Showing posts with label Harvey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harvey. Show all posts

Friday, July 19, 2024

KITTY CARSON: RUFF RIDIN' GAL SHERIFF "Who Ever Heard of a Lady Sheriff?"

Besides Fighting Crime, the Ruff Ridin' Gal Sheriff Battles Demeaning Stereotypes...
...by demonstrating prowess equal, if not superior, to any male cow puncher!
Though her final appearance by Bob Powell in Harvey's Kerry Drake Detective Cases #20 (1950) is the shortest of all her tales, it conveys perhaps the biggest message of any of her stories...a woman can do anything a man can!

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Thursday, July 18, 2024

KITTY CARSON: RUFF RIDIN' GAL SHERIFF "Hold Up at the Hospital Hoedown"

We Return to the "Present Day" of 1950...

...as city folk and country folk interact in...interesting ways...at a charity event!
This story from Harvey's Kerry Drake Detective Cases #19 (1950) seems to indicate that Sheriff Carson's rustic bailiwick, Rimrock, is just a short drive from a "big city".
It's actually not an unusual situation in the Midwest and Southwest, as I discovered when I set up my second home in Illinois.
(I'm a born and bred New Yorker, specifically, Brooklyn.
And it was a bit of culture shock to me to see farms and other rural fixtures so close to Chicago!)
Be Here on Friday for Our Final Kitty Carson Adventure!

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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

KITTY CARSON: RUFF RIDIN' GAL SHERIFF "Railroad Rustler!

Though She May Have Lost a Page in Her Story's Length...

...the "Ruff Ridin' Gal Sheriff" Still Kicks Criminal Butt in an Action-Filled Tale!

Kitty handles herself well as any cowboy sheriff would in the sixth Kitty Carson tale from Harvey's Kerry Drake Detective Cases...in this case, #17 (1949), illustrated (and likely written) by Bob Powell.
Note that the series' setting seems to have altered to the Old West, with the railroad only now reaching nearby towns, local ranchers objecting to the "iron hoss", and no indication of modern technology!

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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

KITTY CARSON: RUFF RIDIN' GAL SHERIFF "...Outwits the Gentleman Gambler"

 Continuing from Western Comics Aventures...

...it's another never-reprinted tale, though this one does feature a potentially NSFW/NSFS, though benign, ethnic stereotype!
"Ruff-Ridin' " indeed!
This is the third Kitty Carson tale from Harvey's Kerry Drake Detective Cases...in this case, #14 (1949), illustrated (and likely written) by Bob Powell.

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Monday, July 15, 2024

KITTY CARSON: RUFF RIDIN' GAL SHERIFF "Terror of the West!"

Continuing From Western Comics Adventures...

...here's another never-reprinted tale of this (sadly) time-lost heroine! 
This is the second Kitty Carson tale, illustrated (and likely written) by Bob Powell, which ran in the back of Harvey's Kerry Drake Detective Cases, which, from issues 12-20, consisted of reprints of Drake's newspaper strips, this original strip, and a few one/two-page features.
Note that, while this is a Western, it's set in the then-present (1949), as the clothing and vehicles, including her Jeep, show.
Also, they never showed Kitty avenging her father's murder as the strip begins with her already serving as Sheriff!
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Monday, December 19, 2022

Heroine Holidays BLACK CAT "A Day with Linda Turner: Christmas Party"

Not the Marvel anti-heroine, but a Golden Age actress/stuntwoman turned heroine...
...sharing Yuletide festivities with fellow (real life) movie and radio celebrities!
(See if you can name them all!)
Illustrated by Lee Elias (with Bob Powell doing the celeb caricatures), this gentle tale from Harvey's Black Cat #21 (1950) features Groucho Marx, Jack Benny & Rochester, and Bing Crosby along with Linda (Black Cat) Turner and her somewhat dense boyfriend Rick Horne!
When the story was reprinted (in black and white) in Recollections' Original Black Cat #8 (1992), it finally got the cover...

...which it didn't in the original!
BTW, the cover was by Harvey Comics' Editor/Art Director Ken Selig, who had been working for Harvey since just after the original publication of the story in 1950!

Friday, April 17, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics PAT PARKER: WAR NURSE "Disease from the Depths"

Few non-superpowered World War II heroines had as active a career as...
 ...who went through three different incarnations during the conflict!
Introduced in Harvey's Speed Comics #13, British nurse Patricia Parker kicked the butts of spies, saboteurs, and medical black marketers in plainclothes for two issues before donning her costume and identity at the end of this never-reprinted story from Speed #15 (1942).
She was as proficient at Nazi-clobbering in costume as without one.
You'll note Pat didn't need a guy to assist her.
But, as of Speed Comics #23, she teamed up with several women from other countries (China, Russia, and America) to form the Girl Commandos, a distaff version of the multi-national Blackhawks...
...and dropped the "War Nurse" identity for the remainder of her run!
Note: If the art seems a tad un-detailed, even for a Golden Age comic, that's because the book wasn't normal sized (7.75" x 10.5"), but the smaller digest magazine-size (4" x 6.75")!
We just run them at the same size as the regular comics on this blog for your viewing ease!
 
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Friday, November 15, 2013

BOY EXPLORERS "Isle Where Women Rule" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...
Now let's continue this Golden Age tale about "feminazis", as Rush Limbaugh would call them..
Where the Amazons of Wonder Woman were kind and loving, wanting to help Mankind, these women embody the worst stereotypes of "strong women", feared by men of the era!
The Boy Explorers were typical of the "kid gang" strips of the era, combining a group of stereotypes (tough Brooklyn/Bronx or hillbilly urchin, glasses-wearing intellectual, annoying little-brother type, and a "typical" American boy) along with an adult mentor.
The plots ranged from fighting crooks and enemy spies in their neighborhood to travelling to exotic locations.
(This particular group is taking an around-the-world cruise.)
This never-reprinted tale from the back of Harvey's Terry and the Pirates Comics #4 (1947) was written and illustrated by the team of Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (who created the genre), this tale came out at the end of the concept's popularity, when stories became more and more outrageous to hold the waning audience's interest!
BTW, our "sister" blog, True Love Comics Tales presented a Womens-Lib era variation on the concept, which you can read HERE!

Friday, November 8, 2013

BOY EXPLORERS "Isle Where Women Rule" Part 1

Is this tale reponsible for Rush Limbaugh's "feminazi" fantasies?
This never-reprinted story from Harvey's Terry and the Pirates Comics #3 (1947), typlifies the adolecent male mindset from his childhood (which he apparently hasn't outgrown)...
Where the Amazons of Wonder Woman were kind and loving, wanting to help Mankind, these women embody the worst stereotypes of "strong women", feared by men of the era!
The Boy Explorers were typical of the "kid gang" strips of the era, combining a group of stereotypes (tough Brooklyn/Bronx or hillbilly urchin, glasses-wearing intellectual, annoying little-brother type, and a "typical" American boy) along with an adult mentor.
The plots ranged from fighting crooks and enemy spies in their neighborhood to travelling to exotic locations.
(This particular group is taking an around-the-world cruise.)
Written and illustrated by the team of Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (who created the genre), this tale came out at the end of the concept's popularity, when stories became more and more outrageous to hold the waning audience's interest!
BTW, our "sister" blog, True Love Comics Tales presented a Womens-Lib era variation on the concept, which you can read HERE!