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An Awesome Title Transformation…
December 15, 2008 @ 10:37 AM
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 7 Comments
The Golden Age has a lot of these, and I’ve even featured my all-time favorite in an installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed (check that one out here – that column also explains why this was such a common practice), but while reading last week’s Alter Ego on the MLJ superheroes (which you can purchase here), I came across a very humorous title transformation, so check out what happened when the Black Hood’s Top Notch Comics underwent a bit of a transformation…
Top-Notch Comics debuted in 1939, and by 1942, the superhero the Black Hood was the lead feature, but in 1942, a change took place (based on the success of Archie Andrews in Pep Comics in 1941-42)…
Pretty funny, huh?
7 Comments
Jeff Ryan
December 15, 2008 at 11:15 am
Almost as bad as when German-American Bund Heroes of 1938 turned to Captain America.
Eric N.
December 15, 2008 at 11:39 am
But then Black Hood eventually had one of the greatest Alex Toth covers of all time. Makes up for “Pop muh bottle,” I think.
Chris McAree
December 15, 2008 at 1:11 pm
For a second I thought that The Sentry really had been around since the Golden Age!
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Omar Karindu, back from an Internet Thogal ritual
December 15, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Pokey Oakey? I’m pretty sure that was still illegal in 1942.
Chris Jones
December 16, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Those monkeys look like they’re just having a ball.
FunkyGreenJerusalem
December 16, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Yeah, those monkeys are freaking awesome!