Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATTACK ON PLANET MARS "Chapter One: Tarrano Strikes"

In the 1950s Avon did a number of one-shot comic books...

...based on sci-fi novels.

While most were of tales (then) recently-reprinted by their paperback division,  this one was not.

Does a Fate Worse than Death Await Elza?

And...What is Tarrano's Plan?

Be Here Next Wednesday to Find Out!

Based on the novel Tarrano the Conqueror by Ray Cummings, this chapter of the 1951 comic adaptation was penciled by Carmine Infantino and inked by Joe Kubert, the team who would illustrate the first Silver Age Flash story in DC's Showcase #4 several years later!

The writer of the adaptation is unknown.

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Joe Kubert Archives

...which reprints only this chapter of the story, since it's the only one in the book that Kubert worked on!

(But there's lots of other kool stuff by the legendary editor/writer/artist in the book, so it's a must-have for any comics fan's library!)
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Monday Mecha Madness SHOGUN WARRIORS "Should Heroes Fail..." Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...inside Dr Demonicus' satellite (in geo-stationary orbit over the Dark Side of the Moon), our trio of pilots inside their giant robos are about to be squished by an even bigger robot hand!

(Only in comic books would the previous statement actually make sense!)

The "Red Ronin" that Gabe Jones mentions was a similar giant robo created for Marvel's Godzilla comic series by (surprise) Doug Moench & Herb Trimpe!

Since it was exclusive to Marvel, Red Ronin would re-appear in other Marvel Universe stories, referencing how it fought an unnamed "giant green lizard"!

Sadly, he never encountered the Shogun Warriors!

What Will This Year's Thanksgiving Turkey Be?

We've Run Some Amazingly-Weird Comics Over the Past Decade...

The Man Called Flintstone!

SkateMan

Red Sonja: the Movie!

The New Blackhawk (SuperHero) Era

NightCat
and several others!
What Will This Year Bring?
We're Open to Suggestions...

Space Hero Saturdays SPACE ADVENTURES "Pet Hate!"

We Close Our Month-Long Look at Dinosaurs in Space...

...with a story about how we might actually need the extraterrestrial "thunder lizards"!

This never-reprinted tale from Charlton's Space Adventures V1N8 (1953), though scripted by an unknown writer, has an artist very familiar to Space Heroes Saturdays fans...Stan Campbell of Spurs Jackson & His Space Vigilantes in Space Western Comics!
As for the story itself, it's been told several times in Earth's history, particularly when fuzzy, cuddly, adorable rabbits were brought to Australia, and with no natural preators to stop them, multiplied like...you know!
Luckily, those long-eared critters weren't carnivorous like these creatures!

Happy Halloween!!!

Friday Fun FRANKENSTEIN "How I Had (and Lost) a Pet Dinosaur!"

Bet You Didn't Believe We Could Combine Dinosaurs  with the Frankenstein Monster!

(You Apparently Don't Know Us As Well as You Thought!)

Written and illustrated by Dick Briefer, this tale from Prize's Frankenstein #5 (1946) was the second (of three) versions of the Monster that Briefer conceived and produced!

The first, appearing in the anthology Prize Comics, was a serious sequel to Mary Shelley's novel, set in the present, resulting in the Monster encountering Nazis and being captured by comics' first official super-hero team, The Prize Fighters (as shown HERE)!
The second version was a humorous revamp (from which this story was taken) that would've been right at home as episodes of The Munsters TV series, and included Frankie meeting...Boris You-know-who...as seen HERE, and even getting married...as seen HERE!
It ran for 12 issues, and ended in 1948.
But the popularity of horror comics in the early 1950s resulted in a third, grisly, incarnation in 1952, also by the amazingly-versatile Briefer...who went all-out ghoulish for this final run of 21 issues before the whole "Seduction of the Innocent" mishigas shut down all color horror comics and almost destroyed the comics industry in 1954!
We ran a blogathon several years ago at Horror Comics of the 1950s presenting the entire run, which you can link to by clicking HERE!
Yeah, it's a lot, but if you want Frankenstein for Halloween, we're your one-stop reading destination!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN