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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Mr. Wong, Detective





Mr. Wong was a Chinese detective who was a rival of Charley Chan. Boris Karloff played the character in a series of movies for Monogram, the first film of the series being MR. WONG, DETECTIVE. This story is part of a comic book adaptation of that movie.




















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Friday, April 29, 2016

Some Funnies From FAMOUS FUNNIES #17





FAMOUS FUNNIES again, or at least some of them. I didn't get them all, just some personal favorites. The Buck Rogers comics have been removed because of problems with copyright, but two pages of ads for Buck Rogers toys remain.




























































































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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

"The Brain Campaign" - ARCHIE'S PALS AND GALS #46




Jughead was supposed to be a "woman-hater", and for a while there was a secret organization of girls who tried to cure him of this condition. Evidently they succeeded eventually, since later comics ceased to depict Jughead as a woman-hater, and the character was shown as dating different girls in comics. United Girls Against Jughead has a go at it in this story from 1968. Art by Al Hartley.


Reblogged from http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com
























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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

"Poker Face! " - STRANGE TALES OF THE UNUSUAL #7




Another Kirby story from an old Marvel comic, nobody credited that I can see. Originally published Dec. 1956.

Reblogged from http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/














"Poker Face!":
http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/886



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