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Not a great start, but at least this guy isn’t only remembered as a wife-beater.

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Where’d Acro-schmuck get the wrestling belt? Did this crap ever happen to Rex?

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ps238principal said on September 15th, 2010 at 1:40 pm

“Morty? Yeah, I was keeping this number in reserve for the eventual day when you wouldn’t return my calls. Seriously, what the HELL, Morty? Some guy here calling himself ‘Banshee’ says he’s here to repo my costume! What do you mean, ‘they pulled my membership?’ For crissakes, Morty, you could at least have had the decency to come down here yourself and not send this potato-stuffer to do your dirty work!”

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lance lunchmeat said on September 15th, 2010 at 1:46 pm

and then alan moore made them both drug addicts

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lance lunchmeat said on September 15th, 2010 at 1:48 pm

To answer Pack’s question, no. Rex was always the the guy on his cover. It’s only been RECENTLY that Detective Chimp became the headliner.

Though they did usually take a scene from the more subdued second rex story of the issue, instead of the first story which was usually silver age insanity.

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You obviously don’t know who you’re dealing with here–sure, the indicia says “The Frank Comunale Publishing Company,” but do you know who “The Frank Comunale Publishing Company” really is? Let me give you a hint–the guy on the trapeze doesn’t appear inside the comic (or any other comic). That’s right, the cover was a generic mockup, and they must have stuck that inset in there at the last minute when they decided who the headliner was going to be.

Even granting that superhero+dame with shapely gams has a visual advantage over superhero+regular-sized-not-even-giant bees, doesn’t it just make sense to pulp the old cover to feature your headliner? Who would ever do something as shoddy and idiotic as this? Well, Yellowjacket #1 is the very first comic produced by the company that later became Children’s Comic Publishing, then Charles Publishing Company and Frank Publications before finally settling on:

Charlton.

And now you know the rest of the story.

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Mary Warner said on September 15th, 2010 at 3:27 pm

I wouldn’t jump to Timely if I were him. That company has a history of treating Yellowjackets badly.

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Lookout! She’s a trap!

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