Space Hero Saturdays FLICK FALCON IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION "Power of the Slave Giants' Goddess"

When Last We Left Our Time and Space-Hopping Hero and Heroine...

...so, let's go to dinner!

But, is it truly over?

Don't miss the next exciting adventure of Flick Falcon and Adele!

Using the pen-name "Orville Wells" (a variation of "Orson Welles", who a couple of years earlier, frightened America with a dramatic radio adaptation of HG Wells' War of the Worlds performed like a news broadcast), writer-penciler Don Rico's wild imagination goes full-speed, combining science fiction and fantasy elements with equal aplomb in this never-reprinted tale from Fox's Fantastic Comics #3 (1940).

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Space Hero Saturdays NORGE BENSON...plus DINOSAURS in ""Plutonian Prehistoric Peril"

When Last We Left Our Hapless Hero...

...he was returning to Pluto after spending a couple of issues on a jungle planet where he met the scantly-clad Princess Jolie...

This tale starring Space Hero Norge Benson from Fiction House's Planet Comics #22 (1943), while out of reprint order, proves artist Al Walker and whoever the writer is haven't lost their sense of the ludicrous!

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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!
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Conclusion

Monday Mecha Madness SPIRIT OF FRANKENSTEIN "Dagget's Phantoms"

We Have Already Seen...

...disgruntled elderly Professor Lambert Pardway, working as an assistant to Doctor Daniel Warren, tricks Warren into implanting the dying Pardway's brain into an experimental android.

Before Pardway's brain can use the android body to destroy Warren and his girlfriend, it is "short circuited" by Warren...

Writer/editor Richard Hughes and artist Charles Sultan merrily combine science and the supernatural in this wild tale from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #6 (1949), setting a tone that would countinue for the remainder of the series...

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Friday Fun KANDI THE CAVE KID "Dinosaur"

Creationists believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old...

...so to them, this could be considered a chapter in a history textbook!

This never-reprinted story from Dell's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #15 (1943) was the final appearance of the Walt Kelly-created character.

Besides both print adaptations of theatrical cartoons and new tales of existing Warner Brothers characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Dell introduced a number of new characters to fill out the pages of the comic anthology, including Kandi and Pat, Patsy & Pete.

Kandi was one of the shorter-lived ones, with only a half-dozen short tales from #3 to #15.

Friday Fun / Robot Reading Room ROMEO THE ROBOT "Origin"

A Sentient Robot with an ongoing series...from DC !

But, I'd bet you never heard of him!

You certainly didn't see him since none of his stories have ever been reprinted!

The above debut tale from DC's Action Comics #68 (1944), scripted and illustrated by Jack Farr, is the first of four appearances by the mirthful mechanical man!
He bounced from book to book, used whenever editors had a four-page slot to fill, with his last appearance almost a decade later, in 1952!
Farr, a cartoonist who began his career back in the 1920s doing newspaper and slick magazine cartoons, made a transition to comic books quite easily, working for almost everyone (even EC Comics) at one point or another, with the bulk of his work done for DC Comics from 1943 to 1953.
He went back to newspaper/magazine cartooning during the near-death of the comic book business during the "Seduction of the Innocent" scandals of the mid-1950s, 

Space...Hero??? Saturdays NORGE BENSON "Gang of Hoodlum Penguins"

 Since We're Suffering through a Heat Wave...

..let's return to frigid Pluto for another interplanetary adventure with Norge Benson, as we discover that some penguins on Pluto speak perfect English, and others talk with Brooklyn accents...just like on Earth!

Think I'm joking?

Read on...

So, what'd youse tink?

Or for dose...I mean "those", who don't speak Brooklynese..."What did you think?"

I'll warn you now, future installments only get loonier!

Illustrated by Al Walker, who spent his entire comics career at Fiction House, this second appearance in Planet Comics #13 (1941) presents a somewhat less snarky (though no less humorous) version of the "Earthman on Pluto" concept shown in the earlier Cosmo Corrigan strip, mixing alien versions of both Arctic and Antarctic animals with total disregard to anything even remotely resembling exobiology!

But it is fun, and that's all that matters!

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Monday Mecha Madness SPIRIT OF FRANKENSTEIN "A Monster is Born"

There have been several ongoing series that combined horror and sci-fi...

...such as the strip which premiered with this tale from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown! #5 (1949)!

The "monster" here is not Frankenstein's Monster, nor are any of the scientists members of the Frankenstein clan.
Though it's defined as a "robot" it appears to be more of an android!
But, if the strip's creators say it's a robot, that's good enough for me!

Writer Richard Hughes and artist Charles Sultan invoked the "spirit" of the Frankenstein Monster Monster concept with a creation run amok and ran amuck with it for several issues from #5 to #16.

Rest assured it'll be back...

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