Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Cool Golden Age Page of the Day: Fly-Man

Irreversibly shrunken to doll-size as an experiment in crime-fighting, disfigured by being burned in acid by a bad guy, Fly-Man dons a mask and stabs evil in the back!
Spitfire Comics (August 1941).

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  2. itty bitty man with knives. that's about the dumbest thing i've seen.

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  3. Come on, where's the leatherbound, gold-embossed archive edition of tales like THIS!?

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  4. I like the mask, it makes him cooler than Doll-Man

    but just a little...

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  5. Oh, right, I get it -- if his face weren't scarred, there wouldn't be much point in wearing a mask.

    Not as though anyone would have trouble picking him out of a lineup.

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  6. Is it wrong that I really dig the layout of the fourth panel, where Fly-Man is hucking a knife at the reader? That's a nifty bit of comicry.

    The flow is off, but the shapes are nifty, as is the foreshortened Bigg Nife coming straight at ya. Keen.

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  7. That was HARSH. It's one thing to throw a guy to his doom, but to decide halfway down that you're not done killing him yet, well that's just cold-blooded. And then to pierce him with a knife the relative size of a sawmill blade? Cripes, what'd the guy do, weave a daisy-chain of entrails around the perimeter of London?

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