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“I’ll rip those bastards a new one, and then I’ll rip a new one in that, and then I’ll rip a new one in that, ad infinitum.”


(From the first page of  “Marvel Mystery Comics” #11, 1940, looking into a hole that’s 30 pages deep.) 


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Detail from page 1 of “Detective Comics” #31 (the fifth Batman story), scanned from an early 1970s reprint.

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Not Superman. The Angel, by Paul Gustavson, from "Marvel Mystery Comics" #11, 1940.

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From "Suspense Comics" #5, 1944. Artist uncredited.

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From "Target Comics" v2, n2, 1941.

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Illustration by Bernard Krigstein and color by Marie Severin for the story "Master Race" in "Impact" #1. Scanned from a house ad in "Mad" #21, 1955.

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Sheena by Robert Webb in "Jumbo Comics" #36, 1942.

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From "Real Fact Comics" #12 (1948).

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From a 1954 Atlas house ad.

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If you also eat pictures over at Tumblr, our new 4CP franchise is at: 4cp.tumblr.com

I'll be serving up (mostly) images from the early years of 4CP, which are now buried on deep pages of this Posthaven blog.

]]> John Hilgart @4CPcomics tag:4cp.posthaven.com,2013:Post/619350 2013-11-14T14:37:06Z 2021-01-12T05:58:16Z MAD #21: Cover by Harvey Kurtzman (1955)

It is one of the most glorious and ludicrous covers in comic book history. Disguised to look like an interior page full of novelty ads, it is so dense with tiny print as to be almost illegible at original printed size. Business matters are handled in two small boxes at the top (with a delightful splash of color), while 46 novelty ads cover the rest of the space. It is so true to the originals that it parodies that it’s almost indistinguishable from them from more than a foot away. On a garish comic book rack in 1955, I don’t know if this cover would have commanded attention or would have been invisible. 

 
It's a great concept and a beautiful graphic execution. And it demanded copy, lots and lots of copy. The typewriter was going clackety clack. A joke was being written in tiny little slivers. Let’s pry open every one of these microscopic parodies, like oysters on a flatbed scanner.

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