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| POW! #1 January 21st 1967 |
Here are three DARE-A-DARE DAVY strips from POW!,
first published back in 1967. Drawn by the irrepressible KEN REID
in his usual manic style, these pages are a visual delight to the eyes and
deserve to be collected in a hardback book for posterity. In fact, I
believe someone did that very thing a few years ago, but the limited
print run has long sold out, so you've had your chips, chums.
| POW! #20 June 3rd 1967 |
The above strip probably wouldn't be allowed now in a comic
for kids because of Davy's reference to him committing suicide. To
me, it seems that Davy actually means that the nature of the dare is
'suicidal' rather than the intent, although the result is likely to be the
same. The result in the 'real' world of course, but this is comics. How-
ever, the wording isn't clear on that distinction, so if it were re-
printed, the speech balloon would probably be changed.
| POW! #33 September 2nd 1967 |
As you can see, MARVEL's NICK FURY makes an appearance
in the above strip, which was perfectly natural as Pow! reprinted Nick's
adventures inside the comic. (As they two characters were stablemates,
why not have a little fun with them, eh? ) I doubt it was ever advertised
as 'the team-up of the century' or 'the battle you demanded', but it was
actually quite significant in its way, in that it was one of the earliest
inter-company crossover examples in comics history.
Want to see more of Davy? Dare me!
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