Quicksand Fans

PM2K wrote:Nice find! Always liked these British/Commonwealth comics.

Thank you. They are new to me too! I always thought quicksand and stuff was always American comics!

PM2K wrote:On a side note, love your tag line as well. Nice bit of prose there.

Thank you again. It's from a work in progress.

Been a while, but here's a couple more comic book scenes. No ladies, but interesting nonetheless.

First up is an oldie... from a 1965 Batman comic. First, Bruce Wayne is shipwrecked and rescues a young person from a quicksand bog. The next page is from later on in the story... the young kid has been turned into an indestructable monster, and the only way Batman can defeat him is to reenact the quicksand rescue as Bruce Wayne.

Next, is a modern Swamp Thing scene where the title character rescues some dude who encounters quicksand. Yeah... I wished it was his wife in there as well... but it is a cool scene nonetheless.

I used to have that Batman comic many moons ago. Thanks!

nachtjaeger wrote:I used to have that Batman comic many moons ago. Thanks!

Do you remember how this story ends, just out of curiosity?

Nope. I remember that the kid Bruce rescued from the quicksand was really small and weak, and took some kind of serum to make him bigger and stronger. Ended up in a Hulk style transformation, sacrificing brains for brawn.

DJlurker wrote:

nachtjaeger wrote:I used to have that Batman comic many moons ago. Thanks!

Do you remember how this story ends, just out of curiosity?

nachtjaeger wrote:Nope. I remember that the kid Bruce rescued from the quicksand was really small and weak, and took some kind of serum to make him bigger and stronger. Ended up in a Hulk style transformation, sacrificing brains for brawn.

DJlurker wrote:

nachtjaeger wrote:I used to have that Batman comic many moons ago. Thanks!

Do you remember how this story ends, just out of curiosity?

Kid as monster does series of robberies. Dynamic Duo try repeat3edly to stop him, and fail each time. They figure out he comes from the island, and learn his own brother is controlling him. After the quicksand gambit (the second scene) they arrest the brother, then return to the island for the kid/monster only to find out he escaped off the island.

Here's one from the original Swamp Thing, plus a short text story from the Haunt of Fear and a classic Far Side cartoon.

And now... the Wonder Woman tar pit scene, from Justice League Of America #1, The World of No Return!

Wow, that's awesome!

PM2K wrote:And now... the Wonder Woman tar pit scene, from Justice League Of America #1, The World of No Return!

Nice find! I have the two frames of Wonder Woman stuck in the tar pit on the first page, but not the entire pages. It's nice to see that even someone as strong and powerful as Wonder Woman can get hopelessly stuck and sink to her doom in gooey tar, and requiring someone with the strength of Superman to pull her free.

Her pose as she struggles to free her stuck legs on the first page is beautifully drawn, and I love how her superhuman strength merely drives her powerful legs even deeper into tar as she slowly sinks into the dark depths below. I also love how the narrative at the top of the first frame on the second page notes that Superman had to heave on Wonder Woman's arms twice to free her and that you can see the tar relentlessly stretching up after her when he finally frees her... love the idea that her legs were hopelessly stuck really bad in the tar.

Thanks for sharing!