Story Denny O’Neil Art Howard Chaykin
Before the Marvel Premiere issue, Dom got his first colour
adventure in Hulk 21. As a magazine the
stories could be more mature and free of the Comics Code. Tying into the Hulk TV show at the time, this
is the first of five adventures. Issues
21 & 22 appeared before Marvel Premiere #56.
The story starts in 1937 and Dom and Sabbath are heading to
New York as Dom has discovered that there is a comic book character The Purple
Slasher that looks a lot like Dom. While
Superman didn’t make print until 1938, masked and costumed characters had been
appearing in pulps, comic strips and comic books before that.
Chaykin certainly knows his comics history and this comes
into play here and in his later series “Hey Kids Comics”.
Dom and Sabbath visit the old neighbourhood and discovers
that the artist has been missing for the last few weeks. It turns out that the Nazis have taken over
the comic shop and using the Purple Slasher to spread propaganda (naturally use
the Jewish creators to create Nazi propaganda).
We get several fight scenes as the Nazis try to stop Dominic
from freeing the cartoonists. There is a
lovely fight scene over black and white panels of the Purple Slasher with
Fortune in painted colour mirroring his fictional counterpart. The painted colours are lovely and are still
vivid for a book that is over 40 years old.
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