Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Turtle Man!



This might well be perhaps my favorite DC comics cover! (Not drawn by Jack Kirby that is.) Jimmy Olsen as the Turtle Man punches all the Silver Age buttons as far as I can see. The image by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye of course is a swipe from Thrilling Wonder Tales by Howard Brown, the only classic pulp magazine I actually own. When I found this one many years ago in a moldy box, I knew immediately where I'd seen that image before, and I snapped it up.


The saga of Turtle Man himself, I had to wait until the recent Jimmy Olsen trade paperback collection to read. Turtle Man should be a bigger part of the DCU, then maybe I'd pay more attention.




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