#more fun comics 1936

[ufonaut]

Title page from the Johnny Quick story in More Fun Comics (1936) #91. Art by Mort Meskin.

[bendy-n-stuff]

I'm sorry but i'm not into the batim fandom but what did they change about her ?

Oh hey, no problem! I’m assuming you’re talking about Alice Angel

So we don’t actually know a ton about her toon! And while you can easily argue that for Bendy and Boris too, I could at least tell you some main traits about both of them. Alice however? I don’t know jack.

So a few years ago we got a big book of “curated comics” called Bendy Crack-Up Comics Collection. The book splits up into three eras to accommodate the different art/storytelling styles and time periods. The three sections are Syndicated Comic Strips (1931-1935), Dime-Store Comics (1936-1940), and Promotional Comics (1941-1946).

Bendy (the main character) was made 1929 and followed closely by Boris (protagonists best friend). Alice was made a little later in 1933 so she takes a bit longer to be fleshed out- which makes sense!

So Alice is known as a singer* and that’s really the only thing we know about her in canon. Syndicated has her as relatively sweet and a great singer (heartthrob) but she has a little sass as shown here

Dime-Store era Alice shows up a ton more is a lot more sassy. The added dialogue shown in these comics change her from the girl heartthrob to kind, sassy, and the smartest of the bunch. They’re all friends and it shows. I’d argue pretty much the same for the Promotional Comics (which is a much smaller section).

Now the argument I could see is that Boris and Bendy are fleshed out either, which I totally agree with. But at least they get a LITTLE love in the animated shorts. Alice is only in one**.

I think the real argument should be that they need to flesh the cartoons all together because they haven’t done a great job but the things they made no longer canon (the books) does. And unfortunately I think that’s a big theme for the franchise as a whole. The books feel a lot more canon than their newest game. There’s a lot of disconnect.

*We have two canon songs sung by her (here) and (here)

**Video here

Well this analysis was a ton of fun! Sorry if that’s more than you wanted.

[wuxiaphoenix]

Worldbuilding: Catgirl Sword and Planet

I should blame Flash Gordon for this. Though I hope to write something more along the lines of Andre Norton’s interstellar works, or Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars; a story where  rayguns, spaceships, and psionic powers make each planet uniquely fair and perilous. Or, again, possibly along the lines of “Bride of Chaotica”. Because that was fun.

But at the moment I’m blaming Flash Gordon (1936). Not to diss anyone’s childhood fun. If there weren’t some fun stuff in it I wouldn’t keep watching even 20-minute episodes. And yet....

And yet. Well. I think I’ve finally tracked down part of my grumps to, “Why can’t this have as coherent a plot and characters as Tarzan or Conan? They were comics too!”

Which is, honestly, unfair. First, those two were made into comic books, not weekly newspaper serials. I grant you Prince Valiant was amazingly coherent over long periods of time, but it’s more like expecting Garfield to have a long-running tight plot.

Second - Tarzan and Conan were books first. Of course their writers had to be more organized, or readers would have wandered off after the third Mad Science Plot Device.

(So many in Flash Gordon. So many.)

Meaning I’m frustrated because I keep expecting it to be something it’s really, really not. Probably made worse in growing up with Doctor Who; now there was a serial that had well-written characters!

But I’m also frustrated because there are elements in it that’d be fascinating in another setting. Lion-men, shark-men, bird-men! Flying and underwater cities. Horrific monsters, uncanny science, and unashamedly Evil Overlords. Elements, in fact, that would work splendidly in the Sword and Planet subgenre of SF. If that doesn’t ring a bell, consider that it includes much of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ books (the Barsoom series being best known, I recc’ the movie John Carter of Mars). I would also fit many of Andre Norton’s books in here; The Beast Master, Lord of Thunder, and Catseye in particular.

A catgirl native to a Sword and Planet setting could be interesting indeed. And the genre already allows for isekai’d heroes in it!

At the moment bunnies are leaning toward a group isekai of some kind. With at least one guy expecting it to go to formula (harems, power leveling, etc.) and a more sane guy who ends up teaming up with the catgirl and being a valiant hero. Possibly also a birdman in the group, Because.

Sword and Planet also has a heavy emphasis on exotic cultures (yay costumes!), hand-to-hand combat with Weird Powers (psychic, qi manipulation, any way you slice it wuxia stunts are possible), and on-planet adventures in cities and wild alike. No boring interstellar trips here!

I don’t yet have any solid ideas what the Sane Guy should be like or how they all got there, outside of considering him as Swordsman to the catgirl’s Sorceress. Meaning I need to figure out how he could know or learn swordfighting when I think he starts as a more average guy....

Anyway. Getting some thoughts down so that when another project isn’t eating my brain, I might tackle this one. As well as Druid. And Hunted by Unicorns. And....

Drat. Must write faster.

[tomoleary]

Whitney Ellsworth New Comics #4 (1936)

In-house from More Fun #9 (1936)

[byneddiedingo]

James Cagney and Anita Louise in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, 1935) Cast: Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Victor Jory, Anita Louise, Mickey Rooney, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Dewey Robinson, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale. Screenplay: Charles Kenyon, Mary C. McCall Jr., based on a play by William Shakespeare. Cinematography: Hal Mohr. Art direction: Anton Grot. Film editing: Ralph Dawson. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, adapted from works by Felix Mendelssohn. Costume design: Max Rée. Choreography: Bronislava Nijinska The spirit that animates this version of A Midsummer Night's Dream is not that of William Shakespeare but Felix Mendelssohn. Shakespeare's text has been trimmed to a nubbin and hashed up by the "arrangers," Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr., and it's gabbled by the all-star cast. Strangely, Olivia de Havilland and Mickey Rooney are the worst offenders, since they are the only members of the cast of Max Reinhardt's celebrated 1934 Hollywood Bowl production who made it into the movie. De Havilland delivers her lines with heavy emphasis on seemingly random words and with odd pauses, while Rooney punctuates every line with giggles, chortles, and shrieks that affect some viewers like fingernails on a chalkboard. Nobody in the cast seems to be aware that they're speaking verse. Fortunately, the decision was made to use the Mendelssohn overture and incidental music (along with snippets of other works by Mendelssohn), and to have it orchestrated by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The result is an opulently balletic version of the play, taking advantage of what can be done in movies that can't be done on stage. Is it good? Maybe not, but it's much more fun than the stodgily reverent version of Romeo and Juliet (George Cukor, 1936) that MGM came up with the following year. Casting James Cagney as Bottom/Pyramus and Joe E. Brown as Flute/Thisby was a masterstroke, and if they had been directed by someone with a surer sense of American comic idiom than Reinhardt, the Viennese refugee from Hitler who spoke very little English (co-director William Dieterle, a German émigré, acted as interpreter), the results would have been classic -- as it is, they're just bumptious fun. Much of the design for the movie is reminiscent of the work of early 20th century illustrators of children's books like Walter Crane, Arthur Rackham, and John R. Neill, though with a tendency toward the twee. But there is a spectacular moment in the film when Oberon gathers the fairies, gnomes, and bat-winged sprites to depart, under a billowing smoky black train. The cinematography by Hal Mohr won the only write-in Oscar ever granted by the Academy.

[scotianostra]

On March 8th 1936 Oor Wullie and The Broons made their first appearance in the Sunday Post.

Jings , Crivven’s, and Help ma boab!! All words synonymous with oor we dungaree wearing hero, that oor ain Susan posted a pic of just this morning.

Wullie and his gang have been keeping boredom at bay for decades in the typical Scottish town of Auchenshoogle.

The rascal has become an icon sitting on an upturned bucket in his famous dungarees as he plans the latest pranks and japes.

Fat Bob, Soapy Soutar, Wee Eck, Primrose (and don’t forget Jeemy the mouse) all join in the fun, with Wullie’s Ma, Pa and poor old PC Murdoch also playing starring roles.

