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Here's part 2 of Nemo: the Classic Comics Library #20...
Beginning with more comic strip promotions - back when syndicates cared about their features...some real gems here!
The regular feature "Fantasy in the Comics" this issue spotlights Gustave Verbeek's turn of the century strip, "Terror of the Tiny Tads"...and it's a winner. Once again, Nemo comes through.
More of the "insider-strip", Sam's strip by Jerry Dumas and Mort Walker. I love Dums' rendering of these classic characters.
...and the ubiquitous letter's page.
See y'all next week for issue 21! STILL plenty of comics goodness to go!
"Nemo: the Classic Comics Library" issue 13 cover dated July 1985 brings us a cornucopia of great reprints. Chock full of the stuff I loved this magazine for, little known and unseen gems brougth to us by the shovel-full!
Here's just a hint...
Richard Marschall responding to feedback for their endeavors. Like the comment section of a blog, this reader mail had to play a big part in fueling the writers to continue in their work...
Here's a look at and a generous sampling of some hard core crime stuff, that in part makes Dick Tracy look like your Grandma's detective strip. Will Gould's "Red Barry"!
TAD. Thomas Aloysius Dorgan. The Damon Runyon of the comics? Maybe. The folk biographer of a rough and tumble side of life and the slanguage spoken by those who knew this world? Definitely!
Oh. And "Silk Hat Harry" too!
More of the "inside strip" humor of "Sam's Strip"...
The much talked about "Our Boarding House" for all to see. Armchair adventures with Major Hoople...and the Nut Bros. too!
Now THAT'S alot of comics crammed into your eye-holes! Nemo was hitting it's stride!