One Panel #241-243: The Golden Age Fairground

No, really, is it just me or did Golden Age superheroes spend an inordinate amount of time in amusement park surroundings?
From Doll Man: "Python the Brain Thief" by Will Eisner and Lou Fine, Feature Comics #36 (September 1940)

Exhibit A: Doll Man, apparently the victim of a dunk tank.

From The Red Bee: "The Photographer's Murder" by Charles Nicholas, Hit Comics #3 (September 1940)

Exhibit B: The Red Bee riding a rollercoaster car up some tracks and leaping off it... bee-like, I guess.

From Green Lantern: "At the World's Fair" by Bill Finger and Martin Nodell, All-American Comics #18 (September 1940)

Exhibit C: Despite there being two (to date) World's Fair Comics, Green Lantern has an adventure at the Fair in his own book anyway. Throws a guy right off the Perisphere.

No wonder the All-Star Squadron eventually moved in. Superheroes and fairs, man. There's a connection for sure. Futurism? All things amazing? Probably.

Comments

snell said…
Obviously, Arcade is involved...perhaps his grandfather?