MY COMICS TO CLAIM III: THUNDER AGENTS OF THE ARTIST WALLY WOOD This
sort of mini-comics section titled My claim is without doubt the strangest thing I posted in the history of this blog. I'm sure many of you do not even remember they have been two previous installments of the section ... and no wonder, the first was published on May 26 2009 and the second on 8 December of that year, almost anything ...
Section was born and announcing that only consist of three posts ... and even there all right, because even with a long delay, it has been. Claimed the first two English works in my humble opinion are among the best in the history of comic humor homeland, although not always been sufficiently evaluated (13 Rue
of Barnacle and Groun in the Desert) was a vindication of the quality of the works themselves that publication itself and the second was devoted to claim two works in the history of British comics have been published despite here for many years, well deserved a current issue and as God commands (
Ghosts of Rent and Mytek the Mighty ).
This last post was to be dedicated (from the beginning) to two comics of American origin. During all this time that has elapsed since the publication of the second post, I have been thinking on several occasions on which comics would be chosen to appear here eventually vindicated, reaching through my mind works like Devil Dinosaur by Jack Kirby, Nathaniel Dusk Don McGregor and Gene Colan's own or Nightforce Colan and Marv Wolfman, among others. I finally decided ... but my two comics chosen will not be claimed together, no. One of them has been relocated to Section Big John's Legacy, the section of this humble blog devoted entirely to John Buscema, and I promise a future post of the section devoted to claim complete one of the best works of the whole race Big John and also one of the least known (forthcoming
Big John's Legacy.) And so this post is completely dedicated to a work that I still shudder when I stop to think that has ever been published in this country, the Wally Wood's THUNDER Agents.
The THUNDER Agents are a group of heroes halfway between super-heroes and international secret agents, who for 20 numbers (although the last and only had inside reprints) published by Tower Comics and distributed between 1965 and 1969, as a true alternative to the superhero comics of the two (Marvel and DC) in the middle of Silver Age and at a time when no such alternatives existed. While ultimately (and unfortunately), the power of the two great ending to this great alternative, as many distribution problems that had to suffer throughout his career, eventually impacting heavily on their final destination.
mention that besides the 20 numbers (19 + 1) of the regular title, the characters also have some spin-offs as Dynamo (4 No.), Noman (2 No.) and Undersea Agent (6 No.). The creator and lead author of the characters was the great Wallace Wood, although not all be your responsibility cartoons, drew a number, inked several others that had not been drawn by him (remember how big it was also Wally and ink) and write scripts many others. Although to realize the overall artistic value of the work, note that the stories that were illustrated by Wally Wood, told with great pen names such as Steve Ditko, Gil Kane, Mike Reed Crandall or Sekowsky, among others.
I humbly that there is a huge void in this country to be try to cover. I see no logical that a work so innovative and daring as they were at the time the THUNDER Agents and top with the great Wally Wood as main author (not to mention the artists luxury side of the title) has not ever been published in our country. Perhaps in time there were problems of rights, may have been sunk into oblivion ... but during the past decade, DC, published in several volumes of his file, so that, at least at present, it is clear who owns the rights and that there are plenty of propagating material.
Here is a book that nothing has to envy to many of the superhero comics of his era, the glorious 60; much better graphically even many of his contemporaries comics Marvel or DC that we are very mystified, while this work is still sleeping in limbo. This is where this strange, brief, bizarre, spaced in time and demanding section reaches its greatest reason for being: We want to see published in Spain Wood Wallace THUNDER Agents!
Not long ago, announced that sometime this year try to launch an initiative with the intention of joining forces with other blogs, to try to require publication of certain works that should be published in our country without further delay ... During the closing stages of last year and early this, news has leaked that I liked very much and that maybe, just maybe, have softened somewhat this my intention. Some of these reports are referring to the publication of works such as Tex Victor de la Fuente, the Avengers of Roger Stern and John Buscema, the Blazing Combat of Warren, Warren also Eerie Life on another planet Will Eisner or Dick Turpin Victor Mora and Martin Salvador, among others.
This is great news, great news, and despite the protest as one, we must be logical and consistent and I must say that they are doing certain things well. For now, here's the last post in this strange, bizarre and lost in time trilogy protest ... after several months of evaluation of all published soon, will have to see what course should take future claims.
