DC and Marvel comics made me a rabid fan of the art form, but it was comics like Little Lulu that taught me to read. Their simple one to eight page stories with engaging artwork and fun characters were easy enough for a tyke like me to enjoy on my own. After mastering those, it wasn't hard to graduate to Archie Comics and then the wordy prose of DC and Marvel.
This cover was inspired by a suggestion by Comics' Historian and Patron of this Blog, Marc Tyler Nobleman - Thanks, Marc!
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Happy Thanksgiving to all!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen Superman drawn like that. What is that from?
Sergio Aragones Destroys DC I think.
ReplyDeleteI had to "rebuild" half of Superman's Body. Martian Manhunter was covering him up.
ReplyDeleteIf the Sailor Moon franchise is eligible pop culture to exploit on this website, maybe you could have a cover (or "cover") where Tuxedo Mask (or rather a friend of his whose vocabulary is less gentlemanly) convinces Tennessee Tuxedo to supervise the Sailor Scouts, with Tennessee misinterpreting the offer as a babysitting job because the sailor scouts are called "chicks" (Tennessee thinking the word meant baby birds)(In other words "TENNESSEE TUXEDO MASK"; get it? LOL!).
ReplyDeleteA complete surprise, who could ever be expecting this one ? 1000 points for your patron's crazy imaginations.
ReplyDeleteThere was a fun gag on The Simpsons showing that Alan Moore is a fan of Little Lulu... so I'm imagining that *THIS* is really whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow! :p
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving!
Ooh heres an idea astro boy or robocop joining robo force
ReplyDeleteL.L. -- BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ReplyDeleteI never got into Lulu (something about being 6 and girls & cooties) but I devoured Caspar and Richie Rich until my folks brought home an issue of Superboy!
ReplyDeleteMaybe one pairing(?) could be Richie Rich and the Jetsons; Richie's family's immense wealth seems to allow for Jetsons-type technology.
ReplyDeleteWatch out for that Lux Lather!
ReplyDeleteLittle Lulu, huh? Wasn't she a Harvey Comics character, initially?
ReplyDeleteNope! She was published by the original Gold Key Comics (a Golden Age Dell imprint, iirc).
ReplyDeleteLittle Lulu started out as a magazine cartoon by Marge. Among comic fans her best stories are for Dell by writer John Stanley. At one point she was the subject of cartoons from Fleischer Studios (so was Superman, btw) but when they lost the license they created their own character, Little Audrey, whom they later sold to Harvey Comics. Audrey is currently starring with fellow Harvey Girls Dot and Lotta in new cartoons for Netflix.
ReplyDeletepopeye meets sailor moon?
ReplyDeleteOr, failing that, Jonn Jonnz meets Sailor Mars?
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ReplyDelete"Or, failing that, Jonn Jonnz meets Sailor Mars?"
There was actually a canonical JLA story in which Jonn, posing as a Japanese woman, used Sailor Mars's "real" name as an alias.
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Great repurposing of a classic Superman cover!
ReplyDeleteHow about, for next Valentine's Day, Harvey Comic's Dot meets the Spider-verse's Spot?
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