Monday, March 30, 2026

Monday Mecha Madness GRAPHIC STORY MAGAZINE "Adam Link's Vengeance" Part Two: Vengeance

...actually, this scene appears later in this chapter!
Robot Adam Link, after realizing Humanity doesn't trust him (despite being innocent of committing the murder of his creator/"father", Dr Charles Link), decides to end his existence.
but another scientist, Dr Paul Hillory, aborts the process.
The scientist agrees to help Adam construct a mate, Eve.
But Dr Hillory isn't acting out of benevolence!
In assisting Adam, the scientist learns how to manipulate and control both the robots!
He then forces Adam to rebuild Eve in a larger, deadlier form...
Despite the downbeat ending, Adam Link continued to help humanity.
The original prose series ran for another seven stories, which were eventually combined into a "fix-up" novel...
Note the Isaac Asimov quote!
Before this particular adaptation, EC Comics attempted an ongoing comic series in Weird Science Fantasy.
Scripted by Otto Binder and illustrated by Joe Orlando, there were three stories directly adapted from the pulp tales; I, Robot in Weird Science Fantasy #27, Trial of Adam Link in Weird Science-Fantasy #28, and Adam Link in Business in Weird Science-Fantasy #29 (all 1955).
The cancellation of the comic due to the Werham-led Seduction of the Innocent anti-comics mania ended the series.
After the novel Adam Link: Robot was published, Binder and Orlando tried again, this time with Warren Publishing in the b/w Creepy magazine!
They re-conceived the three previously-published comics with a re-designed Adam Link, then adapted five more stories (including Adam Link's Vengeance), so,etimes as two-parters, before Warren ended the strip, which ran from Creepy #2 to Creepy #15 in 1966-7.
Both the EC and Warren versions are available in Weird-Science Fantasy and Creepy reprints!
Neither had been reprinted in standalone Adam Link books.
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Sunday, March 29, 2026

It's Palm Sunday! Did You Know the Very First Captain of the USS Enterprise...

...was Jesus Christ?
Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus Christ in King of Kings (1961)
 Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike with Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock in Star Trek "The Cage" (1964)
Here's"six degrees of separation" trivia in only five degrees:
  • John Huston, who later did a prequel movie, The Bible: In the Beginning, directed Moby Dick, using a screenplay adapted by Ray Bradbury from the Herman Melville novel.
  • Ray Bradbury wrote the voiceovers in King of Kings spoken by Orson Welles.
  • Welles' The Shadow and Mercury Theatre radio series co-star Agnes Moorehead served as dialogue coach to  Jeffrey Hunter (Jesus Christ) in King of Kings.
  • Jeffrey Hunter later played Christopher Pike, the first captain of the Starship Enterprise in the pilot episode of Star Trek, "The Cage".
  • Star Trek did an episode, "Bread and Circuses", about a planet where parallel evolution produced a society that resembled a 20th Century version of the Roman Empire, complete with it's own "Christians" and Jesus Christ (who doesn't appear on-camera, but is mentioned in dialogue)!

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN SCIENCE "Traitors to the Earth"

It's only his second story, and already Captain Science has his hands full...
...any way you look at it, it's a helluva way to begin your career!

Cap destroyed a threat by humans (including Adolf Hitler) using alien tech and picked up a hot babe in the process!
Not bad for the first day on the job.

Note, though it's only mentioned in a caption, it takes Gordon Dane months to prepare for his new career (though it's never explained how a guy on a teacher's salary can afford to cobble together the equipment he needs)...
The art on this never-reprinted story from Youthful's Captain Science #1 (1950)  is by Gustav Schrotter.
The writer is unknown.

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Friday, March 27, 2026

Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Fun and Games"

Besides numerous single-page, two/three page, and longer stories...
...Dell's annual Easter with Mother Goose books by Walt (Pogo) Kelly usually included a game/puzzle page centerfold!
Three of the four issues from 1946 thru 1949 had them, and none have ever been reprinted!
...but we have them for your reading (and playing) pleasure, you lucky duckies!
Enjoy!
All written and illustrated by Walt Kelly, from Dell's Four Color Comics #103 (1946), #140 (1947) and #220 (1949)!

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Reading Room WORLDS BEYOND "Twice Alive!"

Here's a horror story with a sci-fi slant...
Art by Sheldon Moldoff
...that the cover doesn't really convey, from the HTF anthology Fawcett's Worlds Beyond #1 (1951).
Did the writers of the movie Fantastic Voyage read this tale when they were younger?
The art is by comics legend Bob Powell, but the writer is unknown.
The cover, by Sheldon Moldoff, shows a cavern (with bats!) instead of the inside of a human being, and probably was meant for another story, but it conveys the mood of "Twice Alive", if not the plot points.
Worlds Beyond was retitled Worlds of Fear with #2 and ran for another nine issues.
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