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| comic book adaption of The Lost City; Great Comics #3 and Choice Comics #3 from 1942 | |
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| John Doe | Oct 25 2014, 06:23 AM Post #1 |
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The short lived Great Comics Publishing Co's adaption of The Lost City appeared in Great Comics #3 (pt. 1) and Choice Comics #3 (pt. 2). These issues had early 1942 dates, so they don't seem to coincide with the release of one of the feature versions of the serial, though they probably ran in theaters for years after the initial releases in 1935 and 1940. You can read them online here: Great Comics #3 (pt. 1): http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=26514 Choice Comics #3 (pt. 2): http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=29704 Check out the covers too (front, back, and insides of both). The intent was that the adaption continue alternating between issues of Great and Choice. Its unclear how many parts the adaption was to be. The next part was supposed to appear in Great Comics #4, which unfortunately was never published. The company apparently went out of business. :-( |
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| riddlerider | Oct 25 2014, 10:32 AM Post #2 |
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Wow! Great discovery, JD! I never heard of this adaptation, and I sure wish I'd known about it when I wrote a lengthy article on Lost City for the most recent issue of Blood 'n' Thunder. The strip's timing is indeed curious, but bear in mind that Krellberg ran the serial almost continuously in his NYC theaters. Since most of the comic-book companies (and the vast majority of their writers and artists) were located in New York, it's likely that somebody followed the thing during a 1941 theatrical engagement and recommended it to his editor or publisher. You have to admit, Lost City lends itself pretty easily to adaptation in comic-book format. |
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| John Doe | Oct 25 2014, 11:13 AM Post #3 |
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I stumbled across this while looking into the early pre-Batman work of Bob Kane. Something of his appeared in issue #1 of Great Comics. |
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