Saturday, April 2, 2022

Space Hero Saturdays SPACEHAWK "Ghost Star" & "Black Horde"

Yes, we know it's a day late...

...but this post has an "April Fools Day" element to it!
Can you guess what it is?
Have you figured it out yet?
Here's the conclusion..
This two-part, never-reprinted feature from Novelty's Target Comics V1N7 and V1N8 (1940) isn't a half-bad space-opera tale.
So what's the "April Fools" aspect, you ask?
It's not written or illustrated by Basil Wolverton!
It's scripted by Bob Davis under the pen name "Stockbridge Winslow", and rendered by an artist with the initials "H R" aka Harry Ramsey!
Davis wrote a number of text features about Novelty Publication's ongoing characters besides SpaceHawk, including White Streak, Chameleon, Sub-Zero Man, and Dick Cole...despite never working on any of the actual strips!
Since Wolverton had nothing to do with this two-parter, none of the numerous SpaceHawk reprint comics, trade paperbacks or hardcovers have ever re-published these tales!
Unless you have the actual original comics in some form, you readers are the first to see them in almost 83 years!
No need to thanks us!
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Friday, April 1, 2022

Friday Fun UNCANNY TALES "Day to Remember"

This never-reprinted story from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #40 (1956) takes place on April 1st.

Why is that important?
Read and see!
Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by John Severin, it's an all-but-forgotten piece of comics lore that we enjoyed hunting for, finding and presenting to you!
It's sorta our "thing"!
Happy April Fools Day!

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Reading Room FANTASTIC WORLDS "Cosmic Terror"

Some say space opera is just a Western with ray guns instead of six-shooters...
...but this never-reprinted tale from Standard's Fantastic Worlds #6 (1952) is a Cold War tale with aliens instead of Communists!
Though the scripter is unknown, the artwork is by Art Saaf, who had a long career in comics from the mid-1940s to the mid 1970s, doing everything from romance to horror to sci-fi to superheroes!
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder GAME BOY "In the Palm of Your Hand..." Part I

Every major video game company has done tie-in comics!
But this one was based on the actual hand-held game unit (along with it's most popular game, Super Mario Land!
...Next Wednesday!
Written by George Carragonne, penciled by Gray Morrow, Todd Haedrich and Jim Shooter (as "Paul Creddick"), and inked by Art Nichols, Valiant's Game Boy #1 (1990) was part of a line of Nintendo-related titles that lasted only two years (1990-91).

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Reading Room JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "Behind Locked Doors!"

Here's a never-reprinted Silver Age tale by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko...
...which backed up a Mighty Thor tale in Journey into Mystery!
Bonus: it features Russkies!
We're so patriotic, even our machines defend our country!
Today, since almost all our products are manufactured overseas, this story wouldn't make sense!
Penned by Stan Lee and rendered by Steve Ditko, this tale from the back of Marvel's Journey into Mystery #88 (1963) is truly a product of its' time!
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Volume 1 
featuring the Thor story "Vengeance of Loki!" that appeared in front of this never-reprinted tale!

Monday, March 28, 2022

Monday Madness SPACE PATROL COMICS "Push Button Tyrant"

Ziff-Davis' Space Patrol comic featured stories based on the TV series...
...and unrelated one-shot tales, like this never-reprinted "Cold War of the Future" story from #1 (1952).

Boy, they were obsessed in the 1950s that the Commies would win the Cold War!
The writer and artist are officially unknown, but I see a great deal of Carmine Infantino's penciling style in a number of panels.

Sunday, March 27, 2022

EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE Cover Gallery

From 1946 through 1949, Dell produced an annual Easter with Mother Goose...
...with all-new stories and art by Walt (Pogo) Kelly!
We've presented a number of the stories (most never-reprinted since the 1940s) HERE.