Poor fellow can’t even keep his mask on straight. But that’s not the least of his problems. Go HERE.
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Obviously a member of Ed Ames’ tribe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD0DV2vPNEQ
He’s got the same pose as Frankenstein, that’s the first thing that came to mind. He looks a little baked too. Wonder if he had his own TV show too?
Reminds me of the Monty Python “Cycling Tour” episode–remember the firing squad whose marksmanship was so bad that they had to fix bayonets?
So many thoughts:
So when this guy was sitting around thinking of his superhero name I wonder what the rejected choices were?
Perhaps he was the guy that went around high school with the “kick me” sign on his back. Placed there by himself, of course.
What’s the name of his faithful Indian sidekick?
When these masked me removed their masks wouldn’t people wonder why they had a tan mark around their eyes?
Pronto to the Stoned Ranger: “You look funny with white strip around eyes, like negative Raccoon!” (I wonder if anyone will get that reference.)
Gee. Put him next to the Lone Ranger and you’d have…well, an icon and a goof.
Gotta love the the feather in his chapeau, though. Must have come in handy when he wanted to write down his adventures. Such as they were.
See? Bulls-Eye made me put in two “the’s” in the above post. Guy’s a shaman, I tell you.
He does look baked – he could be saying “Duuuude – they’re throwing sh*t at me. This is bogus!”. Good thing for him Ed Ames is not a member of the tribe.
I get it, “original.” I do not follow comic book characters that much, Bullseye is a Dare Devil foe. They must be related since they both drop the apostrophe in their name.
That comic wouldn’t be worth the 10 cent cover price in 2009 dollars.
Bullseye appears to be quite the Dandy.
And did they really set his leg on fire? (a witch! weighs the same as a duck!).
Now I am in the mood for a showing of Thank You Masked Man —http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tjWYEMQ70w
I don’t think they had to set his leg on fire, he was downright flaming.
hpoulter — do I detect a Tonight Show reference? The infamous tomahawk throwing demonstration with Ed Ames?
Kind of a Saint Sebastian aspect to this cover. And yes, the hat … lovvvvvvve the hat!
Mr_Lilacs: Spot on! John Barrowman could play him in the movie.
Have to agree with Mr_Lilacs. That is the most flaming outfit I’ve seen in a while, and that’s saying something. One assumes that this chap is a power shooter.
I think I know what the bull’s eye and mask are about too. They were both adopted in response to an unfortunate event immortalized in Issue #69, The Bukakke Incident.
Bummer of a birthmark, Bullseye.
The first thing I thought when I saw this?
“Zorro: The Gay Blade”!
1954? Dang, a quick glance and I thought it was from the early 70′s.
Art by Jack Kirby, folks. Even thing King had an off day every so often.
“Even the King”
“MikeH Says:
…He looks a little baked too…”
Hey, it’s Robert Mitchum in E.A. Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”!
“HunkyBobTX:
What’s the name of his faithful Indian sidekick?”
Sitting Bullseye, of course.
I see Myxmaster buys Far Side greeting cards, also & I, too, first thought of George Hamilton’s Bunny Wigglesworth:
“We are followers of Peter the Dressmaker, he who was Christ’s Tailor…”
“And remember, my pipples–there is no crime in being poor, only in dressing poorly!”
[And, of course, Ron Liebman's Esteban: "Say sometheen like a sissy-boy!"]
To judge from the upper-left corner thumbnail (did Marvel have a name for those little character icons?), Bullseye’s outfit in the main cover art is the victim of an inept colorist, and/or deliberately cast red to indicate the ferocity of the pyre at his feet (in a sense, literally flaming).
I suspect the chest tattoo was the product of boyhood trauma at Bullseye’s birthplace in the Amana Colonies. Life on the range could indeed be hazardous.
What is it with you and Simon & Kirby, Lileks? First Stuntman (several covers, I think) and now this. These covers did what they were supposed to do: get the buyer’s attention on a crowded rack of books.
I mentioned this to Joe recently (he is 95 and living in Manhattan, still drawing, thank you), he enjoys the attention and does not mind the wisecracks.
To me, Joe’s Young Romance or Black Magic books are probably better fodder for this kind of an article, but OK, it’s your website.