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.

Jungle Queens and Space Rangers 4: PLANET COMICS

Planet Comics ran for 73 issues between 1940 and 1954, and sported consistently amazing covers. You can read all 73 for free online at comicbookplus.com (right HERE) (Thanks to Mike Britt for the tip), and you can peruse all the covers in Todd Frye's new book Jungle Queens and Space Rangers. We present here but a few.

Day before day before yesterday: FIGHT COMICS

Day before yesterday: JUMBO COMICS

Yesterday: JUNGLE COMICS

Tomorrow: WINGS COMICS

Jungle Queens and Space Rangers 2: JUMBO COMICS

Jumbo Comics was the first and longest running title in the Fiction House line, and you'll find all 167 good-lookin' covers in Todd Frye's new Jungle Queens and Space Rangers. Though Sheena the Jungle Queen appeared in every single issue (if you squint you'll see her at bottom center on the cover above), it took her thirteen issues to get her first solo cover shot, and within a few issues dominated every cover until no. 161, when Jumbo started trying to look like a horror comic. 

Those covers are all here, they're all good, and it was mighty tough choosing these samples to scan for you. You really ought to see them all. 

Yesterday: FIGHT COMICS

Tomorrow: JUNGLE COMICS

Jungle Queens and Space Rangers 1: FIGHT COMICS

A few months back we featured scans from Todd Frye's book AMAZING! ASTONISHING! WEIRD! (that's HERE), featuring oodles of great pulp covers. Well, Todd's at it again, this time bringing us about a zillion action-packed comic book covers from Fiction House. That publisher, as you may know, consistently had some of the finest covers in comics, thanks in no small part to its association with the (Will) Eisner and (Jerry) Iger Studio. 

All this week, we'll be looking at samples from the new book, Jungle Queens and Space Rangers. It leads off with all 84 covers from Fight Comics, published between 1940 and 1954. It's mighty interesting to see the focus progress from two-fisted adventurers like Shark Brodie to the costumed heroes Power Man and Super-American, and eventually find a steady headliner in the Sheena clone called Tiger Girl.

Tomorrow: Sheena of the Jungle and Jumbo Comics