Golden Age Heroes, Tibetan Mysticism, Reincarnation, Righting wrongs--the usual.
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_________________________________________THE GREEN LAMA - THE MAN WHO NEVER EXISTED_________________________________________THE GREEN LAMA - THE LAST DINOSAUR_________________________________________THE GREEN LAMA - MILLION DOLLAR CHOPSTICKS_________________________________________THE GREEN LAMA - ADVENTURE OF THE PERFECT PRISONER_________________________________________THE GREEN LAMA - DANGEROUS DOG(rebroadcast)
About me: Jethro Dumont spends 10 years in Tibet studying the secrets of meditation and returns with mystical powers. He now returns to Park Avenue and New York City to combat crime, evil doers and international enemies and with a magical Tibetan chant, he is transformed into the Green Lama.
The Green Lama first appeared in novel form in the pulp fiction magazine Double Detective. Written by Kendell Foster Crossen under the pen name of Richard Foster and published by the Frank A. Munsey Company.
The Green Lama then surfaced in the December, 1940 issue Prize Comics and appeared in 27 issues including art from Mac Raboy. The Green Lama's popularity launched his own comic entitled The Green Lama from Sparks Publications which lasted for 8 more issues.
The Green Lama then made the jump over to his own Radio Show starring Paul Frees and Ben Wright in 1949 which lasted 11 broadcasts.
The Green Lama stories are unusual amongst the pulp fiction of that era in their sympathetic and relatively knowledgeable portrayal of Buddhism, both in the text of the stories and in numerous footnotes.
From Crossen's own comments, however, it is clear that this was not proselytism on his part but simply due to the fact that he wanted to create a Tibetan Buddhist character and then read everything he could find on the subject.
The most frequent reference to Buddhism in the stories is the use of the Sanskrit mantra "Om mani padme hum", which would indeed be used by Tibetan monks.
However, the majority of other references to Buddhism in the stories, while accurate, relate to the Theravada form of Buddhism rather than the Tibetan form, with frequent use of Pali words such as "Magga", "Nibbana" and "Dhamma" which would be unlikely to be used by Tibetan Buddhists.
Who I'd like to meet: The Black Terror, those hot chicks from FemForce, Mandrake the Magician, and that Phantom guy owes me $20!
"Ghost who walks my ass.." next time design a costume with pockets!
Green Lama: Man of Strength Part Two--On Sale NOW!
From the AC Comics store, online:
[b]"The conclusion to creator James Ritchey's acclaimed 2008 miniseries- "Man of Strength, Part II". The timeless warrior known as the Green Lama thwarts the plan of the villainous Stopwatch to secure the future of the alternate version of the AC Universe in which he exists. Guest-stars include a revived version of the original Spark Comics superhero known as Atoman ,and other never-previously-revived GA heroes including Golden Lad, Swift Arrow, and Ace Comics' Magno; as well as alternate-world versions of Ms. Victory, Paragon, Synn, Commando D, Nightveil, Speedbolt, Viddexx, Colt, Scarlet Scorpion, Beamer, Black Terror, Reddevil and The Fighting Yank. 30 pages written and penciled by James Ritchey, with inks by Jeff Austin and Mark Stegbauer. Plus, a vintage reprint from the original Green Lama's Golden Age run; an untitled story from Prize Comics #32, as illustrated by Jack Binder. See what made this character an enduring favorite for almost seven decades. Then, as a special bonus, from the standard AC Universe , an untold tale from the 1940's career of The Blue Bulleteer- "Trophy Wife Scorned"!! A film noir tour-de-force wherin the 'Bulleteer must match wits with a newly-widowed gun moll and a pair of tommy gun totin' gansters amidst a morgue on fire. Written by Maura Grundmeyer and Mark Dail, penciled bt Scott Larson and inked by Jeff Austin. A full 48 pages of great comics entertainment. Standard comic-book size, black & white interiors with color covers, printed in 2009.".[/b]
We're finishing off the issue (needed some enhancement), and go to press next week! Anybody know any retailers, please tell them to order it--we're strictly 'word of mouth', and we're in 'Previews' right now!
I'm adding the first seven pages to my Myspace gallery, if you wanna see a sample of how the writing is...
"To make things even more difficult, people post pictures on their background that make everything on their site impossible to read. More often than not, the pictures don't scroll with the text, so its almost impossible to try to figure out whats going on."--SOME STUPID WIKI about Myspace.
A couple samples of GL Part Two:
More inks soon, from the Mighty Mark Stegbauer--very pleased with the one shown...
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