Wally Wood was always it seemed a roving agent, always looking for opportunities and his mastery of his craft made him a desirable partner for folks, both those up and coming and looking for a mentor and those like James Warren looking for a talent to help him expand his magazine empire. He'd found partners in Forry Ackerman for Famous Monsters of Filmland and Archie Goodwin for Creepy and Eerie among others. He looked to Wally Wood for that special somewhat naughty flair that Wood had delivered on some independent and underground projects and which simmered just under the garments of many a well-rendered damsel in countless above ground comics pages. He wanted Woody to give him a comic magazine that was a little more frank about sexual matters. The magazine was dubbed Pow! and work was begun by Wood and Nick Cuti among others such as the artist of the page above Ernie Colon. (Note: That's Nick Cuti with the muttonchops in the first panel.) "I Wonder Who's Squeezing Her Now?" is a downbeat story of life in post-modern United States and how downtrodden people can become and what measures they can resort to when times get tough and love and expectations falter. Read the story here.
But Pow! did not develop and the story was all that was produced aside from some logo designs and such. It became yet one more what-if project in the career of one of comic's most talented creators.
The story has been published twice t my knowledge, once over a decade after its creation in the Warren magazine 1984 and later in a Renegade Press publication named Murder. It's a rough and tumble story and show's what might have been if Pow! had become a reality.
Note: This post originally appeared at Rip Jagger's Other Dojo. I will be transferring some of those posts over here as the month goes on.
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