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 Girls," 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.






Monday, October 21, 2024

SCARY CANARY

 From one of the Canary's last songs in FLASH COMICS.





Friday, October 18, 2024

MARY MARVEL DOES SEE COLOR

 And so do the guys she's painting in various hues, not least "black and blue."



Thursday, October 17, 2024

"FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS..."

 "...with a woman's right!" says Jerry, gal-pal to the Phantom Eagle.



Monday, October 14, 2024

ALTERNATE CAT-COSMOS

 Stan Lee's alternate-universe take on Catwoman was nothing special...



But a backup strip had Darwyn Cooke contributing a story about one of Catwoman's neighbors, name of Dinah, and this was a little better executed.






Monday, October 7, 2024

SLAVEMASTER WAGES PT. 2

 I explained the concept of this series here, but since that excerpt, pliable "slave" Yuuki has undergone various adventures with-- and received various feminine favors from-- many mistresses. Original mistress Kyouka is clearly jealous of sharing, though the particular excuse for this wrestle-mania involves Kyouka having heard that Yuuki's sister used to bully him with wrestling-holds.














Sunday, October 6, 2024

GOING BATTY

 It's a three-way (?) crossover between Batman, Batgirl and Bat-Mite for the last issue of the BRAVE AND BOLD comic spawned by the TV cartoon of the late 2000s.



Thursday, October 3, 2024

LUCY RAISES CANE

 Heroine Lucy is so desperate to get hold of funds for a ransom that she kayos her brother with-- a skinny little cane?



JUNGLE GALLERY

 Some Sheena scenes circa 1945.



Here's the jungle queen punching out an ape, one of her better feats. The dwarf in the background, Lukano, poses as a "master of animals" to form a jungle empire. Also, though both the cover and the interior story display the title, "Veldt of the Vampire Apes," no entity, animal or human, living or dead, shows off any vampire-like aspects.




Hawkina is one of Sheena's better enemies. Apart from her drugged war-club, she also uses trained hawks and tribesmen who glide around with winged costumes.





Bungle in the jungle with King Kongo (at least the writer had a sense of humor). Aside from him gaslighting Sheena with a fake severed head of her mate, he claims that rather than marrying her himself, he's going to subject her to increased humiliation by making her marry his dwarf servant.





This cover references King Kongo and his harem and thus was probably originally intended for the previous issue. No kings or harems here, but there is a weird contrivance where plotters nearly electrocute Sheena with a pair of rigged-up female dummies.