Thursday, September 28, 2017

Jungle Queens and Space Rangers 5: WINGS COMICS


Here's our final preview of Todd Frye's Jungle Queens and Space Rangers. Like Fight, Jungle and Planet, Wings Comics was sort of a spin-off from the Fiction House pulps of the same titles. It ran 124 issues, from 1940 to 1954, and all the covers are outstanding. 

The evolution you'll see in Todd's book begins with straight air war, progresses to GGA, gives a hat tip to the flying saucer craze, and returns to straight out warfare, this time in Korea. Great stuff.









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4 comments:

  1. Cap'n BobSeptember 28, 2017 at 2:48 PM

    The last one looks like a John Severen cover. I've always loved his war comic art.

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  2. Evan LewisSeptember 28, 2017 at 11:04 PM

    That cover reminded me of Severin, too. Comic Book Plus credits it to Maurice Whitman.

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  3. Charles GramlichSeptember 29, 2017 at 5:04 AM

    Hard to put into words how much I love these

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  4. Mike BrittOctober 1, 2017 at 1:47 PM

    Maurice Whitman (a favorite of Steve Ditko) did many covers for Ficion House at the end of their run in comics. The covers of GHOST were by him as well as those great last issues of PLANET. The coloring on all of his FH covers was so exceptional and brilliant with graduated tones, I suspect he had some control of that aspect also.

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