Some famous faces have appeared in the strip over the years including Nicola Sturgeon, Ewan McGregor, Andy Murray and Amy Macdonald.

A 2004 survey voted Wullie ‘Scotland’s Favourite Son’, beating William Wallace, Sean Connery and Rabbie Burns in the top four

Everyone knows the Broons. Hen is still the tallest beanpole in Scotland, Joe’s still flexing his muscles, Maggie’s still as gorgeous as ever, Daphne’s still trying to get a man, Horace is constantly swotting and the never-named Twins are always up to mischief. And that’s not forgetting the brainiest Bairn in Scotland, the ever youthful Granpaw and heads of the whole clan - matriarch Maw and put-upon Paw.

Although they’ve only ever appeared in the pages of the Dundee-based Sunday newspaper, the annuals - which alternate year about between Oor Wullie and The Broons - are still flying off the shelves faster than Granpaw’s false teeth during a toffee apple eating contest.

The annuals are always in the top ten Christmas bestsellers at booksellers Waterstone’s.

While the two strips adhere to the traditional format there have been some changes over the years, not all go down well, like when hen they tried printing the comics strips in colour the 90s, Michty me! There were shoals of complaints from readers and they had to go back to black and white In the most recent annuals, Horace gets a makeover and is mistaken for Harry Potter, while other characters are seen clutching mobile phones, checking e-mails on laptops, singing on karaoke machines and watching satellite TV.

It’s only on International women’s day to post Oor Nicalo with Wullie. 

Want more history on the comics, check out this link here http://scotiafile.blogspot.com/…/a-brief-history-of-oor-wul…

[mycharacterlistandwipdump]

The Plot Synopses of The UnTitledverse Masterpost

Note: May update over time. TW: A few possible lackluster descriptions.

The Perfect Storm saga

Jurassic World: Before The Storm (Jurassic World) - Lisa Cobalt finds herself in a predicament; she is the legal guardian to her foster brother, Joaquin, but cannot financially support him and herself. That is, until an opportunity to fill the role of a paleo-veterinarian at the marvelous Jurassic World presents itself. However, not is all as it seems. When an abnormal dinosaur makes a sudden appearance, it brings with it mistrust among the staff, and a conspiracy that shrouds an inevitable doom. Life gifts lessons and fortune. Those who do not heed these lessons are fools bound to repeat history.

A Blast In The Past - In 1936, you return to your old workplace at Carmine Studios, your old partner wanting to have a reunion. What you did not anticipate was the darkness that welled up from the consequences of your departure. Live or die, trust or betray, kill or be killed, again and again, follow the path laid out for you, and dwell in the regret of crossing me.

FNAF: Ask Goldie Anything (Five Nights At Freddy's) - Goldie and the Fazbear Gang (both the Originals and the Toys) are asked questions by the readers on Wattpad, AO3, Tumblr and fanfiction net (and possibly more), influencing the plot into varying directions. Based on Grawolfquinn's FNAF comic Ask Goldie Anything, but with a twist.

Adapt To Survive (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous) - Left behind on Isla Nublar, Joaquin Cobalt traverses the years spent on the dinosaur populated island, with the reluctant help of an industrialist by the name of Edward Carmine. Indo recovers from his fight with the Indominus, grieving the loss of his pack.

Jurassic World: Into The Eye Of The Storm (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) - Isla Nublar is on the brink of a volcanic destruction, so when mercenaries make their way to the island to collect the dinosaurs, Joaquin, Edward and Indo take separate paths to get off the burning island. All these paths lead them to the same Manor on the Mainland.

The Tale Of Mario Emmet (FNAF: The Silver Eyes) - Charlie and her friends return to Hurricane, Utah for the memorial of Michael Brooks and the children who went missing at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. When exploring the old pizzeria, they discover the ruined building is being used as a nest... and the creature is not too far away.

The Aftermath Equation (Jurassic World) - Evading death once more and tying up loose ends, Edward Carmine traces his obsession to the Dolomite Mountains of Italy, in the Biosyn Sanctuary run by Lewis Dodgson. He offers his services and funding. Meanwhile, Maisie learns more about the Joaquin who saved her.

The Adventures of Debra Holmes And Her Amazing Space Friend Mario Emmet - Set before The Tale Of Mario Emmet, in 1988, a Texan girl by the name of Debra Holmes makes the discovery of an alien shapeshifter who she refers to as "Mario Emmet" taking residence on her homestead. The beginning of a wholesome and tragic friendship, both human and alien have the time of their lives while Mario hides away from the U.S Government.

SPECIALS - A novelisation of a roleplay (that I have yet to make), in which the plot is not a priority and is merely a fun and chaotic celebration of several holidays hosted by Calvin Dearing... right?

The Dark Awakening - The sequel to A Blast In The Past, you have had enough with the narrator's torment and venture to break the cycle out of the purgatory he's left you in. A battle between first-person POV and second-person POV, hoping to finally reach third-person POV.

Jurassic World: The Perfect Storm (Jurassic World: Dominion) - The finale to the Jurassic World arc, Edward makes his final move to uncover the Aftermath Equation from the mechanical beast that keeps knowledge within itself, in order to evade death once more. It is up to Joaquin and Maisie to not only sabotage Edward, but also ruin Lewis Dodgson and Biosyn's plans until help arrives.

Honour Thy Father (Transformers Prime) - After a botched mission that held uncertain revelations, Autobot Arcee ventures across Earth to figure out her origins, with the aid of a droid by the name of Timekeeper, whose Time Watch had fallen into enemy hands.

Walking Fate Season 1 (The Walking Dead Game Season 1) - Lee Everett is given a second chance at life, in a world where the dead roam. He takes a girl by the name of Clementine under her wing, and they join up with more survivors as they endure the new world where death can be around every corner.

More Than An IT (IT (2017)) - IT has gone by many names, many forms. ITs' most favorable form being "Pennywise the Dancing Clown". IT has spent centuries devouring the fear and flesh of children. But what can it do against a child that has no fear of it?

Trust In Us (TFP) - The Autobots are lured to a possible energon lab buried underneath the Grand Canyon. The Decepticons had also followed the lab's signal, engaging in combat when meeting the Autobots. Decepticon Communications Officer Soundwave manages to enter the lab first, with Arcee hot on his heels. Events take a turn for the worse, as both Autobot and Decepticon find themselves locked inside a stronghold that's sole purpose was not to create energon, but keep mechanical horrors from reaching the surface. And they have the capacity to deceive.

Not The Strangest Thing (Stranger Things) - Hawkins, Indiana is a hot spring for supernatural occurrences. Follow a party of kids as they traverse the sinister realm that has broken into Hawkins, with government conspiracies and the Cold War looming over an opportunity to weaponize the creatures on the other side.

Gravity Falls Gets Weirder (Gravity Falls) - Twins Dipper and Mabel Pines are sent to Gravity Falls, Oregon, to spend the summer with their Great Uncle, or "Grunkle", Stan at his tourist attraction; the Mystery Shack. Here they attempt to make friends with the locals, and even two additional teen newcomers; Jack Bolt and Maze Woods. But after the discovery of a journal, Dipper and Mabel's summer vacation is flipped upside down and inside out once Gravity Falls reveals a more supernatural presence amongst the populace.

Demonic Clown Guardian (IT (2017)) - Georgie Denbrough makes friends with a lost clown by the name of Pennywise; and he lives in the sewers too! The Losers Club... take time to get used to this peculiar clown.

DOOMed (DOOM (2016)) - The demonic forces of Hell invade the UAC facility stationed on Mars, and in a desperate gamble, Samuel Hayden awakens the Doom Slayer to wipe them out and kill the progenitor behind the invasion; Olivia Pierce. The Slayer and his allies however discover that the Demonic forces have made another pact with the supernatural forces of the Wicked.

IT Gets Stranger (IT (2017)/Stranger Things crossover) - A crossover where the Losers Club take a school trip to Hawkins, Indiana, where they meet the Party.

