Today I added another early Bodyguard Sunday by Lawrence Lariar and John Spranger. Spranger worked as Will Eisner's assistant for many years and it really shows. I had an almost complete run of the Sundays of this strip a year ago (including the later versions called Ben friday and The Bantam Prince by the same team) and put them in several posts. No one commented on them and they were not even visited a lot. Must have been a slow week. It represents one of the current problems of this blog - if I share unknown but beautiful material, chances are not many people will chance upon them. In this case, that is particulary sad, because Bodyguard is such a remarkable strip of very high quality. So please, hit any one of the loinks and take your time for an exciting read.
Showing posts with label The Bantam Prince. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Bantam Prince. Show all posts
Saturday, March 14, 2020
I Will Be Your Long Lost Pal
Saturday Leftover Day.
Today I added another early Bodyguard Sunday by Lawrence Lariar and John Spranger. Spranger worked as Will Eisner's assistant for many years and it really shows. I had an almost complete run of the Sundays of this strip a year ago (including the later versions called Ben friday and The Bantam Prince by the same team) and put them in several posts. No one commented on them and they were not even visited a lot. Must have been a slow week. It represents one of the current problems of this blog - if I share unknown but beautiful material, chances are not many people will chance upon them. In this case, that is particulary sad, because Bodyguard is such a remarkable strip of very high quality. So please, hit any one of the loinks and take your time for an exciting read.
Today I added another early Bodyguard Sunday by Lawrence Lariar and John Spranger. Spranger worked as Will Eisner's assistant for many years and it really shows. I had an almost complete run of the Sundays of this strip a year ago (including the later versions called Ben friday and The Bantam Prince by the same team) and put them in several posts. No one commented on them and they were not even visited a lot. Must have been a slow week. It represents one of the current problems of this blog - if I share unknown but beautiful material, chances are not many people will chance upon them. In this case, that is particulary sad, because Bodyguard is such a remarkable strip of very high quality. So please, hit any one of the loinks and take your time for an exciting read.
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Lariardidah
Thursday Story Strip Day.
Continuing where I left off with John Spranger's Ben Friday (with only one Sunday missing in between) here is either the first or the second installment of The Bantam Prince. After six months, he would be relieved by Carl Pfeuer to leave for another more serious strip, the Saint.
Continuing where I left off with John Spranger's Ben Friday (with only one Sunday missing in between) here is either the first or the second installment of The Bantam Prince. After six months, he would be relieved by Carl Pfeuer to leave for another more serious strip, the Saint.
Thursday, December 07, 2017
Thursday Friday
Thursday Comic Book Day.
During this year I have been showing quite a large run of John Spranger and cartoonist Lariar's detective adventure strip Bodyguard, which later changed it's name to Ben Friday. Here are the last of the Ben Friday Sundays I have, but fear not. The series was continued as The Bantam Prince, whose character was already introduced in Ben Friday. He was replaced there by Carl Pfeuer on July 8 1951, but more on that when we get there. I am not completely sure where the name change occurred, because my Ben Fridays end here on October 8 and start with The Bantam Prince on October 29.
During this year I have been showing quite a large run of John Spranger and cartoonist Lariar's detective adventure strip Bodyguard, which later changed it's name to Ben Friday. Here are the last of the Ben Friday Sundays I have, but fear not. The series was continued as The Bantam Prince, whose character was already introduced in Ben Friday. He was replaced there by Carl Pfeuer on July 8 1951, but more on that when we get there. I am not completely sure where the name change occurred, because my Ben Fridays end here on October 8 and start with The Bantam Prince on October 29.
Saturday, June 27, 2015
The Prince's Bodyguard
Thursday Story Strip Day.
I came across color sample of another forgotten adventure strip of the fifties. The Bantam Prince started life as Bodyguard when it was drawn by John Spranger. The art was taken over by Carl Pfeufer and when the tone and the hero of the strtip changed the name folowed. I prefer the earlier Spranger version, but The Bantam Prince has a charm of it's own and did quite well for a while. For more you can folow the tags.
I came across color sample of another forgotten adventure strip of the fifties. The Bantam Prince started life as Bodyguard when it was drawn by John Spranger. The art was taken over by Carl Pfeufer and when the tone and the hero of the strtip changed the name folowed. I prefer the earlier Spranger version, but The Bantam Prince has a charm of it's own and did quite well for a while. For more you can folow the tags.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
No Body To Blame
Thursday Story Strip Day.
In the forties and fifties everyone wanted to have a newspaper strip. At least thta's the story we are told time and again. But in fact, there were many artists who had a newspaper strip and left it to do comics. And not just getting cancelled, but actually leaving it for another artist to carry on. One such artists was John Spranger, the former Eisner assistant and Quality artist, who took on the strip Bodyguard with writer (and cartoonist) Lawrence Lariar. After a while the strip was taken over by Carl Pfeufer after which it was renamed The Bantam Prince and ran for quite a while. Now it could be that the tone of the strip had changed so that Spranger was no longer the most suited artist, but my guess is that the sales were not good enough for Spranger to keep on doing it. Which is saying a lot if you know what the earnings were on comic books. At least they had a good run and in the early days the strip didn't even look that bad. A bit like The Saint, which started around the same time and went on to run for all of the fifties.
In the forties and fifties everyone wanted to have a newspaper strip. At least thta's the story we are told time and again. But in fact, there were many artists who had a newspaper strip and left it to do comics. And not just getting cancelled, but actually leaving it for another artist to carry on. One such artists was John Spranger, the former Eisner assistant and Quality artist, who took on the strip Bodyguard with writer (and cartoonist) Lawrence Lariar. After a while the strip was taken over by Carl Pfeufer after which it was renamed The Bantam Prince and ran for quite a while. Now it could be that the tone of the strip had changed so that Spranger was no longer the most suited artist, but my guess is that the sales were not good enough for Spranger to keep on doing it. Which is saying a lot if you know what the earnings were on comic books. At least they had a good run and in the early days the strip didn't even look that bad. A bit like The Saint, which started around the same time and went on to run for all of the fifties.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Where There Is Pfeufer...
Thursday Story Strip Day.
Back in November I shared a load of samples of Lariar and Pfeufer's The Bantam Prince, a funny adventure strip from the early fifties. Here is the rest I have from 1953 and 1954. This post is mostly for completion's sake. I know most of you will not read it all, or just gance at a Sunday here and there. And that is okay, I myself couldn't be bothered to get a complete set of Sundays and dailies either. I just picked them up wherever I came across them and now that I have discovered the black post function on Blogger I can finally put them all online at once. Still, it is not a bad strip and Carl Pfeufer as quite an important comic book artist in hs day - drawing most of the Sub-Mariner stoires in the forties. So now you can see what he did after that. Also, I always like to read the endings of strips, which you can do here as well, when the whole thing hhad ran it's course in februari 1954.
Thursday Story Strip Day.
Back in November I shared a load of samples of Lariar and Pfeufer's The Bantam Prince, a funny adventure strip from the early fifties. Here is the rest I have from 1953 and 1954. This post is mostly for completion's sake. I know most of you will not read it all, or just gance at a Sunday here and there. And that is okay, I myself couldn't be bothered to get a complete set of Sundays and dailies either. I just picked them up wherever I came across them and now that I have discovered the black post function on Blogger I can finally put them all online at once. Still, it is not a bad strip and Carl Pfeufer as quite an important comic book artist in hs day - drawing most of the Sub-Mariner stoires in the forties. So now you can see what he did after that. Also, I always like to read the endings of strips, which you can do here as well, when the whole thing hhad ran it's course in februari 1954.
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