With
apologies in advance to my homosexual friends, I picked today’s
subject primarily because he has the gayest looking costume in
comics. Meet Boomerang!
Boomerang
was introduced to the world within the pages of TERRIFIC COMICS issue
2 in March 1944 as published
by Et-Es-Go Magazines. The
GCD has yet to identify the author of the strip but we can lay blame
for the outfit upon that master of GA cover art, L.B. Cole. That
initial story is a convoluted as hell as we are introduced to Capt.
Lloyd Raleigh who is being briefed on his first mission for the US
Army Intelligence. And what a mission it is… an assassination! But
unbeknownst to his superiors, Raleigh is secretly the
Aussie-outfitted vigilante. In retrospect it’s a damned good cover,
who in their right mind would suspect an American boy to sneak around
in a bushman’s hat wielding an aboriginal throwing stick? Here then
is that epic tale.
This
really a rhetorical question but can anyone explain to me how Lloyd
stashed away his hero gear while imprisoned in a Nazi dungeon?
In his
next adventure, Manny Stallman takes over the artistic reins. Silver
Age fans may recall his stint on the Raven in THUNDER AGENTS. The gal
Boomerang rescued in the first story becomes his sidekick as Dianna
in this installment.
The third
episode finds yet another art switch with GA veteran Rudy Palais
doing the honors
In the
fourth and final Boomerang classic we come full circle and find Cole
back in the saddle.
I can’t
help but think that Cole was making amends for the fey outfit design
of the hero by giving the guys a scantily clad Dianna in that one.
Heroine as underwear model anyone?
Pat
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