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Monday, January 2, 2023

Monday Madness: FLYING SAUCERS x FOUR #1 "Secret of the Flying Saucer!"

In the old days (pre-Silver Age), comic books recycled plots every few years...
Art by Bill Everett
...since the editors believed the target audience changed every few years!
This month, Monday Madness will look at how a specific concept was re-used for over a decade by one publisher.
Exhibit #1 is this tale...
Written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Fred Kida, this never-reprinted, pre-Comics Code tale from Atlas' Men's Adventures #21 (1953) is definitely more "horror" than "sci-fi".
That's to be expected since this was the era of horror comics' greatest popularity, before the Congressional witchhunts and claims of comics causing juvenile delinquency.
Stan Lee would reuse the concept of a sentient spaceship meeting hapless humans several more times...as we shall see
Next Monday!
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