Indie Squid Kid » Captain Marvel http://www.indiesquidkid.com The continuing adventures of a hopelessly obsessed collector of squid paraphernalia, cephalopod ephemera and other tentacled miscellanea. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:50:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Wednesday Comics: The Golden Age of octopus fighting http://www.indiesquidkid.com/2009/09/02/wednesday-comics-the-golden-age-of-octopus-fighting/ http://www.indiesquidkid.com/2009/09/02/wednesday-comics-the-golden-age-of-octopus-fighting/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:26:20 +0000 Indie Squid Kid http://www.indiesquidkid.com/?p=664 Welcome to the first installment of Wednesday Comics, the newest Indie Squid Kid weekly(ish?) theme day! You may not know this, but all across this great land of ours, Wednesday is New Comic Book Day—the day that comic shops get their weekly shipments of new titles. Cephalopods have been a mainstay of comic books pretty much since the beginning of the genre, as demonstrated in the following images from DC Comics’ Golden Age that all feature classic superheroes battling giant octopuses.

Flash Comics #44 (1943)

The Flash vs. octopus: Flash Comics #44 (1943)

Via Poulpe Pulps, an impressive archive of vintage covers of comics, pulp magazines, and sci-fi novels that all feature cephalopods.

Whiz Comics #115 (1949)

Captain Marvel vs. octopus: Whiz Comics #115 (1949)

Via Everyday Is Like Wednesday, the home of the occasional Monday Morning Man vs. Cephalopod.

Starman vs. octopus: Adventure Comics #65 (1941)

Via The Absorbascon, your online source for sweet, sweet octopus love.

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