COMICS, OLD-TIME RADIO and OTHER COOL STUFF: Random Thoughts about pre-digital Pop Culture, covering subjects such as pulp fiction, B-movies, comic strips, comic books and old-time radio. WRITTEN BY TIM DEFOREST. EDITED BY MELVIN THE VELOCIRAPTOR. New content published every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.
Monday, November 6, 2017
Cover Cavalcade
I generally don't feature anything on my blog that requires the adjective "adorable" to be attached to it, but this cover is downright adorable.
One of my favorite titles to collect as a kid...back when twenty-five cents was a lot of money!
Apart from the one-page gag story at the front of the book, the two characters didn't team up much in the interior stories and I often wondered why. Later, around the mid-70's when prices of comics were skyrocketing, the Casper and Nightmare comic book featured new stories that did team them up.
Nightmare was generally referred to as female in the comics, but in the Casper cartoons on Saturday mornings Nightmare was a he. Never could figure that one out. I suppose the "mare" part of "nightmare" might suggest a female horse, but the word "nightmare" as a whole does not necessarily have to apply to male or female.
The comics also had Nightmare's friend Harry the Horsefly who never appeared in the cartoons.
Though Nightmare's design is obviously anthropomorphised a little, I can see where you could go either way with male or female. I agree that "Nightmare" doesn't automatically make you think "female."
The Harvey comic I usually read was Sad Sack. I was too much of a Marvel Superhero/DC War book junkie to afford much else.
One of my favorite titles to collect as a kid...back when twenty-five cents was a lot of money!
ReplyDeleteApart from the one-page gag story at the front of the book, the two characters didn't team up much in the interior stories and I often wondered why. Later, around the mid-70's when prices of comics were skyrocketing, the Casper and Nightmare comic book featured new stories that did team them up.
Nightmare was generally referred to as female in the comics, but in the Casper cartoons on Saturday mornings Nightmare was a he. Never could figure that one out. I suppose the "mare" part of "nightmare" might suggest a female horse, but the word "nightmare" as a whole does not necessarily have to apply to male or female.
The comics also had Nightmare's friend Harry the Horsefly who never appeared in the cartoons.
Though Nightmare's design is obviously anthropomorphised a little, I can see where you could go either way with male or female. I agree that "Nightmare" doesn't automatically make you think "female."
ReplyDeleteThe Harvey comic I usually read was Sad Sack. I was too much of a Marvel Superhero/DC War book junkie to afford much else.