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For a drawing, Supergirl is quite an attractive young woman, wouldn't you say, Criv-Kids? That's probably why I purchased this 1971 Super DC Giant #S-24 64-page ish (not counting covers), so's I could admire her in that mini-skirted costume. (Or maybe I'm kidding.) This comic mag reprints a quartet of tales originally published in Action Comics #s 295 to 298 from 1963, which constitute a complete four-part story from the first to the last.
Modern comics don't do much for me these days, being too dark, too grim, in some cases, too gay (Superman's now got a son who plays for both teams - strewth) and too boring. There are sometimes exceptions of course, but they're few and far between. That's probably why I prefer older comics from the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s, a time when superhero comics weren't trying to be storyboards for movies and weren't pursuing an agenda to influence society to accept the tastes of a militant minority, bent on reshaping civilization to their own often dubious notions.
So, let's take a glance at what comics looked like back in 1963 and '71, when their only purpose was to entertain the young and young-at-heart, eh? Oh for these days again - or am I the only person who thinks this way? Feel free to leave a comment if you so desire, especially if, like me, your heart beat a little faster on sight of Supergirl in her skater-like costume when you were a kid. And did you prefer Jim Mooney's or Kurt Schaffenberger's artistic rendition of the Maid Of Might or were you more of a Curt Swan man? Tell the world!
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Sheesh! Not one comment yet. Everyone must be away on holiday or nobody else fancies Supergirl. After all the effort (several seconds) I put into dreaming up this little post, you ungrateful lot.
ReplyDeleteThis coming Sunday (Feb 22nd) is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kenneth Williams. He died in April 1988 only nine days before my sister died.
ReplyDeleteShame about your sister, as I've said before, CJ. Do you think of her every day or would that be too painful for you? I've got a couple of cassettes of Kenneth Williams reading an abridged version of The Wind In The Willows and very nice it is too.
DeleteWe're grateful Kid, but that little super cutey would surely crush us mere mortals in an intimate encounter. Only Clark would be up to the job, me thinks? Hope you're keeping well...
ReplyDeleteGasp! They're cousins, AAW, we can't be having that sort of thing in a comic. Not dead yet, but could always do with keeping better, same as everyone.
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