Art By The Great Bill Evrett
From Issue #18 Of Venus
Published In 1952.
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.
Wow... that second story was wacko... and I don't even mean the plant-men part... It begins abruptly and it doesn't even have an it-was-all-just-a-dream ending... it has an it-never-happened/let's-pay-off-the-local-cops/can't-be-bothered-to-make-this-story-make-sense ending. Nothing wrong with that, though. Bill Everett did a beautiful job as usual and those plant-men are pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteI like all those monsters in the first story, too, and it's interesting that the most intensely drawn one is just an old man. That's a pretty standard plot he's got about transferring brains and taking over the world, and I like Venus's basic reaction that that's just rubbish. She's a superhero who's main super power seems to be her rock-steady confidence. As she says in the last story 'I'm Venus'--and you'd better get that straight!
Bill Everett did some Sub-mariner stories and Marvel Boy stories around this time, too. Do you know if they're as wild as this stuff?
I will look around for those Sub Mariner books. These books are pretty wild. Everett really hit his artistic stride in the 50's. I remember buying the old Fantasy Masterpieces books from Marvel and thinking his early Sub Mariner tales were sorta crude but this work in magnificent.
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