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Posted: 23-04-2013 20:38 Post subject:

We already had a superhero - Captain Hurricane.
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/caphurr.htm

Just don't get him angry:

http://www.darkinventions.com/captain_hurricane.jpg

Posted: 02-10-2013 23:04 Post subject:

There was a time when they really would make a comic about anything, or so it seemed:
http://space1970.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/2001-space-odyssey-marvel-comics-cover.html

That's right, a 2001: A Space Odyssey comic! Taking the term "inspired by" to new heights of lunacy. From the 1970s, of course.

Posted: 11-10-2013 21:50 Post subject:

Hey - I remember that. A Jack Kirby production. It was as mad as a sack of gerbils.

Posted: 11-10-2013 23:09 Post subject:

Browsing Orwell's essays last night, I came across a reference to a lurid American comic and I was going to ask the comic enthusiasts on here if they could identify it.

I see that the question has actually arisen before, however, on a comics forum:

Comics History Question

For the record, the essay is one of Orwell's As I Please columns in The Tribune, 27th December, 1946. The quote is given in the linked forum.

Though it seemed a burning issue of the day to the essayist, it seems the comic character The Hangman "a beautiful creature with a green face" was yesterday's news: he had flourished around five years earlier. A curious sidelight on the writer - the page he described so luridly has never been identified - it seems to have been a collage of impressions gleaned from an old comic sent by a correspondent, urging a ban on such things. Cool