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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Stephen Colbert IS Tek Jansen: Space Hero!

Did you know mild-mannered Late Show host Stephen Colbert is really...

...and that he had both a five-issue comic mini-series...

...and a number of animated cartoon episodes (with Colbert as the voice of Jansen)!

Sadly, the cartoons themselves are now lost to the cyber-winds, but the theme song survives HERE!
But hang tight, True Believers, 'cause we'll be posting some of the OOP (that's "out of print") adventures of everybody's (especially Stephen's) favorite space hero for the next couple of weeks on this blog at Wednesday Worlds of Wonder and Space Hero Saturdays plus, same day on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!
That's four chapters each week for the next two weeks!

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Monday, May 11, 2026

Monday Mecha Madness TERMINATOR "Down to Earth" Part 1

Between the first Terminator movie and Terminator 2: Judgment Day...

...a brand-new comics publisher secured the rights to do a sequel comic.

Note: the "three years since" reference is to 2028, the year The Terminator was sent into the past, not 1984, the year it arrived in the past.

To Be Concluded Next Monday!

Scripted by publisher Tony Caputo, penciled by Tony Akins, and inked by Jim Brozman, this never-reprinted adventure from NOW's Terminator #1 (1988) introduced the inhabitants of a moonbase untouched by SkyNet, who will prove vital to future storylines in comics, novels, roleplaying games, and the movies themselves.

BTW, it's not the premiere comics tale of the Terminator Multiverse!

That honor goes to a 5-page introduction in the back of NOW's Rust #12 (1988) which leads into this story.

Unfortunately, that book is extremely-expensive and I've never seen anybody else post scans of the Terminator back-up tale online!

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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Holiday Reading Room EVERY DAY IS A HOLLY DAY "Mother's Day"

Ever wonder why Mother's Day is when it is...or even why it is?

Oddly, there's no entry in this comic for Father's Day!

(Perhaps because Father's Day wasn't made an official American holiday until 1972, decades after this comic was published in 1956!)

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"), 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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