Some of you might remember the St. Valentine's Day Massacre post we featured HERE at AEET back in 2019, so let's take a look at it again from a King Kirby / Super Simon publication perspective, aka the March / April 1947 issue of Headline Comics #23. Hope everyone has a happy VD holiday full of boxed chocolate assortments and gushers of bountiful body fluids. <3
Pat Benatar should have used Cupid with a sub machine gun on the album cover "Love Is A Battlefield".
ReplyDeleteThe two Valentines cards posted might have been the ones Bonnie and Clyde gave to each other.
Thanks for the Valentines post.
Strange story -- I went on a Chicago ghost tour, and we drove to the site of the massacre which then nothing but an empty lot. Yes, an exciting tour! Resurrection Mary never showed up, either!
ReplyDeleteThen later, I saw the wall reconstructed in a mob museum in Vegas (I think been a while.)
So I kind of saw the murder scene, one bit at a time, over years!
I like that shiny plastic kid on the "Loaded" Valentine' Day card. He's definitely some kind of precursor of that androgynous eighties glam that I miss so much. Like he should be a backup dancer on some slanted video set, behind billows of smoke machine vapor lit purple through a set of Venetian blinds. He's a smooth criminal.
ReplyDeleteI like the Kirby version of this story, at least art-wise. The last version was a lurid magnification of all the violence, and this one focuses on just the facts everybody already knows. But man, Kirby is so amazing at keeping the energy up over pages and pages of people chatting. He makes it look easy. All this work is gorgeous--I dig Jack's "wrinkly suit" stage! All the figures are gangly like scarecrows--but my fave is probably the dance party in Manning's hotel room at the top of the last page. I'd love to see that be a big Kirby splash.