3-D WHACK!

Here is another 3-D comic book, which is also another comic book from St. John. This story requires 3-D glasses to get the three-dimensional effect. Below it is a 2-D version of the same story so you won't need the glasses. My advice is to read the flat version and not worry about the glasses. The three dimensional effect wasn't all that good and the fad didn't last, resulting in later issues of WHACK being ordinary 2-dimensional comics.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3-D Story - ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN #51

ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN was the earliest continuously published horror comic book. The earlier issues that are in public domain are available at Comic Book Plus. Issue #51 was originally published in January 1954.

3-D movies were popular in the 1950's, and 3-D comic books also sold well for a time. Usually these required 3-D glasses, but this story used a dispensed with the glasses and achieved a 3-D effect by a combination of perspective effects and the use of bright colors in front of a dark background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This story has a horror comic book editor in it, but he isn't supposed to be real-life editor Richard Hughes, who appeared in a couple of other stories published by the American Comics Group. "Gilda" appears to be Rita Hayworth, who played a character of that name in a movie of the same name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RED RYDER was a popular comic strip at the time. A line of BB guns was named after him, and he appeared in ads for them.




GILDA ( Rita Hayworth movie ):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilda


Rita Hayworth:
http://www.ritahayworth.net/




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