Showcase Presents Strange Adventures

I’ve not even opened it yet (it’s a collection of 1950s DC SF comics) – I just wanted to show everyone the cover.

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Dan M.

8 Jan 2009 21:37

That’s a beauty. And how prescient! Well… er… actually, not really prescient in any way at all, is it? But a beauty! Thanks for sharing, Martin.

Dan M.

8 Jan 2009 21:37

That’s a beauty. And how prescient! Well… er… actually, not really prescient in any way at all, is it? But a beauty! Thanks for sharing, Martin.

Dan M.

8 Jan 2009 21:39

By the way, I first thought that this cover was supposed to accompany the article below, about Gaza in network news coverage. It made for an interesting, inexplicable, but obviously satiric illustration…

lonepilgrim

8 Jan 2009 22:24

their rockets look like bananas to me – and they look more like chimps – are they confused? I am

Martin Skidmore

8 Jan 2009 23:21

Yeah, Gil Kane was sometimes a bit slipshod in some small ways – a terrifically dynamic artist, but he couldn’t always be bothered doing a proper job in some respects – there’s a very poor dog by him in a story in here (I have started reading it since – worth the money for the handful of stories where Carmine Infantino inks himself. The most beautiful work I’ve ever seen by him, and I was already a fan).

Pete Baran

9 Jan 2009 14:28

I am assuming this would have had a seperate, basic, colourist – but whoever did it I am sure was thinking of bananas for the rocket ships. When was this story printed, does it pre-date “La Planète des singes” (1963)?

Martin Skidmore

9 Jan 2009 20:51

Yes, it was published in 1955. There are plenty more gorillas in the volume too, all clever. Carmine Infantino’s great Flash villain Gorilla Grodd would predate 1963 too.

Martin Skidmore

11 Jan 2009 18:10

Extra note: there is a story later in the volume where a man travels through time to find a world where gorillas in uniforms a little like those in the POTA movies dominate humans, who they treat as slaves. This story was published in 1956.

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