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Carnival Comics / one-shot
> Ad-Ventures at the Circus / Planters Peanuts
Script: ?
art: ?
Reprints from Star Comics (Chesler / Dynamic, 1937 series) #6 (September 1937)
Chesler / Dynamic / USA 1945
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Mint Masters and Wardens of the Mint of Holland in Dordrecht, 1674, by Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678). From his exhibition The Illusionist in Museum Rembrandthuis Amsterdam.
More 17th century masterpieces from this exhibiton at my PhotoBlog:
Baffling Mysteries / Heft-Reihe
> The Maze Master
Script; ?
art: Lou Cameron
Ace Magazines / USA 1954
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Mystery in Space / Heft-Reihe
Knights of the Galaxy
cover: Carmine Infantino, Frank Giacoia
DC / USA 1951
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Daffy / Heft-Reihe
[Poncho Hat with Drainpipe]
cover: Phil de Lara
Dell / USA 1957
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The title isn't meant to be as wanky as it sounds. The building taking up most of the left of frame is a pub called "The Golden Age".
Now I have to go and listen to the Cracker album for a while...
So here we go again! Another fun entry of 'Andrew reads old-as-dirt comic books', an ongoing series! :P
The story starts off with this scrub of a college-football-playing science nerd trying to take Joan (no last name because she was a fictional woman in the 40's) on a date. She then turns him down by saying that he sucks and she's already taken.
So Jay is all like, “Yeah good point, I'm gonna work extra hard today instead” so he goes to the field and still sucks, then he later goes to his science class and falls asleep on the job waking up at three thirty in the morning because he was waiting on separating the elements of hard water... yeah idk man.
Anyway, like a doofus, he lights up a cigarette in the lab to take a break, leans his back onto his desk, and ends up knocking all of those elements onto the floor, leading the fumes to cause him to pass out.
So he's found later by his professor, who rushes him to a hospital where he stay's unconscious for a few weeks. Then there's a few panels of unsupported scientific exposition of two scientists talking out their asses about how Hard Water is a real thing and it gives people super speed if Jay EVEN SURVIVES (dun dun dun)
But meanwhile in the other room Jay is up and about and he just happens to see Joan No-Last-Name walking outside the window and Jay's all like “Holy hard water it's that chick who said no to me!” and then without realizing it, he zips outside in... you guessed it... a flash (whomp whomp)
Outside Joan is all like “Woah where did you come from, also I'm going to the library” to which Jay is all like “nbd dude, I got you” and he zips over to the library and harasses a lady to stamp the book Joan wants.
Jay's then back in a jiff and Joan is all like “what the heck man” to which Jay responds with, and I kid you not “It scares me. I'm just a freak of science. Anyhow, will you go on that dance with me now?”
Despite all the red-flags, Joan says yes because this was the 40s... oof.
Later at the football field Jay is all like “put me in coach” and the coach is all like “fine I guess, btw you suck Jay” and then like Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man 1, uses his powers like an idiot in front of hundreds of people in the stadium.
Apparently there's no repercussions over it and no one else remembers this at all because the next few panels are of Jay graduating college and reading the newspaper about some crooks doing some crime stuff.
Later Joan shows up at Jay's place and watches him play tennis with himself and is all like “hey man, my Dad's been kidnapped, could you like help maybe?” Then as they're chatting, a drive-by shooter fires off a shot at Joan, to which Jay saves the day by catching the bullet mid-air!
Cut to the shooter walking into his hideout being like “Yeah guys she'd dead I shot her, no way anybody else could have caught a bullet and saved her, anyway how's her Dad doing in the mirror torture room we tossed him in?”
Cut to Dad-Joan who's like “gah my eyes too many mirrors! Btw I'm still not telling you my secrets to my Atomic Bombarder! Gah! Mirrors! Gasp!”
The crook is all like “hmm maybe if I go get Joan's body we can get some info” so like an idiot he returns to the crime scene, bumps into Jay, asks were the dead girl is, and Jay is all like “Huh... he knows something about something...” Then Joan comes out is all “Hello shady stranger, I'm Joan and I'm very alive!” Then the dude is all like “Uh yeah peace out” and bails.
So Jay trails him back to the bad guy lair penthouse place and is like “He crooks, stop your crime! Also it's me The Flash and I have a cool costume now!” and then he catches some more bullets, finds Mr Atomic JoanDad and hightails it out of there to drop him off at home before going back to the bad guy mansion again later.
(are you all ready for this to be over because I sure am)
Anyway he hides behind a curtain and overhears their entire plan to take a fighter plane out and shoot everybody on Coney Island while also kidnapping Joan and DadJoan again (this time v quietly)
Naturally Jay is like, not on your life! (but instead of stopping it right then and there) he waits till the attack the next day and shows off a spectacle of powers, catching all the bullets from the plane's machine gun, then zipping across town to stop the kidnapping. Then after killing his partners, one of the bad guy's gets away in a new extra fast getaway car that's SO fast that he can't control how fast it is when taking a tight cliff-side turn because Jay spooked him because he was just that fast.
Get it guys? He's the flash! He goes quick! He's speedy! So swift! Wow!
Anyway, the goon goes over the edge in his car, and Jay doesn't even attempt to save him, but instead beats the car to the bottom of the ravine to gloat about how he stopped the goons as the car comes to a smoldering halt. Classic hero work.
Then the last three panels (because there wasn't enough story already) Mr Joan is all like “man that Flash guy... wonder who he is under that helmet... he wasn't even wearing a mask or anything! I'm just stumped Jay! Who could he be?!”
To which Joan is all “idk Dad, oh by the way Garrick, you killed a man and your secret is safe with me! *wink*!”
Geez, Gardner Fox was a wordy guy...