Walking Fate Season 2 (TWDG Season 2) - After being separated with her group, Clementine fends for herself until she comes across survivors living in a cabin. This fateful encounter leads Clementine to face new enemies, meet familiar faces and the breakdown of a friendship thought to be unbreakable.

Strings Of Fear - A group of outcasts who form a friendship with each other investigate the odd disappearances surrounding Hurricane, Utah. Here these Outcasts come across a vile evil that feeds on the innocent.

Walking Fate: A Dark Era (The Walking Dead: A New Frontier) - Javier Garcia has watched as society had been overrun by the dead and pocketing factions of survivors wage war on each other; the New Frontier being prominent. To protect what remains of his family, Javi allies with a group co-lead by Clementine, despite the bounty on her head.

Strings Of Fear: The Second Part - Years after the first defeat of the cosmic horror that plagued their home town, the Outcasts return to end the creature that haunted them once and for all. But is there more to the horror than meets the eye?

DOOMed: From The Beginning (DOOM (2016)) - Set several months before the events of DOOMed and the fateful "Bring-Your-Kid-To-Work" Day, read how the staff of the UAC facility began its descent into horror and madness through the eyes of a recently transferred doctor and security guard; Leslie Who and Alfred "Jeff" Hopper.

Strings Of Fear: The Finale - The ending chapter to the Strings Of Fear arc. Trapped in a repetitive cycle of hatred and guilt, can one cretin escape his confines?

SCP: Confining Spaces (SCP: Confinement) - Connor, a young man who cannot die, is forced by the SCP Foundation to confront and interview multiple classes of SCPs. Though things take a dark turn upon one reality warper calling himself Jester taking an interest in Connor's nature, leading to the discovery of two warriors; an academic cyborg war hero by the name of Haven, and the Sarcophagus of Shame which houses the Wicked's tactician general, called the Overlord.

More Than Bargained For? (FNAF) - Lillian "Lena" Elliot is hired as the newest Night Guard for Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Fazbear Entertainment believed she'd end up like the other guards... only to prove that she isn't trapped with the animatronics; the animatronics are trapped with her.

Kicking The Bucket Spills The Truth (TFP) - With Flatline's faction making their move, Autobots and Decepticons come to a decision; mark a truce to end a threat, or adjust to this third party?

Detroit: Battleground (Detroit: Become Human) - After Markus' recent victory in the android revolution, both humans and androids move to build a better future with each other; however, Elijah Kamski unleashes his hidden weapon to revert the androids back to servitude; a sentient megavirus designated "K.I.L.L.J.O.Y". However, he did not anticipate K.I.L.L.J.O.Y's capacity for strong emotions such as rage and the desire to dominate.

Smile Tunes (Hellaverse) - Samuel Who is the Morningstar Family's top advisor, trying to balance being Charlie's best friend and looking out for her as a royal advisor. Especially when it comes to her recent venture to redeem sinners with the help of Alastor, the infamous "Radio Demon", due to the upcoming Extermination. He's even more cautious when the strangest Exorcist comes under their care.

DOOMed: Death Isn't Eternal (DOOM: Eternal) - The sequel to DOOMed, follow the Doom Slayer once again as he continues his quest to wipe out Hell's ongoing invasion of Earth. The Slayer meets new allies, faces threats old and unfamiliar, and races against time as the Khan Makyr and the Wicked doom this Earth for their own ambitions.

Walking Fate: Reign Of Sin (TWDG The Final Season) - Clem leads what remains of her small family to a new home in the form of Ericon's Boarding School, lead by troubled teens. She uncovers plots, confronts the one person who embodies her traumas and fights against both the undead and the living.

Pet Sematary: Where Dead Is Better (Pet Sematary (2019)) - The Creeds move to Ludlow, Maine; a decision Louis had agreed to so he could land a stable job while being able to spend more time with his family. The family discover a burial ground hidden in the woods, near their home. Warnings are shared, but not heeded.

Down Memory Lane (Multifandom Crossover) - Calvin and Mario unite again to bring back a lost friend home, without gaining the attention of the Carver of Fate, the Chairman.

Red Dead Redemption: Peace For Thy Sinners (Red Dead Redemption 2) - Maddilyn Darling has been in the Van Der Linde Gang ever since she was nine, raised alongside Arthur Morgan and John Marston into the life of an outlaw by Dutch van der Linde, Hosea Matthews and Abigail Emmet. Through her eyes, she watches her family grow, some members more likeable than others, and she watches as they fall. Her story begins before, during and after the fall of the Van Der Linde Gang.

Truth Or Dare? (Multifandom Crossover) - A menagerie of characters are collected by the dealmaker Jester to play the most intense game of all time... Truth or Dare?

What If? (Multifandom/Crossover) - A collection of alternate routes a story or one of my fics could have taken. What if Kiyotaka Ayanokoji came to the ANS with Ichika Amasawa and Takuya Yagami? What if Clementine died instead of Lee Everett? What if Abigail Emmet never learned to appreciate human culture, and raised Mario in her species traditions? And much more you will be able to ask before and after The UnTitledverse and the other series ends.

Pet Semetary: Let The Dead Rest (Pet Sematary (2019)) - Almost twenty years after the events of his family's destruction, Gage Creed returns to Ludlow, Maine, to put his family to rest.

Yo-Kai Watchlace (Yo-Kai Watch) - Katie Forester was just an average eleven-year-old girl attending Springdale Elementary School with her friends Nathan "Nate" Adams, Edward "Eddie" Archer and Barnaby "Bear" Bernstein. Over the weekend, she comes across an old crank machine, which gifts her a Watchlace and a Yo-Kai butler by the name of Shallow. He "guides" her to compete against the other Yo-Kai Watch user in the area to help as many Yo-Kai as possible for means unknown to Katie.

The Devil Of All Time - Follow the trial of Edward Carmine in the mid-nineties, accused for the ritualistic murder of Leslie Who's child.

Walking Fate: The Final Season (TWDG) - The final confrontation between Delta and the survivors of Ericson, and the end of Clementine and Malcrum's journeys.

We Stand Together (Multifandom Crossover) - The Wicked have banded an army together to accomplish their goals of domination across this corner of the Multiverse, all in the name of their dark master. Joaquin, Calvin and Mario unite their allies to push back against the evil that has risen to claim their glory again.

Gravity Falls: Next Gen (Gravity Falls) - Thirty years after the events of Gravity Falls, Gwen Pines and Sara Gleeful return with their families to visit Soos and his family at the Mystery Shack. However, an old enemy awakens, and with him a plan to bring some new friends to the party. Based on turquoisespace35's Next Gen AU comics.

Subnautica: Deeper Depths (Subnautica: Below Zero) - Taking place five years after the Aurora's crash and Planet 4546B's liberation from the Kharaa, Robin Ayou returns to the antarctic region of the planet after recovering from an accident on an Alterra expedition three years beforehand. However, she finds her half-sister, Sam, had taken lead in the expeditions after Robin's absence, and went missing for some time. To find out the truth, she has to go deeper in the cold, dark depths of the treacherous ocean... where she discovers secrets under the ice.

Supremacy (Multifandom Crossover) - The finale to The Perfect Storm saga, the culmination of the journeys of not only Joaquin, Calvin and Mario, but Edward Carmine and the Wicked's as well. Who will win in this fight between resistance and domination?

The Omniscient Rule saga

The Omniscience Rule (Multifandom Crossover) - Saved from the destruction of his universe, Joaquin faces down trials guided by the firstborne Eldritch, Amari the Apothecary, to strengthen himself to become a leader capable of protecting the very essence of the Multiverse itself; the Omniscience.

Life Is Cruel (Life Is Strange) - After sacrificing her closest friend, Chloe, to save Arcadia Bay, Max finds that her powers have not dissipated as she initially believed they would, and that Arcadia Bay's destruction has only been suspended rather than averted... and replaced with a far more viscous force of nature than a hurricane. Can fate be fought against? And what is the nature of Max's powers?

