Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Captain's Halloween Library & Theatre ARCH OBOLER'S LIGHTS OUT "Come to the Bank"

Halloween is here, ghoul friends and boy fiends...
...so let's tell another tawdry, terrifying tale utilizing both your eyes and ears together in a way you normally don't do!
Control-Click on this LINK to hear (and read along) this audio adventure, first broadcast on November 17, 1942!
Illustrated by Charles Bolland, this never-reprinted adaptation of a Lights Out radio episode appeared in S&S's Super-Magician Comics V3N9 (1945).
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Captain's Halloween Library & Theatre ARCH OBOLER"S LIGHTS OUT "Bio" & "Meteor Man"

...now we present another classic scary series from the Golden Age of Radio in comics form...Lights Out!
But first, a brief bio about the show's creator/writer...
Before you begin tonight's terrifying tale on the next page, control-click HERE to pull up a new tab with the audio for the episode the comic is based on, "Meteor Man" from December 22, 1942, then read along...
There's no record of the writer/adaptor or artist(s) for this never-reprinted tale from S&S's Super-Magician Comics V3N6 (1944), though it looks like the work of Will Eisner's or Bob Powell's studios.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Captain's Library KUNG FU "Rising Storm"

It has been Several Months Since We Last Saw Kwai Chang Caine, and Much has Happened...

Whether due to space constraints or editorial restrictions, the strip doesn't show the deaths of Master Po or the emperor's nephew, just events after that incident!

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Monday, September 18, 2023

Captain's Library KUNG FU "In the Beginning..."

Here's a treat you likely didn't even know existed...
...a multi-chapter comic strip, which was never seen in the US, based on the 1970s Kung Fu TV series!
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Writer Steve Moore and artist Paul Neary, who created this never-reprinted story from Brown-Watson's Kung Fu Annual 1976 made a fascinating creative choice.
They adapted the TV series' pilot movie, "The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon"...sort of!
Instead of following the script which begins with Caine already wandering the American Old West, then segueing into flashbacks about how he became wanted by the Chinese authorities and fled to America, the comic adapts only the back story...in chronological order!
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Thursday, June 29, 2023

Captain's Library FURTHER ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES "Gold Goddess: Amazon Death-Ride!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Cover by Howard Chaykin
...Indiana Jones, after recovering the Golden Idol (taken by the late rogue archaeologist Rene Beloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark) is attacked by Meso-Americans whose leader claims the idol is his.
They are assisted by a mysterious woman who wants Indy dead...because she's the sister of SS officer Arnold Toht...
...who died with Belloq when the Ark was opened!
Ilsa Toht never returned. 
Plotted by Archie Goodwin, scripted by David Micheline, penciled by Dan Reid, and inked by Danny Bulanadi, this opener of a two-issue tale from Marvel's Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #10 (1982) shows there's no detail that escapes comics creatives who are obvious fans of a movie/TV series!

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Captain's Library FURTHER ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES "Gold Goddess: Amazon Death-Ride!" Chapter 2

When Last We Left Our Adventuring Archaeologist...


The unseen narrator leaves out that the Golden Idol is the one that rogue archaeologist Rene Belloq stole from Indy at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark!
Or that the Meso-Americans are working with a mysterious blonde woman who, for some reason, wants Indy dead!
Now, lets see who shot Jones' assailant...
OK, to appreciate fiction (especially sci-fi/fantasy/high adventure), you have to have willing suspension of disbelief!
But, there's no way I can accept this woman as Toht's sister!
BTW, he's one of only five action figures originally-produced by Hasbro for the movie!
(And, yes, the figure has the imprint of the medallion in its' tiny palm!)
Indy, Marion, the huge Arab Swordsman, and he were immortalized in plastic that you could buy in stores!
(Belloq was a premium figure you had to send away for!)
Not Sallah, or German commander Dietrich (who I could believe as this woman's brother), or the giant German flying wing mechanic!
Go figure!

To Be Concluded...
TOMORROW!
Plotted by Archie Goodwin, scripted by David Micheline, penciled by Dan Reid, and inked by Danny Bulanadi, this opener of a two-issue tale from Marvel's Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #10 (1982) shows there's no detail that escapes comics creatives who are obvious fans of a movie/TV series!
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