Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Decent Comics: "Big Max" by Kirby and Royer

Whoooooo! Kirby two days in a row! Today we're gonna look back at another of the King's Losers masterpieces, "Big Max" from Our Fighting Forces #153 (November 1974). This one's pretty out there with Kirby's amazing precognitive abilities kinda/sorta "predicting" a situation eerily similar to his  own involvement in the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis (Argo).  Oh, and wait'll you meet super-fan Rodney Rumpkin "Science Fiction Soldier" in this Mike Royer-inked WWII potboiler. Dig it!


















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  1. Charlie Horse 47September 27, 2016 at 1:42 PM

    Groovester you are making me nostalgic for kirby... Cut it out! I'm too busy to be digging out the long boxes!

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  2. TCSeptember 27, 2016 at 11:27 PM

    Captain Storm was the first DC Silver Age action hero to debut in his own self-titled comic book. (Sgt. Rock began as a feature in Our Army At War, and the superheroes, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, and the rest, all first had try-outs in Showcase or Brave & Bold. The Three Mouseketeers premiered in their own comic, but that was a "funny animal" feature, not a "serious" genre like superheroes or war.)

    PT boat officers were a hot topic in 1964 (when Capt. Storm #1 was published), thanks to our martyred President Kennedy (who had been officer-in-charge of Patrol Torpedo Boat #109 in WWII). That may account for DC's initial confidence in the character.

    Storm ended up in Our Fighting Forces as a member of The Losers, along with other characters whose solo strips had been cancelled. The relegation of Storm, Johnny Cloud, and Gunner & Sarge to an ensemble strip may be a sign of a general decline in the popularity of war comics by the 1970's.

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