Comics from the 50's

[Coop]

I am curious as to how many of us RF members remember certain comic books/characters from the 1950's. My favorite was the "Blackhawk" series, flying planes, which I followed for many years. I remember a certain series where they battled a huge rolling spiked assault wheel that crushed everything in its path.

Your thoughts, and your favorites from that time.

Coop

 

[Hugh]

I liked to read the comics with their adventures. Did you ever wonder where they got the finances and backing to operate those high performance aircraft? That thought never occurred to me until after I joined the Navy in 1959.

 

[Geoff Timm]

Blackhawk was a Polish Prince and inherited the national treasury when the socialists and then the communists took over. Good rates of interest and he invested in the war expansion of the US economy. Made a bundle on shipping to Europe too.
I liked the Haunted Tank myself.
Geoff
Who wasted many dimes and then quarters and then stopped when the price went higher.

 

[Bob Wright]

The Blackhawks flew an airplane that was never produced, the Grumann F5F Skyrocket. in Terry and the Pirates the plane was the P-40 Warhawk. Also liked Red Ryder. And a one-panel cartoon, Our Boarding House with Major Hoople.

Bob Wright

 

[Ale-8(1)]

As I posted in your thread, Bob, the Blackhawk guys flew several different aircraft over the years.

http://www.ourworlds.net/blackhawk/index.html

I made 'Hawk T-shirts for myself and the other fans in my neighborhood.



In a tie for favorite was Tarzan . . . as I had read most of the ERB books.

 

[Bob Wright]

Never related to Tarzan. He never rode a horse nor carried a six-shooter.


Bob Wright

 

[Ray Newman]

I always liked "Classics Illustrated."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics_Illustrated

 

[Ale-8(1)]

I always liked "Classics Illustrated."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics_Illustrated

Ah, yes . . . "Illustrated Cliff Notes". :wink:

I always wanted those but my folks insisted that I read the full-bore versions, and the local educators frowned on the "comic books". Some sort of literary snobbery, I guess. They always seemed like "better than nothing" to me.