A Cautionary Tale

Saturday Leftover Day.

These days, we give Will eisner grief for his handling of Ebony, the african american sidekick of his hero The Spirit. In fact, eisner himself stopped using him after the war for the same reason. And sometime we add how much Eisner must be forgiven because he was aprt of a culture that wasn't sensitive yet to these things. But we rarely see what taht meant. here is what Eisner was up against, in a book of the company is partner Busy arnolg had started, a lovely little story by another industry legend, Rudy Palais.

A Skip And A Jump

Friday Comic Book Day.

An early Bob and Swab story by Klaus Nordling.

Strip Me, Kate

Thursday story Strip Day.

Here is something I had never seen before (or since). An adventure strip that ran from 1967 to 1972. At first I thought it might have been dawrn by Sheldon (Shelly Moldoff, but it appears to be the work of a Jerry Skelly. The strip was written by his wife Hale, with the help of Archie Goodwin. In his entry of the Who's Who of Comics, it says he wrte this strp from 1966 to 1970.

Fly By Night Boy

Wednesday Advertising Day.

On the scan sharing site www'comicbookplus.com I found a folder of the Captain Ben Dix ad series from the mid forties. Although itdoesn't seem to be the work a know artist, it is remarkeble for the quality of the art and the storytelling. I added a couple of color scans of my own, which seem to be from the month preceding the existing run.

And oops... it turns out that the black and white run came from my own earlier post! Well, at least I saw that someone left a message there: "The author of Capt. Ben Dix was Erwin M. Solms...my father." I'd love to hear more about that, kind poster.