Wednesday Worlds of Wonder THE ODYSSEY "Conclusion"

We Have Already Seen...

...trying to return to Ithica after a long conflict with Troy, Odysseus and his crew faced numerous dangers and terrors, overcoming them one-by-one for two long decades, but losing fellow travelers at each stage until only Odysseus himself reaches the shores of his homeland...

Based on the classic story by Homer, this adaptation, scripted by Bill Mantlo and penciled/inked by Jess Jodloman appeared in Marvel Classic Comics #18 (1977).

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Monday Mecha Madness UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION "War Toy"

It's the July 4th Week of the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of America!

Art by Mike Kaluta

So let's tell a tale of military AI!

Written by Tony Isabella, penciled by George Perez, and inked by Rico Rival, this tale of a sympathetic, benevolent, yet deadly robot from Marvel's anthology b/w magazine Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #2 (1975) was the only time a story that wasn't an adaptation of a classic sci-fi prose story was featured on the cover of the magazine!
Speaking of the cover, you'll note the published version (as compared to the original by Mike Kaluta seen above) had two planets added to it at editor Roy Thomas' request...even though the action takes place on Earth!

Trivia: When "War Toy" was reprinted in another Marvel anthology b/w magazine Marvel Preview #20 (1980)...

...artist Howard Chaykin included the character in a new cover painting which featured his character Dominick Fortune along with the retro-style spaceship from the EC tribute story "Good Lord!"

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BiCentennial GrossOuts & Army of Principles!

A Half-Century Ago, During the Bicentennial, This Fascinating Cover Lurked on Magazine Racks...

Art by William Stout

...in "Head Shops", used bookstores, and porn stores (because there were few actual comic book stores at the time) where "underground comix" like this could be purchased!

Art by William Stout

Sadly, though, none of the never-reprinted tories involved the American Revolution, so we're not going to present them now...but they will appear in the future.
In the meantime, enjoy the cool art from the cover and intro page!

We will be presnting chapters of this, far more "family friendly" comic from (believe it or not) Kitchen Sink Press which could be considered an "edu-comic" on Tuesday and Thursday this week!

Friday Fun is Going to The Big Apple (Comix, That Is) This Summer!

Art by Larry Hama, Paul Kirchner, Stu Schwartzberg, Wally Wood

This summer we're having Friday Fun featuring Big Apple Comix!

It was an underground comic anthology produced in 1975 featuring an incredible range of NYC-based comics talent (including many DC and Marvel contributors), all paying tribute to the city "so nice, they named it twice!"

The book was sold in head shops, porn shops, and other off-the-beaten track venues in NYC, SF, and other cities where there was a major counter-cultural presence. 

(The first comic book shops were just starting up, and most didn't want to carry "adult" material.)

As Denny O'Neil explains...

Art by Denny O'Neil

...Flo, BTW, was Stan Lee's right-hand woman at Marvel during the Silver Age of Comics, and she had both the publishing experience and the contacts to put together this one-of-a-kind project!

The best part is...none of the material in this 50+ year old book has ever been reprinted, so, for a lot of you, it'll be a look at work by some of your favorites that you've never seen before!

Be here starting next Friday for...FUN!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder THE ODYSSEY "Part 3"

When Last We Left Odysseus & His Men...

...they were about to be drowned in a whirlpool!

To Be Concluded, Next Wednesday!

Based on the classic story by Homer, this adaptation, scripted by Bill Mantlo and penciled/inked by Jess Jodloman appeared in Marvel Classic Comics #18 (1977).

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Best of Space Force Saturdays MARS COMPANY in "Winner"

In the early 1970s, DC experimented with pulp-style illustrated prose tales...

...in genre (sci-fi, horror, western, and romance) titles!

Written by Denny O'Neil, and rendered in retro 1950s Buck Rogers style...

...by Murphy Anderson, this never-reprinted text feature from DC's Strange Adventures #227 (1971) seems more a tribute to classic 1940s-50s "hard" sci-fi pulps instead of a then-current "new wave" science fiction tale!
Since it featured the last story about Earth's interplanetary fighting force, Mars Company, we felt it would be the perfect "capper" to the SpaceBusters saga, which Murphy re-conceived just before its' cancellation!

Murphy seemed to be DC's "go-to" guy when they needed retro-style material in the 1960s-70s!

He was the artist for Silver Age revival try-outs of Golden Age characters in Brave & Bold (Starman & Black Canary) and Showcase (Dr Fate & HourMan and The Spectre), as well as the first few issues of The Spectre's own Silver Age title!

Anderson was also the initial artist on DC's Bronze Age version of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars, as well as filing-in where needed on other Burroughs strips including Korak and Beyond the Farthest Star!

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Mysteries in Space

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