Friday Football Fun JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Pardon My Power!"

It's a Frosty Fall Friday, so Let's Talk...High School Football!

But, as you may have guessed, when we talk football, it's football as shown in the "future" (our present), as presented in 1952...almost 75 years ago!

If the art style of this tale from Standard's Jetta of the 21st Century #6 (1953) looks familiar, it's the work of Dan DeCarlo, who helped establish the iconic "look" of Archie Comics!
Dan actually started at Atlas Comics (the 1940s-50s predecessor to Marvel Comics) doing a variety of humor strips before beginning a long-term run on various Archie titles in 1951.
Even then, he continued to work for a number of other publishers, including Standard Comics, who asked him to create, write, and illustrate a teen-humor series.
(Every publisher had at least one of them!)
Exactly whose idea it was to set it in the "far future" of the 21st Century is unknown, but the resultant strip, though extremely derivative of Archie, was unique in the teen-humor genre for it's Jetsons-style setting and "futuristic" slang.

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Reading Room THRILL-O-RAMA "Old Hulk"

A never-reprinted tale from an influental artist...

...whose greatest contributions were to animation, not comics!
(And no, it's not Alex Toth!)

During the mid-1960s, Harvey Comics jumped back into superhero and sci-fi/fantasy comics with several titles combining a mixture of reprints and new material.

This tale from Thrill-O-Rama #1 (1965) was one of the "new" ones, though it's likely left over from Harvey's previous sci-fi anthology, Race for the Moon (1958).

Though the writer is unknown, the artist is Doug Wildey, who spent several years in comics, but found working in tv animation steadier and more profitable!

His many credits include Jonny Quest, Godzilla, and, Return to the Planet of the Apes!

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Jonny Quest
the Complete Original Series
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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATTACK ON PLANET MARS "Chapter One: Tarrano Strikes"

In the 1950s Avon did a number of one-shot comic books...

...based on sci-fi novels.

While most were of tales (then) recently-reprinted by their paperback division,  this one was not!

Does a Fate Worse than Death Await Elza?

And...What is Tarrano's Plan?

Be Here Next Wednesday to Find Out!

Based on the novel Tarrano the Conqueror by Ray Cummings, this chapter of the 1951 comic adaptation was penciled by Carmine Infantino and inked by Joe Kubert, the team who would illustrate the first Silver Age Flash story in DC's Showcase #4 several years later!

The writer of the adaptation is unknown.

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Weird Horrors and Daring Adventures

Joe Kubert Archives

...which reprints only this chapter of the story, since it's the only one in the book that Kubert worked on!

(But there's lots of other kool stuff by the legendary editor/writer/artist in the book, so it's a must-have for any comics fan's library!)
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Monday Mecha Madness SHOGUN WARRIORS "Should Heroes Fail..." Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...inside Dr Demonicus' satellite (in geo-stationary orbit over the Dark Side of the Moon), our trio of pilots inside their giant robos are about to be squished by an even bigger robot hand!

(Only in comic books would the previous statement actually make sense!)

The "Red Ronin" that Gabe Jones mentions was a similar giant robo created for Marvel's Godzilla comic series by (surprise) Doug Moench & Herb Trimpe!

Since it was exclusive to Marvel, Red Ronin would re-appear in other Marvel Universe stories, referencing how it fought an unnamed "giant green lizard"!

Sadly, he never encountered the Shogun Warriors!