Odin's mighty Thor… er, sore… again

Hello, all. Long time no see, isn't it? Sorry about that. To cut a long story short, life got in the way of my drawing and blogging big time. But during those months I've been away, I've still been on the lookout for pictures of older men in bondage. And sometimes - as you know if you follow this blog - you find them in mainstream comics. This one is yet another example of almighty Odin, the all-father of the Norse gods, getting in some nasty predicament. Seems to have happened to him a bit, over the years. You'd almost think the old boy likes it.

Meanwhile, in another corner of the Marvel universe...

Now, Marvel war comics (back when there were such animals) weren't all about Sergeant Fury and his Howling Commandos. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Marvel started to expand, a couple of new war comics were tried out, Captain Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders (Jan. 1968 - Mar.1970) and Combat Kelly and the Deadly Dozen (Jun.1972 - Sep. 1973). Both had links to the Sgt Fury comic - Combat Kelly originally included a couple of Howlers in the lineup of the Deadly Dozen and Captain Savage starred as the titular hero a character who'd appeared on and off in Sgt Fury and was known then only as "the Skipper".

Now Simon Savage was an unusual character for his times, sporting as he did a beard and a moustache. This seemed to be too outré for those backward clean-shaven times, and Captain Savage eventually shaved (shudder!) while the comic's title was changed to Captain Savage and his Battlefield Raiders as of issue 9. Making the comic virtually undistinguishable from Sgt Fury obviously didn't help sales, and issue 19 was the last.

Still, in the meanwhile, readers were graced with this unusual male bondage cover (if you are a comic book cognoscenti, you know that "bondage cover" usually means female). Strangely enough, that comic where Captain Savage has to strike a temporary alliance with his Japanese counterpart was actually published in early 1968, several months before the December release of the John Boorman movie Hell in the Pacific which saw hotties Lee Marvin and Toshirô Mifune placed in a somewhat similar situation.

Dum Dum Dugan Redux

Sigh! So many opportunities wasted in the military career of Dum Dum Dugan! Like that time he was captured by beduin working for the nazi.

But do you think they seized the opprtunity? No. They just locked him up. To be fair, they already had an older prisoner in "a small, bubble-like bunker built secretly in the very midst of the unwary nomads" (how one manages to secretly build anything like a bunker under a tent in the desert is beyond me).

Of course, Sgt. Fury and the Howlers free everybody in the end! Yawn! This one was written by Roy Thomas, drawn by Dick Ayers and inked by John Tartaglione

The Court-Martial of Dum Dum Dugan !

Timothy Aloysius Cadwaller "Dum Dum" Dugan is one red-hot f---er. There, I've said it. And believe me, it's hard to be the hottest male item in a comic when you're always playing second banana to Nick Fury, the guy who couldn't keep his shirt on during World War 2 and kept getting into interesting predicaments when he became head of the international spy-smashing organization S.H.I.E.L.D. (more on that some day). But ex-circus strongman Dugan had one thing going for him that made him stand out (even when he wasn't drawn, as in theabove cover, by John Severin) - a big BIG moustache. Bigger than the much smaller appendages worn by fellow Howlers "Izzy" Coen and Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton. Unfortunately, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos being a war comic, there wasn't a lot of male bondage going on in it, except when the captured heroes were being led to the firing squad (from which they were invariably rescued). Still, this one cover of the manacled mister Dugan being led away to court-martial is hot. Hot enough for me to have bought a second copy of this comic recently by mistake. This is what happens when you let your hormones get the better of you.

The inside of the comic doesn't have much hot bondage action, though. This is the best I could find. The issue was written by Gary Friedrich, drawn by Dick Ayers and John Severin, and sports quite a few lovely shots of Dum Dum Dugan's red-hot face and even one shot of him taking his shirt off (alas, not close enough).