Action and adventure
Action and adventure |
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Page 3 of 42  The Wizard (1927) The transition to a new form of adventure publication, which emphasized sequential panel narratives, was not simply a question of the story papers adding strips, though this was arguably the major influence. It was also true that increasingly humour comics were featuring adventure stories, in order to add variety. By the 1940s, The Dandy and The Beano had several, while the outstanding strips 'The Road to Rome' and 'Sons of the Sword', both by Reg Perrott, appeared incongruously in Mickey Mouse Weekly. Also, there was the influence of action strip cartoons in the newspapers, which had started to appear during the First World War. Finally, comics from America were becoming more and more popular, which emphasized adventure far more than humour (as we shall see in a moment). Thus, through the 1940s, small publishers began to experiment with adventure comics in an effort to carve a place in the market. Titles like The Comet and Sun (both Allen, 1946-7) played with action formulas, and in some cases even mixed in American material and ideas. However, none found significant success, and the story papers continued to be infinitely better sellers. Evidently, it would take something extraordinary to smash the stereotype of what a comic should be.  The Rover (1929)  The Hotspur (1937). Art: all Anon. |