BB-Gun Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 On January 7th, 1929 the first Tarzan daily comic strip was published The first 60 strips can be read here. Link Nice Link BZ. It also has some nice Frazetta art and this really nice Disney Christmas scene. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 On January 7th, 1929 the first Tarzan daily comic strip was published The first 60 strips can be read here. Link Nice Link BZ. It also has some nice Frazetta art and this really nice Dan Turner scene. Do you have that pulp? Did you already show this? bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Over a thousand cartoons were released by Warner Bros. under the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies name, so the collection is far from complete. It's a good start, though. They are all uncut and unedited. I think the dog cartoon you are referring to is, "Hare Ribbin." According to Wikipedia this cartoon has two different endings, both of which are included in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. From Wikipedia: Censorship This short actually contains two different endings, one of them exceptionally violent even by the usual Warner slapstick standards. The "normal" ending, which was played in theaters and in earlier days on TV, nowadays is commonly cut from television versions (on network TV, cable, and syndication). It has the Russian Dog crying over Bugs' death and wishing he were dead too. Bugs then pops up and says, "Do you mean it?" and hands the dog a gun so he can shoot himself. The "director's cut" ending actually has Bugs shove the gun in the dog's mouth and fire after the dog sobs, "I wish I was dead!" When this short aired on The Bob Clampett Show on Cartoon Network, the ending where Bugs gives the dog a gun and the dog commits suicide was shown (suicide was a frequent dark-humor gag in the WB cartoons), and in a short segment before the next cartoon, the announcer mentioned that Hare Ribbin' had an alternate ending, but it was never actually shown (it was alluded that the director's cut ending was so violent, it could never be shown). The truth In both versions, it is revealed the dog survived. When the picture is about to "iris-out", the dog raises up, holds the iris and says "This shoulden't happen to a dog!", he lets it go, only to have his nose caught. Hare Ribbin (Released Version) Hare Ribbin' Original End I just noticed this cartoon in the Warner bros list. Do you have a link? bb Snafuperman (Freleng/Mar/3:4s) - 1944 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 Private Snafu - Snafuperman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 ... and this really nice Dan Turner scene. Do you have that pulp? I recognize the painting as being from Robert Lesser's collection. He identified it in his book as being from the September, 1934 Dan Turner, but there was no such issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 This striking cover was painted by Norman Saunders. Complete Detective V1#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 Today is the 75th anniversary of when Flash Gordon debuted in newspapers. You can celebrate the occasion by visiting: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEyeSees Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 This striking cover was painted by Norman Saunders. Complete Detective V1#1 BEAUTY copy BZ!! I am after that issue... there is one on ebay right now, but the BIN is too high for the ratty condition. Can't wait for that Saunders book ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Strange Tales was a genre magazine similar in content to Weird Tales. Seven issues were published from September 1931-January 1933. All the covers were painted by H.W. Wesso who was also the cover artist to every issue of Astounding Stories that was published by Clayton (1930-1933). The contibutors to this issue were Clark Ashton Smith, August W. Derleth, Charles Willard Diffin, Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Hugh B. Cave, Henry S. Whitehead, and Robert E. Howard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Strange Tales was a genre magazine similar in content to Weird Tales. Seven issues were published from September 1931-January 1933. All the covers were painted by H.W. Wesso who was the cover artist to every issue of Astounding Stories that was published by Clayton (1930-1933). The contibutors to this issue were Clark Ashton Smith, August W. Derleth, Charles Willard Diffin, Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Hugh B. Cave, Henry S. Whitehead, and Robert E. Howard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Hugh Hefner's secret identity as a comic book artist. Los Angeles Times Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Nice Link BZ. It also has some nice Frazetta art and this really nice Dan Turner scene. Do you have that pulp? Did you already show this? bb Apparently the painting is for the 2nd issue of Dan Turner April 1942. http://www.philsp.com/mags/dan_turner.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 (edited) Hugh Hefner's secret identity as a comic book artist. Los Angeles Times Blog BZ, That was a nice perspective on Hugh's life. I found it a lot more interesting then that TV show with the cute girls (The Girls Next Door) and mind numbing conversation. OK, I probably won't get an invitation to stop over and watch the Flash Gordon serials with his buddies but the show does nothing for me. I noticed that they mention Robert Culp in that group and I remember seeing him on Johnny Carson requesting Big Little Books forty years ago. I don't know if he continued to collect them but it would be good to know how many Hollywood (and Broadway) actors are collectors. bb Edited January 8, 2009 by BB-Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 They also had this St. John painting on the link you recomended, which was pretty nice. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 This striking cover was painted by Norman Saunders. Complete Detective V1#1 this cover is so great it is giving me a heart attack!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I thought I'd repost this here from the cigar thread because I think it's important enough to be repeated Happy, happy day!!!! Thanks eternally to 143ksk for selling back to me this comic I had sold him a couple years ago. If I Knew how hard it would have been to replace when I let it go, I never would have done so. Here is my long winded explanation about the cover I copied over from my flickr page, which is similar to what I wrote when I first sold the book... "A historic cover that has flown under the radar for over 50 years. At first glance I thought this was just a fun cover with a bad pun involving severed hands, Reading it over a couple times, I noticed that "Merywin" is a "humorous" racially stereotyped attempt at "Marilyn" and then I put it together, and that is Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio on the cover of this comic! This came out only a few months after they were married. " Thanks Steve! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Apparently the painting is for the 2nd issue of Dan Turner April 1942. http://www.philsp.com/mags/dan_turner.html Good find, BB. I checked that website in my looking around but the thumbnails were so small I didn't recognize the image as being Bob Lesser's painting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 I don't remember ever seeing that comic before. "Gorris Garloff Chinese Hand Laundry" Is the inside of the comic as funny as the cover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 well done mad style humor. The art is decent as well. Not knock your socks off, but it has the right spirit. I have not been able to find another copy of that issue for sale, but #1 comes up pretty frequently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 I have the pulp that this painting was the cover illustration and I've browsed through the Robert Lesser book numerous times but I never noticed the little elephant at the bottom right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
