I loved the adventures of Tim Kelly.Possessor of the Eye of Zoltec,his best adventures occurred when he teamed up with Dr. Diamond and time traveled through history in a giant clock!My memories of this are vague and rely mostly on reading copies of Annuals later in the 70s.Below are some scenes from Valiant 1974.
It was fairly obvious that the Doctor was in no hurry to get back to their own time and that Kelly was along for the ride,whether he liked it or not!
Below are some scenes from a 1972 issue of Valiant,where they travel to the time of Robin Hood and Kelly inadvertently tackles Little John!
I am not too well informed of this particular story arc only having dim memories from childhood but I did enjoy those that I read.Kelly's Eye started in Knockout comic in 1962 and featured in a couple of Valiant Space Specials and Annuals,but it is his strips with Dr. Diamond and the time clock that interest me.Can anybody enlighten me or share some scans?Artwork looks like Solano Lopez.Have no idea who scripted the stories.
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Update 11 June 2008
Here is a cover of Knockout from 1962 featuring Tim Kelly scaling the Idol in South America to extract the "Right" Eye of Zoltec.Some nasty Villain had already scarpered with the other one!
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Update 14th June 2008
Here is a cover of Knockout from 1962 featuring Tim Kelly scaling the Idol in South America to extract the "Right" Eye of Zoltec.Some nasty Villain had already scarpered with the other one!
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Update 14th June 2008
Some additional info on the history of the story arc from Kashgar over at ComicsUK.My sincerest thanks to the comics guru!
Kelly's Eye - Doc Diamond's Time Clock. Valiant (24/6/67-18/5/74)
The longest of all Fleetway's time-travel sagas ( maybe too long). Tim Kelly, the owner of the life-preserving Eye of Zoltec, had first met the mad inventor Doc Diamond in Oct 1966 and after an encounter with his own savage alter-ego, conjured up by the Doc, Kelly is then lured into the the Doc's Tardis-like time travelling device for seven years of ages-hopping in the gargoyle-like inventor's compeny.
Most art for the series was by Solano Lopez and his studio but the first episode was the work of John Catchpole.
The longest of all Fleetway's time-travel sagas ( maybe too long). Tim Kelly, the owner of the life-preserving Eye of Zoltec, had first met the mad inventor Doc Diamond in Oct 1966 and after an encounter with his own savage alter-ego, conjured up by the Doc, Kelly is then lured into the the Doc's Tardis-like time travelling device for seven years of ages-hopping in the gargoyle-like inventor's compeny.
Most art for the series was by Solano Lopez and his studio but the first episode was the work of John Catchpole.
4 comments:
Hmmmm... always liked the idea of the Eye Of Zoltec, and the art was fab... but always found Tim a bit of a drip to be a hero of mine.
LOL!I agree...I mean,why wear the Eye of Zoltec on a piece of string that always seemed to break.Of course the plot device was heavily based around his "losing" this precious jewel every so often.It drew the readers in to see the outcome of an unprotected Tim Kelly versus the Indestructible hero!Same with Eterno....they had to come up with a gold menace for every series!Otherwise,it was just another strip.Same with Black Max to a certain degree...bring on the Giant Bats.Remember as kids,we were hooked on these strips and it is only now that we can laugh at them,though with a fondness of course.
You're absolutely right - we're looking at them in blocks 30+ years after the fact as adults, which isn't quite the audience in mind.
And, as you say, each title had a hook which was utilised each week. Going through some Major Eazy's at the moment and its becoming quite repetitive how often he falls asleep during firefights
Yeah,but I suppose as kids a week was an eternity and plus the hooks had to be kept very much alive to introduce the characters to any new potential audience.
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