[Cartoon by Ron Cobb from the L.A. Free Press.]
Ron Cobb archive HERE.
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Saturday, April 2, 2022
HELL ON WHEELS! FIRST APPEARANCE OF GHOST RIDER
Hitting the spinner racks on May 30, 1972 was this first appearance of the new, modern Ghost Rider in MARVEL SPOTLIGHT, with an August cover date. Earlier there was another masked character named the same in a Marvel western comic, but this new guy had a flaming skull and rode a horse of another color -- a motorcycle.
The character was co-created by Mike Friedrich and Roy Thomas. The cover and interior was drawn by Mike Ploog. The cover lettering was by Morrie Kuramoto and the interior letters were by John Costanza.
Friday, April 1, 2022
SIEGE OF THE KILLER APES!
The post-war "men's adventure" magazines were filled with thrilling stories, many which took place in foreign lands and dealt with duels to the death with all sorts of exotic animals. The most famous was, "Weasels Ripped My Flesh", that appeared in the September, 1956 issue of MAN'S LIFE. Today's story, written by Stan Lewis, is a tale of a photographer and his friend that meet up with an unsavory lot of Hamadryas baboons.
Incorrectly called apes in the title, baboons are actually primates of the monkey family and they are not known to be particularly aggressive towards humans. They were, however, revered by the ancient Egyptians. Anyway, it makes for a good story!
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