Showing posts with label nudity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nudity. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Larry Niven's MAN OF STEEL! WOMAN OF KLEENEX!

What if a science-literate writer decided to tackle an extremely-sensitive subject, namely super-sex in comics?

(As if you never wondered about this particular matter!)
This particular version of the article appeared in Penthouse Comix #5 (1995), hence the "naughty" nudity!
Ironically, when it first appeared in the "mens' magazine" Knight (like Playboy or Penthouse) in 1969, the art was rather...sedate!
In the actual DC comics, Clark Kent/Superman and Lois Lane married numerous times...

...in "imaginary stories" where they had kids...but never explained how!
(Read this story HERE!
It's a hoot!)
The couple eventually married...twice!
The first time was in 1978...

...in DC's Action Comics #484 (1978) where it was revealed the original, Golden Age, 1940s Superman married Lois in the 1950s on Earth-Two aka Earth-2, where the Golden Age versions of the DC characters lived! (A loooong story we're not going to get into here.)
You can read that tale HERE, HERE, and HERE!
For the record, they didn't have any children.
Also for the record, both that story and this article were illustrated by long-time Superman artist Curt Swan!
The "present-day" Superman and Lois married in DC's Superman: the Wedding Album (1996).
The couple consummated their marriage after the wedding in an apartment loaned to them by Bruce (Batman) Wayne.
There was no physical problem, since Clark/Superman had temporarily lost his powers due to recent events of "The Final Night".
He regained them a year later, after going through a couple of transformations.
Since then, the couple has used a red sun device or got a room in Kandor when they got frisky, resulting in children who appear in the current comics.

Friday, August 2, 2024

Space Hero Meets Space Force SMASH GORDON "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Mongo!"

1940s Space Opera Meets 1960s Space Opera...

...and may the better version win in this spoof strip by noted comic artist Frank Brunner!
It's saying something when you're too much of an unrestrained "space cowboy" for even James T Kirk, eh?
Originally-presented in #1A (1972) of a prozine (a magazine featuring work by both rookie and veteran creatives) called Heritage whose two-issue run was dedicated to Flash Gordon.
This strip written and illustrated by Frank Brunner (who was already working for Marvel as an inker and colorist) is an affectionate tribute to both Flash Gordon and Star Trek, as well as indicating Brunner would've done a dynamite job on either series!
As to why it's here, there's nudity (barely) on pages 2, 3 and 4, and Google has been cracking down on it on any pages with nudity and without a warning label.

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Sunday, January 29, 2023

BIG APPLE COMIX "Over and Under"

Here's a fascinating side-by-side comparison...
...of life at the opposite ends of the social and financial spectrums in 1970s NYC!
The left side of the pages is illustrated by Neal Adams, the right side was penciled by Larry Hama and inked by Ralph Reese, both of whom had apprenticed under Wally Wood!
As for who wrote it, well, that's not entirely clear!
It could be the three artists co-wrote the tale (they all have solo writing credits), or any two of the three, or even any one of them..or someone else entirely, like Archie Goodwin, who also contributed to the 1975 one-shot Big Apple Comix!
I'm afraid we'll never know...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

ONE-FISTED TALES "Lo, If the Earth Should Move!"

In the late 1980s, a parody of badly-done b/w comics punked gullible people...
...and amused the more perceptive among us, so the creators decided to take the parody to the ultimate level, spoofing "Tijuana Bible" comics in Slave Labor Graphics' One-Fisted Tales #2 (1990)!
Writers Gerard Jones & Will Jacobs and illustrators Norman Felche & Mike Christian capture both the youthful enthuisasm and youthful ineptness of many of the inexperienced creators who desperately tried to cash in on the b/w comics craze of the late 1980s-early 1990s.
The tale reads and looks like teenage virgin nerds who read too much Stan Lee and Frank Miller and used How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way as their visual guidebook, wrote and drew it!
Enjoy!

Friday, August 25, 2017

BIG APPLE COMIX "My Word"

Wally Wood was not above spoofing himself...
...as this never-reprinted reworking of his classic "My World" from EC's Weird Science #22 (1953) proves!
As a look into Wood's psyche, it's frightening.
As art, it's beautirful!
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Friday, July 28, 2017

BIG APPLE COMIX "Lotsa Yox Featuring Rodger Farnsworth USAAF"

Here's the entire never-reprinted tale...
..from the legendary one-shot underground title Big Apple Comix (1975)!
As to why it's here in Not Safe For Work, simple; it's the naked girl.
Writer/penciler Herb (Incredible Hulk) Trimpe was a major WWI aircraft buff. 
In fact, he had created a WWI aviator-hero strip in the vein of G-8 and His Battle Aces, as seen HERE!
So when the opportunity came to do something NYC-oriented, he thought of a humorous look at King Kong...from the aviators' viewpoint!
Of course, having the detail-oriented inks of Wally Wood, who had rendered numerous WWI dogfights in EC's Aces High and Warren's Blazing Combat didn't hurt, eh?
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Friday, July 21, 2017

BIG APPLE COMIX "Tube"

For the first entry on this blog...
...we present a fanboy's wet-dream come true!
If you think the fanboy is a dead ringer for comics fan-turned-legendary professional writer-editor Roy Thomas, you'd be right!
Written by Wally Wood, illustrated by Al Williamson and Dan Green, this never-reprinted tale from Big Apple Comix (1975) is one of several that we can't run on our parent RetroBlog Atomic Kommie Comics because it contains nudity!
(Get some background on this HTF piece of comics history HERE!)