Faith

Faith Allows Us To Concentrate On What Needs To Be Done Rather Than Planning For Something That May Never Happen.

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"Gal" Friday! Carly Foulkes

Carly Foulkes has been described as a "picture-perfect brunette", a statement with which I find absolutely no fault. An up and coming ad icon, Foulkes has recently been the new "face" of T-Mobile in a popular series of 2010 and 2011 myTouch 4G television commercials, in which she wears a pink and white dress. The native Canadian was recently cast as "Retro Girl" for an upcoming TV pilot based on the comic book series Powers, by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Avon Oeming.

The series follows the lives of two homicide detectives assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, who are referred to colloquially as "powers". Foulkes is set to play the first victim that is investigated by the detectives, so her appearance will be short and sweet. Hopefully this will lead to additional work for the budding actress who just celebrated her 22nd birthday.

Foulkes is very engaging in her T-Mobile commercials, primarily due to a high degree of femininity, and that smoking slender frame. She's been in my radar for quite a while now and I'm really pleased to add her to the Catacombs archives as this weeks official "gal" Friday selection. Yummy!

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Ty-Gor, Son of the Tiger in "Trap For Ty-Gor's Uncle" (MLJ;1940)

Taken as a baby, Tyrone Gorman was offered as a living sacrifice to tigers in the jungles of Malaysia. Instead, the tigress Malma raised him. "Ty-Gor" was unknowingly an heir to a vast fortune back home while he roamed the jungle accompanied by Malma. In this story from Blue Ribbon Comics #6 (Sept.1940); originally published by MLJ/Archie Comics, Ty-Gor is completely unaware that he has been found by his own benevolent uncle, who has inadvertently brought along a turncoat named Hartley as guide (both making their first appearance). This exciting story has a nice bittersweet element to it, as the language barrier prevents the two family members from completely bonding. The writer of "Trap For Ty-Gor's Uncle" is Joe Blair and the artist is Mort Meskin.

The Catacombs is grateful to Don "Zu-Gogo" Falkos for providing the scans for this story. Note: the copyright for this issue, its contents and artwork belong to the original publisher and/or creators and is reproduced here solely for entertainment purposes.

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Top 10 Defunct Comic Book Publishers: Dell Comics

Dell Comics originally got its start in pulp magazines, but published comics from 1929 to 1973. At its peak, Dell was the most successful American company in the medium. By 1953, Dell claimed to be the world's largest comic publisher, selling 26 million copies each month.

Its first title to feature original material was The Funnies, but since it was published in a larger tabloid format, it is not recognized as such. In 1938 the company formed a partnership with Western Publishing, with Dell being responsible for financing and distributing publications that Western produced. While this diverged from the standard practice within the industry, it was a highly successful enterprise with many titles selling in the millions.

Dell Comics was best known for licensed material, particularly animated characters from Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros., MGM and the Walter Lantz Studios, such as the Lone Ranger, Tarzan, Howdy Doody, Yogi Bear and other Hanna-Barbera characters. From 1939 to 1962, Dell's most prolific title was the anthology Four Color. Often published several times a month, the series had more than 1,300 issues published during in its 23-year history. It regularly served as a try-out title and thus became the launching pad for many long-running series.

Dell opted not to join the Association of Comics Magazine Publishers, which had been formed to pre-empt government intervention in the face of mounting public criticism of comic books, and not wanting their less controversial offerings to serve as an umbrella for other comic publishers, when the Comics Code Authority was formed later in 1954 in reaction to Dr. Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, Dell again refused to join.

The end of Four Color in 1962 coincided with the ending of the business partnership with Western, which then took most of its licensed properties and original material and created its own imprint, Gold Key Comics. Dell Comics continued for another eleven years with licensed television and movie adaptations including Mission: Impossible, Ben Casey, Burke's Law, Doctor Kildare, Beach Blanket Bingo and a few original series. Dell Comics ceased publication in 1973, but the company continued with mainstream magazines only.

While Walt Kelly and Carl Barks are the most recognized talents associated with Dell, other writers and artists who worked there include Gaylord DuBois, Paul S. Newman, Don "Arr" Christensen, John Stanley, Alex Toth, Russ Manning, Alberto Giolitti, Dick Moores, Jack Bradbury, Dan Spiegle, Paul Norris, Frank Bolle, Art Saaf, Sam Glanzman and John Buscema.

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Fantasy Art and Lovely Girls

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Lovely Girls in Fantasy Art

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Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Dee Lohan was born on July 2, 1986 in The Bronx and grew up in Merrick and Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island in New York. She is the eldest child of Michael Douglas Lohan Sr., a onetime actor, and former Rockette Donata "Dina" Sullivan and has two younger brothers, Michael Jr., Dakota and a younger sister, Aliana all of whom are aspiring actors. She is of Irish and Italian descent and had a catholic upbringing.

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