Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ORBIT "Marooned Off Vesta"

 We All Know Isaac Asimov!

Amazing Stories March 1939 Art by Robert Fuqa
The Three Laws of Robotics!
Several seminal series including FoundationGalactic Empire, and Robots...all of which have been unified into one massive universe!
Literally hundreds of novels, novellas and short stories!
Amazing Stories, March 1959 Art by Virgil Finlay
But did you ever read his very first story?
(The pages above are from the tale's first publication in 1939 and it's (1959) 20th Anniversary appearance in the same magazine!
Now here's the never-reprinted 50th Anniversary adaptation of that tale, scripted by JD Scott and illustrated by Michael Davis.
It appeared in #2 of Eclipse's sci-fi anthology Orbit, which featured adaptations of stories from Davis Publications' Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine! and several of Asimov's own stories!
When the prose version of this story was reprinted in 1959 for its' 20th Anniversary appearance in Amazing Stories, Asimov penned a sequel, "Anniversary", featuring the characters gathering to celebrate their survival and then having a new, related, adventure!
The two tales have usually been reprinted together since.
But there's been no graphic adaptation of "Anniversary"...yet!
Next Week: A New World of Wonder!

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Space Hero Saturdays MYSTERY IN SPACE "Gremlins"

The Cover is a...Tad...Misleading...

...about who the actual Space Hero is in this story from DC's Mystery in Space #113 (1980)!



Editor/writer Len Wein got the very busy Joe Kubert to contribute both the cover and the three-page story to the struggling 1980 revival of the sci-fi anthology Mystery in Space, which had been cancelled in 1966!
(Kubert did all the covers from the first new issue, #111, to #115.
The final two covers were by Jim Starlin and Dave Cockrum.)
But the main reason I'm running this piece is the superb coloring by the late Tatjana Wood, the first comic book colorist to receive national attention when she passed!
Her mastery of the pre-computer 64-color palette is beautifully-shown here both "inside the lines", where everything is clearly-separated within the panels, to her use of negative (white) space to emphasize Kubert's weightless humans and gremlins!

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AMAZING HIGH ADVENTURE "Gold!"

A Clash of Cultures is Highlighted, Both on This Cover...
...by Bill Sienkiewicz, and the story by writer Ann Nocenti and artist Tony Salmons from Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #1 (1984), neither of which has ever been reprinted!

Poetic Justice?
You tell us, dear reader!

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AMAZING HIGH ADVENTURE "Door"

It's an Odd Premise to Base a Story On...

...but when it comes down to it, High Adventure can result from almost any situation!
Now that's an Amazing High Adventure!
No monsters!
No aliens!
Nothing supernatural!
Just a guy against the world...ready to keep on going!
Two extremely-underrated talents, Bill Mantlo and John Severin, produced this never-reprinted tale about the indomitable Human Spirit for Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #4 (1986), which, sadly, never had a sequel!
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