Friday Football Fun CALVIN! "Fat Fillmore's Football Follies"

As We Continue Through the Chilly Days of November...

...let's have some more gridiron giggles with this never-reprinted 1970s strip from Marvel Comics!

Written and penciled by Kevin Banks and inked by "NT", this cover-featured tale from Marvel's Li'l Kids #12 (1973) ended a brief, 3-issue run of stories that seemed recycled from vaudeville routines and 1940s-50s animated cartoons.
What makes the strip somewhat more fascinating is the identity of the little-known writer-artist behind it.
"Kevin Banks" was not a pseudonym, but the name of a staffer at Marvel in the early 1970s!
Even the ever-amazing comics researcher Nick Caputo could find little about the mysterious Mr Banks, as seen HERE.
What Kevin did after working at Marvel is unknown.
Did he work in advertising?
Become an art instructor?
Switch careers and become an accountant or firefighter or chef or...?
We may never know the answer...

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Super Black

American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
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Reading Room SPACE ACTION "Dictator of Japetus"

It appears that, even in the future, Mankind will still have dictators!

Personally, I've never seen the appeal of someone, who wasn't elected by the majority of the populace, arbitrarily-deciding matters for us!

Penciled by then-up-and-comer Mike Sekowsky, this tale from Ace's Space Action #3 (1952) is typical space opera of the period with a little political intrigue thrown in, and reads better than most of the other stories that ran in Space Action.

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Marvel Masterworks

Tales of Suspense

Volume 1
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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATTACK ON PLANET MARS "Chapter 2: Princess of the Electronized Tower"

When Last We Left Our Tyrant...

Art by Gene Fawcette

In the year 2430, Tarrano, an Earthman, has seized control of both the planet Venus and its' outpost on Earth, Venia.

At that outpost, the tyrant has kidnapped Elza and Georg, children of the recently-murdered scientist, Dr Brende, along with reporter Jac Hallen.

Tarrano's agents have assassinated all the national leaders of Earth, leaving the various countries' governments in a state of confusion.

Meanwhile, back in Venia...

"Here goes"...what?

Can the trio defeat an entire city?

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 Vince Alascia.

Sadly, the writer of the adaptation is unknown.

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Tarrano the Conquerer

by Ray Cummings
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(Day Before) Veterans' Day Special: Comic Books Played a Major Part...

...in shaping the public's impression of our troops during World War II!

Tribute to the Navy Air Corps

featuring F6F Hellcat fighters.

Issue #11

Tribute to the Army Air Force

featuring B-24 Liberator heavy bombers.

Issue #10

Tribute to the Marine Air Corps

featuring F4U Corsair fighters.

Issue #9

Among the classiest were these three beautiful covers for Aviation  Press' Contact Comics.

Spectacular, intense, eye-catching color highlights these poster-style illustrations by artist LB Cole.

Each one paid honor to the aviation division of one of the three armed forces branches.

(The Air Force as a separate branch of the military didn't come about until after WWII, though the other services' aviation divisions still operate!)

Who sez comics ain't educational?

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World of L.B. Cole

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Monday Mecha Madness ALARMING TALES "I Want to Be a Man!"

Following up on a kool guest-post about artificial intelligence...

...is this little tale about an AI who aspires to be more than mere machine!

Written and penciled by Jack (King) Kirby and inked by Kirby with Simon & Kirby Studios partner Joe Simon, this story from Harvey's Alarming Tales #2 (1957), this short feature would be quite different if done today, since miniaturization would enable David to put FABIAC in a human-sized form with close-to-human features...as Kirby himself did with X-51 aka Aaron Stack aka Mr Machine aka Machine Man 20 years later!

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Simon & Kirby Library

Science Fiction
(which reprints this story, along with a lot of other kool sci-fi by the duo!)
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