Vanity

Vanity first appeared in a four page strip at the back of Pacific Presents No 3. It was announced that she was shortly to have her own comic. Alas just two issues were published.

I really thought the concept of Vanity and her caveman partner being thousands of years old and piloting a five-mile-long spaceship had “legs”?!?

PS: What does a five-mile-long spaceship look like? Why is there another sidekick known as Prof? He smokes a pipe. Where does he get his supplies of Condor Mild from in outer space? The matter transmuter??

More Vanity

The first issue of Vanity’s comic is almost as bonkers as the introductory short story in PCP3. She admits that she hasn’t actually built the five-mile-long spaceship herself?!? It had crash landed and the injured pilot (sole occupant of a five-mile-long spaceship?!?) tells Vanity how to fly it before he dies.

The Americans and the Russians seem to be aware of the existence of Vanity and her spaceship and don’t seem perturbed when she beams in and out with transport technology like we saw in the Star Trek TV show.

There is still time for a bath in 1984 before we get a couple of pages that flashback to neandertal times and the comic ends on a cliffhanger of Vanity being thrown off a cliff!

There is no explanation as to why the Neandertal but obviously intelligent Vanity and her lumbering, stupid boyfriend born on earth thousands of years ago are alive and well in the C20th. And where does the pipe-smoking “Prof” fit into the equation? Perhaps more will be revealed in the next issue.

Yet more Vanity

And so to issue number 2. The final issue and the best in terms of artwork and paper quality. Pacific Comics appear to have ceased publishing comics about the time this issue appeared. It’s a shame the title wasn’t picked up by another company as some of the other Pacific titles were.

Oh I couldn’t be bothered to even try and recall the bonkers plot which culminates with intelligent dinosaurs landing their spaceship on the moon. Buy your own copy. I think it will be valuable in the C22nd.