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Suspended Animation Classic #215
Originally published February 7, 1993 (#6)
(Dates are approximate)
Two-Fisted Tales
By Michael Vance
You can’t go home again. What was revolutionary in 1951 is not today because the revolution succeeded. Risqué then, even Marilyn Monroe seems innocent now.
“Two-Fisted Tales” and EC Comics changed comic books forever. In 1951, they were startling; they set a new standard. That standard was adopted, and has now been surpassed many times.
Well, not entirely. The early issues of “Mad” magazine remain unequaled. Certain stories from “Tales from the Crypt”, “Weird Science” and other EC Comics are still classics. But the first issues of “Two-Fisted Tales” now being reprinted seem … tame.
An anthology comic, each issue featured four stories. In the second issue, five artists are represented that all became legends.
John Severin and Bill Elder’s “War Story” is set in the Korean War. “Jivaro Death!” by Harvey Kurtzman takes place on the Amazon River. Both use twist endings that were typical of EC, but atypical of Kurtzman’s later work.
Johnny Craig’s “Flight From Danger” travels to Germany during WWII. Aboard an 18th century ship, Wally Wood spins the tale of a man’s impression into the British navy in “Brutal Capt. Bull”. Craig’s tale of the attempted flight of a scientist to America and Wood’s adventure both fall short of the heights these artists were to reach.
But in ’51, they must have seemed as wild as Monroe.
They lack the sophistication of later “Two-Fisted Tales” stories because most ‘50s comics lacked the maturity that this title and other ECs would eventually inspire. In their day, EC would inevitably become so controversial that they helped trigger the near death of the entire industry under the pink eye of Senator Joseph McCarthy!
Genius has to start somewhere. Alas, genius never stands unchallenged. But don’t save your pennies for later, more innovative issues, or the complete series will never see the light of day. And, at one time, it was the light of day.
“Two-Fisted Tales #2/$1.50, 31 pages, published by Russ Cochran/available in comics shops.
They just arrived this afternoon. I should have purchased them long time ago instead of purchased too many pullips. Two more spoiled girls added to my family. Furara and Cinnamoroll. Absolute love. They're really floppy though, JP quality is always an issue.
An action shot of two dancers, captured during the Duel in the Sun ballroom dance competition in Scottsdale, Arizona. I don't know the identities of these dancers, but I think the young lady might be Miss Lindsey, and the man looks like Yo, whose story is related elsewhere in my photostream.
(Update: About four weeks after I posted this image, the identities of the two dancers were confirmed to be as I had suspected, by none other than Lindsey herself. But I'm going to leave the title as is, partly because I didn't know for certain who these people were when I uploaded the photo, and partly because it is late at night and I am too tired to change it.)
This station opened 1926, is currently being updated and made barrier free. This involves the construction of two lifts within the station.
Seen here between the higher U1 platforms and looking down onto the U2 platforms.
No doubt the historical substance of the station can't be altered. This has thrown up a 'Piss niche' which has been quickly and but only temporarily filled in (I hope).
Two Little Gems
Blue cheese, Burgers’ Smokehouse bacon, chopped egg, radish, tomato, green goddess dressing. ($10)
Stock Hill
Kansas City, Missouri
(February 4, 2017)
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The last two airworthy Lancasters, photographed at the Portrush airshow 2014. Converted to black + white for a vintage feel.
Monday, 23 December 2019: more fresh snow has fallen, so everywhere looks like a winter wonderland. A day to stay off the roads, I'm sure, but I have an appointment for a desperately-needed haircut later today. Temperature this morning is -3C (windchill -5C) and, like yesterday, we are under a Fog Advisory. Sunrise is at 8:38 am and sunset is at 4:32 pm.
Five of the six photos posted this morning were taken six days ago, when six of us travelled in two cars (which turned out very fortunate!!) down south of Calgary to the High River area. It was the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count for High River, on 17 December 2019. A few days ago, I posted photos of the beautiful sunrise that greeted us when we started the Count at the first location, Frank Lake.
Some years, we have a beautiful hoar frost to start this Count, but not this time. The only birds seen at Basin 1 were 4 extremely distant Mallards and 1 Grebe (Horned or Eared) that was too far away to ID exactly.
After checking out the outflow and the blind, we drove to the area half way down the west side of Frank Lake. Part way along this back road, the 'road' becomes a nightmare, no matter what time of the year! I never, ever go on it. Having uttered what a terrible road to drive along, my words were proven to be so accurate. I knew it - we were stuck in a deep, frozen rut with the front wheels in the air. After pushing and digging didn't work, we knew that there was only one thing left. The other car drove along the edge of the field to get behind us and tied a towing rope to 'our' vehicle. Thank goodness this was successful - just a shame that we lost quite a lot of valuable birding time.
The rest of the day was spent driving various backroads, and calling in at several farms. No matter how many Great Horned Owls one sees, it is always a real treat to see one. We ended up seeing six of them by the end of the day.
Many thanks, Jim, for driving all day and for the extra bit of birding after the count had ended - too bad that we couldn't find a Snowy Owl. Strange how our group didn't go to the farm that we always go to last on this Count.
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty" - Mother
Regardless, she was found strong, in her own world, playing with some stones and songs of her own.
The monstrosity that is the Cathedral Lanes Shopping Mall obliterating the view of St Michael's and Holy Trinity Spires.
These are the two wolves we gave the wolf popsicles to. It's cool to get both of them in the same shot looking the same direction. The picture feels a bit off balance, but it still seems clear enough to me. Only the paw looks blurred and that's because it's moving, of course. Zooming in, I could still see the one wolf's eyes fairly clearly, so I decided not to scrap it. It was a tough call on this one.
The reason we gave these two wolves the bottles and not the others is because this was the only enclosure that had just two wolves in it. If we put them in one of the enclosures that had three wolves, they would have fought over them. Next time we'll try to bring three so the other wolves can have a treat too. Then again, they're not hard to make. I'm sure Tonya might give the rest of the wolves some frozen water bottles before we drop by again.
Anyways, I like this shot because of how they're both proudly standing, looking like the kings of their domain.
I did some family portraits for a few of my very best friends this week. I directed the set decoration and designed the lighting of this scene using only one flash and several miscellaneous light fixtures.
Strobst: Lumopro LP160 camera left @ 1/2 and 50mm (with 1/2 CTS gel) fired at large white (improvised) bounce board via Alienbee triggers. The truck is lit with one work light and three other small fixtures.
Here are mine and my friends soda cans in Millenium pizza in cambridge, with the remenants of our chips in the back ground...
21st April 2018 -Two third generation Transits (pre facelift in front, post facelift behind) parked on Bittern Road, Sowton Industrial Estate, Exeter, UK.