What do you get when you take a mediocre premise, execute it poorly, and print it at odd angles on inferior paper?
Comic Scans Sans Inky Hands (CSSIH) prefers to let you discover the answer to that question firsthand — or rather, no-hands — by scanning printed artifacts from what by the early 1990s was already dubbed the Golden Age of Kitsch. Read these scanned pages and ponder them. What do they tell us of our ancestors? Of ourselves?
Unlike the earlier comics I’ve scanned, this chestnut is from the lovely people at Charlton Comics. Of course, it could easily have been printed by a drunken lemur. Each page required a minimum of three rescans since the panels were most emphatically not parallel to the spine. The pages were not all the same size, and I’m pretty sure the whole thing was printed on paper towels. And a color pallet that just cries out, “for want of a GIF”... but why should I rant when you can just snap your mouse?
Click picture for full coverThe Pact of Satan
Pamela’s Dolls
Partners!
Errata
- “Train now for a great career as a POLICE OFFICER or DETECTIVE!”
- Yet another Charles Atlas ad
- See Behind Glasses, Onion Gum, Raquel Welch Pillow, etc.
- Decalomania
- The Spotlight’s On...
- Murder in the Mirror
- “$9,785.01 For This Penny!”
- “Lose Up To 5 Pounds Overnight!”
- “Pet Baby Raccoons”
- “Lose Ugly Fat — While You Eat The Foods You Love!”
- An Important Message To Every Man And Woman In America Losing His Or Her Hair
- 100 pc. Toy Soldier Set
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So that guy is shking hands with Jell-O?
I remember when I bought that 100 piece soldier set. I saved up for it then waited and waited for it to come in. When I finally got it, Everything was offscale from everything else, the planes and ship were smaller than the soldiers and the soldiers were two-dimensional, and I don't mean two dimensional as in Cable from the X-Men, I mean two dimensional as in flat. Oh I was so disapointed.