Art By Dan DeCarlo, Bill
Vigoda, Joe Edwards And
John Roseberger From
Issue #157 Of Pep.
Published In 1962.
Yet Even More Comic Book Fun From The Past With Other Strange Stuff Thrown In Just For The Heck Of It.
Yet Even More Comic Book Fun From The Past With Other Strange Stuff Thrown In Just For The Heck Of It.
All the stories here all well-drawn, but you have to wonder how much of a demographic crossover there was between the fans Archie Andrews and the fans of superheroes 'cause well-drawn or not that Jaguar sure does awkwardly stick out from the other stories, where otherwise Li'l Jinx would be the odd story out. I also must admit that despite the nice art I find the Jaguar rather bland and boring, which is luckily another contrast with the other stories. I think for me the standout was the aforementioned Li'l Jinx story because I didn't expect any resolution to the initial setups. The Archie stories in this issue were a lot les
ReplyDeletes linear: their endings were more random and they were more like peeks into the Archie universe than anything else. Nothing wrong with that; I quite like the effect of the stories that drift between point of view of different characters and this is nice, too.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the Archie tales of the 60's the best. Maybe it's because they were the ones I bought when I was a kid but the art and story seemed stronger to me. Also in the 60's a lot of the golden age talent werecreaching their artistic peaks.....in my opinion anyway.
ReplyDeleteWell the Archie characters became superheroes a few years later. I like John Rosenbergers art on the Jaguar but prefer the older MLJ superheroes.
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