From the teeming, steaming jungles of our previous post HERE, to the weird, webbed corners of spooky outer space, it's now time to blast-off into more long-legged, blonde bombshell adventure as Gale Allen and her gorgeous Girl Squadron face some bloodthirsty butterfly men! Sounds kinda silly doesn't it? But you have no idea how creepy-crawly alien butterfly men can be! And don't even get me started on the giant space slugs-- ughh! From the May 1944 issue of Planet Comics #30, and highlighted by some really fantastic artwork from Fran Hopper --making her THOIA debut, finally! And for more spicy, sci-fi super space babe action and adventure, be sure to check out the AEET Archive HERE! You won't be sorry, because there's a Mysta of the Moon story also illustrated by Fran! CLICK HERE and HERE for info about fab Franny, too!
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Gorgeous artwork, pinup-worthy heroines, creepy fanged monsters, a delightfully bonkers premise, outer space…this is everything I’m learning to love about Golden Age comics. Thanks for alerting me to such peak pulp-era madness!
It took me a couple pages to realize that Gale has some kind of Saturn like ... medal? ... on her shoulders, or one of them, or none of them ... it comes and goes!
Fran obvious has a lot of talent and is a great good girl artist, kind of our Bunny Yeager of comics, but there's some obvious weird mistakes probably because of deadlines or editorial; like it goes from 2 shipmates to 3 at the end. She's also got kind of a go to expression (round panel on page 3, for instance). I am NOT picking on Fran here, I'm just fascinated by this job.
She does a great job on both the slugs and the butterfly men. Great gnarly teeth. I love the no space suits outer space, where the hair acts a bit like underwater.
Neat little comic. Story is really a 40s comic to the point story: here be monsters, you run into them, you shot your way out.
Panel 2, last page, is a great piece of understanding anatomy, every woman has a different and realistic (if under water!) pose, and I love how they fade with distance.
You ain’t seen nothing yet! ;)
Not sure if it’s a medal, an earring, or someone watermarking these scans in sneaky stealth mode! Not so stealthy now, eh?
A good way to describe this story is its a pre- Heavy Metal Magazine tale. Weird stuff happens - just because, a wild adventure and pretty pinup heroines, only in Heavy Metal they would wear little more than nail polish and hairspray.
Great golden age space adventure fun!
Okay, I LOVE the design for the butterfly men. Delightfully creepy, yet I also love that they still have some sort of underwear on. We can’t have naked butterfly men, can we?🤣🤣
I'm ready to hear all about the ages-long intergalactic war between the Space Spiders and the Butterfly Vampires. The Golden Age was a hoot. This is galactic adventure characterized as climbing up into some long abandoned attic, moldering away in the dark. This murky outback--where the very planets are webbed together like trees with a bagworm infestation--must be the creepiest example of space fantasy I've seen in a while. Yes thanks, you're totally right: There are definitely some uncharted reaches I'm gonna let somebody else explore.
I went back and read every story your AEET search link brought up. I love this stuff.
Cool, glad everyone enjoys the sci-fi horror posts. I might bump up the number of them here at THOIA since they tend to get missed over at AEET.
Yes people, I have TWO blogs, link on the sidebar! lol
If you take away the word "old," that line on Page 1 about doing "men's work" sounds like a pro-feminist line that's worked in very casually.
After all, she's not complaining about men's work that's too hard, she's complaining about men's work that's too dull.
"Aye, Aye, Gail!" is a line that's going to stay with me.
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