Space Hero Saturdays BARNEY CARR "Peril on the Plant Planet!"

He's Barney Carr, the Only Space Hero with a Relatively-Normal First Name!

...read his adventures...while you can!

Jerry Fasano's Barney Carr was too busy being a typical square-jawed, two-fisted, ray gun-wielding action hero, kicking alien butt, to do any actual detective work!

And unlike the other features in Famous Funnies, Barney Carr wasn't a reprinted newspaper strip, but an original series!

This never-reprinted tale from Eastern Color's Famous Funnies #192 (1951) was his second and final appearance, before disappearing into the void, but original art for a third story exists, without any captions or word balloons!

You'll be seeing that...in the future!

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Mystery in Space

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Friday Fun KOOKIE "Bongo & Bop...a Breather"

We Met These Kool Kats a Couple of Years Ago...

...so it's high (in more ways than one) time we checked in on the slackers they called "beatniks" back in the 1960s...

This never-reprinted story from Dell's Kookie #1 (1962) by writer John Stanley and artist Bill Williams was part of an attempt to produce an on-going series featuring young adults in a (then) contemporary setting.

Bongo and Bop were the slackers of the ensemble, like Dobie Gillis' Maynard G Krebs amped up to 11!

Note: this was the only time their real names (George and Robert) were ever used!

Sadly the title only lasted two issues!

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Beatniks

Guide to an American Subculture

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Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Humpty Dumpty and the Giant"

You May Ask "How is This Easter-Related?"

Well, Humpty Dumpty's heading to visit the Easter Bunny, so...

Writer-artist Walt (Pogo) Kelly loved to mix-n'-match characters from various unrelated myths, fairy tales and nursery rhymes!

He was already putting them individually in holiday-themed situations for the annual Mother Goose Christmas and Easter comic books, so merging them in those storylines as he did in in Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #103 (1946) was a natural progression!

Trivia: While everyone knows the Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk, the Easter Bunny and Humpty Dumpty, Reynard the Fox is somewhat more obscure.

He dates back to 10th/11th Century French and German myths, as explained HERE, but was never popular in English-speaking countries.

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MAN-GODS FROM BEYOND THE STARS Part 1

 Chariots of the Gods? was the primary inspiration for Jack Kirby's Eternals...

...now part of both the Marvel Multiverse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
So let's look at a strip from the same era, the mid-1970s, also inspired by Erich Von Daniken's concepts!

The Story Continues..Next Wednesday!

Written by Doug Moench, illustrated by Alex Nino.

Though largely discredited today, Von Daniken's books about "ancient astronauts" influenced pop culture from the 1970s to the present, including tv (BattleStar Galactica), movies (Prometheus and Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull), and comics (Tragg and the Sky Gods)

The Eternals was originally called Return of the Gods and, like Mister Machine/Machine Man was intentionally not intended to be part of the Marvel Universe!
We'll go more into that next week...

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Reading Room UNUSUAL TALES "Edge of Fear"

 Will Those Using Artificial Intelligence Do So with Intelligence and Ethics?

This story from Charlton's Unusual Tales #10 (1958) offers one take on the matter!

Writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko told a fascinating tale about AI-augmented human intelligence over a half century ago that seems to be unfolding today...with vastly different results!

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Steve Ditko Archives

Impossible Tales

Volume 4

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