Saturday, May 31, 2025

Space Hero Saturdays SPACE ACE "Nothing Weapon!"

Buckle Up for EXCITEMENT in the Far-Flung Reaches of Space...

...as Magazine Enterprise's Space Ace 2.5 makes his initial appearance, and he's looking good!





Al Williamson does the penciling, showing off his superb design and anatomy skills.
The inking is by Williamson plus the legendary Fleagle Gang (Frank Frazetta, Angelo Torres, Roy Krenkel, George Woodbridge).
If that weren't enough, the script is by Gardner Fox, taking the somewhat more juvenile concepts of "Space Ace 2.0" (as seen HERE and HERE) and making them a superb example of classic, epic space opera.

BONUS #1: the original art for page one...
Is that magnificent, or what? ;-)
Bonus #2
This story in 3-D
Get your Red/Blue glasses out...



From 3-D Zone #10 (1988)
"ZoneVision" conversion by Ray Zone.

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Friday, May 30, 2025

Friday Fun BLAST "R.O.T.C.NoteBook"

When is Dan DeCarlo Art Not Dan DeCarlo art?

When it's by one of the best DeCarlo imitators in the business...Stan Goldberg!



Written by Nick Cuti and illustrated by the aforementioned Stan Goldberg, this never-reprinted feature from the short-lived MAD Magazine clone G&D Publishing's Blast #1 (1971) featured an awesome assortment of established pros like Goldberg, Bill Everett, Jim Mooney, and Bob Jenney, along with talented up-and-comers like Cuti, Berni Wrightson, Mike Kaluta, and Marv Wolfman!

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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Reading Room HOUSE OF MYSTERY "Human TIme Capsule"

Under this kool Ruben Moreira cover...
...lurks an even kooler, never-reprinted tale of illegal aliens and crime from DC's House of Mystery #64 (1957)!

So the American citizen is the criminal, not the "illegal alien"!
The Mort Meskin-illustrated tale left a possibility for a sequel, which was never realized!
Since even DC doesn't know who wrote it (and the odds are the author is deceased by now), we'll never know...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder INVASION '55 "The Well"

We Have Already Seen...

...several disparate groups, including "rebel without a cause" leather-jacketed teens, the crew of an Air Force bomber, and typical housewives slowly discover there are extraterrestrials lurking about their SouthWestern town!
Now let's join a local elementary school as it lets out for the day, with everyone unaware of what's going on around them...











To Be Continued...
Next Wednesday!

There's no title for the chapter itself!
We added one translated from the one in the Spanish edition!
The Spanish-language reprint's coloring makes it clear the kid's Colt .45 water pistol is what hurts the alien!
(Though the kick to the crotch certainly doesn't help the ET!)

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Reading Room AMAZING ADVENTURES "Amazing Prophecies"

Let's peer into a crystal ball from the 1950s...
...and see they did predict 3-D TV and bigger women (as compared to the females of the 1950s).
But the other prophecies from this never-reprinted feature illustrated by Ross Andru in Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #4 (1951) have yet to occur...

Monday, May 26, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness SHOGUN WARRIORS "Raydeen!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

..an ancient society of benevolent alien scientists called the Followers of the Light have recruited expert human pilots of land, sea, and air vehicles to operate a giant robot named Raydeen against a huge extraterrestrial menace known as Roc-Korr.
The recruits are about to learn why they were chosen and what threat the planet Earth faces...








We'll return to the tale of the three titanic robots next month!
Next week, however, a quite different mechanical man takes the stage!
Don't miss the electronic action!