The Psychedelic '60s are either a little early or a little late...
...for this never-reprinted 1951 story that took place in the then far-flung future of 2000!
Letting Edgar go unpunished
despite risking numerous lives was, unfortunately, a typical plot point
both in this series, and in later juvenile space-based comics and tv
shows like Lost in Space, where, if anyone had any sense, they would've tossed Dr Smith out an airlock without a space suit after his first attempt to kill them...
This "trip through the mind's eye" from Atlas' Space Squadron #5 (1952) was illustrated by Allen Bellman, one of Timely/Atlas' in-house staff for over a decade.
He's still around, and will be at San Diego this weekend, so stop by his table!
He's still around, and will be at San Diego this weekend, so stop by his table!
The
writer is unknown.
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