tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post2016781375341879280..comments2024-03-26T20:28:47.677-04:00Comments on Tellers of Weird Tales: Fiends and Murderers of the 1920sTerence E. Hanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-27396317031042823192017-01-14T00:36:33.386-05:002017-01-14T00:36:33.386-05:00Mike,
And just like Hugh Rankin, Roy Crane drew n...Mike,<br /><br />And just like Hugh Rankin, Roy Crane drew naked women (or at least topless women) in Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, right in the Sunday comics page. Yeah, they were National Geographic-type pictures, but still . . .<br /><br />THTerence E. Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-1809431657965634532017-01-09T08:46:32.264-05:002017-01-09T08:46:32.264-05:00Thanks for including the image of the unit patch f...Thanks for including the image of the unit patch from your days in the USAF. I love seeing these things. A few years ago I went to see a trio of WWII era bombers at the Oxford Airport -- B-24, B-17 and a B-25 -- and while there I had the good fortune to speak with a gentleman who had been a Liberator pilot in the 14th Air Force during the war. As we spoke he shared with me a large album that he had brought along containing dozens, if not hundreds, of photos from his military days. Tucked in amongst the pictures was a version of his Fighting Tigers patch that had been hand-sewn for him by one of the locals who were happy to have the American base near their home. He said this was common, and that most of the fliers in his unit wore these gifted patches instead of the Army issued ones.<br /><br />I had never before heard of the sexual deviant definition of the word fiend, but I suppose that such a use is plausible. You got me digging deeper, and the Online Etymological Dictionary says that "the word was originally the opposite of friend. Both are from the active participles of the Germanic verbs for "to love" and "to hate." This article goes on to say that fiend "began to be used in late Old English for "the Devil, Satan" as the "enemy of mankind," which shifted its sense to "diabolical person" (early 13c,)" Certainly over eight-plus centuries a sexual deviant usage could have occurred.<br /><br />Good call pointing out that Hugh Rankin's women looked much like those drawn by Roy Crane...who, perhaps not coincidentally, was drawing the Wash Tubbs comic strip at the same time this cover was created. What a great adventure strip that was!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00263957025573611416noreply@blogger.com