We're going to look at just a few more pages of this issue before moving on, including two more from
Tommy Dolan. As I mentioned last time, this feature is full of pulpish dialogue you'll need to master to get that noir-pulp feeling in your urban crime campaigns, like "wise guy," "two-timed," "where's the dough?", "lammed," and "smart guy."
Whiteface seems like a villain name Chester Gould rejected for Dick Tracy.
A good tip for Editors; make sure every exit from the hideout is guarded
after the Heroes enter, so getting out is an extra challenge (they can no longer expend all their energy and then easily escape, but will need to leave some hit points for one more battle).
"Hiding behind the bones of another Super...?" Tommy (here pretending to be Terry so convincingly that even the narrator is fooled) inspires a future scene in
The Incredibles.
Although it looks like wood, the roadside barriers are apparently made from concrete, which must have already been pretty common back then.
This is one of two and a half pages adapting
Pinocchio, interestingly coming out around the same time as the Disney version. This version stays much truer to the original book -- which is a crazy psychedelic nightmare, if you've never read it -- with just the curious addition of a female protagonist named Vicky. Yes, Geppetto really
was going to throw his talking puppet into the fire.
The talking animal world of
The Adventures of Pinocchio would make for a really bizarre, but interesting, campaign, for android half-pints.
(Scans courtesy of
Comic Book Plus.)
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