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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder INVASION '55 "Fog"


...and things are looking pretty desperate for an...eclectic....group of "typical" 1950s Americans as they band together against a maurading band of actual aliens...extraterrestrials, to be exact!
To Be Concluded Next Wednesday!

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Remember INAPAK, the Amazing Chocolate Drink?

Bosco?
Bah!
Quik?
Crap!
Ovaltine?
Ewww!
You want serious chocolate flavor in your milk?
Here it is...
It must be true!
Major Inapak says so!
And Major Inapak wouldn't lie!
In fact, he uses science to prove his point...
Major Inapak returns to tell the Youth of America what to do...
You'll pardon me while I scamper out to the supermarket to get a box!
Be back Thursday for more on...Inapak!

Monday, June 16, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness NEUTRO "Captured by 777"

When Last We Saw Neutro...

Two American scientists had reassembled the parts of a giant automoton left in the Southwest over a century earlier by aliens for reasons unknown...for now!
However, unfriendly governments know of the robot, and seek to possess it!













We'll Never Know What Happens Next!
Written by editor D J Arneson and illustrated by Jack Sparling, Dell's Neutro #1 (1967) was meant to be an ongoing series, but never made it past the first issue.
Whether any work at all was done on a second issue is unknown!

Next Week:
Three Times the Mecha Mayhem as Combatra and Dangard Ace Join Raydeen as We Revisit the Shogun Warriors!

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Sunday, June 15, 2025

Belated Holiday Post: EVERY DAY'S A HOLLY DAY "Thrilling Story Behind Old Glory: Flag Day"

Learn About...
...and try to forget it was also (ironically) the 79th birthday of disgraced, twice-impeached, President Don (the Con) Trump, the Oldest President in American History!
Coloring goof: the Union soldiers in panel 5 are wearing Confederate gray!
Why is this 1955 comic entitled "Every Day's a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day's a Holiday"?
Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!
Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day" in 1962), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!
Note: We're gearing up for our traditional multi-blog Summer Blogathons which we'll announce the week before the 4th of July weekend and begin the week after!
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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Space Hero Saturdays SPACEBALLS: THE ANIMATED SERIES!

With the news of the upcoming Spaceballs 2: the Schwartz Awakens...

...we're presenting something most space sci-fi fans don't even know exists...Spaceballs the Animated Series, which came and went in 2008-2009 without making much of an impression!
Created and executive produced by Mel Brooks (who also reprised his roles as President Skroob and Yogurt), the show adapted the movie in its' first two episodes, making a couple of changes (like Lone Star isn't a prince so he can't marry Princess Vespa) for the ongoing series.
Some movie cast returned to voice their characters again, including Daphne Zuniga (Princess Vespa), Joan Rivers (Dot Matrix), and Dom DeLuise (Pizza the Hutt).
The other roles were filled by sound-alikes.
The biggest drawback is the computer-generated animation that's only a step above the limited animation of the 1960s Marvel Super-Heroes Show (which has the excuse of being animated directly from photostats of the detailed original comic art by Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, etc).
Because Blogger doesn't embed non-YouTube links, here are links that, when you click on them, will open into new windows...

After you've watched them, go to Secret Sanctum of Captain Video to see the final show of the series, spoofing Marvel Comics!

Friday, June 13, 2025

Friday Fun THE SEQUEL TO THE ALMOST 40 YEAR-OLD FILM STARRING THE 99 YEAR-OLD GUY...

...as Our World Collapses...
...let's have a good laugh!
God knows we need it!
Tomorrow On Space Hero Saturdays:
You Thought Disney Went Nuts on Star Wars Spinoffs?
SpaceBalls Beat Them to It!

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Reading Room INVINCIBLE IRON MAN "Frenzy in a Far-Flung Future!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...teleported to a future Earth where his invention, an artificial intelligence system called Cerebrus, has taken control of humanity, Tony Stark is sentenced to death by rebels who believe if they kill him before he creates Cerebrus, the future will be changed!

Before the sentence can be carried out, drones sent by the AI invade the rebels' refuge and Stark, along with Krylla (a scientist who disagreed with killing Tony), escape in the confusion.
In the ruins of a nearby museum, the duo discover an intact set of Iron Man armor which Tony's chestplate battery charges just in time...as...









The idea of Tony Stark creating an AI like Cerebrus was utilized in the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, where Ultron (created in Avengers comics around the same time as this story, but by Henry [Goliath] Pym) was also devised to help mankind, but went rogue.
This never-referenced-since story from Marvel's Invincible Iron Man #5 (1968), written by Archie Godwin, penciled by George Tuska, and inked by Johnny Craig is one of several "pocket universe" stories that occurred around this time at Marvel. which didn't usually do alternate universe tales like DC's Earth-One/Earth-Two/etc. multiverse to explain contradictory continuity elements.
Of course, all that's currently gone out the window with both DC and Marvel rebooting everything on an annual basis...

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder INVASION '55 "Something Hidden Underground"

We Have Already Seen...

...aliens are kidnapping, and sometimes killing humans in this small Southwestern town!
However, everyone seems aware of the situation!
But being aware and being able to deal with it are two different things!












To Be Continued Next Wednesday!
Things are getting out of control in the second half of Apple Press' Invasion '55 #2 (1990)!
Can anyone or anything save mankind?

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