Suzie In "Stuperstition"

Suzie again. The Archic Comics Suzie.

Reblogged from http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2015/08/

A

Smarty Pants

Smarty Pants is another little girl character, something like Lois Lane's niece Susie. Here, she literally runs Superman ragged. Art by Wayne Boring.

A

Sally The Sleuth In "Narrow Escape"

Sally the Sleuth in another adventure from the pages of SPICY DETECTIVE.

The main characters in "Sally the Sleuth" resemble the main characters in "Dick Tracy", only the blonde is more important and the detective hardly ever pays any attention to the dumb kid.

I prefer it that way.

A

My Neighbor's Secret

Noah's Ark revisited by Jack Kirby.

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

A

The Flame Dragon From Krypton

Another story with a dragon from the planet Krypton, 'The Beast From Krypton" was published in September 1952.

"Flame Dragon from Krypton" from Superman #142 (January 1961)
Cover by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye with colors by Jack Adler (?)
Written by Jerry Siegel
Illustrated by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye

"The Beast From Krypton":
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-beast-from-krypton-strong-man-club.html

A

Sally The Sleuth In "Murder Mania"

Sally the Sleuth was one of the first comic book heroines, if not the first. Actually her adventures originally appeared in a pulp magazine, SPICY DETECTIVE. It was only later that her stories were actually published in the form of what we now know as comic books. We've had some of Sally's stories on the blog before, but it's been a while.

A

Fly Girl - The Picture Of Terror

Fly Girl was the girl sidekick of The Fly, which means that she is something like another version of Supergirl. Here is a solo Fly Girl story from the Archie Comics people.

A

The Secret Of Fort Superman

This isn't a story about Superman's "Fortress Of Solitude"*. "Fort Superman" is like another version of Fort Knox. This story contains a number of super-menaces that Superman was supposed to have encountered before, but I'm not sure if they all were actually in previous comics. Dragons were a recurring thing, but it wasn't always the same dragon.

Again Superman says he has to teach Lois Lane a lesson, and Jimmy Olsen as well. It's actually kind of odd that they put so much emphasis on that business when Superman really should be more focused on reforming the bad guys rather than trying to transform the people that are already supposed to be on the side of right. Of course Superman would also like to reform Luthor, but then, if that happened they wouldn't be able to have him being a bad guy in the stories.

Art by Wayne Boring.

*Doc Savage had it first, in the pulp magazines. Superman borrowed a number of elements from Doc Savage, including having a girl cousin who helped out in some of his adventures.


A