Who remembers comic book character "Sarge Steel" with his steel fist and Luger?

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Bill_in_fl

Take another look at the text on the comic's cover I provided Sheepherder. It doesn't say Johnny Cloud was in the story entitled "The ship that fought in three wars". It says "Featuring Johnny Cloud the Navajo Ace".....(within another story in the same issue) and notice it says "ALSO the startling ship that fought in three wars".

You're right! I missed that! I see about a dozen on eBay; I'll bid on one of them!

An interesting thing, is there was an old early 1960's Twilight Zone t.v. episode very similar.... Anyone else remember that one?

Yep. Also, Ch 5 here ['Me-TV', Buffalo NY area] shows old Twilight Zone episodes and that one was on.

My neighborhood theater showed sci-fi & monster movies on Saturdays, "This Island Earth", "I Married A Monster From Outer Space", "The Thing From Another World", "Forgotten Planet", every monster known, the Stooges, etc. TV had "Our Gang", "The Young Rascals" [I think that was the name], and the famous local show "The Howdy Doody Show", which was a bunch of kinda-westerny marionettes and a 'Buffalo Bob' and a clown named Clarabelle. There is a great underground tape/reel of obscene out-takes of the marionettes engaged in sexual activity...I saw it once years ago; it was hilarious. Put together between takes on the set, when the puppeteers were bored and waiting for the scenery/props to be changed. Great stuff!

I don't recall the "Phantom" serials but I did follow him in the daily/Sunday comics. I especially liked the 'ancestors' storylines, a 1700's Phantom fighting pirates with the Phantom costume and two holstered flintlocks!

There was also a fanzine in the late 50's/early 60's called "Famous Monsters Of Filmland" put out by a fan who collected old publicity stills and published them in magazine form...Forest J. Ackerman was his name...Great fanzine; one of the first IIRC...

I had a Hubley cap gun once; it was the same time frame as the 'Fanner 50' but it was a top-break six-shooter. I wanted a Fanner 50 real bad, but my mother didn't know Hubley from Mattel and bought me the Hubley instead. All-zinc, shot some kind of caps, but the top-break and hinged barrel/cylinder were quite interesting. I've been trying to find it on eBay but no luck so far. Of course, back then I didn't want the Hubley, I wanted the Fanner. I cried. My mom was heartbroken.