Christmas was always a special time in the Stamm household. Over the years Russell was working on the strip, he designed several family greeting cards. Here are a few we've found in the archives:
Monday, December 21, 2020
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Happy 80th Birthday to Invisible Scarlet O'Neil!
Thursday, June 4, 2015
75th Anniversary Sale!
75th Anniversary Sale!!!
For a limited time, when you order both Invisible Scarlet O'Neil books, shipping is only 75 cents!
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Happy 75th Anniversary to the Invisible Scarlet O'Neil!
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Invisible Scarlet O'Neil Returns!
Pencils by Wendell Cavalcanti
Inks by Rob Jones & Elton Thomasi
Colors by Kathryn Parker, Adriano Augusto & Alan Faria
Edited and Lettered by Michael A. Gordon
Front Cover Art by Phil Noto
This 100-page graphic novel will be available at the San Diego Comic Con! Look for the New Legend table #L14 in the Small Press area. The book will be priced at $15 and includes a FREE copy of the The Untold Origins of Invisible Scarlet O'Neil. For those who are not attending the show, watch this blog for info on how you can get a copy!
Friday, December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas!
From everyone here involved with Invisible Scarlet O'Neil, we wish you a Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2011!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Invisible Scarlet O'Neil Is Back!
Russ Stamm Jr. and New Legend Productions, Inc. is proud to announce the return of "The First Female Comic Character with Superpowers!" Russell Stamm's classic beauty reappears after a 50 year absence in an all-new, full-length graphic novel scheduled for 2011!Pencils by Wendell Cavalcanti
Inks by Rob Jones
Colors by Kathryn Parker
Edited by Michael A. Gordon
Keep watching this blog or go to www.InvisibleScarletONeil.com for more details!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Comic Strip of the Week - Haunted House
The last Comic Strip of the Week we ran as many strips as weeks in an entire month, and it made me so tired, I had to take a month off. But we are back! This month is "Scary Scarlet" and every week, we'll spotlight a time when Scarlet was mistaken for a ghost! Sometimes it was on purpose, such as the first time it occurred in 1941. Scarlet was writing a newspaper column giving "Advice to the Lovelorn." In October of that year, she came to the aid of a husband wanting to get rid of his mother-in-law, not by killing her but by scaring her.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Aack! No More Cathy!
We congratulate Cathy Guisewite and her incredible 34-year run in newspapers worldwide. You can read the final Cathy comic strip at GoComics.com and read a couple of well written articles regarding her retirement at The Beat and NewsOK. With no more Cathy nor Annie featured on comic pages, maybe it is time for Scarlet to make a comeback to keep Brenda Starr, Mary Worth and Luann company!
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wizard World Chicago Comic Con 2010
Last weekend, I travelled to Rosemont, IL for the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con and had a blast! It is nice to know that folks in Scarlet's hometown still remember her. In addition to the many media guests, there were also a good amount of comic-related exhibitors and artists in attendance, including Dan Parent. Dan's been drawing Archie Comics for nearly his entire career as an artist and he's always been high on my list to see his vision of Scarlet. I'm pleased to say that it is even better than I'd imagined!
Comic Strip of the Week - Peppy
In our last "Dog Days of Summer," we spotlight Peppy, who Scarlet must protect from the cantankerous Mrs. Cranks as well as a couple of crooks! Stamm also uses this arc to promote the use of dogs during the war. Canines have always had an active role in our military. There are currently two War Dog Memorial statues in the U.S. (March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California and Sacrifice Field in Fort Benning, Georgia) and there is even a proposal for a National War Dog monument in Washington, DC. We think Scarlet would agree that our fine four-legged friends should be honored!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Comic Strip of the Week - Spooks
This week's "Dogs Days of Summer" entry refers back to one of the entries in our "March Madness" series a few months ago. Who was it that helped put an end to crazy Ambrose's plan? It was Spooks! I particularly love how Stamm features the pooch in the last panel confirming that Ambrose is no longer a threat. Good dog!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Comic Strip of the Week - Parched Pooch
We continue our "Dog Days of Summer" spotlight on Invisible Scarlet O'Neil comic strip canines with an unnamed furry fellow who unknowingly gets our gal out of an explosive situation. While visiting a friend in Barnsville, Scarlet comes across a student who wishes to blow up the school. And he might have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for a parched pooch!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Comic Strip of the Week - O Captain! My Captain!
We celebrate the "Dog Days of Summer" by spotlighting some of the cute, courageous, and sometimes crazy canine characters created by Russell Stamm. Throughout Scarlet's history, she has always been kind to animals. And they often returned the favor by saving her from some perilous predicaments! One of her earliest adventures involved her befriending a blind boy named Mike and getting him a guide dog. It is the best day of the boy's life, but the danger is not over. Fortunately, Mike and Captain have Scarlet looking out for them!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Comic Strip of the Week - Scarlet Can Take the Heat
It has been a scorching summer most everywhere in the U.S. and this much heat makes it difficult to do just about anything. So here's a little inspiration from Scarlet. On a hot summer Chicago day, it can get even hotter still (especially if you run into a burning building!), but if there's a child that needs saving, she can still get the job done! Someone give that gal a tall cool glass of lemonade!
