From the deep of the sea, Octopus Delight

[Scrooge]

Allright, we were wondering a while ago how many Octopus covers there could be and since I like a challenge, I can confirm that there were a few more than we thought. Cartesian as I am, I organized them in 3 categories: 1) Realistic octopus, 2) Cartoon octopus, and 3) Octopus-like BEM (more subject to interpretation so I probably left some out you would consider Octopus-like).

 

Post them if you have them!

 

Realistic: (including a few choice of post-code)

 

Air Fighters 5

All-Top 16

Blackstone the Magician 1

Brave and the Bold 24

Brave and the Bold 28

Classic Illustrated 56 - Toilers of the Sea (both cover versions)

Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub 2

Danger is Our Business 1

Detective Eye 2

Doc Savage 8

Don Winslow 36

Famous Funnies 83

Famous Funnies 215

Fantastic 9

Feature Comics 71

Flash Comics 44

Funny Pages 36

Harvey Hits 59 = Tales of the Invisible

Kid Komics 9

New Fun 3

More Fun 44

More Fun 83

Prize 18

Prize 43

Rangers 39

Rugged Action 1

Sea Devils 1

Sensation 22

Seven Seas 3

Shadow 30 = 3/6

Shadow 46 = 4/10

Shadow 53 = 5/5

Showcase 12

Showcase 31

Slam Bang 4

Sparkler 47

Speed 40

Star Spangled 68

Startling 16

Sub-Mariner 35

Super Magician 56 = 5/8

Super Mystery 28 = 5/4

Terrors of the Jungle 2 (=20)

Vooda 22

Weird Terror 2

Weird Thrillers 4

Whiz 115

Whiz 155

 

Cartoon:

Blue Circle - Hitler as an octopus!

Fat & Slat 4

Feature Comics 23

Four Color 336

Land of the Lost 3

Land of the Lost 4

Peter Porkchops 14

Lucky Duck 6

Mutt & Jeff 18

National 70

Uncle Scrooge 70

Unsane 15

 

Octopus-Like BEM:

A-1 Comics 61 = Space Ace 5

Adventures into Weird Worlds 3

Planet 22

Planet 42

Planet 44

Planet 62

Samson 6

Space Adventures 11

Speed Carter Spaceman 6

Space Squadron 5

Startling 48

Startling 53

Startling Terror Tales 10

Strange Adventures 6

Strange Adventures 23

Tales of Horror 2

Tales of Horror 11

Tales of Suspense 8

Tales of Suspense 11

Top-Notch 16

United States Marines 3

Whiz 4

[Scrooge]

[Scrooge]

[Scrooge]

[143ksk]

Excellent list

 

Octopus-like

 

"Octopoid?"

[whomerjay]

[shiverbones]

flash 44

 

[Inaflash]

I'm always ready for a good excuse to post this again.

 

Ken

 

 

 

[HouseofComics.Com]

OMIGOD, this list is unbelievable! I'm going to pass it on to the octopus/squid/octopoid collector I met two weeks ago at Wondercon. FFB met him too, at our booth. After talking to him a while we came up with the exact three categories that Scrooge did.

 

Here's what I sold him: Sub-Mariner 54, Looney Tunes (2nd) 11 and My Greatest Adventure 81. Since you have Sea Devils 1 on there I guess you can consider adding these to the list.

 

Marc

[Scrooge]

OMIGOD, this list is unbelievable! I'm going to pass it on to the octopus/squid/octopoid collector I met two weeks ago at Wondercon. FFB met him too, at our booth. After talking to him a while we came up with the exact three categories that Scrooge did.

 

Glad I can help! Please send my royalties check to ...

[rjpb]

Fantastic job Scrooge - I flirted with the idea of collecting octopus/squid covers many moons ago, and would have loved this list. Coincidently- the last of my Octo covers was just BINned

on ebay a couple days ago, so I imagine this collecting category has more than a couple fans. (though I'm guessing Shark covers might beat them out in popularity)

[TheEyeSees]

Here's a fun site that covers both comics and pulps...

 

http://www.cyrune.com/pulp.html

 

Its nicely set up.

 

I traded away my only octopus cover (DETECTIVE EYE #2), but do I get penalized for showing a pulp cover here?

 

[Buck Biggins]

[Scrooge]

Here's a fun site that covers both comics and pulps...

 

Thanks for the link. At first, my heart sank because I thought: "there goes my time .." but it seems my list is more complete as far as comics go than the website's. I love that he / she included pulps too. You'll never get in trouble posting pulps in my threads.

[october]

Looks like I have to post this one again. Someone said they never get tired of looking at it, let's put that to the test (I know I never get sick of it).

 

[selegue]

Octopus AND babe in flowered sarong *SPECIAL BONUS* pouring gold coins on her breasts.

This must be Scrooge's dream cover.

 

Jack

obviously wet since they're underwater

 

[selegue]

OK, you octopookers, it may not be golden age, but surely an essential part of anyone's cephalopod comics collection.

 

 

Is that an Octopus vulgaris?

 

(Just posted by Iltravel (sp?) on the general forum. There must be octopi in the air today -- what an image.)

 

Jack

[AJD]