Saturday, March 29, 2025

Space Hero Saturdays SPACE WAR "Blue Men of Bantro"

How Often Do You Read a Story Where a Writer or Artist of the Tale is the Space Hero?

Now's your chance, courtesy of writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko...neither of whom look like the writer and artist in this story!





Yes, it's a little weird, and the idea that our sand would regenerate the metabolisms of aliens is, to say the least, highly-implausible!
But you can't deny the "meta" impact of the ending!

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Friday, March 28, 2025

Friday Holiday Fun TICK TOCK TALES "Judy and Her Magic Chalk in the Land of the Easter Bunnies"

Though no other American comic publishers besides Dell ran Easter-themed anthologies...

...many ongoing series did run Easter stories, including this strip appearing in Magazine Enterprises' kids' humor anthology Tick Tock Tales!
Illustrated (and possibly written) by animator Larry Silverman who freelanced for packager Jason Comic Art Studio, this never-reprinted story from Magazine Enterprises' Tick Tock Tales #4 (1947) was only the second entry in the "Magic Chalk" strip, which ran for almost thirty issues!
Judy would also appear on covers and in two-page text stories teamed with other characters from the anthology like Goofus the Gopher and Spanky, but, oddly, never in an actual comic story with them!

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Chicken Little"

It's a classic tale with a holiday twist...
...as told by the legendary Walt (Pogo) Kelly in Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #140 (1947)
"Fudgy-wudgy" indeed!

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder FROST & FIRE Conclusion

Sim & Lyte reach the ship in the original publication of this story in Fiction House's pulp magazine Planet Stories V3N4 (1946).

It Has All Lead Up to This...
...while many others tried (and failed) to reach the crashed ship burdened with protective clothing and/or shielding from the intense sun, Sim and Lyte try a different tactic...speed!














Don't You Just Love a Happy Ending?
Next Week: a New World of Wonder!

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Inside an Easter Egg"

Sometimes Walt (Pogo) Kelly did single page shorts...
...sometimes he combined several unrelated short pieces into a theme, like what you might see inside an Easter Egg!
...as this never-reprinted piece from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #103 (1946) demonstrates!