Thursday, November 2, 2023

Dominic Fortune in “The Tiny Terror Tumble” in Hulk! 24 Dec 1980

 

Story Denny O’Neil Art Howard Chaykin

So as part of his advertising Dom has to appear on the radio show Ferdley’s Milk Hour with Tina Timons.  Tina is a movie star (kinda like Shirley Temple) and sings on the radio to promote her movies.  She has an annoying cutesy-wootsy with a widdle lisp and Dom is less than impressed until an audience member Lancelot Mahoney tries to charge the stage. 

Dom leaps into action and tackles the man who is led off mentioning that he knows a secret.

We discover the secret – Tiny Tina is not a little girl but a midget with a facelift (like Ester in the Orphan movies) who has slept with the head of the studio and blackmailed him into letting her make movies.  Mahoney is her ex-husband.

Her manager hires Fortune to be a proactive bodyguard killing Mahoney before he can blow the whistle. Of course, making it look like self defence. 

Dom tells Sabbath to stay in the car – which if you guessed she doesn’t do, you’d be right.  But Sabbath overhears the plan and stops Dom from killing Mahoney. 

Very unhappy, Dom confronts Tina who is canoodling with her new paramour, she likes her men dumb and strong.  Dom gets into a fight and Tina pulls a gun only for Sabbath to take it from her.  Sabbath has called in a favour with the Commissioner (from Ghoul of My Dreams) to arrest Tiny Tina.

I have so many questions – Tina is posing as a girl of six and her new boyfriend is okay with that.  Did the studio head know she was a woman or did he think she was a young girl when he slept with her?

At this point the rest of the Hulk magazine is in black and white but Fortune’s adventures are in colour still.  It really makes the story stand out. 

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