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Dec. 3rd, 2010 12:31 pmHere's a fun story about bringing Lincoln back from the dead and having him turn out to be a total Red stooge.
Watch the fur fly as John Force, America's magical security agent, uses every resource at his command to learn the truth behind this death-defying nightmare of Communist terror! It's all in this week's Stupid Comics!
The thing about this story is that I kind of like the chunky Paul Reinman artwork - I think it's inked by George Roussos, I love his inks - and I believe the story is written by Jim Steranko in his pre-Marvel time at ACG; the "magic" talk is one of his trademarks at that company. But the story itself is complete nonsense, and the hard line cold war anticommunism is an anachronism in 1966, when this story was published.
I never bought a lot of ACG comics until I started really paying attention to old comics in terms of "Stupid Comics" fodder, and on the whole they're pretty agressively mediocre. Their funny animal and teen books are above average, especially "Cookie", but their mystery books are convoluted nonsense and their super hero stuff is tedious, real hackwork. History shows their most lasting character was "Herbie The Fat Fury". ACG was owned by Fred Iger (of the Eisner-Iger shop fame) and Harry Donenfeld, founder of DC. DC and ACG shared a lot of creative talent - Shaffenburger did a lot of ACG work - and a distributor, Independent News.
And that's your history lesson for today, Lincoln was a pinko. Thanks and goodnight!
Watch the fur fly as John Force, America's magical security agent, uses every resource at his command to learn the truth behind this death-defying nightmare of Communist terror! It's all in this week's Stupid Comics!
The thing about this story is that I kind of like the chunky Paul Reinman artwork - I think it's inked by George Roussos, I love his inks - and I believe the story is written by Jim Steranko in his pre-Marvel time at ACG; the "magic" talk is one of his trademarks at that company. But the story itself is complete nonsense, and the hard line cold war anticommunism is an anachronism in 1966, when this story was published.
I never bought a lot of ACG comics until I started really paying attention to old comics in terms of "Stupid Comics" fodder, and on the whole they're pretty agressively mediocre. Their funny animal and teen books are above average, especially "Cookie", but their mystery books are convoluted nonsense and their super hero stuff is tedious, real hackwork. History shows their most lasting character was "Herbie The Fat Fury". ACG was owned by Fred Iger (of the Eisner-Iger shop fame) and Harry Donenfeld, founder of DC. DC and ACG shared a lot of creative talent - Shaffenburger did a lot of ACG work - and a distributor, Independent News.
And that's your history lesson for today, Lincoln was a pinko. Thanks and goodnight!
