Remembering Artist Mac Raboy

Remembering artist Mac Raboy on his birthday (April 9, 1914 - December 12, 1967) with a couple of his Fawcett covers featuring heroes not in the Marvel Family...Minute Man from Master Comics #12 (March, 1941) and Ibis from Ibis #1 (1942).

Minute Man was Jack Weston, a patriotic hero who was also a member of the Crime Crusaders Club, and Ibis was an ancient Egyptian prince as well as a magician, revived in the modern day to fight crime with his Ibistick.

Remembering Artist Mac Raboy

Remembering artist Emmanuel "Mac" Raboy on his birthday (April 9, 1914 - December 12, 1967)...but instead of giving you some of his (many) Captain Marvel Jr. covers, here, instead is his covers for Bulletman, of which he did four...

...with Jim Barr going into adventures with his girlfriend, Susan Kent as Bulletman and Bulletgirl!

Mac also contributed to a few covers for America's Greatest Comics and Master Comics, which allow Captain Marvel Jr. to be snuck in here, along with Fawcett's other great characters: Spy Smasher, Captain Marvel, Minute Man and Mr. Scarlett!

Bulletman #2 and #3 (Fall 1941 and January 14, 1942)

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Bulletman #4 and #5 (March 11 and May 13, 1942)

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America's Greatest Comics #1 and Master Comics #22 (1941 and January, 1942)

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Thank You Very Much Says Elvis To Captain Marvel Jr

Elvis Presley was a big fan of comics, specifically, those of artist Mac Raboy, and the hero he drew in the 1940s, Captain Marvel, Jr., though it was likely the issues of the later 1940s, drawn by Kurt Schaffenberger, Joe Certa and Bud Thompson that were read by the King.


Elvis even based his hair style on that of his hero, and Elvis' outfits may even look a little like those of old superheroes as well!

In the 1990s, artist Alex Ross drew upon this fact when he did a series called Kingdom Come, dealing with grown up super-heroes, and turned a grown up Captain Marvel Jr into "King Marvel"...


...with Mary Marvel looking a little like Priscilla Presley, the King's wife, as "Lady Marvel"!

Elvis even had the members of his entourage, the Memphis Mafia, take this oath, and gave them jewelry with the TCB logo (TCB for Taking Care of Business, which also had a lightning bolt with it, and referred not only to Elvis' fondness for Cap. Jr., but to his own devotion to karate, being an 8th level black belt, and a bit of a sense of humor):

More self-respect, more respect for fellow man.
Respect for fellow students and instructors.
Respect for all styles and techniques.
Body conditioning, mental conditioning, meditation for calming and stilling of the mind and body.
Sharpen your skills, increase mental awareness, for all those that might choose a new outlook and personal philosophy.
Freedom from constipation.
TCB technique
All techniques into one.
Elvis Presley 8th
Applying all techniques into one.

The logo being invented by Elvis and Priscilla in the early 1970s, when Captain Marvel was enjoying a revival at DC Comics (bringing along Mary Marvel, and Captain Marvel Jr. and the whole Marvel Family as well, all under the title of Shazam!).


Holy Moley and thank you very much!