Saturday, September 13, 2014

Post #70


Issue #58
October 1944
Rating: 5
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When ‘The Creature From The Black Lagoon’ was matinee gold in 1954, Gardner Fox must have been saying to himself, ‘Yeah, I did that ten years ago’.  The Jon Chester Kozlak art has a murky green bog feel to it – and it works!

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The story begins with a Moses like origin of the Merman. As he becomes an adult his duel nature finds that he is not accepted as a man. The missing link between fish and man turns to a life of crime and has to swim upstream when the Flash is in pursuit.

Hawkman and Hawkgirl serve up the corny jokes with their punches.

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This issue is the correct end of the run of 'Minute Movies' strip. Overstreet and CGC Labeling mistakenly cite the next issue.

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