Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AMAZING HIGH ADVENTURE "Saurian Remains"

In the 1980s, Marvel Launched a New Comic...

...an anthology dedicated to 1920s-50s pulp-style "high adventure" tales...but in comics form!













Is this fascinating tale historically-accurate?

The locations, institutions, and some of the characters are real!

There was a controversy in this era among paleontologists about properly-authenticating fossils!
But i don't know if things got as...violent...as presented here!

Only writer Stephen Perry and artist Stephen Bissette (along with Rick Veitch) would knoe the answer, and they've kept mum since the story's sole publication in Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #4 (1986).
And, if they've kept quiet for almost four decades, I doubt they'll blab about it now...

Segueing into a sorta-related topic...publishing paleontology...

Since coming across (and reading) the entire five-issue run, I've found some really kool material by both well-known pros and some up-and-comers, along with a couple of established foreign creatives who don't get enough attention in the Americas!
And it's all OOP/never-reprinted material that deserves your attention!
So, for the rest of the year, Wednesday Worlds of Wonder will re-present these thrilling tales to an audience that likely didn't even know they existed!

We hope you'll enjoy them!

Salute the Troops on Veterans Day SGT FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS...in Korea...and VietNam???

Yep!
The guys who (almost) won World War II single-handedly (as a team)...

...fought in Korea (over half a decade later), and, fifteen years after that...

...in VietNam!
Here's how it begins in 1967, when World War II vet Nick Fury is a middle-aged (between 45 and 50 years old) but still fit, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D....

Want to see more?

March over to our "brother" RetroBlog, Hero Histories...
NOW!

Monday Mecha Madness SHOGUN WARRIORS "Downfall!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...the evil Maur-Kon has gained control of giant mecha Combatra V and is using it against the other Shogun Warriors!

Meanwhile, Combatra's unconscious pilot Genji is about to be sacrificed by Maur-Kon's assistant, Magar, to create a mystical creature that will help prove his superiority to his nominal boss...

Written by Doug Moench, penciled by Herb Trimpe, and inked by Mike Esposito, this never-reprinted story from Marvel's Shogun Warriors #6 (1979) concluded the series' first story arc.
So we're taking a break (but only until the New Year) from the Shoguns!
But there's much more Mecha Madness on Mondays!
After a pair of American robot tales for the remainder of November, December will be entirely-dedicated to a groundbreaking Japanese mecha...though not a giant one!

Who or What Will Be Our Thanksgiving Turkey for 2025?

Almost EveryYear, the RetroBlogs Run What We Charitably-Call...

...a "Thanksgiving Turkey"!

It's a comic, graphic novel or mini-series that's so unbelievably-bad, we can't believe it was actually published!

We're talking the worst of the worst.

Stories and/or art that are so awful, so inane, they're not even shown on the 'Net, just talked-about in embarrassed whispers!

In fact, they're so bad they've never been reprinted, and probably never will be!

Here they are, in all their gruesome glory!

Note: Once you click on the link, each chapter after the first one has a link at the end to lead to the next part...if you dare!

 The (actually fairly-good) comic adaptation of the awful movie Conan the Destroyer...in Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

...and the so-so comic adaptation of the equally-awful flick Red Sonja in Heroines! and Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

In Hero Histories you'll see the three-part Silver Age tale that introduced the middle-aged World War II-era aviators, the Blackhawks, as super-heroes working for a spy organization!

And You'll Discover Even the Legendary Neal Adams had the Occasional Turkey in Pop Art Martial Arts!

And, Finally, Marvel's disco-themed follow-up to the success of Dazzler written by Stan (the Man) Lee himself...Night Cat, in Heroines!

But That's All in the Past!

What (or Who) Will be the Thanksgiving Turkey for 2025???

Find Out...Next Week!!!

Space Hero Saturdays FLASH GORDON by Dan Schkade

There's currently a lot of new Flash Gordon material from several different publishers...

...but the one that's a must-see is the hardest to find!
Yes. visually, it's not the minutely-detailed Alex Raymond/Austin Briggs/Mac Raboy/Al Williamson "classic" series (which, for the record, I revere)!

But it is a stylized semi-reboot that King Features decided to implement after almost 20 years of reprints!

I'm gonna give you an analogy...

If the original Flash Gordon was the Neal Adams/Jim Aparo/NormBreyfogle Batman...

...the current Flash is the Bruce Timm version!

Are you gonna tell me you don't like (if not love) Bruce Timm's take on the Caped Crusader???

He's visually-different, but incredibly-respectful to the "classic" vision!

That's the near-impossible feat Schkade's pulling-off six days a week...and Sundays!

Dan believes everybody knowns the basic premise, and if you've seen the 1980 movie...

(and/or the first Buster Crabbe serial)...

...you know the plot.

The series follows-though with the history of Mongo shortly after Ming's fall, and carries on from there.

Here's a link to a superb interview with Dan from The Comics Journal.
And here's a link to Schkade's own feed on BlueSky, where he not only posts the strips every day, and offers backstory, but also interacts with the audience!
He goes the extra mile because he loves the series and wants it to find as big an audience as possible!
So do I!
Sadly, too few newspapers are carrying the strip.
So hit those links and/or go directly to Comics Kingdom!