dr_hermes (dr_hermes) wrote in scans_daily, @ 2009-03-04 21:38:00 |
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Entry tags: | era: golden age |
Early days in Riverdale and today's mystery photo
This is the cover of PEP COMICS# 36. The Shield and Hangman are proud and confident as they hoist this humor back-up character on their shoulders. It's the Golden Age of Super-heroes, they're riding the crest of the wave, what could possibly go wrong? Little do they suspect that in but a few years this redheaded goofball would toss them out of their strips and take over completely. Not only that, but over sixty years later he and his high school chums will still be on newsstansds unchanged, while they (and the Black Hood, Comet, Mr Justice et al) will be relegated to brief revivals. So it goes.
Wow, she's really piling the sugar on. This is from PEP COMICS# 22, December 1941. Notice the hitching post by the curb there, for tying up the horse that pulled the milk wagon which delivered glass bottles to each house in the morning and took the empties. 1941 was a different planet.
And now Veronica gets into the act. This sets up the cyclic dating pattern between Archie, Betty and Veronica that will provide fodder for thousands of plots. This is PEP# 26, April 1942. Archie has aged five years in five months, but not to worry, he will stay there now for five decades. The life of a comics character, never easy.
A fine artist who created one of the most famous strips in history.. it's been in serials, feature films, TV shows, radio series, lunchboxes and toys and what-have-you. Here he's showing the perks of drawing a newspaper strip (which paid much better than the lowly comic books) as he can afford to hire live models rather than copying from other artists and magazines photos.