Our Family Shelter - After retiring from the Omniscient Rule, Malcrum Darling finds a new purpose; protecting a group of children from the sinister clutches of an organization called C.Y.P.R.U.S.

The Omniscience Rule: Web Of Lies (Star Wars) - The Omniscient Rule take an assignment from the Time Bureau Authority to ensure the events of one universe does not diverge from canon, while also finding and arresting the rogue members of the Time Guard. The further they get into the Clone Wars conflict, the more they find out the reason the Time Guard are ruining the canon.

All Who Remain (The Last Of Us Part One) - Joel Miller lives amongst a dying civilization where hardened survivors and the infected fight to determine humanity's preservation or extinction. He is hired by a rebelling group called the "Fireflies" looking to change the fate of humanity by smuggling a girl by the name of Ellie to one of their facilities. Easier said than done, as Joel and Ellie face obstacles upon obstacles, human and infected alike, and worse of all; a maniac with the distinct ability to command the Cordyceps movements, and an obsessive hatred towards Ellie herself.

Enjoy Your Stay In Eastview! (Multifandom Crossover) - With the revelation of "dead worlds" amongst the Multiverse, full of abandoned survivors seeking refuge from destruction, Joaquin and Haven determine the best course of action for the Omniscient Rule, chasing after a myth in the form of a world powered by the Omniscience itself.

SPECIALS: IN 2 REALITY - A maddening sequel to the SPECIALS roleplay, here the Omniscient Rule adapt to the oddity that is Eastview.

Time Guard: Khronos' Law - Jeff Hopper joins the Time Guard in helping catch a wanted criminal by the name of Maddison Darling; a mass serial killer determined to irreparably change the flow of time.

Happy Accidents At The Dark Circus (FNAF) - Mario and Charlie just wanted to go on a date at the newest attraction in Hurricane, Utah; the Dark Circus. However, not only do they run into Charlie's friends, including her distant former best friend, Elizabeth, but the menagerie of next-gen animatronics; Fizzer Pop and his Merry Band of Rocking Friends, seem to get a bit... quirky in the night.

A Lovely Murder Musical (Multifandom Crossover) - Charlie's hometown of Hurricane had been taken over by the Prime Minister of Hell themself; Alamach, with help from a spirit by the name of Kara Darling, to perform the musical of a lifetime. Mario brings his fellow compatriots from the Omniscient Rule to help him save Charlie and her friends from the inside.

The Omniscience Rule: Dark Omen - Maddison's rampage across time had caused a ripple effect, both good and bad; returning Lena Elliot to existence, but also causing a group of curse-preserving warlocks known as "the Occult" to come into power; intent on bringing the "Great Malevolence" to Eastview. An unlikely alliance between Jeff Hopper, Lisa Cobalt and Fizzer is formed to put an end to the most recent chapter of the Occult.

All Who Remain: Madness Reincarnate (The Last Of Us Part Two) - Five years after All Who Remain, Ellie embarks on a journey of revenge against a militia lead by a bitter woman by the name of Abby; even if it means aligning with her detested rival, Malcolm Darling.

The UnTitled Stories (Multifandom/Crossover) - A collection/series of short stories that happen in the canon of The UnTitledverse, with the express purpose of tying loose ends and expanding the stories. A number of these stories can be viewed below The UnTitled Stories section near the bottom.

Red Dead Redemption: Pandora's Box (RDR) - Maddilyn Darling thought her days of donning the guns for anything other than bounty hunting were over, until she meets relatives who came from the future; twins Malcrum and Cassandra Darling who intend on stopping Maddilyn's dead aunt, Kara, from creating a second Divine Holy War between Heaven and Hell.

The Omniscience Rule: C.Y.P.R.U.S Uprising - The Omniscient Rule have been cleaning up the mess left behind by their enemies. In this final entry of The Omniscient Rule saga, they engage with another group; C.Y.P.R.U.S, an organization that kidnaps and trains children into soldiers, assassins and spies, lead by their director, Madame Callaghan, and her children. Madame Callaghan seems to have an intense focus on Joaquin, recognizing him from a past he no longer remembers.

The UnTitled Ventures saga

UnTitled Venture: Hazardous Residence (Resident Evil: Biohazard) - Joaquin Lockwood was supposed to be retired from the BSAA, however an old pal asks him a favor to provide reconnaissance at a family homestead in Dulvey, Louisiana due to suspicious activity which could be B.O.W in nature, and he's the closest person with experience there. Joaquin agrees, but finds himself trapped with a civilian by the name of Ethan Winters, and both begrudgingly work together to survive the onslaught that awaits them.

UnTitled Venture: Whisper My Name (Resident Evil: Revelations) - Agent Maisie Lockwood races against the clock as she searches for her partner, Joaquin, through Umbrella's connections with an organization called C.Y.P.R.U.S.

UnTitled Venture: Village Of Shadows (Resident Evil: Village) - On a drive from Romania to visit the Winters in Hungary, Joaquin gets into a car crash, and his adopted daughters are taken to a Village in the dark Romanian forests, where the locals worship the matriarch who rules over them; Mother Miranda, the head of the Four Lords. While Ethan gets together the BSAA and Taskforce ECHO, Joaquin fights his way to his girls.

UnTitled Venture: Balancing Roulettes (Resident Evil 6) - Joaquin and Maisie Lockwood trace after a series of bio-terrorist attacks across the globe, hunting down the B.O.W's and the people behind them, as the BSAA's finest agents try to stop the spread of the C-Virus.

UnTitled Venture: Old Smoke - Joaquin settles in his new life in the Village, which is disrupted by the presence of a vengeful Roy Lockwood; Maisie's close great uncle, who has a vendetta against B.O.W's.

UnTitled Venture: Perverse Justice - The BSAA are attacked by C.Y.P.R.U.S, lead by Madame Callaghan's second son, the nihilistic Urijah Callaghan, searching for the whereabouts of Joaquin Lockwood. Urijah's end goal threatens the very state of life itself, and Joaquin won't be going down without trying to fight.

UnTitled Venture: Viva La Révolution (Multifandom Crossover) - Saved in the nick of time, Joaquin is presented with an opportunity by a being who calls himself Benny with getting his life back from the clutches of the Orchestrator; Zachariah.

UnTitled Venture: Found Out (Multifandom Crossover) - With the flames of revolution alight, Joaquin and Benny face a counterattack lead by the Apostles of Zachariah.

The Ender saga

Chapter One: The Truth Seeker - Decades after the disappearance of her adoptive father, Elise Lockwood strays from the only home she knew to find his whereabouts, even in the darkest crevices of her world.

Chapter Two: The Change You Can Be - With a head start, Elise conjures the wrath of Zachariah, but is rescued by two unlikely individuals she never knew she'd get the chance to meet.

Chapter Three: The Feuding Houses (Multifandom Crossover) - With Zachariah's plot kicked into gear, Joaquin Cobalt and the Omniscient Rule escort Elise to Benny's Domus Memoriae... and find out the struggle of keeping allies together.

Chapter Four: The Soulless Opposition (Multifandom Crossover) - Alliances start to forge as the end date closes in, but the Omniscient Rule aren't out of the woods yet when Zachariah sends his Apostles newest monstrosities; a cross between the brute determination of the Soulless Husks and the deadly intelligence of the Exterminators.

Chapter Five: The Shining Miracles (Multifandom Crossover) - Joaquin's capture dwindles hope, but Elise does not discard it yet. With Benny and Maisie, they locate the best world to open up a doorway to Zachariah's pocket dimension; Earth Prime. All they need are a couple of Shiners to summon it.

