Showing posts with label Black History Month. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black History Month. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Captain's Library TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER "Man Alone"

Though his radio show had been off the air for several years...
...the name-value of the Mysterious Traveler had enough cachet to keep this comic book series going for years after!
Although the Mysterious Traveler would literally stand right next to people throughout the story, the other characters never interacted with him.
He never had an origin, and we never learned who (or what) he was!
This story from #12 (1959) began Matt Baker's too-brief run on the title...because it was cancelled with the next issue!
But within that short span, Matt did five stories.

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Captain's Library JUKE BOX COMICS "Lena Horne"

This never-reprinted feature about singer/actress Lena Horne has two distinctions:

1) It's the only pre-1960s mainstream comics appearance of a Black actress or singer in a biographical feature!
2) It was illustrated by one of the few Black comic book artists of the era!


This never-reprinted short from Eastern's Juke Box Comics #2 (1948) was illustrated by Alvin Carl "AC" Hollingsworth, whose comics career ran from 1944 to 1956 and later became a noted fine artist!
Trivia: it's one of the few times Hollingsworth illustrated a Black character in his comic book work!
He did also illustrate a couple of stories in Fawcett's short-lived Negro Romances comic which we presented HERE!

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Captain's Library CATWOMAN Part 3

...Patience Phillips, resurrected from the dead and granted awesome feline abilities by the cat-goddess Bast, is now ready to avenge herself on those who killed her, starting with the man who shot her...
Things are not going according to plan!
Can Patience/Catwoman resolve the situation?
Will she stop Laurel's maniacal scheme?
Will Tom let his heart, rather than his head, rule?
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Friday, February 14, 2020

Captain's Library CATWOMAN Part 1

Some movie adaptations of comic book properties go so far from the source material...
 ...that a new comic book version is created!
Such was the case with the film featuring a well-known comic character that Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry starred in...
Talk about your life-altering experiences!
Check out our "sister" RetroBlog, Heroines, on Monday to continue the tale!
With only the name in common with the long-running Batman villainess/lover, this 2004 movie, done during the period when the Batman movie franchise was dormant, was determined to avoid any linkage to the Selina Kyle incarnation who had multiple appearances on TV (both live-action and animated) and two previous movies!
The comic, written by Chuck Austen, penciled by Tom Derenick, and inked by Adam DeKraker, follows an earlier version of the shooting script, so there are variations between it and what you've seen on-screen!
Halle Berry was no stranger to playing leather-clad genre characters...
...as Storm/Ororo Munroe in several X-Men flicks...

...and CIA Agent Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson in the James Bond movie Die Another Day!
Considering another Black actress, Eartha Kitt, had portrayed the classic Catwoman character, you'd think Halle would've wanted to stick a little closer to the source material.
Guess not!
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Friday, February 3, 2012

Captain's Library: HOT WHEELS "Mint 400"

Beginning in issue #2, Hot Wheels began running a series of backup stories...
...including "origins" explaining how members joined the team, which was shown as already established in the first issue.
Oddly. enough, the "origin" tales weren't in chronological order
#2's origin showed Kip joining with Tank, Mickey, and Jack.
#5's origin depicted Mickey and Jack meeting and becoming the first two members.

Script by Joe Gill, pencils by Ric Estrada, and inks by Dick Giordano.

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