Folks!! Meet Sherry Flippe, the girl detective! Follow her now in her first adventure, --from the August 1944 issue of Suspense #5, --as she comes across some shady business in a haunted house! She's not at all like Torchy, in the same way that the phone on page 6 is not at all phallic in any way, shape, or limp form. And if you think this comic is about anything other than showin' off her long legs in stockings, --well, you're only foolin' yourselves...
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So normally on these good girl comics the guys are all drawn cartoonish and the women are all draw realistically, but Sherry is also cartoonish here. I like the exaggerated figure (page 5, panel 2 with a waste the same diameter as her leg!)
I like the lettering, too, something not much discussed here. It's kind of a lost art of expressive lettering in the balloons.
Good action here, too, there's a lot of motion in some of the panels.
Looks like 7 stories in whole for this character.
Yeah, the letter here was really killing it. All this deco emphasis lettering is super. I really miss open display lettering in word balloons. Mostly it happened in humor mags like this, and back in the golden age like this too. In super hero stuff, it seems like I'd only ever see it when one character would shout another character's name, or maybe yell the title of the story as dialog. I think its last gasp was on the covers of Marvel books in the eighties. Well, I guess that was just about the last gasp of all hand lettering alas. Anyway, it's groovy and it's a look I like.
The story is pretty cute too. Love to see more. She doesn't come off as dumb as most of the cheesecake comics she's copying, and I particularly like how she doesn't seem too spooked by the prospect of ghosts. Or gangsters for that matter.
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