Marvelian adventures at the hands of Basil Wolverton who made his appearance Viper.

Between the end of 1979 and the beginning of 2005, in the sales points that readers used to for their usual regulation of the ninth art, there was a comic magazine by The dome and I know how Viperthat we have already talked about on the occasion, whose founder was Josep María Berenguer.

Under the motto “Comix for survivors“This publication tried to make alternative animated cartoons available to everyone, even if in some of its copies it has come to beat the material from Wonderwho, in its entirety, was under the signature of a screenwriter and cartoonist who not only knew how to leave his mark The house of ideasBut it has also been seen in other publishers, such as cases of Dark horse, Last gap, Kitchen sink or IDW.

So that without a doubt the person we are talking about, it should be clarified that we refer to the American Basil Wolverton. In the following sections of this article we will describe in detail his relationship with the magazine The VïboraAs you can check if you continue to read until the end.

Power pepper

Although the work of Basil Wolverton It was not that of a stranger for the usual readers of Vipersince I had already published an image for the summary of the Second issue of the magazineHe still had to wait two more months for the adventure Less moralinterpreted Turbine paprika (Power pepperIn the original language), he became the first of his cartoon which became part of said Supero.

The protagonist of these adventures was a Fortechón with good intentions trying to live his life in a hostile world. Your debut in Wonder It happened in Powehouse Pepewhich was the fifth cartoon published in Joker Comics nº 1 (1942), when the publisher was still known as Timely (And, of course, without any relationship with the bad Batman). Before getting an ephemeral own collectionIn 1948, only five numbers, the character was seen by presidents of other characters of the time such as cases of Gay comics, Tessie the dictilographic, Rusty or Millie The Model.

Humorama Inc. (1950 – 1960) was another American magazine in which they also managed to find the adventures of Power pepperwhich extended up to a total of 76 episodes. The cartoon that made its appearance Viper n. 4whose coverage crowns this section, belonged to the last phase of Basil Wolverton In the Morcel mentioned at the beginning of the paragraph. However, what is not so simple is to find its equivalence with the US material.

Supersonic

Another wonderful character of Basil Wolverton who found his space Viper era Sammya Martian who came to our planet and crossed the path of a bad guy to whom he was like Josef Stalin It was more than evident, as we could see in an extra summer of the magazine Viperwhich was composed of the specimens 8 y 9 Of the Magacín, dated in 1980, as explained on the cover that is in this paragraph. As anecdotal data, it should be noted that the experiment had to work well, since they suggested it by applying the publication of Viper.

The first adventure of this peculiar extraterrestrial was published in the magazine Comedy magazine nº 12 (1953), which was the same cartoon that could subsequently be seen in the aforementioned copy of the magazine ViperAlthough, initially, Basil Wolverton He created the character to be a comic, in which the alien became known Saucer Sid, The Supersonic Kid. However, not achieving the expected success, he recycled the coast for the Magacina Timely characteristicswho ended up being part of Humor.

The eye of fate

We finish the review of Marvelian Works of Basil Wolverton Published in Viper With an adventure that saw the light inside A special which was distributed in December 1981, whose coverage can be seen at the top of these lines, in which an expedition has been narrated Venusin which travelers had to face some floating and diabolical spheres that devoured their victims through the absorption method.

Wonderwhen it was still known by the name of AtlasOriginally published as the main story of the comic Mystic nº 6 (1952), although it is Weird Wonder Tales nº 1 (1973), while in the second case it appears in third place in the story contained in the sample Curse of the strange nº 1 (1993).