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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻

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The Comics in the Golden Age Podcast. And sometimes the Platinum Age. Celebrating comics books & comic strips of all genres & their creators (especially their creators) from the 1930s to the 1950s, & other comics history!

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · Nov 21

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).

An image from Special Edition Comics #1 (1940) by C.C. Beck of Captain Marvel riding a large bomb.

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 5h

Disney's "Uncle Remus" strip, begun as a topper strip to the Sunday "Mickey Mouse" page and later appearing independently, made its debut 80 years ago, on October 14, 1945.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 4h

RIP, Drew Struzan.

The comic adaptation of Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp.

A cover he did for Star Trek: The Next Generation: Enemy Unseen.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 5h

Today is the birthday of Grace Drayton (Oct. 14, 1878-Jan. 31, 1936), who was among the first popular female cartoonists. She created the Campbell Soup Kids campaign in the early 20th century, & the newspaper strips Dottie Dimple, Dimples, Dolly Dimple & Bobby Bounce, & The Pussycat Princess.

Samples of her work, including two from her Campbell’s soup campaign, as well as a Dimples newspaper comic strip, and paper dolls.

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Rob Schamberger @robschamberger.bsky.social · 7h

I had no idea that there was an I Love Lucy comic strip and holy moly Bob Oksner’s art for it was some bulletproof cartooning. Gorgeous acting with a deceptively effortless-looking clean line.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 7h

Today is the birthday of artist Bob Oksner (Oct. 14, 1916-Feb. 18, 2007), most known for his work on humor and superhero comics at DC. He also worked on several comic strips, including an I Love Lucy newspaper strip from 1952 to 1955.

Four covers by Oksner: A Shazam treasury with the Captain Marvel and Billy on the cover, The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #112 featuring appearances by the Flash and Captain Cold, Comic Cavalcade #25, and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis #18.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 8h

In the comic, the baboon stares at him until the hunter becomes a baboon. Then he gets hunted by a man and killed.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 17h

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A man in 17th century clothing sees a sign for a bookstore and exclaims "Hello? A bookshop I haven't been to!"

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 17h

Seem to be ending every night this month reading some Twilight Zone comics.

The Twilight Zone #33 (1970). On the cover by George Wilson, a hunter is running away from three giant baboon heads, one of which seems to be shooting a laser beam at him with his eyes.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 18h

A Halloween-themed Gasoline Alley Sunday strip by Frank King from 1923.

Skeezix falls asleep in Walt’s arms and dreams of being taken on a flight by a witch all the way to the moon and back.

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 21h

RIP to Christopher Mills — an old-school bona fide indie comics creator who did it for the love of the medium, which is the only reason to do it in the first place. He was the kind of guy who makes artist alleys worth walking, and he'll be missed.

Christopher Mills @atomicpulp.bsky.social · 8d

I only wrote about 100 comics in my so-called career, but now that I'm dying, I'm grateful that I got to do even that. Comics are such a wonderful medium, and they've always meant so much to me.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 19h

How does my sentence imply anything bad!

Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 22h

This story in the first Indiana Jones collection seems to have crossed over into the world of Milton Caniff's Terry & the Pirates comic strip.

A comic panel showing a group of Chinese soldiers greeting their warlord, the "Serpent Lady," who is clearly drawn to look like the Dragon Lady of Terry & the Pirates.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 23h

Cover by Frank Giusto.

Baffling Mysteries #8 (1952). On the cover, three scaly lizard men are holding a beautiful blond woman captive in a cave. One says “We have long sought a queen! You shall reign as queen of the lizard men!”

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 1d

Cover by Ken Bald.

Forbidden Worlds #11 (1952). On the cover, a mummy is coming out of a sarcophagus towards a man cowering before him. He shouts “it was you…who disturbed…my rest! And now…you must pay!”

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 1d

Cover by Harry Anderson, with colors by Stan Goldberg.

Menace #11 (1954). The cover shows a close-up of a man’s face but it’s upside down because he has been grabbed from behind and his head pulled back. There are too large, green, furry arms with claws, one of which is holding his head and the other is closing a lock. A cover blurb reads “Locked in!”

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 1d

The daily version of Will Eisner's "The Spirit" first appeared on October 13, 1941. (The landmark Sunday Spirit section had made its debut in June 1940.) Unlike the now-legendary Sunday Spirit section, which continued into 1952, the daily strip ended in 1944.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the birthday of Mercedes “Mercy” Shull (Oct. 13, 1915-Aug. 27, 2003). An editor at Fawcett Comics from 1944 to 1953, titles she worked on included Whiz Comics, Mary Marvel & Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. #Shazam