I collected some of Tom Cooke's early sixties space exploration strip Drift Marlo, but never enough to see if the story is worth anything.
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Showing posts with label Tom Cooke. Show all posts
Friday, November 17, 2017
Space Drifter
Thursday Story Strip Day.
I collected some of Tom Cooke's early sixties space exploration strip Drift Marlo, but never enough to see if the story is worth anything.
I collected some of Tom Cooke's early sixties space exploration strip Drift Marlo, but never enough to see if the story is worth anything.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Cooke Book
Friday Comic Book Day.
After yesterday's Drift Marlo, I got a request to show some of the Dell comic version Cooke did hmself. I took this from the Crime & Punishment blog where you can find more of these heroic goodies. There I also read that the writer of this comic is a Phil Evans, who also wrote the newspaper version (which, by the way ran until 1971, it seems).
Friday Comic Book Day.
After yesterday's Drift Marlo, I got a request to show some of the Dell comic version Cooke did hmself. I took this from the Crime & Punishment blog where you can find more of these heroic goodies. There I also read that the writer of this comic is a Phil Evans, who also wrote the newspaper version (which, by the way ran until 1971, it seems).
Friday, January 18, 2013
What's Cookein'?
Thursday Story Strip Day.
As far as space explorers strips go Tom Cooke's Drift Marlo was a bit of a Johnny Come Lately. The big wave of this sort of strips had been the mid fifties, when the real space program was still a gleam in the eye of Senator John Kennedy. Tom Cooke was a real journey man artist, who ghosted strips from the late forties. His biggest claim to fame had been an uncredited run on the GeneAutry comic strip (which I should show some day, if only for the work of Hy Rosen) and some time in the late fifties as the man behind Mary Worth. In the same period he also drew some work for Stan Lee's badly paying Atlas outfit, which he got to sign. His style tells me he may later have ghosted Mary Perkins or Terry and the Pirates, but I am not sure. Drift Marlo ran for a couple of years and even had his own comic book version from Dell (where I am sure Tom Cooke did more incidental work).
Thursday Story Strip Day.
As far as space explorers strips go Tom Cooke's Drift Marlo was a bit of a Johnny Come Lately. The big wave of this sort of strips had been the mid fifties, when the real space program was still a gleam in the eye of Senator John Kennedy. Tom Cooke was a real journey man artist, who ghosted strips from the late forties. His biggest claim to fame had been an uncredited run on the GeneAutry comic strip (which I should show some day, if only for the work of Hy Rosen) and some time in the late fifties as the man behind Mary Worth. In the same period he also drew some work for Stan Lee's badly paying Atlas outfit, which he got to sign. His style tells me he may later have ghosted Mary Perkins or Terry and the Pirates, but I am not sure. Drift Marlo ran for a couple of years and even had his own comic book version from Dell (where I am sure Tom Cooke did more incidental work).
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