Saved By The Red Tornado

Sheldon Mayer drew a comic book character called "Scribbly" that was more or less a fictional version of himself. In this story the real and the unreal versions come face to face, resulting in a conflict between the cartoonist and his characters, the problem finally being resolved by the intervention of the imaginary characters.


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Sheldon Mayer's Scribbly 1941

The Red Tornado rides again!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This episode actually is older than the one I had the other day, I just happened to get them in the wrong order. Most likely it should have been the other way around, but that isn't neccessarily the way the Octopus works. Here, we have whatever comes to hand, and we are likely as not to get things out of order.


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Sheldon Mayer's Scribbly

SCRIBBLY From ALL-AMERICAN COMICS, 1943


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 "Scribbly" was a semi-autobiographical story in which Sheldon Mayer ( nicknamed "Scribbly" ) depicted himself as a boy cartoonist in a series of fantasy stories originally published in ALL-AMERICAN COMICS, which also featured the "Green Lantern". When a crime wave struck, Ma Hunkel drew inspiration from the Green Lantern* and donned a "Red Tornado" costume to fight crime, later to be joined by her two kids as the "Cyclone Twins".

I always thought these comics were pretty good, although the later "Red Tornado" - an android character who joined the JLA, much like Marvel Comic's "Vision" - somehow failed to equal the magnificence of the Sheldon Mayer version.



* Several characters seem to have drawn inspiration from the Green Lantern in the comics in that period, including "Wildcat" and "Little Boy Blue". Little Boy Blue even referred back to Wildcat having been inspired by Green Lantern, which happened in another story in the same issue of SENSATION COMICS.




 Red Tornado:
http://webcomicoverlook.com/2011/02/22/know-thy-history-the-red-tornado-ma-hunkel/



 Sheldon Mayer:

The Comics Journal:
http://www.tcj.com/sheldon-mayer/

Toonpedia:
http://www.toonopedia.com/articles/sh_mayer.htm