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Saturday, October 26, 2024

Space...Hero? Saturdays WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Jumpin' Jupiter and the Strange Case of Gzink Bfnxpp!"

Perhaps the very antithesis of a "Space Hero"...
...Basil Wolverton's Jumpin' Jupiter strip constantly shows us why he shouldn't be among such august company!



This never-reprinted feature from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #3 (1952) is a classic example of Wolverton's...unique...sense of humor and his absolutely-superb design and illustration abilities!
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Friday, October 25, 2024

Friday Fascist Fun / Trump Reading Room SH*T MY PRESIDENT SAYS

Remember When We Believed This Was the Extent of Don da Con's Involvement with Vlad Putin?
Ah, those innocent times back a decade ago...
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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Reading Room / Tales Twice Told THIS IS SUSPENSE "Short Step to Oblivion"

 We saw this tale of terror and justice uncut in Part 1...

Now let's see how it looked after the Comics Code Authority took their censoring scissors to the reprinted version...
The knife, seen in panels 5-7 on the original page, is now missing!
The knife in panels 3 and 5 is missing in the reprint page!
Despite being removed from the previous pages, the knife is shown to be the murder weapon!
But how did the knife get there if it was deleted from the earlier pages?
Ruth's word balloon in the last panel is rewritten to eliminate reference to the knife shown on the original page!
Why is Ruth screaming?
It's not like there's a dead body, like there was in the original page!
Why did the villain fall to his death?
Maybe it's the fact that Holiday shot him in the original version of the first panel!
This Comics Code Authority-eviscerated reprint appeared in Charlton's This is Suspense # 24 (1955).
The writer is unknown and the illustrator is George Evans.
A comic with no more violence or blood than a TV cop show of the period is gutted by the CCA to Protect the Morals of the Youth of America.
Take a good look at your parents.
Did it work?
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Wednesday World of Wolverton ADVENTURES INTO TERROR "Where Monsters Dwell!"

Though this cover-featured tale's title became the name of a Marvel reprint comic...
...the story was never reprinted in its' namesake!
Nor does the cover art for Atlas' Adventures Into Terror #7 (1951) by George Tuska and Joe Maneely show anything even vaguely like what this Basil Wolverton penned and illustrated feature is about!
BTW, the splash panel was redrawn by another, unknown, artist!
When the tale was reprinted in Marvel's Curse of the Weird #3 (1994)...
...cover artist Ron Wagner deliberately mimicked the art style of each of the original tales' illustrators!
And, the story title on the cover used a modified version of the logo for the Bronze Age reprint book!
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Reading Room / Tales Twice Told SUSPENSE DETECTIVE "Short Step to Oblivion"

...it seems appropriate to take a look at how his far-reaching deception altered pop culture as we know it!
BTW, most people (myself included) felt that Wertham exaggerated his claims, but altering/modifying evidence to validate his theories went over the line.
This pre-Comics Code tale appeared in Fawcett's Suspense Detective #1 (1952), illustrated by George Evans, but the writer is uncredited.
It seems to be a straightforward tale of mistaken identity and justice served with some violence mixed in, but nothing over-the-top, right?
Not according to the Comics Code Authority!
Be back Thursday to see how the Code altered this story, which they considered too violent!
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Monday, October 21, 2024

Monday Maternity Madness MAD "Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Abortion Newspaper Story"

With minor updating, this never-reprinted two-page feature...
...written by long-time contributor Frank Jacobs from EC's MAD Magazine #324 (1994) could be used today!
Sad, isn't it?
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Sunday, October 20, 2024

CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST "Premiere"

Here's the first appearance of a comics legend (over 100 comic series with his name in the title)...
...who, at the time this came out, was already an animation mainstay!
Utilizing story elements from Casper's first cartoon (1945's Paramount NovelToon "The Friendly Ghost", written by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo) this opener written by Isadore Klien and likely illustrated by one of the cartoon series' animators appeared in St John's Casper the Friendly Ghost #1 (1949)
Interestingly, though Harvey Comics acquired the character rights from Paramount Pictures and continued the series after St John went out of business, they never reprinted the covers or stories of the five issues by St John!
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