February 20, 2015

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Mickey Mouse/Uncle Scrooge FCBD flip book

Two flip book comics in one day? Really?

Mickey Mouse FCBD flip

The day the Cat In The Hat went crazy!

Uncle Scrooge FCBD flip

Uncle Scrooge lost the preserves contest at the County Fair.

Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse/Uncle Scrooge

Gladstone (June, 2004)

MICKEY MOUSE COVER ART: attributed to Carl Buettner
UNCLE SCROOGE COVER ART: Carl Banks
 
Mickey Mouse: “Riddle of The Red Hat”
(originally published in “Micky Mouse Four Color #79, 1945)
STORY ATTRIBUTED TO: Eleanor Packer
ARTIST: Carl Banks
COLORIST: Susan Daigle-Leach
 
Uncle Scrooge: “The Second Richest Duck“
(originally published in “Uncle Scrooge” #15, 1956)
STORY/ART: Carl Banks
COLORIST: Susan Daigle-Leach

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February 20, 2015

Morning Article Link: Captain America’s Serial

Captain America

Captain America (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Captain America is one of the most popular characters in the Marvel universe, but until The First Avengers attempts to bring him out of the comics haven’t done very well. As part of his going through of every comic book appearance in cinema, Screen Crush editor Matt Singer looks at Cap’s serial from 1944. Look, I love serials. Adventures Of Captain Marvel is my favorite, as I’ve stated in the past, but while it got a number of things wrong it was still a great serial Captain America’s on the other hand…while I haven’t seen it yet I have yet to hear of anyone who likes it. It also gets every fact wrong and I’m not surprised he’s the only Marvel hero to have his own serial. Well, that and Marvel’s superhero roster was rather slim in the 1940s. I wonder how they would have pulled off The Whizzer?

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February 20, 2015

“Yesterday’s” Comic> MMPR: Ninja Rangers/VR Troopers flip book #1

For some odd reason Marvel made a second comic featuring the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers only using their Ninja Ranger powers instead of using them in the regular comic. Maybe that’s what happens when you try to force two stories into a normal-sized comic. It was also a flip book with Saban’s other property at the time, the syndicated VR Troopers. I’ll be reviewing each side as if they were separate comics.

Power Rangers Ninja Rangers #1 flip

This cover was poorly timed based on current events.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Ninja Rangers #1

Marvel (December, 1995)

“Cheaters Never Prosper And Winners Never Cheat”
WRITER: Fabian Nicieza
PENCILER: Tod Smith
INKERS: Jim Sanders III & Sam DeLarosa
COLORIST: Mike Worely
LETTERER: Lorina Mapa
EDITOR: Mariano Nicieza
VR Troopers #1

Those poses cannot be comfortable.

VR Troopers #1

Marvel (December, 1995)

“Father Figure”
WRITER: Frank Lovece
PENCILER: John Ross
INKER: Jim Sanders III
COLORIST: Mike Worely
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Mariano Nicieza

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February 19, 2015

Teen Titans Going Live

Teen Titans #1 2014

Warner Brothers continues to milk their superhero properties but seem content with only doing live-action, throwing the occasional bone to their animation department and mostly failing on both angles. The only DC superhero cartoon they have on television right now is the comedic Teen Titans Go! while Marvel is making a number of animated representations. WB DC seems to be sticking to direct-to-video animated movies and saving the TV series stuff for live-action, with Arrow and The Flash getting some good marks while Gotham just has people in my circles waiting for Batman to come and fix this mess.

Now there is a live-action Teen Titans series in the works for TNT as well as the Supergirl series in development for CBS. While Teen Titans is just passing the greenlight stage (there’s no pilot or even casting news so the future of the series is still undetermined), The Nerdist has learned which characters will be converted into comic form. (WARNING: autoplaying video along with the article) I won’t be going over their histories because the linked-to article already has those. Instead I will simply review the choices.

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February 19, 2015

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Donald Duck Adventures FCBD

Donald Duck Adventures FCBD 2003

Ever see a duck so full of baloney?

Walk Disney’s Donald Duck Adventures FCBD

Gladstone (May, 2003)

(originally published in March Of Comics #4, 1947)

 WRITER/ARTIST: Carl Banks
ORIGINAL COVER ARTIST: Walk Kelly (used as back cover here)
FRONT COVER ARTIST: Gary Leach
 
“Maharajah Donald”
COLORIST: Scott Rockwell
 
“The Peaceful Hills”
COLORIST: Susan Daigle-Leach

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February 19, 2015

Morning Article Link: More Forgotten Superman Powers

Superman's super powers

In yesterday’s commentary on Superman’s new “Super Flare”, I linked to Comic Coverage’s list of Superman powers that came and went faster than Superman himself. That wasn’t a complete list, though, and even Chris Sims’ additions over at Comics Alliance isn’t the rest of the list. I still say he already has all the powers we fantasize having (except for invisibility) so he doesn’t need any more. Well, Sims probably wants to be able to create a mini duplicate of himself by projecting a rainbow from his fingertips. I would think that would make typing annoying, though.

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February 19, 2015

“Yesterday’s” Comic> GI Joe #139

GI Joe #139

I’m torn between a toy joke you might get and a convention joke you might not. Both aren’t very good.

GI Joe #139

Marvel (August, 1993)

“Realignments”
WRITER: Larry Hama
PENCILER: Chris Batista
INKERS: Stephen Baskerville, Chi Williams, Don Hudson, & Chip Wallace
COLORISTS: Bob Sharen & Renee Witterstaeter
LETTERER: Rick Parker
EDITOR: David Wohl

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