Wednesday, October 1, 2025

THE FARCE AWAKENS

 


Butt gets knocked on his mutt-- or something.


This Omar (of Bagdad) isn't Khayyam, but he does get Kablamed.


  
Eustis? More like "useless."






No violence in these panels from a WILBUR strip, but he's duly humiliated at his girlfriend's greater strength, fortitude, and accuracy. I don't think this schtick was a regular aspect of the feature.

Saturday, September 27, 2025

SHAHNARAMA

 Not too many screengrabs showing Kirk's two fights with Shahna in "Gamesters of Triskelion," but this is from the first one, slightly after she hits him with her staff.


 

Saturday, September 20, 2025

ALPHA FIGHTS FOR SURVIVAL

 Scenes with Vindicator, Aurora and Nemesis.







Friday, September 5, 2025

DON'T SQUEEZE THE SHARMAINE

 After 25 issues of being "the damsel" in MIGHTY SAMSON, Sharmaine starts getting in touch with her inner Angela Mao.




Wednesday, August 27, 2025

WESTWARD HOS

 Apparently "gal sheriff" Kitty Carson appeared just once in WESTERN FRONTIER #3, with art attributed to one Richard Case. There had been an earlier Kitty Carson who'd appeared maybe a dozen times in Harvey Comics' KERRY DRAKE comic but the two are unrelated except for the "Kit Carson" pun. If KITTY had managed to become a series apparently a regular feature would've been the "quarreling lovers" trope seen here.


    




Sunday, August 24, 2025

WESTWARD HOS

 KIT WEST had a feature in Avon's COW PUNCHER COMICS and then appeared in various other Avon comics, such as this fake story of her origins in the one-shot WHITE CHIEF OF THE PAWNEE INDIANS. 



These three are from COW PUNCHER.





Saturday, August 9, 2025

MY LITTLE MAIMER

 TV's MY LITTLE MARGIE was more violent than any other fifties sitcom. But though occasionally precocious daughter Margie occasionally punched someone, or hit someone with a blunt object, the show didn't go to the lengths of the comic book. 




Wednesday, July 30, 2025

FOXY BOXERS (AND WRESTLERS)

The splash page to this MARGIE tale is merely symbolic.


 But there's nothing imaginary about "It's in the Bag," wherein Oscar's GF Kitty keeps badgering him about his boxing until she achieves her real end of laying him out.


Then we get Cindy putting on merely symbolic muscle...



After which it's time to ring the bell for the real thing.


 


And then there's other sports to play at.



Then we have domestic games. All the preceding from CINDY COMICS, and these from KRAZY KOMICS.