Showing posts with label comic book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comic book. Show all posts

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Jungle Girl Nyoka Has Been Mucking Around

 quiIn the course of her comic book career, Nyoka found herself bust-deep in mire during four different adventures. It's a dubious track record that no other jungle heroine would likely challenge. 

She apparently never learned to tread carefully on smooth, flat surfaces or to carry a long pole. Nor was she privy to the standard quicksand survival tips (don't struggle, try to gradually shift to a horizontal position). She barely had the foresight to bring a length of rope.

Her big-screen incarnation exhibited slightly better sense, but managed to land in other nasty predicaments during two Republic serials... 'Jungle Girl' and 'The Perils Of Nyoka'.
Despite the deathtraps, Nyoka survived a slew of appearances in Fawcett's 'Master Comics' and 67 issues of her own title. 

The following dramatic misstep comes from Nyoka issue 67---


Friday, September 3, 2010

Wonder Woman - Da Feet In Concrete

During her Silver Age Comics tenure, Wonder Woman's adventures drifted toward the bizarre, if not downright goofy. While it might have provided excellent fetish fuel, the following tale from issue 128 broke the wacky-meter by the fifth page...


Apparently, an unconscious Amazon becomes totally rigid and doesn't breathe noticeably. In this same fact-filled issue, we learned that her Invisible Robot Plane is actually a flying horse in disguise.

(cough) Princess, try slipping your feet out of your shoes (cough)

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Betty & Veronica Comics - Sixties Stuck

One of my earliest encounters with the stuck scene (found while browsing through some old comic books in a barber shop no less).
 Plus a brief encounter with tar in an earlier story...
 Both from Betty & Veronica vol 1 no 103