Captain's Library UNTOUCHABLES "Conspirators" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Federal Agent Crandall has bugged the gangsters' meeting room, and is ready to learn their plans...

Though the writer is unknown, the artist for this never-reprinted story from Dell's Four Color Comics #1237 (1961) is Dan Spiegle, whose expertise in doing actors' likenesses, as well as gangsters and guys in fedoras and overcoats served him well several years later when he illustrated all three issues of Gold Key's Green Hornet tv series adaptation!
BTW, though the tv series emphasized Ness' and his crew's battle against Prohibition-era criminals, the comic scrupulously avoided showing anything involving bootleggers, speakeasy operators, illegal distillers, and their ilk!

(A situation I discovered when I reviewed all four issues, looking for the best tale to present!)

Ironic, since the actual Untouchables were disbanded shortly after Prohibition ended!
Note that foreign comics adaptations had no such limitations...

The Spanish comics were never reprinted in the US, and thus, aren't available in English.
If they were, I'd be happy to re-present them here!

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Untouchables

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Captain's Library UNTOUCHABLES "Conspirators" Part 1

Here's the first comics appearance of The Untouchables...

...as seen in the TV series starring Robert Stack as Elliot Ness!

Will Crandall survive his first assignment as an Untouchable...or will he be touched, fatally?

Be Here Sunday for the answer!

BTW, though the tv series emphasized Ness' and his crew's battle against Prohibition-era criminals, the comic scrupulously avoided showing anything involving bootleggers, speakeasy operators, illegal distillers, and their ilk!

(A situation I discovered when I reviewed all four issues, looking for the best tale to present!)

Ironic, since the actual Untouchables were disbanded shortly after Prohibition ended!

Though the writer is unknown, the artist for this never-reprinted story from Dell's Four Color Comics #1237 (1961) is Dan Spiegle, whose expertise in doing actors' likenesses, as well as gangsters and guys in fedoras and overcoats served him well several years later when he illustrated all three issues of Gold Key's Green Hornet tv series adaptation! 

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It's the 100th Anniversary of Prohibition!

So let's celebrate with a presentation of the only good thing to come from it...

...starring Robert Stack as Elliot Ness!

An adaptation of the then-bestseller The Untouchables was presented on the anthology series Desilu Playhouse in 1959, with the resulting ratings prompting ABC to pick it up as a series.

The show lasted four seasons, and proved popular enough to release several re-edited two-part episodes as feature films in Canada and Europe!

The Dell comic adaptations ran four issues, two as part of their Four Color Comics anthology, and two in The Untouchables' own title.

Be here tomorrow and Sunday, as we present the first, never-reprinted, comic story based on the show!

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2019 and the Post-Apocalyptic Future of DARK ANGEL

As we leave 2019...

...I'd like to mention a 2000 tv series set in the post-apocalyptic world of 2019 that they thought was coming!

According to the premise, a terrorist group set off an aerial nuke which caused a planetwide electromagnetic pulse which wiped out almost all non-military/government computer systems.
Meanwhile, our government was experimenting with genetics and drugs to breed super-soldiers, many of whom didn't want to be forced to fight against their will!
The show detailed the saga of one of those escaped soldiers (19 year-old Jessica Alba in her breakout role as Max Guevera) in the slowly-recovering post-apocalyptic world!

There was no tie-in comic, but there are several in-continuity novels by Max Alan Collins.

The series is available on DVD, but not blu-ray.

I'd suggest you get a European version, since they're letterbox, not full-screen like the American set!

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