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I bet you can see his rangey human wrists poking out from his elastic cuffs. *shudder* The Easter Bunny First appearance: Police Comics #18 Created by Frank Borth The devil's bargain. Here comes Peter Cottontail Hoppin’ down the bunny trail Hippity-Hoppity He’s attempting to assassinate a prominent government figure With a basket full of exploding eggs That may not be how the song goes, but it’s…
“I thought you were a pervert” -- “No ma'am, I’m a crimefighter” In 1987, the ABC television network succumbed to a powerful wave of popular pressure from the nerd community. Comic fans had gotten wind of the existence of a live-action adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, filmed as a pilot for a possible series and subsequently shelved. The finished project was reportedly a dud, but…
“Bat-Pussy.” According to historians of pornographic film, that’s the title – and titular star – of the very first comic strip character porn parody ever committed to film. The excruciatingly amateur production – ostensibly a sexy satire of the live-action 1966 Batman television show – was evidently filmed sometime before 1972, probably somewhere in Texas, using almost exclusively anonymous actors…
DIAMOND JACK Created by Gus Ricca Appears in Slam-Bang Comics #1-7, Wow Comics #1 (Fawcett, 1940) Fawcett Comics was a font of magic words and expensive goods. The line boasted, among others, ancient Egyptian sorcerer Ibis the Invincible and his all-powerful golden Ibistick (which would be a good nickname for a dick, consider it for yourself or your loved ones). It boasted a veritable card catalog…
Koroo the Black Lion Creator unknown Appears in Cyclone Comics #1-5 (1940) He stalks the unknowable jungles, king of the savage land beyond civilization. Superstitious man fears him as a terrible predator, but among the beasts of the dense and endless forest, he is “monarch of all he surveys!” He is KOROO, THE BLACK LION, and he’s in danger -- of becoming a backup character in his own strip. The…
The Jungle King’s gated community. LEE GRANGER, JUNGLE KING Created by Manly Wade Wellman and Jack Binder Appears in Slam-Bang Comics #1-7, Master Comics #7-10 (Fawcett, 1940-1941) Scientist-Adventurer Lee Granger parachutes into a “pygmy village” in Africa after vicious slavers bomb his airplane. It’s a tale as old as time and also, probably, the best thing to ever happen to the giant, strapping…
Mekano, doing what good robots do — refusing to step on a small child at the last moment. Mekano Created by Bob Oksner Appears in Wonder Comics #1 (1944) What stands eight feet tall, has metal arms as thick as pylons, leers through dead indigo eyes, grins a metal rictus of sharp iron fangs, and is also -- according to its biggest fan -- “practically human?” It’s no human that I’ve ever met, but it…
“Save it, hotshot. I got a Tulpa chest.” The Tulpa of Tsang Created by Norman Nodel and Lionel March Appears in Colossus Comics #1 (1940) A “Tulpa” is a being manifested through thought, or will -- I’ll be a poor instructor on the subject, go ask your Uncle Wikipedia. Whatever the case, it’s an esoteric concept for most, but might be more familiar to contemporary comic readers through the metaphor…
Tornado Tom Creator unknown Appears in Cyclone Comics #1-5 (1940) Emerging unhurt from a spinning cyclone and boasting strange new powers is farmhand Tom Kenny -- Tornado Tom to his friends -- and he’s a fink! Tornado Tom survives this singular experience in the pages of Cyclone Comics -- a book which gives away a pretty major spoiler right in the title, if you think about it. The fulsome farmhand…
Banshee O’Brien, Boy Enchanter Creator uncredited Appears in All-Hero Comics vol.1 No.1 and Whiz Comics vol.1 No.46 Meet the hepcat Harry Potter. In its day, Fawcett Comics was home to its fair share of magical superheroes - wizards and sorcerers who took to crimefighting with, often, little more than a snazzy suit and a magical accoutrement to their credit. These kinds of magicians were fairly…
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