Cave Girl in "The Man Who Served Death" (ME;1952)








    Today, Cave Girl stars in "The Man Who Served Death" from Thun'da #3 (1952); originally published by Magazine Enterprises.

    Cave Girls' parents were murdered by savages in the jungle where they'd been living for several years while she was still a toddler. The infant then known as “Carol”, was carried off by an eagle, who took her far away beyond the mountains natives called The Barrier of the Moon, and deposited her in The Dawn Lands (where things were fairly primordial near the beginning of her career). Instead of feeding Carol to its young, the bird left her to be raised by Kattu, the wolf.

    Under his tutelage, the youngster forgot the name "Carol", and soon responded to "Cave Girl", which is what the locals (referred to as "Hairy Men"; science knew their type as Neanderthals) called her, referring to her choice of abode. By studying the Hairy Men carefully, Cave Girl taught herself how to use the spear, the knife, and even the bow & arrow.

    Eventually civilization breached the Barrier of the Moon, entered The Dawn Lands and transformed her feature into just another white woman traipsing through the jungle shtick. According to Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Gardner Fox wrote Magazine Enterprises "Cave Girl" feature until 1955, alongside Bob Powell’s lush artwork (which graces this issues cover too). The Catacombs is grateful to Don "Zu-Gogo" Falkos for providing the scans for this story. Note: The copyright for this issue, its contents and artwork belong to the original publisher and/or creators and is reproduced here solely for entertainment purposes.
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Dragoncon (Sept. 3-6, 2010) in Atlanta, GA!


    Dragoncon, the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the universe begins in three days (September 3–6, 2010) in Atlanta, GA. If you're a sucker for celebrities from all types of genre television and film, you will be able to hobnob with cool guests from the worlds of Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Lost In Space, True Blood, Heroes, Battlestar: Galactica, Farscape, I Dream of Jeannie, V, Eureka, Warehouse 13, Andromeda, Buck Rogers, Stargate SG1, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Torchwood, Quantum Leap, Scott Pilgrim, Superman Returns, Babylon 5, The X-Files, Halloween, Firefly, Beastmaster and The Incredible Hulk.

    This years excellent comic book contingent includes Stan Lee, Neal Adams, J. Scott Campbell, Olivier Coipel, Amanda Conner, Darwyn Cooke, Peter David, Paul Dini, Kelley Jones, Joseph Linsner, Mike McKone, Mike Mignola, Ted Naifeh, Jimmy Palmiotti, George Perez, Tim Sale and Ethan Van Sciver.

    There will also be many more folks in these categories, plus science fiction, fantasy and horror authors out the wazoo. I'm heading that way with the usual gang of horny idiots, so word to the women of "Hotlanta", gird your loins.
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The Greenville Comic Book and Sports Card Show




    Yesterday I attended the Greenville Comic Book and Sports Card Show, a one-day weekend event that was held at the Clarion Inn and Suites, located at 50 Orchard Park Drive in Greenville, SC.

    This event occurs about three times a year and it's a great place to stock up on back issues and sports cards (if that's your thing). This particular venue is an equal split between comic book and sports card dealers. Dave Shankle always brings a terrific assortment of mid-to high end golden & silver age stuff, but over the past year he has been offering a nice assortment of largely silver and bronze age gems in boxes marked $10 apiece or six books for $10. These books are a steal for that price and their condition leans heavily towards collectible grades.

    I pulled 50+ copies myself and after returning home, I was pleased to see that they were in as good a condition as I had thought at the show. My bronze age treasures would all grade somewhere between F/VF and NM-.

    Here's a glimpse at the bulk of my Saturday purchases: Iron Man #'s 83-84, 88-98; Marvel Spotlight #27; Marvel Premiere #36; Incredible Hulk #'s 197, 199-201, 203, 206, 208-211; Godzilla #21; Fantastic Four #188; Super-Villain Team-Up #'s 2, 4-12; Marvel Team-Up #'s 47 & 53; The Invaders #'s 11-14, 16-18 (plus a few others).

    Bronze age Marvels are increasingly becoming hard to come by at affordable prices, so I snap up as many as I can when an opportunity presents itself. The bulk of my original silver and bronze collection was sold off twenty years ago to buy nursery furniture and other baby needs, and I admit that reacquiring them has been both fun and frustrating. They just don't make comics like this anymore folks.

    Oh, and my brother did more damage to his wallet than I did. He picked up a complete run of high grade Omaha the Cat Dancer and minus a measly three issues, a complete high grade set of Cherry Poptart, plus a small stack of silver & bronze age stuff to boot. Between the two of us, Dave Shankle made some nice cash for his daytrip to Greenville County and we get to do it all over again sometime around the first week of December. Yay!
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The Scarab in "Resurrection of the Dead" (Better/Standard/Nedor;1946)










    This next "Nedor-A-Weekend" story from Exciting Comics #46 (Apr.1946), has cool artwork by Ken Battefield. Since the Grand Comics Database doesn't have a title listed for this fine tale featuring The Scarab, I've decided to borrow a line from the opening splash page and call it "Resurrection of the Dead".

    As a reminder, two more adventures will be forthcoming from this golden age classic starring the American Eagle and the Black Terror. For no particular reason today I've also included a single page text story called "Police Chief's Son" written by Johnson Craig.

    See you next Saturday and as always, "Enjoy!"
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"Gal" Friday! Miss Universe 2010





    A new Miss Universe was selected this week and the 2010 crown went to Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete. Damn, I love beauty pageants and since I've got a soft spot for lovely Latinas, this choice gets my firmest support.

    Oh, yeah!

    Despite the brouhaha over the topless photos that this years girls took for promotion, really only a layer of body paint (let's pause for a moment to reflect on that), the end result justifies the means (and really why quibble about a little extra skin)?

