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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Merry Christmas from Captain Marvel and friends.

Long before the X-men, Captain Marvel and his friends (Spy Smasher, Minute Man, Mr. Scarlett and Bulletman) were wishing you a Merry Christmas with Santa Claus with Xmas Comics #1 from 1941.

This was a collection of reprints from Captain Marvel Adventures #3 (August-September, 1941), Bulletman #2 (Fall, 1941), Whiz Comics #21 (September, 15, 1941), Wow Comics #3 (Fall, 1941) and Master Comics #18 (September, 1941) all under a new cover by Mac Raboy.  What Golden Age comic collector wouldn't love to find this under the Christmas tree?

Fawcett reprinted more comics, with Xmas Comics #2 in 1942, and, taking a few years off because of World War II, continued the reprints with Xmas Comics #3 in 1947, with different issues reprinted in each....under new Christmas themed covers.

Xmas Comics started again in 1949, running one a year until 1952 (totaling 7 comics), with the end of Fawcett Comics.