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In essays on the subject of centricity, I've most often used the image of a geometrical circle, which, as I explained here,  owes someth...

Thursday, January 20, 2022

DEPARTMENT OF COMICS CURIOSITIES #8

The main interest of the "Magno and Davey" story from FOUR FAVORITES #10 is that it's clearly signed by "H. Kurtzman," who would go on to greater fame at EC Comics. The splash panel should remind Golden Age enthusiasts of the wildly extravagant covers Alex Schomburg did for Timely Comics, but it's not nearly as good. The story, such as it is, features a teamup between the heroes' perennial foe the Jo-- er, the Clown-- and an evil scientist, Doctor Steele. Steele, like three other allies that the Clown makes in this series, gets killed at this story's end, so it's a pretty minor "villain team-up."



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