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Today we look at Crimebuster, the lead feature of Boy Comics, from Lev Gleason Publications. Born Chuck Chandler, he was at a military prep school hockey game when her received word that his parents had been murdered by the Nazi agent Iron Jaw. Without waiting to change out of his uniform, Chuck went into action, and got dubbed Crimebuster.
He battled the man with the metal prosthetic lower face for several issues, until Iron Jaw died. Crimebuster then went on to battle other criminals until Iron Jaw came back to life...somehow.
By this issue, Boy Comics #74 (Feb 1952), Chuck had moved into high school and started wearing long pants. He also fought Iron Jaw pretty much exclusively; the three stories in this issue are really just arbritarily divided chapters in their ongoing struggle.
I'm just going to skip to the third story, which matches the cover. Lev Gleason comics are in the public domain, so I can bring this story to you in its entirety.
At the end of the previous story, the police had managed to surround Iron Jaw and his current accomplices, and bombard them with tear gas.
Iron Jaw's feeling no pain! Now, here's some old-timey comic book ads!
And a bit of fan art commission from a Teresa I met at Springcon. She wasn't familiar with the Avenger, so let's go with the idea that Mr. Benson hasn't had time to wipe off the skin makeup from his latest disguise.
Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!
http://www.skjam.com
Today we look at Crimebuster, the lead feature of Boy Comics, from Lev Gleason Publications. Born Chuck Chandler, he was at a military prep school hockey game when her received word that his parents had been murdered by the Nazi agent Iron Jaw. Without waiting to change out of his uniform, Chuck went into action, and got dubbed Crimebuster.
He battled the man with the metal prosthetic lower face for several issues, until Iron Jaw died. Crimebuster then went on to battle other criminals until Iron Jaw came back to life...somehow.
By this issue, Boy Comics #74 (Feb 1952), Chuck had moved into high school and started wearing long pants. He also fought Iron Jaw pretty much exclusively; the three stories in this issue are really just arbritarily divided chapters in their ongoing struggle.
I'm just going to skip to the third story, which matches the cover. Lev Gleason comics are in the public domain, so I can bring this story to you in its entirety.
At the end of the previous story, the police had managed to surround Iron Jaw and his current accomplices, and bombard them with tear gas.
Iron Jaw's feeling no pain! Now, here's some old-timey comic book ads!
And a bit of fan art commission from a Teresa I met at Springcon. She wasn't familiar with the Avenger, so let's go with the idea that Mr. Benson hasn't had time to wipe off the skin makeup from his latest disguise.
Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!
http://www.skjam.com
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Date: 2014-05-18 02:45 pm (UTC)And, what with the gorilla suit and the barrels, channeling Donkey Kong more than sixty years before Jumpman came out.
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Date: 2014-05-18 02:57 pm (UTC)This should all be very stressful, but he never stops looking chipper.
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Date: 2014-05-18 10:24 pm (UTC)Not since my last trip to the zoo.
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Date: 2014-05-19 01:24 pm (UTC)Not before now, thank you very much for setting my brain on this particular track. Guess I'll just have to gather some empirical data... but how does one trick a gorilla into a brewery? Tell him they serve banana flavoured Guinness?
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Date: 2014-05-19 01:57 pm (UTC)