BATTLE OF THE BAD COSTUMES - ROUND 2

After an inadvertant hiatus, we now continue with our ongoing Battle Of The Bad Costumes!

I can't wait to see what happens this time!

Remember, I need your help! Vote NOW!

In this corner, our first combatant comes from the suggestion of reader BEMaven! Look on in wonderment, while the Red Bee as depicted by the great Lou Fine on HIT Comics #1, 1940 strides out of the locker room! The Red Bee comes to the ring wearing his original red and yellow costume, complete with horizontal striped spandex tights, a red burglar mask, and foofy, poofy, sheer gossamer sleeves.

His challenger, the Black Condor, as depicted by another Golden Age great, Gil Fox, from CRACK Comics #22, 1942, sports an augmented swimming trunk type outfit, with purple booties, purple 'wings/cape' attached to both wrists, purple belted swim trunks, and lastly his bare chest is covered (barely) by a diagonal strap, and a purple dickie...ahem...not going there...

Please help me decide which super costume is the absolute worst, by voting via leaving a comment!

I can't do this without your help!

So far you've helped me decide which costume is more atrocious, B'wana Beast or the Golden Age Unknown Soldier (to be revealed soon)!

Now, gentlemen, I want a clean fight...when you hear the bell, I want you both to come out...swishing?

Let the battle BEGIN!

DING!

As an extra bonus, I am including each hero's respective origin story, from HIT #1 and CRACK #1.

Please vote for the worst costume only, not the story! Thank you!

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From HIT COMICS #1, 1940

Story by Toni Blum(?), art by Charles Nicholas(?)

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From CRACK COMICS #1, 1940

Story by Will Eisner, art by Lou Fine

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It seems these two heros experienced wardrobe updates from issue to issue, so for no reason, I will also display some bonus imagery from various covers.

Here the Red Bee trades his striped tights for solid red.

Art by Lou Fine.

The very next issue, he is wearing solid yellow tights!

Art by Lou Fine.

Check out the girlish gams on the Black Condor!

Art by Gil Fox.

Art by Gil Fox.

Art by Gil Fox.

Keep those legs crossed...please!

Or buy some long pants!

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Did you vote yet?

Please vote by leaving a comment!

(PS - If you know of any other hideous costumed heros, won't you let me know, like BEMaven did?

Your suggestion may be the next bout! Together we can determine the worst superhero wardrobe ever!)

Thank you!

JACK DAVIS PAYS OFF "THE DEBT"

Original artwork posted at
 BLACK 'N' WHITE AND RED ALL OVER.
Story by Carl Wessler. Art by Jack Davis.
From IMPACT #3, EC Comics, 1955.

 

FULFILLMENT - The Mystery Revealed

Last post I theorized a possible story from analyzing the cover of INCREDIBLE SCIENCE FICTION # 31, from EC Comics, 1955. Upon re-reading the story, I believe I may have jumped to my humorous conclusions a bit hastily. There is more going on here than meets the eye in that fascinating Jack Davis cover. Two readers also offered their own ingenius interpretations, leaving no other recourse but to post the original story and see how we compare. Fortunately, there are only winners here.

Written by Jack Oleck, and drawn by Bernie Krigstein, here is

FULFILLMENT!

"Ra, Ra, Ra!!"

COSMO CAT DIGS UP THE MOLE - Plus, A BRAND NEW COMICS BLOG!!

It seems that lately the neccessities of life have been stealing all my Blogging Time, and while I'd love to be able to post fascinating and entertaining comics  each and every day, I have these things that keep coming to my house in the mail called bills. Now, if some of y'all can start helping me out with some of those, then I can spend more quality time posting those awesome comics you like so much! Do we have a deal?

Actually, some of my fellow bloggers and fans got together and wrote me a little note. It said something like, "your blogs are awesome, and your posts are nice and juicy, but theres not enough of 'em. You need to be more committed."

So I was thinking, and I...what? Sorry, what was that? Can you repeat that?...That's NOT what they said? Oh. really? I must have read it too fast...well, what DID they say?...they didn't say I should be more committed... they actually said I SHOULD BE COMMITTED!

Oh, well, now that makes sense! I always knew my blog readers were the most perceptive blog readers!

Thank you, all! I will endeavor to post more regularly, as soon as I get some help with those darn bills!

Until then, won't you enjoy this wonderful little post I have for you?

After you read this story, you can visit and bookmark the grandest,the brandest, most spanking new-est and awesome-est comics blog thats ever been released all day!

That's right! A new Apocolyte Comics blog! That means I'll have to start postin' regularly! Oboy!

Because I love comics as much as you do, and because here at THE BLOG AT THE END OF TIME,  I just can't handle all the comics I have to post, and because here at THE BLOG AT THE END OF TIME I may also occasionally talk about things besides comics (gasp!) so I made a new blog JUST FOR COMICS!

So, to sum up my 3 blogs:

THE BLOG AT THE END OF TIME - Comics, plus whatever else strikes my fancy...

BLACK 'N' WHITE AND RED ALL OVER - Black and white comics and artwork...

(NEW) APOCOLYTE'S WORLD OF COMICS - Comics, comics, and more comics!

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Now, enjoy this tale from COSMO CAT #3, 1946 from Fox Comics.

To learn more about Cosmo Cat, see the post(s) here and here at  APOCOLYTE'S WORLD OF COMICS, as well as at Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine here.

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Now, won't you head over and check out my new comics blog? I think you'll like it.

If you hurry, there's free doughnuts and coffee...

DANIEL THE SPANIEL - Funny Animal Comics From Animator Bob Wickersham

1946.

World War Two had finally ended, and it was okay to laugh again.

Soldiers were returning home, the 'baby boom' was about to go BOOM, baby!

America needed a good Giggle or Haha, which incidentally were the names of two comics produced by ACG at that time.

Today's story originally appeared in HA HA COMICS #31, 1946.

It's a cute little story about a happy little dog named Daniel (the Spaniel) and what he encounters when a family of Robins move into the tree in his yard.

DANIEL THE SPANIEL was written by Jack Cosgriff and drawn by Bob Wick (Wickersham), two names that are probably better known in the field of animation. Cosgriff had written for the very first Woody Woodpecker cartoon, as well as The Fox and The Crow short, 'Woodsman, Spare That Tree!' that was directed by his buddy, Bob Wickersham. You can find more about Cosgriff here, and some good information on Wickersham here, here, and especially here.

It makes sense in retrospect that animators would excel in the field of comic books. Here, both the story and the art work together to create the distinct personalities of each character. As of this posting, according to GCD this was the first comic book art for Wickersham (of course GCD's records are far from complete). I will be looking out for more stories by Bob Wick and company.

...psssst...

After the comic is another special treat just for you!

But you have to read the comic first!

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Here is "WOODSMAN, SPARE THAT TREE"

Directed by Bob Wickersham

Written by Jack Cosgriff