Friday Fun HARRY HOTDOG "Peevy Over TV"

He's not a dachshund, but a generic canine with no self-control...

...who just can't understand what's going on with the then-"newfangled" tech known as "television"!

For those under 70, when TV was introduced to the American public in the early 1950s, it featured news, old movies, and low-budget original programming which this never-reprinted story from Magazine Enterprises' Hot Dog #1 (1954) aka A-1 #107 satirizes!

If you're wondering why the comic has two titles and numberings, let me explain...

Like Dell's Four Color Comics, A-1 was an anthology title which served as a tryout platform for various concepts, so it had both the strip's numbering and the title's numbering.

That way, if the strip didn't sell well, the publisher wouldn't have to pay for another second-class mailing permit (which was required for each title published) for a new series!

Numerous ME series were published this way, including Cave Girl, I Am a Cop, Trail Colt, Manhunt, Ghost Rider, and Thun'da!

This issue was the first of four Harry Hotdog-starring issues!

Writer/Artist George Crenshaw began as an animator for Walt Disney, then MGM before going to comic strips and books.

Besides being a longtime "ghost" on Dennis the Menace, he created his own long-running strip, Belevdere, about (surprise) a dog...but not an anthropomorphic one like Harry!

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Reading Room STUART TAYLOR IN WEIRD STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL "Waterloo"

We presented another tale of time traveler Stuart Taylor last year...

...today, we see how Stuart and his mentor, Dr Hayward, changed the course of history!

Bet you didn't know time-travelers with ray guns helped defeat Napoleon!

That's just one of the time-lost secrets found in this Sy Reit-illustrated tale from Fiction House's Jumbo Comics #25 (1941), published almost a year before we entered an already-ongoing World War II!
At that time, almost everyone felt we'd be entering the war sooner or later.
The only questions were "when?" and "why?", which were answered on December 7th, 1941, when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor.

The rest...as we say...is history!

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Best of Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CHRONICLES OF GENGHIS GRIMTOAD

I'm Sure a Lot of You are Going...WTF???

It's the story of the heroic and handsome Prince Erik, the heroic and beautiful Princess Jade (his MILFy mother...don't get any ideas!)..and the decidedly un-heroic and...well...toadlike, inept sorcerer's apprentice Genghis Grimtoad!

Written by Alan Grant & John Wagner and illustrated by Ian Gibson, it was originally-published in Marvel UK's bi-weekly anthology magazine Strip (their counterpart to American Marvel's Epic Magazine), it appeared in the entire 20-issue run, but remained unfinished since the magazine was cancelled before the strip was scheduled to finish several issues later!
However, due to public demand, Marvel UK gathered up the published storyline, added in the unpublished material and issued it as a graphic novel!

We presented the entire rarely-seen-in-America tale here...

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Conclusion

Take Robert E Howard, JRR Tolkien, and Terry Pratchett and toss in talking toads, this is what you get!

Reading Room COMIC READER "Invasion!"

Here's a single image that conveys an entire story...

...a, sadly, never-completed tale meant for one of the Charlton sci-fi anthologies of the late Silver Age.

Probably abandoned when Jim Aparo joined editor Dick Giordano when he moved over to DC, it's typical of the detailed work Aparo produced for them, despite the awful printing that would obscure a lot of the time-intensive rendering.

The Comic Reader was a late 1960s-early 1970s newszine/fanzine, available at comic conventions and by subscription.

The covers were almost always exclusives, either pieces done to promote current projects (a Manhunter cover by Walt Simonson during the character's revival in Detective Comics) or unpublished work like this one that editor-publisher Paul Levitz felt deserved exposure to an appreciative audience!

Monday Mecha Madness SHOGUN WARRIORS "Downfall!" Part 1

When Last We Left Our Mecha and Their Pilots...

...while the synopsis covers a few plot points, it doesn't mention what Ilongo and Richard don't know...the third Shogun Warrior, Combatra V, is now in the hands of the evil Maur-Kon and its' pilot, Genji Odashu, is his unconscious prisoner!

To Be Concluded Next Monday!

Written by Doug Moench, pencild by Herb Trimpe and inked by Mike Esposito, Marvel's never-reprinted Shogun Warriors #6 (1979) hurtles towards the conclusion of the first story arc with breakneck speed!