So, what DOES Olive Oyl see in him again?
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scans_dailyIt may, or may not, be well known, that Popeye was never meant to be a star.
Olive Oyl and her original boyfriend, Harold Hamgravy, was the original star of "Thimble Theatre (Which debuted over 90 years ago in 1919). The style changed a little, and introduced her brother Castor, who was always up to some comedic enterprise or other.
Then on January 17 1929, a story required Castor hiring a boat
...and a legend was born
Judging by the comparison they make, they appear to be renting a boat from a Cantina in Tattooine, but never mind.
Popeye was an instant hit and the series made more use of him than originally planned, he eventually became the primary character.
Popeye's history is probably worth a series of posts of their own, and I think we might have had some a couple of S_D incarnations ago.
By why mention that now, since I'm not planning on making such a series of posts? Well, because of Bela Lugosi, that's why...
Preview from Bela Lugosi's Tales From The Grave #2 from previewsworld
Seven-time Academy Award-winning make-up legend Rick Baker creates his first comic book cover and only for Monsterverse's second issue of Bela Lugosi's Tales From The Grave. Baker has been responsible for cinema history with work like that with Dick Smith when he was only 18 for The Exorcist. He won the first Academy Award for Make-up as a category with American Werewolf In London. He created the make-up designs for Michael Jackson's Thriller, the most successful music video in history. He's created apes for Gorillas In The Mist, and turned Jack Nicholson into a werewolf in Wolf. And for Monsterverse's money he won another Oscar for turning Martin Landau into Bela Lugosi (who also won an Oscar for the role!). The list of Oscars goes on and on right up to the recent The Wolfman. Now, he's bringing Hollywood to modern horror comics!
And now he turns his attention to....
Yeah Olive, you got yourself a REAL catch there! And yes, this story does feature in the issue.
And another story in the same issue gives us an idea what the son of Batman, Bane and Spawn might look like (and how such a son might come into being is aGotham pub crawl mental image I'm not going near)... Meet Walpurgis Knight
All this and stories featuring earth astronauts meeting a planet of teenage vampires, and an evil Harry Knowles analogue seeking out a lost, cursed, horror movie? Well, I'm sold... as long as I don't have to look at that cover too often, bloody thing would give me nightmares.
Oh, and as a purely incidental sidenote (honestly!), speaking of Popeye, I just got hold of an acetate used in producing a coloured page for one of my favourite comics ever, the New Mutants Special Edition, featuring not only my favourite little linguist, but analogues of Popeye and Bluto for good measure!
Olive Oyl and her original boyfriend, Harold Hamgravy, was the original star of "Thimble Theatre (Which debuted over 90 years ago in 1919). The style changed a little, and introduced her brother Castor, who was always up to some comedic enterprise or other.
Then on January 17 1929, a story required Castor hiring a boat
...and a legend was born
Judging by the comparison they make, they appear to be renting a boat from a Cantina in Tattooine, but never mind.
Popeye was an instant hit and the series made more use of him than originally planned, he eventually became the primary character.
Popeye's history is probably worth a series of posts of their own, and I think we might have had some a couple of S_D incarnations ago.
By why mention that now, since I'm not planning on making such a series of posts? Well, because of Bela Lugosi, that's why...
Preview from Bela Lugosi's Tales From The Grave #2 from previewsworld
Seven-time Academy Award-winning make-up legend Rick Baker creates his first comic book cover and only for Monsterverse's second issue of Bela Lugosi's Tales From The Grave. Baker has been responsible for cinema history with work like that with Dick Smith when he was only 18 for The Exorcist. He won the first Academy Award for Make-up as a category with American Werewolf In London. He created the make-up designs for Michael Jackson's Thriller, the most successful music video in history. He's created apes for Gorillas In The Mist, and turned Jack Nicholson into a werewolf in Wolf. And for Monsterverse's money he won another Oscar for turning Martin Landau into Bela Lugosi (who also won an Oscar for the role!). The list of Oscars goes on and on right up to the recent The Wolfman. Now, he's bringing Hollywood to modern horror comics!
And now he turns his attention to....
Yeah Olive, you got yourself a REAL catch there! And yes, this story does feature in the issue.
And another story in the same issue gives us an idea what the son of Batman, Bane and Spawn might look like (and how such a son might come into being is a
All this and stories featuring earth astronauts meeting a planet of teenage vampires, and an evil Harry Knowles analogue seeking out a lost, cursed, horror movie? Well, I'm sold... as long as I don't have to look at that cover too often, bloody thing would give me nightmares.
Oh, and as a purely incidental sidenote (honestly!), speaking of Popeye, I just got hold of an acetate used in producing a coloured page for one of my favourite comics ever, the New Mutants Special Edition, featuring not only my favourite little linguist, but analogues of Popeye and Bluto for good measure!
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Date: 2011-05-08 09:49 pm (UTC)I.. I can't stop laughing now.
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