What? You've never heard of "The Land of the Leopard Men"? Then you must have missed Charlie Chan #1, published by Prize comics back in 1948. I did, too, until I saw it on comicbookplus, the amazing public domain comics website (where Mike Britt sent me). It was uploaded there by a user called "freddyfly". The cover above is by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, and the artwork below by Carmine Infantino. Check out that blonde on pages 2 and 3. Carmine was spending a lot of time looking at Milt Caniff strips.
2 comments:
What a coincidence, I'm about 4/5 through THE BLACK CAMEL right now. Of the several Chan novels Biggers wrote, I've yet to see any of his sons involved. I guess that whole "number one son" thing was created for the films, which in my opinion are inferior to the novels.
This comic was fun, though. Thanks!
First glance, I thought Caniff? Closer look, it’s not. But these artists were paying attention.
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