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Dynamic Comics / Heft-Reihe
> Lady Satan
Script: ?
art: George Tuska
Chesler / Dynamic / USA 1941
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Mystery in Space / Heft-Reihe
"There's no escape! We're victims of the diamond death!"
cover: Murphy Anderson
- The Seven Wonders of Space!
(art: Murphy Anderson, Bernard Sachs)
- The Perfect Planet!
(art: Frank Giacoia)
- The Martian Horse!
(art: Howard Sherman)
DC / USA 1952
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Super-Mystery Comics / Heft-Reihe
Magno, the Magnetic Man
cover: Lou Ferstadt ?
Ace Magazines / USA 1940
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Baffling Mysteries / Heft-Reihe
Sinister Return of the Priestess of Baal
cover: Jim McLaughlin
Ace Magazines / USA 1952
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Space Action / Heft-Reihe
Unusual Interplanetary Adventures
cover: Lou Cameron ?
Ace Magazines / USA 1952
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Super-Mystery Comics / Heft-Reihe
> Mr. Risk
"A frantic phone call and Mr. Risk, the man who knows no fear, and Abdul, his faithful servant are put into a murder maze high above the seething city!"
Script: ?
art: Harvey Kurtzman
Ace Magazines / USA 1943
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Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678), portrait of Ferdinant Graf von Werdenburg (1652). From the exhibition Samuel van Hoogstraten The Illusionist in Museum Rembrandthuis Amsterdam.
More of this exhibition at my Blog:
Confessions of Love / Heft-Reihe
Heart-Break
cover: L. B. Cole
Star Publications / USA 1952
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Atomic War! / Heft-Reihe
Only A Strong America Can Prevent
cover: ?
Ace Magazines / USA 1952
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Alice / Heft-Reihe
Lost Rag Doll
cover: Allen Anderson
- Alice [Lewis Carroll] / The Lost Rag Doll
(art: Dave Berg)
- Alice [Lewis Carroll] / Rock-Candy Mountain
(art: Dave Berg)
- Alice [Lewis Carroll] / Alice in Bugville
(art: Dave Berg)
- The Tweedle Twins (Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum) / The Tweedle Twins vs. Horrible Groark
(art: Dave Berg)
Ziff-Davis Comic Group / USA 1951
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Burlesquedancer Xarah with purple featherfans and vintage inspired 1920s showgirl costume.
Wild Orchid burlesqueshow photographed by Raven Wood
Mystery in Space / Heft-Reihe
Who Will Be the Future Masters of Earth?
cover: Bob Oksner (?)
- Knights of the Galaxy / Lives of a Rocket Lancer!
(art: Carmine Infantino, Sy Barry)
DC / USA 1952
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Mystery in Space / Heft-Reihe
The Last Mile of Space!
cover: Murphy Anderson
- The Last Mile of Space
(art: Murphy Anderson)
- The Man in the Moon!
(art: Frank Giacoia)
- Interplanetary Insurance, Inc. / The Thought Pirate!
(art: Carmine Infantino, Sy Barry)
- The Magnetic Duel!
(art: Murphy Anderson)
DC / USA 1953
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_in_Space
see: Justice League of America #19
The Lone Ranger / Heft-Reihe
cover: Mo Gollub (?)
- The Lone Ranger and the 'Skeleton'
(art: Charles Flanders)
Dell Publishing Co. / USA 1948
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Super-Mystery Comics / Heft-Reihe
Adventures of Bert and Sue; The Unknown
cover: Warren Kremer
Ace Magazines / USA 1948
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Zip Comics / Heft-Reihe
Steel Sterling
cover: Charles Biro
Editor: Abner Sundell
Archie (MLJ Magazines) / USA 1941
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Zip Comics / Heft-Reihe
Red Rube; Steel Sterling
cover: Harry Sahle
Editor: Harry Shorten
Archie (MLJ Magazines) / USA 1943
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Baffling Mysteries / Heft-Reihe
"What is this? A Mummy entombed for over 2000 years bleeding from the Mouth!"
cover: Jim McLaughlin
Ace Magazines / USA 1953
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Fight Comics / Heft-Reihe
Rip Carson
cover: Joe Doolin
Fiction House / USA 1945
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Star Comics / Heft-Reihe
cover: W. C. Brigham
Chesler / Dynamic / USA 1937
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Web of Mystery / Heft-Reihe
> It Won’t Come Back Until Midnight
Script: ?
art: Charles Nicholas
Ace Magazines / USA 1952
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Dirck Dircksz. van Santvoort, The governesses and wardresses of the Spinhuis, 1638 at Portrait Gallery of the Golden Age, Hermitage Amsterdam
Star Comics / Heft-Reihe
> Advertisement / Star Ranger, Star Comics
Chesler / Dynamic / USA 1937
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item 22: fruit
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I've been meaning to do a composite of just my face and hair for a while now, I figured I would do one today!
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Punch Comics / Heft-Reihe
Master Key
cover: Gus Ricca
Chesler / Dynamic / USA 1944
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Dynamic Comics / Heft-Reihe
cover: Gus Ricca
Chesler / Dynamic / USA 1944
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Blue Beetle / Heft-Reihe
cover: Joe Simon
- Blue Beetle / Case of the Kidnapped Girls
(art: Charles Nicholas)
Fox Publications, Inc. / USA 1940
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Zip Comics / Heft-Reihe
> Advertisement
- Curtiss Candy Company / Baby Ruth Candy Bar
Editor: John Goldwater; Harry Shorten
Archie (MLJ Magazines) / USA 1944
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EH! / Heft-Reihe
"She sure is!"
cover: Fred Ottenheimer (?)
Charlton Comics / USA 1954
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