Sunday, November 3, 2024

FROM HERE TO ETERNAL

 Eternal battles among the Bat-family, starting with BATMAN ETERNAL  #4.






BE #9 then has the Big Bat throw down with the 2.0 version of Julia Pennyworth (aka "daughter of Alfred the Butler").





And then BE #19 gives a brainwashed Barbara Batgirl the chance to beat on a former Bat-sibling, Red Hood, aka "Robin II." Some romantic possibilities are suggested, given that in this story Dick Grayson is supposedly dead and gone.






Wednesday, October 30, 2024

CADET CAPERS

 Female athleticism invades the all-boys' territory of "The Cadet," which I'd never have investigated but for the cover.





ALL THE OTHER STUFF FROM ALL TOP


 


Blue Beetle fights The Headhunter Queen, who cuts victims' throats with a blade-boomerang.






And Phantom Lady gets three separate throwdowns.



JUNGLE GALLERY

 All the jungle-action from the series ALL TOP.





Rulah tries to save a hunter who falls in love with his prey, a lady named Taba, whose idea of "being catty" is to change into a black panther.





Rulah finds herself in a feline rut, as she contends with "The Cat Maidens," a tribe of all-female clawed-casians.





Then Jo-Jo gets to go-go with Ape Woman action.



And MORE monotony, as a mad female scientist changes an innocent girl named Larri into a savage gorilla-girl.



Then it's time for Jo-Jo to clip the wings of a bevy of hawk-maidens.






Ea sports legs so long, they extend into other panels.


Then one last turn for Rulah, taking on evil jungle-queen Bel.




And Jo-Jo gets to battle an evil crook from the U.S, with the hugely impressive name of-- "Winnie."

Sunday, October 27, 2024

AIKIDO MOM

 Chapter 50 of DO YOU LIKE BIG SENIORS depicts Kanako, the mother of the male romantic lead, taming one of her son's high-school peers with aikido moves.




Saturday, October 26, 2024

JUNGLE GALLERY

I found various new and reprint goodies in the 1952 TERRORS OF THE JUNGLE (Star Publishing). The cover seems to reference a "Jungle Jo" story below.



If so, then the blonde above is one LURA.




And here's main heroine TANGI in two tales. Not sure if original art has her brunette like this reprint. The one with blonde hair is reputedly an unused non-reprint.




Most interesting is a Jay Disbrow story which combines elements of Haggard's novel SHE (character's name, the old-age thing) and Burroughs' TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD (evil queen kills herself after hero kills her pet lion).




Tuesday, October 22, 2024

AGAIN ALPHA FIGHTS

 First, a ray ...




And then, a roundhouse.