1935 (June-August)
Out of the tourbillon and Jacovitti Lucca, we return to our story "live" Comics in Italy, and we take the story of The Bold . I said, the last post dedicated to the 'anti-adventure "of SAEV that Brick Bradford passes very quickly from the first page of the newspaper as internal, abandoning even the design of the head, and this because it meets the of readers. This is certainly true, because know the subsequent developments in publishing history, but today in May 1935,
maybe there is something else. Probably this is also a form of self-censorship: Brick and her heroines are just too be strange, for the authoritarian parents, teachers, priests who carefully monitor the readings of adolescents.
maybe there is something else. Probably this is also a form of self-censorship: Brick and her heroines are just too be strange, for the authoritarian parents, teachers, priests who carefully monitor the readings of adolescents.
Instead of Brick Bradford, in the first page and in the design of the head, the number 73, as indeed we have already seen, there is Tarzan comics: they are the boards Sunday designed by Harold Rudolph Foster and, in terms of purely graphic, readers we earn. The charts public The Bold are indeed the most mature of the series, formally perfect, probably among the best things in syndication American of all time. Foster is also the Tarzan of the origin of the comic strip "natural-adventurous" Italian American and as a result: in fact, started March 15, 1931, the work of Rex Maxon , through the magic hands of the future author of Prince Valiant since September 27 of that year. The readers of 1935 may not know, but in previous years, has Alex Raymond literally ransacked the tables of the Lord of the Jungle, especially those of the series "Egyptian" (1932/33), and entire sequences are found in Tarzan Flash Gordon early. Perhaps the half-naked
Tarzan, compared with Brick Bradford, is considered less morbid, more natural, indeed naturist : in the thirties, moreover, the nudism is part of the novelty of a given culture " Alternatively, pre-ecological, and even pre-Nazi . Perhaps not coincidentally, the era of fascist prohibitions, an attempt to disguise Tarzan Germanic hero, with the name of Siegfried ...
The most remarkable aspect of the art of Harold Foster, is that it seems to be born already "adult" as late as 1929, when the master of Halifax reduces daily strips the first novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs . This is unlike his colleagues Raymond and Caniff , to mention only the top two names, which have a vesting period shorter or longer. Foster, however, totally mastered the design of the human figure from the first strip: capacity certainly also due to long work in advertising, but certainly above all an extraordinary gift of nature.
Harold Foster drew a jungle far from impressionistic, even portrayed almost page by page. His beasts are realistic; athletic performance of the protagonist and the supporting actors, male and female, are worthy of a textbook of anatomy for artists, but with a very natural effect:
also extraordinary rendition "bad." As it happens The Bold Tarzan beginning to publish more or less at one of the best episodes of the series, one that sees the protagonist villain Dester Molu , Mephistopheles Europe has enslaved a tribe of naive African (we are in 1935, my, political correctness is still to come):
Meanwhile, the inside pages of The Bold , Brick Bradford appears with the his topper, The Time Top , announcing (but today, in 1935, we do not know) momentous developments in the plots of the blonde hero Sunday William Ritt and Clarence Gray :
The boards of Sunday Radio Patrol of Eddie Sullivan and Charlie Schmidt , continue in their descriptions of naked suburbs ruthless, in some ways more true of the movie "gangsters" of the early thirties. The first continuity of a certain thickness is narrative history with the villain called The Headphone , Leader of a gang that is almost a "common crime":
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