tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post4917339534999083460..comments2024-03-28T03:15:52.497-04:00Comments on Duck Comics Revue: "The Pirate Submarine"GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-36443667035350608372012-09-29T08:07:39.559-04:002012-09-29T08:07:39.559-04:00I said this way back in a Gladstone letter column ...I said this way back in a Gladstone letter column after they ran “The Pirate Submarine”, and I’ll repeat it here. <br /><br />Perhaps my favorite vehicle in all of fiction is the Flying Sub from VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. <br /><br />This small two-to-four man craft would drop out of the nose of the vast Submarine Seaview, traveling beneath the waves or soaring above the clouds, propelling the protagonists of the show into fantastic adventure! It was a visual effect unparalleled in the television productions of its day. <br /><br />Later discovering the “submarplane”, in Gottfredson’s “The Pirate Submarine”, its fun to consider that Mickey Mouse did it first! …Albeit closer in conception to what such a craft “might have looked like” in the ‘30s (more plane-based) than the sleek saucer-like craft of the ‘60s.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-70789154986184753332012-09-28T01:41:18.399-04:002012-09-28T01:41:18.399-04:00Thanks, Thad (!!!!!). I'm just guessing it'...Thanks, Thad (!!!!!). I'm just guessing it's you.ramapithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751343744514656549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-34543893785426333612012-09-27T18:46:19.224-04:002012-09-27T18:46:19.224-04:00THANK YOU!!!!!THANK YOU!!!!!GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-67346766695335609912012-09-27T18:28:12.946-04:002012-09-27T18:28:12.946-04:00HOLLY GOSH!!!!
THIS GUY ACTUALLY DID IT! HE ACTU...HOLLY GOSH!!!! <br /><br />THIS GUY ACTUALLY DID IT! HE ACTUALLY REVIEW NINE GOTFREDSON STORIES!!! THAT TAKES REAL BALLS!!!!<br /><br /><br />CONGRATS MAN! YOURE A BETTER MAN THEN I'LL EVER SHALL BE!!! GOD BLESS YOU!!!! :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-36920161542758051862012-09-26T02:51:49.079-04:002012-09-26T02:51:49.079-04:00I've read the Best Comics anthology version of...I've read the Best Comics anthology version of this story, and apparently it's been edited. There is no mention of food tasting and death by poison in the version I read, nor is there the "Gloomy bayonets a guy" scene.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03343947041898057102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-73720086290038748082012-09-26T00:26:03.938-04:002012-09-26T00:26:03.938-04:00Mickey not getting to actually be a taster always ...Mickey not getting to actually be a taster always struck me as the story's great oversight. I can think of half a dozen ways that could have gone. (Maybe he secretly spits out his test mouthful; then throws a fit pretending to be poisoned, gets taken to an infirmary, then escapes to do some more spying while everyone thinks he's out of action. Then he learns, unexpectedly, that it's a good thing he spit out that mouthful—because it really <b>was</b> poisoned.)ramapithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751343744514656549noreply@blogger.com