Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE "Galaxian" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

Sent by the Atari Corporation in 2005 to probe the Multiverse to find a habitable planet for mankind to move to after wars and pollution have rendered Earth's biosphere on the verge of collapse, the tired crew of Scanner One are exhausted after months of fruitless exploration.

This particular mission began with them killing (in self-defense) a large worm-like creature whose much-larger parent almost destroyed the ship!

With the crew both physically and emotionally "burned-out", expedition commander Martin Champion has hard decisions to make...

But will the Atarians have to fight for peace?

 To Be Continued

Next Wednesday!
Trivia:
Writers Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway took the backstory from the game and overhauled it, as you can see...

What do you think of their "reconcepting"?

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Art of Atari

Holiday Reading Room RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER "The Plot (and the Fog) Thickens!"

When Last We Left Santa Claus and Rudolph...

...Rudolph lived a sad existence, shunned by his peers because he was "different".

But, on Christmas Eve, when Santa Claus, hindered by severe fog, making him hours behind schedule, delivers gifts to Rudolph's home, he literally sees the solution to his problem...

Thursday:

The Reindeer Who Saved Christmas...

Written by Robert L May and illustrated by Denver Gillen, this beloved tale was actually an advertising promotion designed to lure customers into doing Christmas shopping!

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

75th-Anniversary Edition

(a replica of the original 1939 book we're re-presenting on this blog!)

Monday Madness SANTA CLAUS PARADE "Benny Brown Bear's Christmas Sleep!"

Like Any Kid Before Christmas...

...Benny Brown Bear just can't wait!

But, since bears hibernate, he'll miss Christmas...unless someone wakes him up!

This never-reprinted story by Bill Walsh from Ziff-Davis' Santa Claus Parade (1951) didn't have a sequel, so we'll never know if Benny ever actually saw Santa!

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Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories

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Holiday Reading Room presents MARVEL CLASSIC COMICS' "A Christmas Carol"!

There have been numerous comic adaptations of Charles Dickens' legendary Yuletide ghost story...

...but this never-reprinted one from (believe it or not) Marvel Comics, has the distinction of being illustrated by more artists than any other version!

Credited to "Diverse Hands", the art styles I recognize include Bob Hall, Frank Giacoia, Frank Springer, Dave Cockrum, Marie Severin, Carmine Infantino, Steve Leialoha, John Romita Sr, Al Milgrom, Mike Esposito, and probably anybody who wandered into the Bullpen while this book was in production in 1978!

Trivia: 

This was the final title in the Marvel Classics Comics line which had started out as color reprints of the early '70s b/w Pendulum Press "comic adaptations of classic stories" series.
After a dozen issues, Marvel began doing their own adaptations, continuing for another two dozen issues.

Scripter Doug Moench was no newcomer to adapting prose to comics having worked on comics versions of literary properties including Doc Savage, The Shadow, James Bond, and Fu Manchu!

Colorist Francoise Mouly later became the art editor of The New Yorker, co-creator of the legendary comic anthology Raw, and is currently the publisher/editorial director of Toon Books.

You can read this HTF story by clicking HERE for Stave One, then just clicking the links at the bottom of each post!