Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AMAZING HIGH ADVENTURE "Death Stroke"

"High Adventure" Takes Many Forms...

...but the key is showing how humans overcome near-impossible challenges no matter the time or place!

Written by Louise Simonson and illustrated by Steve Leialoha, this kool, never-reprinted, story about the human spirit from Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #1 (1984) was part of a daring experiment to expand the graphic storytelling audience.
Sadly, it didn't sell, despite the numerous name-value creators who participated in the project, including (in this issue alone) Bill Sienkiewicz, Steve Englehart, John Severin, and Ann Nocenti!

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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

Anthology of New High Adventure Prose Stories by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Michael Crichton, Elmore Leonard, Michael Chabon & Others!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AMAZING HIGH ADVENTURE "Saurian Remains"

In the 1980s, Marvel Launched a New Comic...

...an anthology dedicated to 1920s-50s pulp-style "high adventure" tales...but in comics form!













Is this fascinating tale historically-accurate?

The locations, institutions, and some of the characters are real!

There was a controversy in this era among paleontologists about properly-authenticating fossils!
But i don't know if things got as...violent...as presented here!

Only writer Stephen Perry and artist Stephen Bissette (along with Rick Veitch) would knoe the answer, and they've kept mum since the story's sole publication in Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #4 (1986).
And, if they've kept quiet for almost four decades, I doubt they'll blab about it now...

Segueing into a sorta-related topic...publishing paleontology...

Since coming across (and reading) the entire five-issue run, I've found some really kool material by both well-known pros and some up-and-comers, along with a couple of established foreign creatives who don't get enough attention in the Americas!
And it's all OOP/never-reprinted material that deserves your attention!
So, for the rest of the year, Wednesday Worlds of Wonder will re-present these thrilling tales to an audience that likely didn't even know they existed!

We hope you'll enjoy them!

Space Force Saturdays ALIEN ENCOUNTERS "Earth Invasion"

There's a twist ending to this alien invasion tale you won't see coming...

...if you're under 35!

I'm serious!

Ah, video arcades...

Kids today have no idea how important those darkened chambers filled with video consoles and pinball machines were to us in the pre-XBox/PlayStation/Nintendo days...and how much money we spent, quarter-by-quarter, in them!

Yeah, there's still Chuck E Cheese, Dave & Busters, and their ilk, but those are kiddie venues!

Written by Larry Shell and illustrated by Steve (Swamp Thing) Bissette, this never-reprinted tale from FantaCo's Alien Encounters one-shot (1981) captures the long-lost era perfectly.

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Spooky Space Hero Saturdays ALIEN ENCOUNTERS "Monster of Planet Og!"

If you (like us) enjoy classic space opera, you'll love the tale behind this cover...

...which gives a new twist to the classic cliches!

Writer Christy Marx and artist Peter Ledger handle this never-reprinted story from Eclipse's Alien Encounters #2 (1985) like it's a 1940s comic written by an alien Edmond (Captain Future) Hamilton!

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Reading Room COSMIC BOOK "UFO and the Perts vs Experts"

Feeling just a wee bit...paranoid?

Feel like the world just doesn't make any sense at all?

Well, you ain't alone, kiddo!

While it's been reprinted several times, this version from Wandering Star Press' Cosmic Book #1 (1986) is the only time it's been presented in color!

The Cosmic Book was a personal obsession for Pat Boyette who packaged it (as well as doing the covers and a couple of tales inside), then shopped it around to numerous publishers until Ace Comics agreed to co-publish it.

Though there were rumors of a second issue, sadly, it never appeared.

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Best of Wednesday Worlds of Wonder TALOS OF THE WILDERNESS SEA

It was Going to be an Epic 12-Issue Mini-Series...

...but cutbacks at DC dictated that the already-penciled and scripted first two issues Jan Strnad & Gil Kane (the guys who had revamped The Atom into a high-adventure/barbarian hero in two Sword of the Atom mini-series) be combined into a double-length one-shot whose sales would determine if the project would continue.

Unfortunately, despite the genre pedigree both creatives had, the unknown character didn't attract a large enough audience (as The Atom had), and only the single, open-ended, never-reprinted issue exists!

Here are links to the almost 40-year old "lost" project!
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

Best of Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SPACE CLUSTERS by Arthur Byron Cover & Alex Nino

It's a Time-Lost, Totally-Original, Never-Reprinted Graphic Novel...

 by noted sci-fi novelist Arthur Byron Cover and incredibly-unique graphic illustrator Alex Nino, which you've likely never seen!
It's Weird!
It's Wild!
It's the Very Embodiment of a World of Wonder!
So What Are You Waiting for?
Here are the Links...
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MARS "Rebirth" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...actually, this scene occurrs near the end of the story, below.

Paralyzed below the waist as a child, Dr Morgana Trace developed a method to project one's consciousness into a robot body via computer link for limited periods.
With the use of an exo-skeleton to walk, she's able to participate in a mission to Mars to supervise a team trained to use her robots on the planet's surface for construction and other tasks.
But when political problems on Earth get out-of-hand while the craft is en-route, the ship's crew and passengers face a critical choice...

There was a text feature at the end of this issue with some fascinating background about the series and characters...

The Saga Continues, Next Month!
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Collection of the entire 12-issue series
(Plus 32 pages of extras!)
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