tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post3514269332161202885..comments2024-03-09T13:14:56.299-08:00Comments on Silver Age Comics: Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer #1Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-47242485621236800452011-12-29T14:01:47.024-08:002011-12-29T14:01:47.024-08:00The sea monster at first seemed a recycling of Cap...The sea monster at first seemed a recycling of Captain Marvel's old foe King Kull (the last survivor of a prehistoric species, seeking to wipe out the human race). The ending, though, was reminiscent of a Mary Marvel story, "The Triton and the Tunnel," where the antagonist turns out to be a henpecked husband.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-37353834673704612022011-12-29T13:50:50.008-08:002011-12-29T13:50:50.008-08:00Gomer Pyle was presumably in his very late teens o...Gomer Pyle was presumably in his very late teens or early twenties in the early 1960's (as he was both young enough and old enough to enlist in the US Marine Corps), so he would be the right age to have read Captain Marvel Adventures and Whiz Comics in the late '40's-early '50's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-78677845939351782302011-05-02T19:45:54.559-07:002011-05-02T19:45:54.559-07:00Diane, I see what you're saying but no, artist...Diane, I see what you're saying but no, artist C.C. Beck never worked for Archie Comics. His squeaky clean style would have fit with Archie but he spent the bulk of his comics career drawing the original Captain Marvel in the forties, fifties and seventies.<br /><br />Steven Thompson<br />co-author<br />ARCHIE--A CELEBRATION OF AMERICA'S FAVORITE TEENAGERBookstevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-3494400091852645232011-05-02T19:36:36.129-07:002011-05-02T19:36:36.129-07:00I am Homerically unfamiliar with the artists of th...I am Homerically unfamiliar with the artists of the Silver Age - or any age, for that matter, being creatively-challenged as I am - but there's something about the art in those excerpts that reminds me very much of the Archie series. Any chance there's something there?Dianenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-57656316444823517922011-05-01T07:40:28.169-07:002011-05-01T07:40:28.169-07:00Yeah, as a fan of the wild 'n' wacky 1960s...Yeah, as a fan of the wild 'n' wacky 1960s fare, I've got all the Fatman and Super Green Beret comics. Very weird indeed. But the strangest comic character of this vintage has to be the truly bizarre Fruitman : http://www.thefifthbranch.com/gorilladaze/?p=678<br /><br />The first I ever knew of Captain Marvel was the Shazam series from DC. The tv show was never run over here in the UK, so even the "DC TV Comic" logo confused the heck out of me!Allanhttp://www.thefifthbranch.com/gorilladazenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-22768243959334734912011-04-30T04:14:52.517-07:002011-04-30T04:14:52.517-07:00I remember I knew who CAPTAIN MARVEL was but I don...I remember I knew who CAPTAIN MARVEL was but I don't know how. I remember very distinctly though that I had heard of him and the "Shazam" thing but...how? I know I'd never seen any of the comics.<br /><br />The Beatles song you mentioned didn't come out until 1968 so that couldn't have been it.Bookstevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com