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dr_hermes ([info]dr_hermes) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-06 22:05:00

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Entry tags:char: archie andrews, era: golden age, publisher: archie

Camera Fun and today's mystery photo


I almost always prefer the first few years of a strip. The characters are fresh and more alive, not as restricted by increasingly limited personality traits as they will quickly become. If readers like a character because he's sarcastic or because he's naive, those traits will become exaggerated until the character becomes trapped by them and can't really react in a surprising way. At the beginning, characters are much freer and usually more spontaneous. They're usually not as good-looking too, and have more individual faces and bodies. That may seem like an odd thing to like, but comics (and cartoon) characters tend in general to be become younger-looking and cuter as time goes by (if only that were true for most of us in real life, eh?)Anyway, here are two pages from PEP# 48, May 1948. Archie and his cronies have shoved the super-heroes like the Shield and the Hangman out of the book and taken over MLJ Publications in a bloodless coup by now. This is still before the Comics Code; a few years earlier, MLJ heroes had indulged in remarkably gruesome and violent stories, and although this wasn't Archie's style, there's still a rather risque and rough edge to some of the slapstick.








Our mystery guest

One of the major creative forces in both the Golden and Silver Ages.


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[info]besamim
2009-04-06 09:16 pm UTC (link)
W00t! The 1940s precursor to Photoshopping.

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[info]dr_hermes
2009-04-06 09:39 pm UTC (link)
Heh. There was a famous UFO photo from the late 1940s of three craft in the sky and men running to look. A moment's inspection showed the shadows on the flying saucers went to the right and the shadows on the men to the left. This hinted at fakery.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-04-06 10:27 pm UTC (link)
Unless the picture he's holding is a red herring, I'm guessing Joe Simon.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-04-06 10:29 pm UTC (link)
Oh, finally found an old picture of him. I'm totally wrong.

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[info]psychop_rex
2009-04-07 03:50 am UTC (link)
If someone doesn't turn that last panel into an icon, I'll be very much surprised.
Also, just guessing here, but, uh - Martin Goodman?

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[info]dr_hermes
2009-04-07 01:53 pm UTC (link)
It is indeed Martin Goodman, publisher of Timely Comics in the 1940s, Atlas in the 1950s and Marvel in the 1960s. A lot of what doesn't seem to make sense about cancelled titles, new characters who don't work out, writers and artists coming and going.. much of this can be traced back to Goodman's instincts as a publisher. Stan Lee has gotten some credit and taken some blame for decisions handed to him by his boss.

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[info]psychop_rex
2009-04-07 04:02 pm UTC (link)
Yay, I was right! And on my first try, too!

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