Reading Room BORIS KARLOFF TALES OF MYSTERY "Grave DIggings"

Who Could be a Better Narrator About a Dinosaur Run Amuck in the Present than...Boris Karloff?

Art by George Wilson
Boris (who had died in 1969) still does the hosting duties in this never-reprinted tale from Gold Key's Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery #71 (1976)!
What a kool ghoul!

Scripted by Arnold Drake and illustrated by Frank Bolle, it's a variation on the "dinosaur resurrected/defrosted in the present by people unaware it was there" trope.
Bonus: the uncropped original painting used for the cover.

Note how tightly the printed version crops in to the dino and tower, losing the wide perspective that emphaisized how big the glowing reptile is in comparison to his environment!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder TYRANOSTAR in 3-D

What's Kooler than Dinosaurs?

Dinosaurs in 3-D!!!

Get Your Red (on the left) Blue (on the right) 3-D Glasses on and dive in...

Appearing in Ray Zone's 3-D Zone #14 (1988), Tyranostar by writer/artists Pete Von Sholly & Michael Van Cleve was an attempt at a juvenile adventure series combining humans and sentient dinosaurs set in "Prehistorica".

As for who Tyranostar is...

Apparently, 3-D book producer Ray Zone thought the tale above would be a good entry in his ongoing anthology book 3-D Zone which adapted 2-D comics into 3-D!

You can see another sample of his conversion work HERE!

Von Sholly tried to market the concept again around 2000, this time with a slightly less-juvenile approach in a motion comics sampler...

Tyranostar Will Return...

Reading Room MYSTIC "Dinosaur"

We Recently Ran a Dinosaur-Themed Story Illustrated by the Amazing Bernie Krigstein HERE...

...and this one, done around the same time, is so totally-different, we felt we had to present it!

(BTW, when we ran the previous Krigstein dino-story "Lair of the Thunder Lizard" back in May, we were planning a totally-different Halloween blogathon!)

Note: While Krigstein superbly-illustrated this kool tale from Atlas Comics' Mystic #56 (1957) about a dinosaur you never see, the writer is currently-unknown, but might be the comic's editor Stan Lee!

Sadly, we'll never know!

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Comic Book Stories by B Krigstein

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Monday Mecha Madness PHANTOM "Survival!"

The First Flight to Uranus has Four CrewMembers...

...including one (as the British would say) with a "difference"!

Admittedly, this never-reprinted tale from Charlton's The Phantom #38 (1970) isn't too difficult to figure out, but the fact nobody's seen it in over 55 years compelled us to present this Don Perlin-illustrated story, scripted by a currently-unknown author!

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Taylor History of Comics
Vol 3
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Holiday Reading Room EVERY DAY IS A HOLLY DAY "Columbus Day"

 It used to always be October 12th (tomorrow, AAMOF)...

...but now it's the second Monday in October, no matter the date, to allow people a three-day holiday!

Interestingly, this page from Brevity Inc's one-shot giveaway Every Day is a Holly Day (1956) acknowledges Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, a rarity in that era!
(Vikings, in fact, discovered the already-inhabited continent in 860 AD!)

Why is this comic entitled "Every Day is a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day is a Holiday"?

Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!

Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day"), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!

We'll be presenting the other chapters on the dates they fall upon.

Watch for them!

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Cartoon History of the Modern World

Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution
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