Super Animals!

The post from April 1st was my attempt at an "April's Fool" joke. The link in that post does take you to a file I have on 4shared.com which you can download, and the features I listed for "issue six" are accurate in as much as that's what my file contains. Realistically, "Blue Circle Comics # 6" was never anything more than a cover used to repackage left-over interiors of other comics. While most of what I said came directly from my own butt, there's a little bit of truth sprinkled-in here & there.

My poll, "Who's Your Favorite Hero of Rural Home?", ended with The Green Turtle on top with 3 votes, Blue Circle received 2 votes, Steel Fist, Maureen Marine & Crash Kid each got one vote, and apparently nobody cares about The Prankster, Jun-Gal or The Judge (ok, that might not be true, but they didn't receive any votes).

Today's are from "Supermouse # 36" (August 1956: Pines Comics) and "Atomic Mouse # 26" (May 1958: Charlton Comics Group).





















If you click on the following links, you can download (for free & without registering) the entire contents of the books spotlighted here today from my 4shared.com folder:

Supermouse 36 August 1956

Atomic Mouse 26 May 1958

The Heroes of Rural Home Part Five

Today's story are Jun-Gal & The Green Turtle from Blazing Comics # 3 (September 1944), and The Judge from Red Circle Comics # 2 (February 1945). I can't say that The Judge is a character I really care about. With only two appearances in the first two issues of Red Circle Comics, to me he's simply another masked hero along the lines of The Clock, The Mouthpiece or The Spirit. The Judge is an interesting concept, there just aren't enough stories for me to really get into it. Jun-Gal is a feature I like mainly because of the artwork. The Green Turtle? He's ok.

Look for a couple of installments of "The Heroes of Rural Home" next week. I've planned a post for April 1st which, in order to keep things in some sort of order, demands that I up the frequency of postings before then.

All of today's stories were taken from scans available on goldenagecomics.co.uk.

Blue Beetle, Wonder Boy & The Wasp

Today's stories are Blue Beetle from "Mystery Men Comics 2" (September 1939). Wonder Boy from "National Comics 1" (July 1940) and The Wasp from "Silver Streak Comics 1" (December 1939).

The Blue Beetle was originally published by Fox Features until 1942, when Holyoke picked-up "The Blue Beetle" for a little while. It returned to Fox in 1944, where the character would last until 1950. Charlton published the adventures of the Blue Beetle in the 50s & 60s, then AC Comics had a very short run with the character in the 1980s, and finally DC Comics has had a moderate amount of succes with the hero since the mid-80s.

Wonder Boy is another character that has bounced around from publisher to publisher. Starting-out at Quality Comics in the pages of "National Comics", he would appear in Elliott Publishing's "Bomber Comics" in 1944 alongside the superhero named Kismet. In 1955, Ajax/Farrell published more tales of this hero in the pages of "Samson", "Terrific Comics" and two issues of "Wonder Boy".

The Wasp appeared in the first two issues of "Silver Streak Comics", published by Your Guide Publications. Another hero named The Wasp (who looks the same, so I actually consider it to be the same hero, although others may disagree based on the fact that the character's secret id was different for each publisher), appeared in "Speed Comics 12 & 13" and "Champ Comics 19".