from different sources ... I think Superworld had one. Its also a great issue ...

[Point Five]

"I'm dreeeaming of a Weird Christmas...."

 

So I spent the first half of this year resisting the urge to collect the Weird Comics run....and the second half of the year collecting the Weird Comics run. (I think the lovely #3 I got from Ryan in July may have tipped the scales!)

 

It's been a really fun title to collect.... ...and not as easy as you might think.

 

Here come some recent pickups. Hope you enjoy!

 

 

 

 

[Point Five]

Thanks to Silveracre Comics in England for this book and the others to follow. All of the books have some degree of minor professional resto (seems like an odd choice of books to restore, doesn't it?), but really nice paper quality and eye appeal.

 

Weird Comics #8, 11/40.---Tail end of the Joe Simon era of Fox. I can't quite decide if that's supposed to be a bridge or a roller coaster on the cover. Love those colors!

 

[Point Five]

Weird Comics #12, 3/41.--There's something I just love about these mid-run Weird covers. They are all pretty much the same, extremely simple "Dart and Ace" compositions with bright flat backgrounds, but the colors scream and they are so purely dumb and cheerful. You can imagine this book holding its own next to a Superman #6 or #9 on the newsstand. Interior art starting to slide by this time (most of the Eisner/Iger artists had left), but still a couple of worthwhile artists and stories.

 

 

[Point Five]

Here's the splash page from the Sorceress of Zoom story in #12. Even in a Fox book, it's not every splash page that features a woman whipping a half-naked man and then stabbing him through the chest...

 

[BangZoom]

 

 

Nice pickups, Jon.

 

I never really noticed before, the kid's (Ace) weapon of choice is a baseball bat?

 

 

 

 

[BangZoom]

 

Great story.

 

Thanks for posting the page.

[Point Five]

Nice pickups, Jon.

 

I never really noticed before, the kid's (Ace) weapon of choice is a baseball bat?

Thanks, BZ!

 

I think Ace's weapon is called a "club" in the text, but, well, yep! It's a bat.

 

The gaps in logic in the Dart and Ace stories are just hilarious even by the rather relaxed standards of early GA. (Example: gangsters in a car are about to plow right into the Dart...he quickly uses his sword to "cut" an enormous hole in the road just in time....the car falls in....)

[Point Five]

Here are two pages from the Eagle story in #12. I quite like the artist who did these....he worked for Fox throughout 1941 and had a very distinctive style. Does anyone know who this is?

 

The Eagle stories had a very entertaining storyline running through #12-16 (?) with these two villains, The Beast and The Gimp, competing for various secret formulas and riches. (The Gimp was never too tough to defeat, as is shown here....)

 

[selegue]

 

Great story.

 

Thanks for posting the page.

 

"The Sorceress of Zoom" --

 

flashing on memories of the old days, BZ?

 

Jack

[selegue]

Here are two pages from the Eagle story in #12. I quite like the artist who did these....he worked for Fox throughout 1941 and had a very distinctive style. Does anyone know who this is?

 

The Eagle stories had a very entertaining storyline running through #12-16 (?) with these two villains, The Beast and The Gimp, competing for various secret formulas and riches. (The Gimp was never too tough to defeat, as is shown here....)

 

 

 

Omigosh. It's Eye-gor!

 

"I heard the strangest music from the upstairs kitchen and I just... followed it down. Call it... a hunch."

 

Jack