Stupid Comics

Dennis Reader was one of the founders of original British comic books. He was inspired by American Golden Age artists like Milton Caniff and Joe Shuster. Most of his characters appear to be shapely women in tight costumes. His first creation was Cat Girl who was one of the first feline female crimefighters in comics. Other characters included the luscious Phantom Maid and Acromaid while he was working under the publishing of Cartoon Art Productions. Electro Girl was one of the few Reader made that became a reoccurring character. Beginning in G-Boy Comics in 1947, Carol Flane was the daughter of a biologist experimenting in a lab where an accident gives her the power to conduct electricity and propel herself into the sky. With her newfound abilities, Carol got a flashy red and blue outfit and was branded Electro Girl by the local newspaper. Most of her exploits were incredibly short in 3-page installments, one of which had her uncovering a classic Hollywood murder plot that her superpow...

Toni Gayle is one of a variety of good girl characters from the Golden Age who back then were usually just into innocent teenage mischievousness. Beginning in Young King Cole from Novelty Press, she was a model whose father Gregory was a renown police detective that was assaulted by a killer called the Ape who pins the blame on reformed criminal Biff Muggson. Toni decides to hunt for the real killer and gets the ingenious plan to snoop around dressed in her father's clothes which were way to stocky for her. The Ape calls her ruse pretty fast, even though Toni brings him to justice. From this point on Toni became a girl detective aided by Biff as they rounded up murderers and other criminals all around the globe in the comic of Guns Against Gangsters. Even her father Gregory got his own feature in the same title under the handle Gunmaster because of his expertise in firearms, even though he seemed to lose a little weight between his first appearance and getting his own adventures, p...

Edmond Good was an artist with a respective amount of work in Golden Age comics like Bruce Gentry, Scorchy Smith, and Tomahawk, but one of the more notable titles he drew was Dagar The Desert Hawk. There was a Columbia movie serial from 1944 titled Desert Hawk about another hero who used the same title, but was who spent the whole time fighting his evil twin. Beginning in 1947, Dagar premiered in Fox Feature Syndicate's All Great Comics #13 and went on to become its own title in 1948 of which Issues #17 and 18 of #14-23 were never actually printed, even though no one seemed to notice at the time as the comic eventually changed its title to Captain Kidd. Dagar was your run of the mill adventurer dwelling in the Arabian desert seeming to be a rich native Bedouin, even though he's really just another poser white boy named Bart Benson blending into the locals. He regularly rode around the dunes looking for something good to do, that and hunting for hot harem girls to sweep off thei...

To keep up with Heavy Metal magazine's mature science-fiction anthology format, Warren Publishing decided to make their own magazine with blackjack and hookers and robots. Their publication titled 1984 conveniently premiered in 1978, a year after Metal Hurlant came out in America as Heavy Metal. With Star Wars bringing a new renaissance of sci-fi to the Bronze Age of comics, Warren struck while the iron was still hot, and featured material by creative gods like Frank Thorne, Wally Wood, Richard Corben, and H.R. Giger. They had a decent selection of comic book stories for their black and white magazine, but the bi-monthly mag got a ring from the George Orwell estate in 1980 and asked them to change their title. The Animal Farm writer created the controversial dystopian future book 1984 of which the magazine was named after, and while you can't copyright a year, it is possible to have some leverage over an outside party using the title of your book to fill their own pockets. Out ...