Chapter Six: The Ender (Multifanfom Crossover) - Zachariah lays his cards on the table as he engaged the Omniscient Rule in an all out battle for the fate of the Omniscience; continue its freedom or fall under Zachariah's control? Meanwhile, Joaquin and his allies traverse the dank and treacherous landscapes of "Wonderland"; a prison dimension set on an infinite loop in what seems to be a combination of the 15th and 20th century in a town called "Prehevil" with some other prisoners.

Original Spin Offs

Jagged Instincts Novelization - The novelisation of a Wattpad/Discord roleplay I had been in. A group of strange creatures escape auction and traverse a world of technology, interstellar travel and mystical intrigue.

Mario: Mother's Boy - Abigail Emmet balances the struggle of teaching her newborn son how to be self-sufficient while surviving in a world where fear is rampant, and keeping her own hunger satiated as human's terror dwindles less and less.

The Time Guard - Discharged from the duty of a Time Lord, Timekeeper brings together a team of delinquent individuals who have no effect on the time stream (none except of which they leave behind when present) to do Judge Khronos' dirty work.

The UnTitled Stories

Unnamed The Last Of Us (2023) Malcolm Darling fic - Malcolm Darling continues his spree across the Multiverse, killing all the Ellie William's he can find. Until he enters one world that forces him to reflect on his self-perceived "righteous" revenge.

Unnamed Classroom Of The Elite fic - Kiyotaka Ayanokoji enrolls in the prestigious "Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing School", intent on using the three years of no contact with the outside world to answer a question; what controls us? Is it the mind that controls the body or the body that controls the mind? Little did Ayanokoji know how much merit a footprint can leave behind on others... nor how they can return the same impact back. A heartfelt story about self-identity, healing, and regaining a piece of humanity back.

Hitman: Evangeline (Hitman: Absolution) - After leaving the circus life behind, Evangeline hitches up with the International Contract Agency as an independent hitman they can hire. Her first target is a rogue agent by the name of Diana Burnwood. What follows afterwards is an example on how not to fail your task successfully.

Unnamed The UnTitledverse Joaquin, Maisie and House of Thanatos fic - Joaquin has tea with the Gods of Death and afterwards he and Maisie process the events of The Omniscient Rule: Dark Omen, including the loss of Lisa.

Unnamed The UnTitledverse Mario Emmet, Charlie Emily and Elizabeth Afton fic - In the eve of their retirement of the Omniscient Rule after the events of A Lovely Murder Musical; Mario, Charlie and Elizabeth go on a solo adventure and learn that godhood can be achieved without resorting to murder and spilling blood.

Unnamed Inside Job Fic - Cognito Inc. manage to earn two contracts in one day, one with the Envy Ring of Hell and the other with C.Y.P.R.U.S, resulting in two representatives sent to help the corporation; Urijah Callaghan, a bright mind with a cynical outlook, and Oswaldo Thanatos, the son of two members of the House of Thanatos. What shenanigans do they get up to?

Unnamed Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure OC's crossover from the Multiverse into one world fic - Zhan Tiri triggers multiple breaches into the realm of Corona, leading to four unknown individuals to be sucked into the kingdom; some more dangerous than others. It is up to Rapunzel, Eugene and Cass to round these trespassers up and send them back where they belong.

The Heinous Crimes Of One Elusive Maddison Darling (Multifandom Crossover) - Exiled from C.Y.P.R.U.S after multiple assignment failures, Maddison finds being a hitman isn't her specialty; but finds a passion in being a mass-murdering serial killer. Follow her string of crimes before her eventual tomfoolery in The Time Guard: Khronos' Law.

[daydreamerdrew]

More Fun Comics (1936) #55

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Illustrators

Raymond Briggs:

Briggs was an English illustrator and cartoonist who was known for works like; The Snowman (1978), Father Christmas (1973) and Ethel and Ernest (1998) and many more. Raymond Briggs's work has a very recognizable soft look to it which is probably down to his use of charcoals and soft crayons in his illustrations. Briggs's style is also quite distinctive as he draws his characters in a specific way, giving them small dots for eyes and lightly blushed cheeks which I think give them an endearing look. I think Briggs's work is quite different compared to other illustrations Iv'e seen in books as he doesn't usually work in black and white and use intricate line work instead, he relies more on colours and shading which makes the end product look soft yet defined.

Maurice Sendak:

Sendak was an American author and illustrator known for many books including: Where the wild things are (1963) and Outside Over There (1981). Unlike other illustrators I’m looking at, his style has a gritty look to it which is probably because of how Sendak uses pen lines/hatching to shade to create texture, especially when he draws fur and other details on the "Wild Things". As for his characters, Sendak's is able to portray a characters emotion and personality well through their poses and interactions throughout the story. For colouring his illustrations, Sendak usually used water colour which is probably why his pieces consist of a more muted colour palette (centered around blues, greys and greens).

Tove Jansson:

Tove Jansson was a Finnish author and illustrator most well known for being the creator of the Moomin book/comic series (1945-1970) as well as doing illustrations for other novels like The Hobbit (1962). Jansson’s work is often characterized by her unique character designs and ideas that she portrays through her story lines and characters which reflect her own personal life. With the first installment of the Moomin series "The Moomins and the Great Flood" being released in 1946, the characters in that book looked different compared to how they were drawn at the end of the series which shows Jansson's development of her own style throughout the time she worked on the books. Dissimilar to most illustrators (at least the ones I've reaserched), Tove's drawings (excluding book covers) seem to mostly be in black and white with extreme amounts of detail and line work being packed into the scenes. When she does coloured pieces however, she opts for bright, joyful colours which I think suites the playfulness of the characters and setting.

W. Heath Robinson:

Heath Robinson was an English illustrator and author know for books like The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902), How to live in a flat (1936) and Heath Robinson at war (1942). Many of his illustrations depict quirky and whimsical machines or circumstances that show Robinson's satirical personality. Weather that be creating silly drawings poking fun at potential "secret weapons" that could be used by countries in WW2 or creating cartoons in response to the changing domestic trends at the time, Heath Robinson is able to create illustrations that need little if not any description to go with them despite them being a little out of the ordinary. Robinson's style has a somewhat traditional feel to it which might be because of the lack of colour in his drawings but that doesn't stop them from being quite detailed in terms of line work and shading.

[thenightling]

Why I like Asylum's Monster Mash (a list)

I'm starting to feel that the Asylum mockbuster Monster Mash is my favorite movie of 2024 (So far) and might retain that status. This is odd since the movie is deliberate direct-to-streaming, low-budget Schlock from The Asylum film studio. I actually liked it more than Abigail.

So I have decided to analyze why I like this movie.

1. It doesn't try to be high art. It just tries to tell a fun, spooky, story. 2. The character portrayals are surprisingly likable, from making Dracula the lead protagonist, a monster Tony Stark, to the subtle indications that Dracula probably could have handled all of this himself but he's secretly lonely and liked the excuse of having the other monsters at his side. It's adorkable. I love hero-Dracula. 3. The many delicious nods to the classic Universal monster movies from naming the Frankenstein Monster Boris (which is also a possible nod to the Monster Mash Song that was referencing the Universal Monster movie actor Boris Karloff), Dracula's daughter being implied bisexual like she was in the 1936 Dracula's daughter movie, the one scene deliberately using the eye lighting effect from the original Bela Lugosi Dracula, and thanking the creators of the Universal Monster movies on the end credits. And there were other delightful tropes and plot points.

4. The sense that the story is set in some surreal fairy-tale like, timeless, otherworld from Dracula's mid-nineteenth century fashion, to Elizabeta's slave girls wearing modern-ish evening gowns, to the medieval peasant girl costumes in the tavern, to The Invisible Man wearing 1930s black goggles, and a 20th century turtleneck shirt. 5. You have a desert cave, a Louisiana style swamp house (Home of the werewolf, who has a Southern-American accent), snarky Invisible Man who talks like Larry from Doom Patrol, and mentions of Turkey and Highgate cemetery and Candlewood Village all sounding weirdly close to each other. It's a bit disorientating until you think of it like it's own other world like Castlevania, or a Hammer horror movie, or The Enchanted Forest from Once Upon a Time. 6. I think of it as an alternate Universe version of Earth, on a continent (Europe-like despite the many American accents) where all the classic Gothic stories are true and co-exist. 7. The lack of specific time period and implied different cultures being in relative close proximity to each other amuses me.

