Captain's Library & Theatre: SuperSnipe and the Celluloid SuperHero!

Back in the 1940s, there was a comic character called SuperSnipe...

aka "The Kid with the Most Comic Books in America"!

Donning oversized red flannel longjohns and his father's lodge cape, the kid attempted to fight crime and saboteurs (it was World War II), usually with disastrous results...

Despite the wishful thinking of George Marcoux, who both wrote and illustrated this tale from SuperSnipe V1N7 (1943), there was no Doc Savage b-movie (or serial) during the 1940s, though his stable-mate, The Shadow, did get both a serial and several b-movies (plus, of course, his radio show)!

A Doc Savage movie almost got made in the mid-1960s, as detailed HERE.

The Man of Bronze finally made it to the silver screen in 1975...

...though there are those who wish he hadn't!

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Captain's Library & Theatre: ZORRO "The Spaniard's Secret: Missing Father"

Sadly, we're marking our 200th post with a passing...

...the passing of 1950s-60s media icon Annette Funicello.

Last summer we ran the comic adaptation of her best-known film, Beach Blanket Bingo, HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Now, in tribute, we're presenting a double-feature special...

both the three-part Zorro story that featured her and the comic adaptation of the tale!

First, Part 1 of the comic, which adapts the episode "Missing Father"...

The story continues, tomorrow, at Atomic Kommie Comics™ and concludes Thursday at Western Comics Adventures™!

This never-reprinted tale from Dell's Four Color Comics #1037 (1959) was illustrated by Warren Tufts and Joe Giella, but the scripter for the adaptation is unknown.

Now, the episode itself...