Saturday, June 3, 2023

Space Heroine? Saturdays CRAZY "Tess Orbit: Lace Cadet"

MAD wasn't the only satire anthology comic in the pre-Code days...
..though it was both the best-known and best written/drawn of an entire herd of titles!
This never-reprinted tale, spoofing the TV/radio series Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, was probably the best story in Atlas' Crazy #1 (1953), and actually feels more like one of the risque PussyCat short features the Marvel Bullpen did for Marvel's publisher Martin Goodman's laddie magazines!
(Goodman owned both Marvel and a magazine publishing company until he sold Marvel in 1972.)
The strip is illustrated by Al Hartley, who did a lot of romance work (along with some sci-fi and horror) and eventually became a mainstay of Archie Comics in the late 1960s through the '70s.
(For the record, Hartley also co-created and illustrated Atlas' Leopard Girl I for her entire run)
But the writer is unknown.
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Friday, June 2, 2023

Friday Fun CRAZY "Tales from Aesop's Stables"

Here's a never-reprinted example of horror humor...
...from one of Atlas' several MAD clones, Crazy V1N7 (1954)
Despite the title, this piece written and illustrated by Howie Post was not part of a series!
Well, perhaps it was!
But since this was the last issue, no other installments were ever seen!
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Thursday, June 1, 2023

Reading Room VENUS COMICS "Plot!"

With concern mounting about artificial intelligence (AI) taking over more and more control of our daily lives...
...we thought we'd take a look at one of the early tales about robots rebelling against Mankind!
As you might have guessed, we're re-presenting the never-reprinted back-up stories!
This back-up story from Atlas' Venus Comics #11 (1950), is illustrated by Russ Heath.
The writer is unknown.
Long before the Terminator and Matrix films, sci-fi literature presented examples of our creations such as the Robotmen of the Lost Planet one-shot comic we recently re-presented!
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SILVER SURFER: THE ULTIMATE COSMIC EXPERIENCE Part 1

Prepare thyself for graphic greatness...
...as we present the final collaboration of the legendary creative team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby...one of Marvel's first graphic novels!
Join us next Wednesday for the cataclysmic cosmic combat!
(That furshlugginer Stan Lee-esque writing style is infectious!)
Co-plotted by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, scripted by Lee, penciled by Kirby, inked by Joe Sinnott.
Touchups in a couple of panels by John Romita Sr.
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Silver Surfer
The Ultimate Cosmic Experience
by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Speck of Stardust!"

A tale about the warmth of love in the coldness of space...
...with a twist ending worthy of The Twilight Zone!
Illustrated by Hy Fleishman, this never-reprinted tale from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #4 (1952) by an unknown author is rather melancholy, but haert-warming, showing the power of True Love under near-impossible conditions!
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Monday, May 29, 2023

Monday Memorial Day Madness SGT FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS...in Korea...and VietNam???

Yep!
The guys who (almost) won World War II single-handedly (as a team)...


...fought in Korea (over half a decade later), and, fifteen years after that...


...in VietNam!
Here's how it begins in 1967, when World War II vet Nick Fury is a middle-aged (between 45 and 50 years old) but still fit, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D....

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