Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2012 0:33:22 GMT -5
So I recently came across an online database that I am using to catalog what comics I had, and while sorting some of my books tonight I came across my reprint of Action Comics #1 (the Millennium Edition) that reprints all the contents of Action #1, including the Zatara strip.
Ma, what a trip reading that trip. So Zatara is a magician in a top hat and a cape, with a cane, but completely clean-shaven. He has a man-servant/assistant named Tong who is vaguely Asian, most likely Indian who runs around bare-chested with a turban and a large gold earing (pretty racy for 1938 mind you)
Zatara uses backwards magic sometimes and other times makes magic happen without the backwards incantation. He is also more than happy to plug the villain's minions with pistol. He also displays his skills as an escape artist.
The villain-a femme fatale named the Tigress, a blond bombshell who leads a gang of thugs involved in a series of train robberies.
The art is typical golden age crude, but has a certain charm.
My favorite moment-one of Zatara's allies, a policeman, is shot during a chase atop a train, and Zatara comes to his aid and uses his magic to....summon a first aid kit! Yeah got to love the Golden Age!!!!!!!
-M
Ma, what a trip reading that trip. So Zatara is a magician in a top hat and a cape, with a cane, but completely clean-shaven. He has a man-servant/assistant named Tong who is vaguely Asian, most likely Indian who runs around bare-chested with a turban and a large gold earing (pretty racy for 1938 mind you)
Zatara uses backwards magic sometimes and other times makes magic happen without the backwards incantation. He is also more than happy to plug the villain's minions with pistol. He also displays his skills as an escape artist.
The villain-a femme fatale named the Tigress, a blond bombshell who leads a gang of thugs involved in a series of train robberies.
The art is typical golden age crude, but has a certain charm.
My favorite moment-one of Zatara's allies, a policeman, is shot during a chase atop a train, and Zatara comes to his aid and uses his magic to....summon a first aid kit! Yeah got to love the Golden Age!!!!!!!
-M