Tuesday, August 7, 2018

MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL "Chapter II: the Jungle Trap"

...you gotta love when the strip itself provides the synopsis, eh?
Unlike the original readers who had to wait a whole month, you'll only have to go without your comic book addiction "fix" for a mere 24 hours until...
The African cannibals above combine the "minstrel show" stereotype appearance (big eyes, thick lighter-color lips) with a stilted-English speech pattern more like Tarzan's than the Southern patois common for American Black portrayals (as you'll see tomorrow).
Unfortunately, this was, more or less, standard for popular culture of the time, as the following cartoon, "Jungle Jitters" from 1938, shows...
Otto Binder scripted, and CC Beck & Pete Costanza illustrated this 2nd chapter of the Monster Society of Evil serial from Fawcett's Captain Marvel Adventures #23 (1943).
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