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Tweak says, "Figment of whose imagination?"

sandoz_iscariot (sandoz_iscariot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-09 21:17:00

Current mood:	sleepy
Entry tags:	char: fantomah, creator: fletcher hanks, era: golden age, theme: racism

Fantomah from Jungle Comics #7.
More insanity from Fletcher Hanks, this one featuring my favorite of his creations, Fantomah.

...wat.

(note to mods: the comic is in the public domain, so I'm posting the complete story.)

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khamelea
2009-08-10 02:19 am UTC (link)

"Was this out of his subconscious need to further depersonalize and dehumanize those whom he meant to characterize as evil and deserving of punishment, or was it simply the expedient of an artist who didn't want to have to draw a bunch of different characters?"

I wouldn't go with the latter.

I mean, he could just have started off with one main guy to punish, or even used this exact same set up and make every but make each step of this overly elaborate gauntlet into a punishment into itself: one gets the claw, another gets the cobras, another gets fused to the rock...

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	box_in_the_box 2009-08-10 02:22 am UTC (link)
	True. Plus, it's such an oddly idiosyncratic plot point for him to revisit so many times in his work ... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	khamelea 2009-08-10 02:24 am UTC (link)
	I think it's one of the worse parts for me. I mean, from what I've seen it never causes any reaction in the victim/badguy at all! It's just mindboggling. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

box_in_the_box
2009-08-10 02:27 am UTC (link)

I'm reminded of the Hellblazer story in which John Constantine manages to mindfuck the amalgamated skinhead by saying, "So, who's your favorite football team?"

It says a lot about Hanks' mentality that there's no such inner strife in his amalgamated bad guys - they're all just evil, through and through.

Hanks and Ditko should have collaborated on a story. Their worldviews would have synced up well, I suspect.

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	sandoz_iscariot 2009-08-10 02:30 am UTC (link)
	Hanks and Ditko should have collaborated on a story. Stardust meets Mr. A. I'm terrified already. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-08-10 02:33 am UTC (link)
	Stardust IS Mr. A, just with madeupbullshitistan cosmic powers. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	khamelea 2009-08-10 02:33 am UTC (link)
	"I'm reminded of the Hellblazer story in which John Constantine manages to mindfuck the amalgamated skinhead by saying, 'So, who's your favorite football team?'" Now I'm really hoping that in that story the amalgamation wasn't a punishment. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-08-10 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Somebody needs to post scans of that one. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashtoreth 2009-08-10 04:44 am UTC (link)
	I think a demon did it to them. They seemed to enjoy it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bashzilla 2009-08-10 02:37 pm UTC (link)
	My mind immediately went to "Skinhead clusterfucking". (Reply to this) (Parent)

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