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Comic Strip of the Week - Madame Scarlota
In this week's strip from 1954, Scarlet takes on the disguise of a fortune teller to help her friend Stainless Steel avoid marriage to a rather strong willed neighbor. At this time she hadn't used her powers of invisibility in years and her own future was not fortunate. Only a few months later, she did not appear in the strip and it was renamed "Stainless Steel: Public Hero No. 1."
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Comic Strip of Week- Trading Places
This week's Sunday strip from 1946 features Russell Stamm having fun with the 1880's story The Prince and the Pauper and is very similar to the 1980's comedy Trading Places. Two overly wealthy financiers, Mr. Lovcash and Mr. Smelbucks, wager on what is the secret of success - luck or skill - as Lovcash switches places with the owner of a vegetable cart. As Mark Twain, Eddie Murphy, and Dan Aykroyd all conceded, it is a recipe for wackiness!
Sunday, July 11, 2010
10 Other Scarlet Characters
This week saw the release of the first issue for a new comic book series titled Scarlet. She is definitely not to be confused with our girl! Just for the fun of it, we present some other popular characters through the years who have shared the name "Scarlet" (give or take a "t" or two).
Scarlet is a new creator-owned series by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Alex Maleev. In a recent interview with CBR, Bendis explained, "The book itself is about this woman Scarlet. She lives in Portland and she's a young woman whose life is literally destroyed by a insanely corrupted police force... She fights back against the corrupt cops and her push back starts almost a shoving war of wills between herself and almost all facets of the government that she's pushing back against. Every time she pushes back, someone bigger comes after her. That builds till it literally starts an American revolution."
Scarlett O'Hara is probably the most famous character on this list. She was created by Margaret Mitchell and made her debut in the 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind. There have been many other books, plays and movies made about her and even a film made about the casting of the character, but the definitive face of Miss Scarlet will always be that of Vivien Leigh from the 1939 blockbuster.
Agent Scarlett is one of the original members of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero cartoon and toy line. She has also appeared in the live action movie (played by Rachel Nichols) and comic book series (above art by Phil Noto) . Scarlett is the first female member of the G.I. Joe team to be given an action figure in 1982. Her full name is Shana M. O'Hara and she was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Scarlet Witch is arguably the most popular superhero on this list, though there have been times when she was more villain than hero. The character first appeared in X-Men #4 (March 1964) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, but she is more notably associated with the Avengers (above art by George Perez). Her real name is Wanda Maximoff and she is the daughter of Magneto. Her mutant power is the ability to tap into mystic energy for reality-altering effects via "hexes." The Scarlet Witch can be presently be seen in the Marvel mini-series, Avengers: The Children's Crusade, the first issue of which also went on sale last week.
Will Scarlet is the oldest character on this list as one of Robin Hood's "Merry Men" from ballads originating in the early 1500's. He has been portrayed by numerous actors over the years (even by the Klingon Worf in a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode), but has seldom had the spotlight to himself, one exception being a recent novel by Stephen R. Lawhead. It is also believed that the character is the inspiration for Green Arrow's sidekick, Speedy.
The Scarlet Pimpernel was the fictional leader of a league of English aristocrats who took it upon themselves to rescue innocent victims during the French Revolution. Created by Baroness Emmuska Orczy in 1903, the character is one of the first "disguised superheroes" in fiction and has been the subject of perhaps more novels, plays, films, and satires than all the other characters on this list combined.
Captain Scarlet was the main character of a British "Supermarionation" series in the late 1960's. The character is actually a virtually indestructible, "retro-metabolized" reconstruction engineered by the alien Mysterons, who becomes an agent of Spectrum and defends humanity against the race that created him. Though the series only lasted one season, there have been numerous books, comics, and a later series that aired in 2005, Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet.
Scarlett was a short-lived series from DC Comics about a cheerleader who discovered her parents murdered by vampires and becomes the "scarlet redeemer". Not sure if it was inspired by the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer and DC decided to hide the character once the tv series became popular for fear of lawsuit, but I am surprised she's never been used since 1994.
Scarlet Veronica is another cheerleader fighting the forces of darkness. Only she's dead. Or rather undead. Horror has a hero! An independent comic series created by Jason Moody, Josh Ruggles, and Justin Greathouse in 2008, copies of the first mini-series are still available online.
Miss Scarlet was one of the original suspects of murder in the board game, Clue and since the game was first published in 1949, whoever chooses her moves first. Her look has changed over the years, though she always remains one of the mainly accused due to her youth, cunning, and attractiveness. You can check out her many disguises over the years at spotlightongames.com.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Comic Strip of the Week - Boom!
In 1940, Russ Stamm celebrated the 4th of July with a boom! In the last panel of this strip, a plane crashes into a daycare center, beginning one of my personal favorite Scarlet story lines ever. The only time it has been republished in the last 50 years is in The Untold Origins of the Invisible Scarlet O'Neil, though you can see a big portion of the story on the official Scarlet website.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Comic Strip of the Week - Scarlet Makes a Splash!
Summer is here and it is definitely pool season! I recently acquired some daily strips from 1947 featuring a storyline centered around the mild mannered Afly Speck, who is so desperate for a girl's attention, he decides to jump off the high dive at an amusement park. Scarlet tries to help the sad sack, but she only manages to get wet for her troubles. As hot as it has been here recently, when I read this strip, my main thought was, "That looks refreshing!"
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