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The above image is one of my favourite WALLY WOOD covers ever, partly because it reminds me of four different houses. I first saw it (and read the contents) back in the '60s while we were visiting friends who lived across the street from where we'd once lived some years before. So not only does it conjure up memories of two houses in my old neighbourhood, but also the one in which I was living in at the time. I also associate it with my present abode because I bought an ALAN CLASS comic in the '70s which bore the same cover illo.
However, ignore my personal reminiscences - no doubt you'll have your own memories which spring to mind when you look at the accompanying collection of covers which lies before you. So, go on, indulge yourself - you have my complete permission.
I tend to associate T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #7, Undersea Agent #4, and, later, Noman #1 with my late grandparents' house, since I first read those comics during visits there. I must have been in third grade or so at the time, and it seems like it was during spring break and/or summer vacation (although my memory could be playing tricks with dates). There are several Silver Age comics I associate with those visits, mostly DC, some Gold Key, a few Marvel.
ReplyDeleteAgent "Kitten" Kane wasn't much help on the cover of #6, was she? She wasn't even warning them of the danger, since the villain had already clobbered the heroes. Maybe one should judge it in the context of the time, though. Back then, there were few really competent heroines in action-adventure fiction (the notable exceptions included Wonder Woman and Emma Peel). Even super-heroines like Sue Storm and the Scarlet Witch seemed to be helpless victims much of the time, constantly getting kidnapped or taken hostage. At least Kitten was actively taking part in the shoot-out on the cover of #11.
ReplyDeleteI think in most cases, women were regarded mainly as 'cover candy', which is why they were often portrayed in typical helpless female type stances. Whenever I think of Kirby Fantastic Four covers, it seems that Sue was always in the background looking anxious.
ReplyDeleteMost of those Tower comics remind me of long family holiday weekends in Blackpool as a kid, not the originals ()I never bought/saw an original Tower comic) but as noted the Alan Class reprints (especially Thunder Agents 3,4,5,6 and Dynamo 1 and 2 which I still have although I doubt they were complete reprints of the original comics)they used to have thee comics (and US Marvels a few DC Warrens Seaboards etc) piled up outside shops by the hundred in some cases - saying that I picked up a few others Alan Class "Thunder" comics in Rutherglen (near Glasgow) where I lived at the time - some great artists and nice stories in those books Wood ws a great artist (and even better cartoonist imho) McScotty
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, by the time I started buying Alan Class titles in the mid-'70s, the plates were so worn that the printing wasn't always of the highest quality. The results were even worse in the '80s 'though. Probably the ones from the '60s will have much sharper and blacker reproduction.
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