Dec 24, 2023
Alan Mandel sharing a Christmas story on Insta!
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Alan Mandel sharing a Christmas story on Insta!
NIGHTMARE AND SLEEPY (Hillman Periodicals, 1943)
Art: Alan Mandel and Dan Barry
Smokey and the Bandit (1977). The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor-trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.
This movie is way more fun than it has any right to be – a caper across the deep south with Burt Reynolds at his most, well, Burt Reynolds, haha. He and Sally FIeld are a bit of a delight together, and the 'fuck the police' energy just feels way more topical than it should be. It's not perfect, and not particular deep, but it's pretty hard not to get onboard. 7/10.
Blue Beetle and Spunky by Alan Mandel. Note: Holyoke changed Sparky’s name to Spunky.
The Angel by Alan Mandel
“...Right Down in the Swamp!”: Crime Does Not Pay #22
“...Right Down in the Swamp!”
he very first story to appear in Crime Does Not Pay was the true-crime story of Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, titled “Crime Kings: The Real Story behind Lepke.” The Story was scripted by Woody Hamilton and featured art by Harry Lucey, and in the introduction to the story, Hamilton writes, “America wars on crime each day of the year, but still diseased minds plot, plan and sweep cities with ruthless waves of brutality and vice…like an extensive education, the factories of evil nurse the warped minds of man and turn them to cunning, scheming monsters.”…
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