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By: More vintage comics « Arnold Zwicky's Blog

More vintage comics « Arnold Zwicky's Blog — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:02:43 +0000

[...] More from Samuel Warde’s “Vintage Politically Incorrect Comic Book Covers” site, divided into two large categories: covers with details of linguistic interest, and those of primarily social interest. (When a comic has features of both types, I’ll discuss it in the first group.) [...]

By: John Baker

John Baker — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:56:46 +0000

It would be interesting to look at other Gay Comics covers from this period and see if any of them are similarly suggestive.

By: arnold zwicky

arnold zwicky — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:46:50 +0000

A great source, used judiciously.

By: W

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:38:38 +0000

The biggest collections of these I've found have been on superdickery and TVTropes' Have a Gay Old Time page. That said, it's user contributed, so there are probably some misfires.

By: arnold zwicky

arnold zwicky — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:33:29 +0000

Thanks for the correction, and the comment.

By: Roger Klorese

Roger Klorese — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:27:51 +0000

The cover of GAY COMIX #1 was by Rand (HAROLD HEDD) Holmes; Howard Cruse edited the book. The two covers for #21 are from when Andy Mangels edited the book; the male/female flip cover approach was innovative at the time, but today, well, we’d need an infinite number of covers for every spot on (and off) the gender continuum…