8. The slightly off-putting but comical pause near the end to warn us that the scary part is coming, right before the really fake looking monster fight.

9. The strange contrast of the Dracula actor apparently giving it his all while the Dr. Frankenstein actor is barely acting and apparently phoning it in. The Asylum doesn't deserve this Dracula. He's too good for them. 10. For an asylum mockbuster it has a surprisingly diverse cast of characters and actors. Dracula, his daughter, a witch, a zombie, a mummy (played by a man actually from North Africa), werewolf, and The Invisible Man. I kind of hope the sequel (if it gets a sequel) is set on the high seas to allow for pirate ghosts (another fun trope) and The Creature from the Black Lagoon equivalent character. 11. Because Asylum is known as schlock I sometimes think a lot of the continuity errors and minor mistakes are deliberate (i.e. the misspelling of Nightmare on the trailer) which can be annoying but I found the movie charming enough to over look the apparent "deliberate" badness. 12. I could easily come up with joking call lines for this thing even though it's no Rocky Horror. (For starters it's not a musical.) 13. There's a surprisingly catchy theme song from the woman who plays Dracula's daughter. 13. I strongly feel this is the direction they should have gone with the Universal Studios Dark Universe.

[sebeth]

Who's Who In The DC Universe #1: Alley-Kat-Abra, All-Star Squadron, Amazing Man

Alley -Kat-Abra by Scott Shaw

Felina Furr is a blue and black furred magician who fights crime in a similar outfit to the Spoiler except the costume is in a red/purple color scheme.

She is from Earth-C and is a member of the Zoo Crew.

The source of her abilities is a wand she calls Magic Wanda

The Zoo Crew have defeated Starro the Conqueror.

Was the Zoo Crew silly? Yes. Were they fun? Also yes.

All-Star Squadron by Jerry Ordway

The Squadron was formed in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, when FDR requested all active heroes come together.

The initial roster was Commander Steel, Liberty Belle, Robotman, Amazing-Man, Firebrand II, Tarantula, Johnny Quick, Hawkman, Green Lantern, Hourman, Plastic Man, Dr. Fate, the Guardian, Hawkgirl, Shining Knight, and the Atom.

All heroes are the Golden Age versions of the characters – Green Lantern is Alan Scott not Hal Jordan, etc

The All-Stars were located on Earth-2.

Liberty Belle was the leader of the team.  One of the earlier examples of a woman leading a superhero team.  Saturn Girl was the first (as far as I know) and the Wasp and Storm of the Marvel universe would be taking over the Avengers and X-Men either around this time or shortly afterwards.

Plastic Man was the liaison to the FBI.

The roster would greatly expand around the Crisis era.

The All-Stars receive an entry for their headquarters, built on the grounds of the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair.

The Golden Age, and the generational aspect of the legacy characters, is one of my favorite aspects of the DC Universe. The All-Star Squadron was a severely underrated run. Is Roy Thomas the most exciting writer of dialogue? No. However, the plots were great, and the love and respect Roy Thomas has for the Golden Age characters leaps from the page. The series can be found on the DC Comics app – give it a shot.

Amazing-Man by Jerry Ordway

Amazing-Man was created by Roy Thomas and Jerry Ordway. Original Golden Age characters were predominantly white for various, stupid reasons. Thomas and Ordway wanted to put a person of color in the All-Star Squadron, so they created one.

Will Everett entered the 1936 Olympics where they “proved Adolf Hitler’s racist assertions wrong by winning headlines and gold medals”. Suck it, Hitler!

Everett was unable to find work upon returning home because that era sucked for people of color.

He eventually found work as a janitor at Dr. Terry Curtis’s lab. Curtis is better known as reluctant super-villain Cyclotron.

Everett was kidnapped by the minions of the Ultra-Humanite and subjected to the power of an electro-generator by Dr. Curtis.

The electro-generator exploded and granted Everett the ability to “absorb the property of any material with which he came in contact”.

Everett agreed to work with the Ultra-Humanite to spare his family and his hometown of Detroit.

Everett turned on the Ultra-Humanite and joined the All-Star Squadron to save the world.

Once again, the All-Star Squadron series is great. Read it! Roy Thomas deserves bonus points for realizing all the way back in the early 1980s, that the All-Stars were too white and needed a person of color. Roy would continue this trend in the original Infinity Inc series and the Young All-Stars series when he added Tsunami (a Japanese woman), Flying Fox (a Native American man) and made the successors of Dr. Mid-Nite and Wildcat an African-American woman and a Hispanic woman. Roy also added more women on the teams with these creations.

[ufonaut]

Naturally! In two minutes, Johnny can do as much practicing as the average man in a year! Practice makes perfect, you know!

Johnny Quick in More Fun Comics (1936) #104

[girlactionfigure]

In MEMORY of BOB KANE on his BIRTHDAY -

Born Robert Kahn, American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created, with Bill Finger, the DC Comics character Batman. Kane also co-created the animated series Cool McCool. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.

Early life and work -

Kahn was born in New York City, New York. His parents, Augusta and Herman Kahn, an engraver, were of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future Spirit creator Will Eisner, Robert Kahn graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and then legally changed his name to Robert Kane. He studied art at Cooper Union before "joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in the year of 1934".

Comics -

He entered the comics field two years later, in 1936, freelancing original material to editor Jerry Iger's comic book Wow, What A Magazine!, including his first pencil and ink work on the serial Hiram Hick. The following year Kane began to work at Iger's subsequent studio, Eisner & Iger, which was one of the first comic book "packagers" that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during its late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age. Among his work there was the talking animal feature "Peter Pupp" — which belied its look with overtones of "mystery and menace" — published in the U.K. comic magazine Wags and reprinted in Fiction House's Jumbo Comics. Kane also produced work through Eisner & Iger for two of the companies that would later merge to form DC Comics, including the humor features "Ginger Snap" in More Fun Comics, "Oscar the Gumshoe" for Detective Comics, and "Professor Doolittle" for Adventure Comics. For that last title he went on to do his first adventure strip, "Rusty and his Pals".

Batman -

In early 1939, DC's success with the seminal superhero Superman in Action Comics prompted editors to scramble for more such heroes. In response, Bob Kane conceived "the Bat-Man." Kane said his influences for the character included actor Douglas Fairbanks' film portrayal of the swashbuckler Zorro; Leonardo da Vinci's diagram of the ornithopter, a flying machine with huge bat-like wings; and the 1930 film The Bat Whispers, based on Mary Rinehart's mystery novel The Circular Staircase (1908). Bill Finger joined Bob Kane's nascent studio in 1938. An aspiring writer and part-time shoe salesperson, he had met Kane at a party, and Kane later offered him a job ghost writing the strips Rusty and Clip Carson. He recalled that Kane....

...had an idea for a character called 'Batman', and he'd like me to see the drawings. I went over to Kane's, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with kind of ... reddish tights, I believe, with boots ... no gloves, no gauntlets ... with a small domino mask, swinging on a rope. He had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings. And under it was a big sign ... BATMAN.

Finger said he offered such suggestions as giving the character a cowl and scalloped cape instead of wings; adding gloves; leaving the mask's eyeholes blank to connote mystery; and removing the bright red sections of the original costume, suggesting instead a gray-and-black color scheme. Finger additionally said his suggestions were influenced by Lee Falk's The Phantom, a syndicated newspaper comic strip character with which Kane was familiar as well. Finger, who said he also devised the character's civilian name, Bruce Wayne, wrote the first Batman story, while Kane provided art. Kane, who had already submitted the proposal for Batman at DC and held a contract, is the only person given an official company credit for Batman's creation. Comics historian Ron Goulart, in Comic Book Encyclopedia, refers to Batman as the "creation of artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger".

