Saturday, February 29, 2020

NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 30 & 31 (1957) Another New Case Begins


This story, beginning in earnest on June 17, 1957, was introduced in this final panel from June 15:













Friday, February 28, 2020

Forgotten Stories: "Sherry Strikes a New Note" by RAOUL WHITFIELD (1943)


Okay, I knew that Black Mask great Raoul Whitfield also wrote aviation fiction, and juvenile adventure novels, but I never expected to find him in a comic book like Calling All Girls. But here he is, in the September 1943 issue, as provided to comicbookplus by movielover. 





Thursday, February 27, 2020

The LONE RANGER and TONTO Ride Again (1939)


We rode along with old Kimosabe and Tonto on their first Sunday adventures HERE. Now let's horn in on another. The art here is still credited to Ed Kressy. We'll see one more five-week run before Charles Flanders begins his twelve-year stretch on the strip.  




Wednesday, February 26, 2020

HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: He Said/She Said? Nope! He didn't say! (1931-32)


San Francisco Examiner, Aug. 6, 1931

Detroit Free Press, Aug. 6, 1931

Oakland Tribune, June 29, 1932

Carlsbad Current-Argus, June 29, 1932

Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, June 29, 1932

Unknown, June 29, 1932

Wilmington Morning News, June 29, 1932

Baltimore Evening Sun, June 30, 1932

San Francisco Examiner, June 30, 1932

Waterloo Courier, June 30, 1932

San Bernadino County Sun, July 2, 1932

Manhattan Kansas Republic, July 7, 1932

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

HARVEY KURTZMAN's Mr. Risk in "The Race Against Death" (1943)


This early Kurtzman effort is from Super-Mystery Comics Vol. 3 No. 3, dated January 1943. Ain't much hint of what's to come, but still an historical artyfact. Thanks to freddyfly for scanning it for comicbookplus.