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Fast reaching the end of this series, Crivs, after a mammoth scanning session of all the remaining issues in my collection. Like I've said before, it may not have set the blogging world on fire, but some images at least were worthy of seeing the light of day on Crivens. In the main, the artwork was competent and professional, if not exactly overwhelming - a few images aside.
Anyway, only two more parts to go. I don't know who'll be more relieved when these Secret Origins cover & image galleries have finally run their course - you or me. (Probably me, to be honest. There's far more work involved for me in preparing theses posts than there is for you in reading them - if you actually do, that is.)
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12 comments:
Well, I guess the lack of comments so far tends to prove that there's not a lot of interest in this run of comics. I'm not too proud to accept a 'sympathy' comment, you know, so feel free.
Did you get around to buying any Ski yogurts, Kid? I can recommend Gu mini-cheesecakes too.
Not yet, CJ. Have hardly been out of the house (only once or twice) 'cos I'm still recovering from the effects of pneumonia. Where would I get the mini-cheesecakes?
In Tesco, near to the Ski yogurts. The cheesecakes are called New York cheesecakes and there are two in a pack. Each cheesecake is in a little glass bowl called a ramekin with a foil lid.
That Rogues Gallery cover hearkens back to that classic Infantino and Murphy cover of the very first Flash comic to fall into my greedy little mitts. It's a bravura effort, a great example of a time when DC ruled on covers. Marvel had the best stories, but DC had the best covers.
Thanks for that, CJ. There isn't a Tesco near me, so I'll have to wait until one of my pals takes me out in his car.
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I tend to think that Marvel and DC each had their turn at good covers, RJ, but there's no arguing with the fact that Infantino and Anderson produced some belters.
Kid, you can probably buy GU cheesecakes in any supermarket, not just Tesco, but look for where they sell the yogurts and similar products.
Right, ta, CJ. I'll let you know what I think of them once I've had a taste.
As a total co-incidence, I picked up a very nice copy of that Blackhawk Secret Origins issue last week for the princely sum of $1, bagged and boarded. Have not read it yet, but presumably there is little demand for Blackhawk comics. A while back it was reported that Steven Spielberg was working on developing a Blackhawk film. Hopefully if such a film gets made, the value of my Secret Origins issue may double.
Can't say I was ever a Blackhawk fan, B, having read maybe only a couple or so reprints in 100 page DC specials back in the '70s, or the '60s version in a Double-Double Comic. I'd imagine the bag and board would be worth more than an actual comic featuring the character. As you'll know, Kirk Alyn played Blackhawk in a movie serial after Superman.
My reaction to the reprinted GA Blackhawk stories was different than yours-- which is not me trying to convert you, of course. As a young fan I had barely any concept of what the Blackhawk series of the forties had been like; I knew only the terminally ordinary DC 'hawks of the sixties. (In retrospect it's surprising that they lasted the decade.) Sometime in the late sixties I got a taste of the GA version from Jules Feiffer's GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES, but it was those 1970s reprints that gave me a clear idea of the original format: fast pulp-magazine action, minimal characterization, lots of pulchritude-- the opposite of most sixties comics. IMO DC never knew what to do with the concept, either in the sixties or in the eighties, a revival also predicated on Spielberg having optioned the property at some point in time. It's just as well there haven't been any more revivals; the Blackhawks were products of their time and pretty much fit only that time, much like TERRY AND THE PIRATES. Even in Darwyn Cooke's DC THE NEW FRONTIER, the 'hawks just got a cameo while the Challengers of the Unknown had relatively major roles to play there.
Maybe it's just the 'gung-ho' aspect of war comics that fails to impress me, GP, though having said that, I quite enjoyed the Boy Commandos reprints in the '70s. I wonder if the Blackhawks inspired Nick Fury & His Howling Commandos? Nobody around from the time to ask, eh?
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