According to Kane, "Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate ... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective.

The character debuted in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) and proved a breakout hit. Within a year, Kane hired art assistants Jerry Robinson (initially as an inker) and George Roussos (backgrounds artist and letterer). Though Robinson and Roussos worked out of Kane's art studio in The New York Times building, Kane himself did all his drawing at home. Shortly afterward, when DC wanted more Batman stories than Kane's studio could deliver, the company assigned Dick Sprang and other in-house pencilers as "ghost artists", drawing uncredited under Kane's supervision. Future Justice League writer Gardner Fox wrote some early scripts, including the two-part story "The Monk" that introduced some of The Batman's first "Bat-" equipment.

In 1943, Kane left the Batman comic books to focus on penciling the daily Batman newspaper comic strip. DC Comics artists ghosting the comic-book stories now included Jack Burnley and Win Mortimer, with Robinson moving up as penciler and Fred Ray contributing some covers. After the strip finished in 1946, Kane returned to the comic books but, unknown to DC, had hired his own personal ghosts, including Lew Schwartz and Sheldon Moldoff from 1953 to 1967.

Robin -

Bill Finger recalled that,

Robin was an outgrowth of a conversation I had with Bob. As I said, Batman was a combination of [Douglas] Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes. Holmes had his Watson. The thing that bothered me was that Batman didn't have anyone to talk to, and it got a little tiresome always having him thinking. I found that as I went along Batman needed a Watson to talk to. That's how Robin came to be. Bob called me over and said he was going to put a boy in the strip to identify with Batman. I thought it was a great idea.

Kane, who had previously created a sidekick for Peter Pupp, proposed adding a boy named Mercury who would have worn a "super-costume". Robinson suggested a normal human, along with the name "Robin", after Robin Hood books he had read during boyhood, and noting in a 2005 interview he had been inspired by one book's N. C. Wyeth illustrations.

The impetus came from Bill's wanting to extend the parameters of the story potential and of the drama. He saw that adding a sidekick would enhance the drama. Also, it enlarged the readership identification. The younger kids could then identify with Robin, which they couldn't with Batman, and the older ones with Batman. It extended the appeal on a lot of levels.

The new character, an orphaned circus performer named Dick Grayson, came to live with Bruce Wayne as his young ward in Detective Comics #38 (April 1940) and would inspire many similar sidekicks throughout the Golden Age of comic books.

The Joker -

Batman's nemesis the Joker was introduced near that same time, in Batman #1 (Spring 1940). Credit for that character's creation is disputed. Kane's position is that

Bill Finger and I created the Joker. Bill was the writer. Jerry Robinson came to me with a playing card of the Joker. That's the way I sum it up. The Joker looks like Conrad Veidt — you know, the actor in The Man Who Laughs, [the 1928 movie based on the novel] by Victor Hugo. ... Bill Finger had a book with a photograph of Conrad Veidt and showed it to me and said, 'Here's the Joker'. Jerry Robinson had absolutely nothing to do with it. But he'll always say he created it till he dies. He brought in a playing card, which we used for a couple of issues for him the Joker to use as his playing card.

Robinson, whose original Joker playing card was on public display in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from September 16, 2006 to January 28, 2007, and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta, Georgia from October 24, 2004 to August 28, 2005, has countered that:

Bill Finger knew of Conrad Veidt because Bill had been to a lot of the foreign films. Veidt ... had this clown makeup with the frozen smile on his face (classic). When Bill saw the first drawing of the Joker, he said, 'That reminds me of Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs.' He said he would bring in some shots of that movie to show me. That's how that came about. I think in Bill's mind, he fleshed out the concept of the character.

Robinson added, however, "If you read the Batman historian [E. Nelson] Bridwell, he had one interview where he interviewed Bill Finger and he said no, the Joker was created by me — an acknowledgement. He can be credited and Bob himself, we all played a role in it. ... He wrote the script of that, so he really was co-creator, and Bob and I did the visuals, so Bob was also."

Other characters -

According to comics historian Les Daniels, "nearly everyone seems to agree that Two-Face was Kane's brainchild exclusively". Catwoman, originally introduced by Kane with no costume as "the Cat", was partially inspired by his cousin, Ruth Steel. Kane, a frequent moviegoer, mentioned that Jean Harlow was a model for the design and added that "I always felt that women were feline". Kane created the Scarecrow and drew his first appearance, which was scripted by Finger. Kane also created the original incarnation of Clayface. According to Kane, he drew the Penguin after being inspired by the then advertising mascot of Kool cigarettes — a penguin with a top hat and cane. Finger, however, claimed that he created the villain as a caricature of the aristocratic type, because "stuffy English gentlemen" reminded him of emperor penguins.

Later life and career -

In 1966, Kane retired from DC Comics, choosing to focus on fine art. As Kane's comic-book work tapered off in the 1960s, he parlayed his Batman status into minor celebrity. He enjoyed a post-comics career in television animation, creating the characters Courageous Cat and Cool McCool, and as a painter showed his work in art galleries, although some of these paintings were produced by ghost artists. DC Comics named Kane in 1985 as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great. In 1989, Kane published the autobiography Batman and Me, with an updated edition Batman and Me, The Saga Continues, in 1996.

Kane worked as a consultant on the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels with directors Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher.

Stan Lee interviewed Kane in the documentary series The Comic Book Greats.

Personal life -

Kane married his first wife, Beverly, in the 1940s, and the two divorced in 1957. They had a daughter, Deborah. Kane married his second wife, actress Elizabeth Sanders Kane, in 1987.

Kane died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at the age of 83. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California.

Awards and honors -

Kane was a recipient of the Inkpot Award in 1977, was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996. He was added to the National Comics Awards' Roll of Honour in 1999.

On October 21, 2015, for his work in motion pictures, he posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6764 Hollywood Boulevard.

Kane's work is housed in collections in New York City's Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and St. John's University.

Oct 24, 1915 - Nov 3, 1998 (undisclosed)

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Peter Lorre Movie Timeline

Peter Lorre was never a “horror” actor. 

Horror was Hollywood’s unfortunate typecasting. If anything, he’d say of himself that he played roles of “psychological terror” - which takes intellect and insight. But he was also a gifted comic actor and took his turn as a romantic lead. 

Enjoy this marvelously nuanced, talented actor in his films below. If a link doesn’t work or you don’t see one, try searching on YouTube, archive.org, ok.ru, Vimeo, and Dailymotion. All else fails, hopefully you can buy it from Amazon, eBay, or a rare film site.

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November 17, 2024: All links updated! Subject to change, so view/grab fast.

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1920s

1929  DIE VERSCHWUNDENE FRAU (The Missing Wife). Role: Patient of a dentist. Silent film; Lorre was originally uncredited.

Status: Not commercially available. Here are my efforts to get it, which so far have failed.

1930s

1931  M. Role: Hans Beckert.

Here’s a version with Lorre dubbing in English. (The original German remains more powerful.)

1931  BOMBEN AUF MONTE CARLO. Role: Pawlitschek.

1931  DIE KOFFER DES HERRN O.F. (The Trunks of Mr. O.F). Role: Redakteur Stix (Editor Stix). Also located here.

1931  MANN IST MANN (A Man’s a Man). Role: Galy Gay. This is a film of Bertolt Brecht's stage play, so it will look odd! Here are clips. Here is more info.

1932  FÜNF VON DER JAZZBAND (The Jazzband Five). Role: Car thief. You can buy it here.

1932  SCHUß IM MORGENGRAUEN (A Shot at Dawn). Role: Klotz. 

Status: Lost media. If you can source a copy, let me know!

1932  DER WEIßE DÄMON (The White Demon). Role: Hunchback (Film originally titled Rauschgift). You can buy it here.

1932  STUPÉFIANTS (Narcotics). Role: Le bossu. This is the French-language version of DER WEIßE DÄMON. Peter Lorre speaks French in this film!

