Reading Room MYSTIC "Dinosaur"

We Recently Ran a Dinosaur-Themed Story Illustrated by the Amazing Bernie Krigstein HERE...

...and this one, done around the same time, is so totally-different, we felt we had to present it!

(BTW, when we ran the previous Krigstein dino-story "Lair of the Thunder Lizard" back in May, we were planning a totally-different Halloween blogathon!)

Note: While Krigstein superbly-illustrated this kool tale from Atlas Comics' Mystic #56 (1957) about a dinosaur you never see, the writer is currently-unknown, but might be the comic's editor Stan Lee!

Sadly, we'll never know!

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Messages in a Bottle

Comic Book Stories by B Krigstein

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Monday Mecha Madness PHANTOM "Survival!"

The First Flight to Uranus has Four CrewMembers...

...including one (as the British would say) with a "difference"!

Admittedly, this never-reprinted tale from Charlton's The Phantom #38 (1970) isn't too difficult to figure out, but the fact nobody's seen it in over 55 years compelled us to present this Don Perlin-illustrated story, scripted by a currently-unknown author!

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Science Fiction Comics
Taylor History of Comics
Vol 3
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Holiday Reading Room EVERY DAY IS A HOLLY DAY "Columbus Day"

 It used to always be October 12th (tomorrow, AAMOF)...

...but now it's the second Monday in October, no matter the date, to allow people a three-day holiday!

Interestingly, this page from Brevity Inc's one-shot giveaway Every Day is a Holly Day (1956) acknowledges Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, a rarity in that era!
(Vikings, in fact, discovered the already-inhabited continent in 860 AD!)

Why is this comic entitled "Every Day is a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day is a Holiday"?

Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!

Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day"), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!

We'll be presenting the other chapters on the dates they fall upon.

Watch for them!

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Cartoon History of the Modern World

Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution
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Space Force Saturdays STAR TREK "Dinosaur Planet" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...(at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video) the Enterprise, after launching on it's second five-year mission, arrives at the Oblik star system.

They discover an M-Class planet, but one that's in the same stage of development as Earth was around 124,000,000 years ago!
And, they find the primordial world has primordial inhabitants...dinosaurs!

HERE'S a link to the audio file, so you can have a classic Power Records "read-along" experience!

Just move the sound bar control to 6:55 to continue the story!

Written by Ric Meyers and illustrated by Kirby Martin & Associates,

Power Records PR45 STAR TREK "Dinosaur Planet"(1979) is different from most of the famous "record and comic book" series.

It's one of two tales published after the release of Star Trek the Motion Picture, showing the crew in the grey and beige uniforms from the film.
However, the Enterprise itself is rendered as an amalgam of the TV series & movie versions.
And phasers and other tech are incorrectly-illustrated all the way through the story.
Neither of these tales were produced by Neal Adams' Continuity Associates, as all the previous tv show-based stories were.
Instead, Kirby Martin & Associates, a company that handled licensing art on merchandise like coffee mugs, t-shirts, and lunchboxes, was brought in to package the graphics.
Pavel Chekov, who was not on any of the previous Power Records, makes his audio debut here.
And Hikaru Sulu, who was illustrated as African-American in previous Power Records comics is finally rendered correctly as Japanese!

Friday Fun OSWALD THE RABBIT & the Prehistoric Egg!

It's a Unique, Book-Length Story...

...that hasn't been reprinted since publication in 1947, featuring a rocket ship, Amazons, dinosaurs, cute critters, and an animated character you've likely never heard of...or even seen..facing cliffhanger thrills!

It's Weird!

It's Wild!

It's Fun!

And it has a Baby Dinosaur!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Conclusion