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Tag: The Black Widow

The Devil As A Charming Chap, Murder As Entertainment: 31 Days Of Atlas #9

continued from here; 4. The Unreconstructed Devil The figure of Satan in The Black Widow is in one sense at least a rather daring, and even provocative, adversary for a 1940 comicbook. For the explicitness of his nudity matched to his habit of, as above, displaying buttocks to the readers while parading even more transgressive […]

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The Black Widow & The Grim Ghost: 31 Days Of Atlas #8

Continued from here: One way of showing how little attention Michael Fleisher chose to pay to the post-Marvel Revolution norms of action/adventure storytelling is to compare 1975’s The Grey Ghost #1 with 1940’s first appearance of the Golden Age Black Widow. The latter, by writer George Kapitan and artist Harry Sahle, has long been a […]

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Back To The Golden Age With The Grim Ghost!: 31 Days Of Atlas #7

  continued from yesterday’s post If Atlas Comics was indeed the “NEW House Of Ideas”, then what did The Grim Ghost have to say about this brand new direction for comicbooks? Somewhat bewilderingly, the comic suggested the brave new world of Atlas was nothing more or less than a return to the Golden Age and […]

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