1932  F.P.1 ANTWORTET NICHT (F.P.1 Doesn't Answer) Role: Reporter Johnny. Here’s a colorized version. 

Note: 3 versions of this film were made simultaneously, but only one has Peter Lorre.

1933  WAS FRAUEN TRÄUMEN (What Women Dream). Role: Otto Fuesslli. Peter Lorre sings! 

1933  UNSICHTBARE GEGNER (Invisible Opponent). Role: Henry Pless. You can buy it here.

1933  DU HAUT EN BAS (From Top to Bottom). Role: Beggar. See just Peter’s scenes here. 

1934  THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. Role: Abbott. Peter’s first Alfred Hitchcock film - and his first English-speaking role!

1935  MAD LOVE [ok.ru]. Role: Dr. Gogol. Here’s the official trailer which is awesome.

1935  CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Role: Roderick Raskolnikov. 

1936  SECRET AGENT. Role: The Hairless Mexican/The General. Peter’s second Alfred Hitchcock film.

1936  CRACK-UP. Role: Colonel Gimpy / Baron.

1937  NANCY STEELE IS MISSING! Role: Professor Sturm.

1937  THINK FAST, MR. MOTO (Mr. Moto #1). Role: Mr. Kentaro Moto. 

1937  LANCER SPY.  Role: Major Sigfried Gruning.

1937  THANK YOU, MR. MOTO (Mr. Moto #2). Role: Mr. Kentaro Moto. 

1938  MR. MOTO’S GAMBLE (Mr. Moto #3). Role: Mr. Kentaro Moto. 

1938  MR. MOTO TAKES A CHANCE (Mr. Moto #4). Role: Mr. Kentaro Moto. 

1938  MYSTERIOUS MR. MOTO (Mr. Moto #5). Role: Mr. Kentaro Moto.

1938  I’LL GIVE A MILLION. Role: Louis 'The Dope' Monteau.

1939  MR. MOTO’S LAST WARNING (Mr. Moto #6). Role: Mr. Kentaro Moto. 

1939  MR. MOTO in DANGER ISLAND (Mr. Moto #7). Role: Mr. Kentaro Moto. 

1939  MR. MOTO TAKES A VACATION (Mr. Moto #8). Role: Mr. Kentaro Moto. 

1940s

1940  STRANGE CARGO [ok.ru]. Role: M'sieu Pig.

1940  I WAS AN ADVENTURESS. Role: Polo. Here’s a fun clip.

1940  ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN. Role: Stephen Danel. 

1940  STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR. [ok.ru] Role: The Stranger.  This film launched the film noir genre. Peter doesn’t even appear for awhile, but when he does - wow. 

1940  YOU’LL FIND OUT. Role: Karl Fenninger.

1941  THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK. Role: Janos 'Johnny' Szabo. 

1941  MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Role: Paul Hyde.

1941  THEY MET IN BOMBAY [ok.ru]. Role: Captain Chan. You can buy it here.

1941  THE MALTESE FALCON [ok.ru]. (Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet #1). Role: Joel Cairo.

1942  ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT [ok.ru]. Role: Pepi. This film is where Peter Lorre met his second-wife-to-be, Kaaren Verne. Here’s a clip. Here’s another clip. 

1942  INVISIBLE AGENT. [ok.ru] Role: Baron Ikito. Available on this collection.

1942  THE BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU. Role: Dr. Arthur Lorencz.

1942  CASABLANCA [ok.ru]. (Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet #2). Role: Signor Ugarte.

1943  THE CONSTANT NYMPH [ok.ru]. Role: Fritz Bercovy. Lorre’s role, however, was significantly cut in editing.

1943  BACKGROUND TO DANGER (Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet #3). Role: Nikolai Zaleshoff. 

1943  THE CROSS OF LORRAINE. Role: Sergeant Berger.

1944  PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE [ok.ru] (Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet #4). Role: Marius. Here’s a clip.

1944  THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS [ok.ru] (Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet #5). Role: Cornelius Leyden. 

1944  ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. [ok.ru] Role: Dr. Herman Einstein.  (Peter Lorre & Raymond Massey #1)

1944  THE CONSPIRATORS [ok.ru] (Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet #6). Role: Jan Bernazsky. 

1944  HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN (segment). (Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet pairing #7.) Role: Himself.

1945  HOTEL BERLIN [ok.ru]. Role: Johannes Koenig. (Peter Lorre & Raymond Massey #2)

1945  CONFIDENTIAL AGENT. Role: Contreras.

1946  THREE STRANGERS [ok.ru] (Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet pairing #7, Joan Lorring pairing #1.) Role: Johnny West. Here’s a clip.

1946  BLACK ANGEL. Role: Marko.

1946  THE CHASE. Role: Gino.

1946  THE VERDICT [ok.ru] (Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet pairing #8, Joan Lorring pairing #2). Role: Victor Emmric. Here’s a sizzling clip. Here’s another sizzling clip.

1946  THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS [ok.ru]. Role: Hilary Cummins. Here’s the theatrical trailer.

1947  MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE. Role: Kismet.

1948  CASBAH. Role: Slimane.

1949  ROPE OF SAND. Role: Toady.

1950s

1950  QUICKSAND. Role: Nick.

1950  DOUBLE CONFESSION. Role: Paynter.

1951  DER VERLORENE (The Lost One). Role: Dr. Karl Rothe / Dr. Karl Neumeister. Lorre’s directorial debut.

1953  BEAT THE DEVIL. Role: Julius O'Hara.

1954  20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. Role: Conseil.

1956  MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS. [ok.ru]. As Peter Lorre (uncredited).

1956  CONGO CROSSING [ok.ru]. Role: Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas.

1956  AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS [ok.ru]. Role: Japanese Steward on S.S. Carnatic. 

1957  THE BUSTER KEATON STORY. Role: Kurt Bergner. 

1957  SILK STOCKINGS. [ok.ru] Role: Brankov. 

1957  THE STORY OF MANKIND. [ok.ru] Role: Nero. 

1957  THE SAD SACK. [ok.ru] Role: Abdul. 

1957  HELL SHIP MUTINY. Role: Commissioner Lamoret.

1959  THE BIG CIRCUS. [ok.ru] Role: Skeeter.

1960s

1960  SCENT OF MYSTERY (Smellovision) [ok.ru] Role: Smiley. 

Re-released without Smellovision as HOLIDAY IN SPAIN.

1961  VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. [ok.ru] Role: Comm. Lucius Emery.

1962  TALES OF TERROR. [ok.ru] Role: Montresor in "The Black Cat".

1962  FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON. [ok.ru] Role: Ahmed.

1963  THE RAVEN. Role: Dr. Adolphus Bedlo.

1964  THE COMEDY OF TERRORS. [ok.ru] Role: Felix Gillie. 

1964  MUSCLE BEACH PARTY [ok.ru]. Role: Mr. Strangdour (posthumous release). 

1964  THE PATSY. [ok.ru] Role: Morgan Heywood (posthumous release).

See also:

Peter Lorre Television Show List

Peter Lorre Radio Show List

[pulpsandcomics2]

More Fun Comics  V1#10    May 1936

[thestalkerbunny]

Another Induction Side Comic-I’ve actually made more of these than the actual comic itself.

Cen has a co-worker named Otto. He’s a Possessed Object; often times when things are very old and are well taken care of (or poorly taken care of) they squire a life force and humanoid shape. He’s a crystal ball. He’s....very much that friend who tells you ‘most relationships past the 9 month phase result in breakups’ when you’re talking about your new partner to them.

(fun fact: the term ‘Man behind the Curtain’ didn’t exist until 1936 when the film ‘Wizard of Oz’ came out-although the book was written in 1900 it didn’t enter common knowledge until the 30s as it’s a children’s book; this comic takes place in 1920, give or take)