Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AMAZING HIGH ADVENTURE "Gold!"

A Clash of Cultures is Highlighted, Both on This Cover...
...by Bill Sienkiewicz, and the story by writer Ann Nocenti and artist Tony Salmons from Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #1 (1984), neither of which has ever been reprinted!

Poetic Justice?
You tell us, dear reader!

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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Holiday Reading Room SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "First Christmas Tree"

 An never-reprinted tale from Dell's  first Santa Claus Funnies (1942)...

...details a "legend" (involving young Jesus Christ) about how the tradition of Christmas trees came to be!
Well, it's as plausible as any theory that combines Christianity with the pagan tradition of decorated fir trees...
If the artwork looks "classier" than the usual comic book art, that's because illustrator Arthur Jameson was already a major artist in the pulp magazine field when he debuted in comic books with this tale!
As a result, his work was largely confined to fairy tale-themed and holiday comics.

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Monday, December 15, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness ASTRO BOY Manga "Gademu" Part 1

You've Seen the Anime (dubbed in English) and the Comic Book Adapted from It...

...now here's the original manga story that both were derived from!





















To Be Concluded Next Monday!
Written & illustrated by Osamu Tezuka, and serialized in Kobunsha's Shonen Boy #8 & 9 (1959).

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Sunday, December 14, 2025

Holiday Reading Room BIBLE TALES FOR YOUNG FOLKS "Nativity: the Birth of Jesus"

 Over the years, many  comics companies have published Bible-themed projects...

...such as Atlas Comics' Bible Tales for Young Folk which presented this never-reprinted story in its first issue!
The writer is unknown, but the penciler/inker is the legendary Joe Sinnott, best known for his inking of Jack Kirby and John Buscema on the Fantastic Four during the Silver Age.
(In truth, Joe's done an incredible amount of truly-spectacular work in comics, but that's the first thing most fans think of.)
Joe also did quite a bit of work for Treasure Chest, a comic distributed semi-monthly only to parochial schools during the school year (September thru June) that ran over 500 issues.
Oddly, none of Sinnott's stories for that series were Bible adaptations (which TC did a lot of).
Bible Tales lasted five issues in 1953 and '54, mixing New and Old Testament stories into each issue, illustrated by the cream of the Atlas (later MarvelComics crew including; Jerry Robinson, Don Rico, Syd Shores, Fred Kida, Bernie Krigstein, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, and Gene Colan!