    Aaah, yes!

    Jimena easily earns her place in the Catacombs (and my heart) as this weeks luscious "Gal" Friday.

    Viva Mexico!!
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Star Trek: The "Alternate" Generation!







    Our pals over at Ain't It Cool News posted a link a couple of days ago that led to a 1987 memo which detailed the casting possibilities for the upcoming Star Trek: The Next Generation series, the first of several spin-offs of the classic original Gene Roddenberry space epic.

    One thing that always bothered me was the casting of stentorian British thespian Patrick Stewart as the French Jean-Luc Picard. I mean why didn't they cast a French actor? Well it appears that they at least came close to doing so. Belgian actor Patrick Bauchau may not be familiar to many of you, but he has been a reliable presence on some good genre television shows such as The Pretender and Carnivale and he appeared as the main henchman to Christopher Walken's lead villain in Roger Moore's swansong as 007 in "A View To A Kill".

    As peculiar as the casting of a British man as a Frenchman seemed to me twenty years ago, I have to say that I've always disliked some of the cast of ST:TNG, and particularly Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher. She was weak from start to finish in the role and I much preferred the Diana Muldaur second season fill-in role of Dr. Pulaski better. However, hold the fort, it seems that Logan's Run/An American Werewolf in London veteran and all-around 1970's cutie (& British) Jenny Agutter was considered for the part of Crusher. What were they thinking? I would have given it to her in a heartbeat.

    Lt. Tasha Yar bought the farm very early in the first season of ST:TNG (thank god), basically nothing against Denise Crosby's turn as Yar, but that character sucked from the get go. Two Asian-American actresses that were originally up for the role of Yar would have been far superior - granted in my own opinion - but here in the Catacombs it's the only one that truly matters. Rosalind Chao and Julia Nickson would have lent that role a nice bit of exotic appeal and for my money, Lt. Yar could have then survived the goop-monsters attack that ultimately killed her off.

    Now out of all the other possibilities mentioned in that AICN post (go read for yourselves), the only other one that really fascinates me would have been "seeing" Wesley Snipes as Geordi LaForge. Man wouldn't the chief engineer of the Enterprise 1701-D been one butt-kicking blind dude. That would have been all kinds of awesome (and I actually liked Levar Burton as Geordi).

    Just a few things to file away in the might have been category!
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Cave Girl in "The Ape God of Kor" (ME;1952)









    Here is an entertaining Cave Girl story from Magazine Enterprises series, Thun'da, King of the Congo #2 (1952) with beautiful artwork by the great Bob Powell. This is the first of several Cave Girl tales by Bob Powell that I'm going to send your way over the next week.

    You'll notice that it is also a terrific late golden age crossover adventure starring Thun'da himself, and his trusty jungle mate, the lovely Pha. Because I like you guys so much, I'm throwing in the issues fine cover for free. Now that's friendly service, Catacombs-style!

    The Catacombs is grateful to Don "Zu-Gogo" Falkos for providing the scans for this story. Note: The copyright for this issue, its contents and artwork belong to the original publisher and/or creators and is reproduced here solely for entertainment purposes.

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It's Wednesday, So It Must Mean "COMICS!"


    Trust me when I say that it is a rare occasion for me to stroll into any comics shop and drop $50 on a stack of brand spanking new, fresh off of the racks funny books (and the latest issue of Asimov's Science Fiction digest). These days I seldom stop by the comics shops and then it's solely to browse or to pick up an odd issue of something that I am curious about, but today I had one of those days.

    I have been following limited or mini-series from Marvel or DC for the last few years and given up monthly titles. Mind you, I'm not cut from the "wait for the trade" mentality, but sadly the regular offerings from the "big two" have left me cold for quite some time. I've long since given over my comics purchasing habits to the Internet via eBay and sometimes Amazon, cherry-picking affordable back issues, peppered with a random selection from time-to-time simply to wet the old whistle.

    Of all things today, I stopped by a Books-A-Million to grab a copy of Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam #18, which I had almost missed and then ventured on to one of the local direct shops to see what was available. $50 later here is what I bought: Atlas #4, Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam #'s 18 & 19, DC Universe Legacies #4, Guarding the Globe #1, Image United #3, Invincible #74, Science Dog #1, Secret Avengers #'s 3 & 4, Time Masters: Vanishing Point #2 and X-Men Forever 2 #3.

    I will have reviews for a handful of these over the next few days, but as you can see short run series make up the bulk of my purchases this fine Wednesday. Sadly, Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam was announced as being cancelled at the recent San Diego Comicon, a victim of DC's overhaul of their kids line of books. Part of the problem with this title, other than low sales, is the mindset that it is for kids. Magic of Shazam has proven to be one of the best interpretations of Captain Marvel that Dc has ever offered, particularly since artist Mike Norton took over as illustrator. I'm going to be very sad to see this book end.

    I'm also surprised to find myself buying more Image Comics titles, but writer (and Image partner) Robert Kirkman sure knows how to write fun comics. His Invincible, The Walking Dead, and Astounding Wolf-Man have become regular staples on my shelf. Guarding the Globe, ridiculously renamed from the previously announced "Guardians of the Globe", had me hooked after the publishers inventive promotional campaign which poked fun at Marvel Comics original marketing for the half dozen relaunched Avengers series first paved the way. Science Dog is a one-shot that I'm not as familiar with having come into Invincible late in the run.

    Now for me, Secret Avengers is the "only" Avengers series that Marvel currently publishes. It has an engaging introductory story, the coolest lineup out of all the current Avengers books and topnotch artwork by Mike Deodato. That being the case, I'm going to have to call it a day. I've got a ton of reading to get to.
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