Space Hero Saturdays SHADOW COMICS "Riddle of the Flying Saucers"

Who Knows What Evil Lurks...on Earth and the Moon?

Yeah, that guy!

As they used to say...
Not a dream!

Not a hoax!

Not an "imaginary story"!

This never-reprinted tale from S&S's Shadow Comics V7N10 (1948) is illustrated by Bob Powell, who may have written it..although it could be The Shadow's primary writer, Walter Gibson, who co-created and scripted the Spurs Jackson and His Space Vigilantes strip in Charlton's Space Cowboy Comics a few years later!
It's definitely not an adaptation of a Shadow radio show episode, which most of the comic stories during this period, in fact, were...as shown HERE and HERE!
BTW, this wasn't the last time He Who Knows What Evil would be involved in a Moon-related story...

...which you can learn more about

TOMORROW

...when we detail our plans for this year's

RetroBlogs Summer Blogathons!

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Shadow Scrapbook

by Walter B Gibson

Friday Fun NUTS! "Popular Pictorial Science Handicrafts"

We brought you a similarly-themed tale about comic books from the same MAD-clone series HERE!

And now, our host/instructor (who originally-had a red mustache and hair) presents popular "slick" magazine genres...

This feature, illustrated by Hy Fleishman, from Premier Magazine's Nuts! #5 (1954) demonstrates the quality this undeservedly-obscure, short-lived (1953-1956) company gave to the titles in its' multi-genre (humor/Western/horror/romance/crime/funny animal) lineup!

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Sincerest Form of Parody

Reading Room WORLD OF SUSPENSE "While Simon Slept"

If you go by the never-reprinted Carl Burgos-illustrated cover, these are horror stories!

But, you'd be wrong.

Let's present a story shown on the cover as a small vignette on the right, but still given the first spot in the book!

I'm compelled to ask "Why would anyone be carrying around both theirs and their brother's birth certificates?"

Illustrated by Bill Everett, this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' World of Suspense #5 (1956) has some serious plot holes.

But, hey, what can you expect in only four pages?
BTW, the scripter is unknown, but could've been Everett himself.

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Science Fiction Comics

Taylor History of Comics

Vol 3

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SILVER SURFER: THE ULTIMATE COSMIC EXPERIENCE Part 4

When Last We Left Our Cosmic-Powered Hero...

...trapped on Earth by Galactus, the Silver Surfer encounters Ardina, who was created by the Planet Devourer to lure the Sentinel of the Spaceways back into willing servitude!

But the end is not yet in sight!

There is more, much more of this tale to be told...

NEXT WEEK!

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Silver Surfer

The Ultimate Cosmic Experience

by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Reading Room: SPACE ACTION "Beware the Human Meteorites"

C'mon, a title like that is a real attention-grabber...

...and the story is equally-funky, once you get past the whole "medieval garb" thing that invariably crops up in comic sci-fi of the era.

So the "human meteorites" are, in essence, flaming space zombies?

Dumb, but cool!

Here's a trivial (but pertinent) question: Why don't other Jovians have pointed ears, like Deuel?

Aren't they the same species?
Art for this never-reprinted story from Ace's Space Action #3 (1953) is by Bill Molno, the writer is unknown.

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