If there is one thing Golden and Silver Age cover artists knew was that disproportionally tiny people and oversized everyday objects tend to make for particularly surreal – and therefore striking or amusing – visuals. It’s a motif that never gets old, which is part of the reason 1957’s The Incredible Shrinking Man remains such an enjoyable film! (It also helps that the movie, much like Bong Joon-ho’s The Host decades later, somehow successfully mashes a bunch of conflicting genres: black comedy, family melodrama, sci-fi adventure, monster horror, and existentialist allegory…)
With that in mind, here is this week’s reminder that comics can be awesome, incredible shrunken Dynamic Duo edition:
