Here we have the true love story of Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee. Well, true except for leaving out a number of now-known and not exactly flattering facts in favor of press agent blah-blah-blah. The real attraction here, though, is that--fiction or not--it's brought to us by the creator of Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner!
Well, true except for leaving out a number of now-known and not exactly flattering facts in favor of press agent blah-blah-blah.
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean buh-buh-buh-boo?
What's with there even being a Crosby comic in the first place? Did kids actually buy comics about Bing Crosby? Bing Crosby coloring books? I guess I can sort of see a Bob Hope comic (he even has comic book character features), but this I don't get. I would have thought that Bogey would have made a great famous actor to build a hard-boiled pre-code crime comic book series around.
ReplyDeleteOutside of the B-movie cowboy heroes, I think John Wayne, Alan Ladd and Dick Powell were the only movie tough guys to get their own comic book series. But, yeah, a Bogart comic would probably have done quite well in the early 1950s!
DeleteGreat posting! What’s the name of the comic book that this Bing Crosby story comes from?
ReplyDeleteFAMOUS STARS.
DeleteHis wife Dixie died in 1952 of ovarian cancer. I don't know when it was diagnosed or how much she went through with it (quite a lot I would imagine) - but perhaps the rumors of quarrels the Crosbys used to cover up her sickness?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I love this blog - often when I'm supposed to be doing other things, I meander on it far longer than I should. Thank you for posting such amazing stuff!
ReplyDeleteMore Bill Everett, please! How about some war or romance (though this comes close to the latter)?
ReplyDelete