Space Force Saturdays PERIMETER PATROL SERVICE "Mission to Malooka"

Meet the Perimeter Patrol Service in their never-reprinted premiere...

...from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #5 (1951)!

This story is a superb example of pulp/comic space opera of the era with all the classic elements:

Square-jawed heroes!

Rockets & ray-guns!

Literal bug-eyed monsters!

No scantly-clad women in this particular tale, but the other Perimeter Patrol Service sagas have them!

BTW, this premiere appearance is illustrated by Murphy Anderson, who had just finished his first run on the Buck Rogers newspaper strip.

He would later specialize doing sci-fi/fantasy at DC Comics, including Hawkman, Adam Strange, and Superman!

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Friday Fascist Fun / Trump Reading Room TRUMP'S ABC

 Considering this was created only six months into Don da Con's (hopefully) sole term of office...

...the fact that it's still potentially-pertinent almost a decade later is indeed disturbing!

We present selected excerpts...

Written in a sing-songy rhyme and drawn in a beguilingly-impeccable ink line by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes, each page is a miniature critique and expose of convicted criminal and impeached politician Don da Con and his janissaries, poltroons, and dissemblers, illustrating his public policies, his personal defects, his ethical dysfunction, and the unfortunate consequences of his Presidency on the lives of Americans ― in a format that is cleverly designed to reflect his minimal attention span and toddler-like mental level.

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Trump's ABC

by Ann Telnaes
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Reading Room ROCKET SHIP X "Robot Rebellion"

We're DOOMED, do you hear me?

DOOMED, because tomorrow will bring a...

...as shown in this never-reprinted tale from Fox's Rocket Ship X #1 (1951).

It's actually a decent little tale whose creators, regrettably, are anonymous.

Think James Cameron read it as a kid?

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Taylor History of Comics

Vol 3
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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BRAK THE BARBARIAN "Spell of the Dragon!"

In the Bronze Age, Marvel adapted every barbarian/sword and sorcery character they could get...

...often giving the original prose writers (if they were alive) the chance to script the series themselves!

Author John Jakes commented...

I long ago admitted in print that I created Brak because there were simply no more Conan stories from Robert E. Howard, whose work I admired.

In my adolescent years I wrote – on notebook paper – further adventures of Batman and Superman because I enjoyed them but there weren’t enough of them in comic books to satisfy me. Somehow the other sword and sorcery strong men – Lin Carter’s, Michael Moorcock’s et al. – while deserving of praise in their own right, didn’t do it for me. I needed more Howard.
I invented Brak.

There were only three Brak comic tales, this one plotted and laid out by Dan Adkins and scripted by Jakes himself along with penciling by Val Mayerik and inking by Joe Sinnott.
(It seems to be an original tale, not an adaptation.)
Then a two-part adaptation of the (chronologically) first Brak tale, "The Unspeakable Shrine" by Jakes, Doug Moench, and Steve Gan.
Then...nothing!
No more new comics tales!
No reprints!
Next week, we're presenting an illustrated text feature from Savage Tales featuring background info about the character and author, John Jakes!
After that, the complete, unseen for decades two-part comic story!
Don't miss them!

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The (Complete) Adventures of Brak the Barbarian

Volume One & Volume Two

(includes a never-before-published conclusion to the series!)

Reading Room HOT STUF' "Heartfelt Thanks"

Remember the movie Fantastic Voyage, about a surgeon and his support staff...

...miniaturized to enter a patient's body to perform a delicate operation?

This is like that...but only up to a point!

OUCH!
Didn't end quite the way it did in Fantastic Voyage, eh?

Written by Kathy Barr and illustrated by Ken Barr, this somewhat grisly tale from SQP's Hot Stuf' #8 (1978) was one of his last comic stories before transitioning to doing movie poster, magazine, and book cover paintings on a full-time basis.

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Fantastic Voyage

Novelization of the Movie by Isaac (Foundation) Asimov

and/or

Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain

"Reboot" Novel by Isaac (Foundation) Asimov
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Monday Maternity Madness CHOICES "Generation Gaps"

Republicans want us to regress to 1960 (and further back) instead of progress past 1980!
Written and illustrated by Robert Triptow.
From the one-shot benefit comic by Angry Isis Press, Choices: A Pro-Choice Benefit Comic Anthology for the National Organization of Women (1990)

Summer Fun is Reading the "Time-Lost" RetroBlog Blogathons...

...as the never-reprinted adaptation of the 1994 Shadow movie concludes this week at...

Crime and Punishment

And

Martial Arts Mayhem Ensues with the Never-Reprinted Origin of Rip Jagger: JudoMaster at...

Pop Art Martial Arts!

The Heat is ON for Evildoers!