Saturday, October 10, 2026

Space Force Saturdays STAR TREK "Dinosaur Planet" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...(at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video) the Enterprise, after launching on it's second five-year mission, arrives at the Oblik star system.
They discover an M-Class planet, but one that's in the same stage of development as Earth was around 124,000,000 years ago!
And, they find the primordial world has primordial inhabitants...dinosaurs!
HERE'S a link to the audio file, so you can have a classic Power Records "read-along" experience!
Just move the sound bar control to 6:55 to continue the story!
Written by Ric Meyers and illustrated by Kirby Martin & Associates,
Power Records PR45 STAR TREK "Dinosaur Planet"(1979) is different from most of the famous "record and comic book" series.
It's one of two tales published after the release of Star Trek the Motion Picture, showing the crew in the grey and beige uniforms from the film.
However, the Enterprise itself is rendered as an amalgam of the TV series & movie versions.
And phasers and other tech are incorrectly-illustrated all the way through the story.
Neither of these tales were produced by Neal Adams' Continuity Associates, as all the previous tv show-based stories were.
Instead, Kirby Martin & Associates, a company that handled licensing art on merchandise like coffee mugs, t-shirts, and lunchboxes, was brought in to package the graphics.
Pavel Chekov, who was not on any of the previous Power Records, makes his audio debut here.
And Hikaru Sulu, who was illustrated as African-American in previous Power Records comics is finally rendered correctly as Japanese!

Friday, October 9, 2026

Friday Fun OSWALD THE RABBIT & the Prehistoric Egg!

It's a Unique, Book-Length Story...

...that hasn't been reprinted since publication in 1947, featuring a rocket ship, Amazons, dinosaurs, cute critters, and an animated character you've likely never heard of...or even seen..facing cliffhanger thrills!
It's Weird!
It's Wild!
It's Fun!
And it has a Baby Dinosaur!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Conclusion

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Reading Room STRANGE ADVENTURES "Maze of Time!"

Tuesday, We Presented a Never-Reprinted, Dinosaur-Themed, Story from Atlas' Strange Tales!


Cover illustrated by Murphy Anderson
Today, we do the same with a tale from DC's Strange Adventures!
Scripted by Gardner Fox, penciled by Gil Kane, and inked by Murphy Anderson, the cover-featured story from DC's Strange Adventures #159. (1963) has the same sort of "science can solve everything"-based optimism we saw a couple of years later on the original Star Trek TV series!
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Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AMAZING HIGH ADVENTURE "Saurian Remains"

In the 1980s, Marvel Launched a New Comic...

...an anthology dedicated to 1920s-50s pulp-style "high adventure" tales...but in comics form!













Is this fascinating tale historically-accurate?

The locations, institutions, and some of the characters are real!
There was a controversy in this era among paleontologists about properly-authenticating fossils!
But i don't know if things got as...violent...as presented here!
Only writer Stephen Perry and artist Stephen Bissette (along with Rick Veitch) would knoe the answer, and they've kept mum since the story's sole publication in Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #4 (1986), 40 years ago.
And, if they've kept quiet for almost four decades, I doubt they'll blab about it now...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Reading Room STRANGE TALES "Fear Walks on Four Feet!"

When a Never-Reprinted Story Comes to Our Attention...
...especially one about this month's featured subject, you can bet we're going to present it!
Scripted by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Al Eadeh, this entertaining featurette hasn't seen the light of day since it was published in Atlas' Strange Tales #51 (1958), almost 70 years ago!
And we're going to repeat this feat on Thursday, with another dinosaur-themed, never-reprinted, hidden gem, this time from DC!

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