Space Force Saturdays SPACE WORLDS "Midnight Horror"

Our final story from Space Squadron/Space Worlds features yet another scheme by Edgar Revere...

....the strip's resident cowardly Baltar/Dr Smith-type and son of esteemed Space Squadron commander Blast Revere!

Ignore the fact that outer space itself is a vacuum, so the Earth couldn't leave a "vacuum trail", and the story's quite entertaining!

Sadly, Edgar never received his just desserts in the strip.

Illustrated by Allen Bellman, this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Space Worlds #6 (1952) was the final adventure of the Space Squadron before they jetted off into publishing limbo.

Next week: we've run out of stories from Speed Carter: SpaceMan and Space Squadron, but there's still a gallery of kool covers from both series that you'll see next week, along with info about what will follow in the Saturday posting slot!

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Taylor Illustrated History

Science Fiction Comics 

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics NEW YORKER "Self-Isolating"

Chris Ware is a multi award-winning comics writer-artist...

...who, like most comic book/strip professionals, creates, undisturbed by others, in his own studio/office.

Besides his other work, he's been a steady contributor to The New Yorker, including covers and editorial cartoons during the pandemic like the one above from the March 30, 2020 issue!

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Comics of Chris Ware

Drawing is a Way of Thinking

CoronaVirus Comics Reading Room UNCANNY TALES "Cure"

Sometimes solving the puzzle of a pandemic is worse than the disease itself...

...as this never-reprinted tale set in the then-future year of 1976 from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #45 (1956) demonstrates!

It should be pointed out that the "common cold" virus, though known to mankind since 1600 BC, has never been known to affect any other, non-human species!

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Ten-Cent Plague

Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Escape from Earth!"

Last week we learned that the "present day" in this series was 1982...

..and are now told the invasion occurred seven years earlier, in 1975!

Guess they didn't celebrate the Bicentennial on this Earth...

Of course, the only reason Helena agrees to work with the mutants is because, without a functioning ship, she's trapped on Earth!
Curiously, Helena and the scientists know about Hunt Bowman, probably by monitoring Volta broadcasts, but never attempted to contact him!

BTW, as of this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #60 (1949), the remainder of Lost World has never been reprinted, so if you don't own the original comics, this is likely the first time you'll be seeing these stories!

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A Slight Case of Murder

and Other Stories

Illustrated by George Evans

Reading Room LOST WORLDS "Alice in TerrorLand"

We ran a humorous variation of Alice in Wonderland HERE......

... but here's a story based on Lewis Carroll's tale that combines sci-fi, and a fear many children experience at one time or another...

Penciled by Alex Toth and inked by Mike Peppe, this tale from Standard's Lost Worlds #5 (1952) takes the common kids' fear of toys coming to life and adds imagery from Lewis Carroll's Alice tales to an alien invasion scenario to create a wonderfully-creepy story.

Sadly, the writer of this wild tale is unknown.

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Alice in ComicLand

Featuring various comics incarnations of the Lewis Carroll character!

Monday Mars Madness ATTACK ON PLANET MARS "Chapter 3: Fugitives from the WarLord"

We Have Already Seen...

Art by Joe Kubert

Wow, that pretty well covers it, so let's dive into the action!

Be Here Next Monday for the Earth...er...Mars-Shaking Finale!

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 Vince Alascia.

The writer of the adaptation is unknown.

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Tarrano the Conquerer

by Ray Cummings

The First Part of the RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Ends Tomorrow...

...with the conclusion of the never-reprinted 1968 novel...
Captain America:
the Great Gold Steal
The Concluding Cataclysmic Chapter will be posted HERE on Monday!
(Or you could start from the beginning HERE!)
SPOILER!
There's a MAJOR reveal you'll never see coming!
SPOILER!!
Don't go any further if you don't want to know!
SPOILER!!!
You've been warned!
SPOILER!!!