Monday Mecha Madness TERMINATOR "We Are Who We Are!" Part 1

When Last We Saw Our Future Filled with Homicidal Robots...

...things are definitely not going well for the humans of 2031..only five years from now!

To Be Continued Next Monday!

Scripted by Publisher/Editor Tony Caputo, penciled by Tom Tenney, and inked by Jim Brozman, this never-reprinted story from NOW's Terminator #2 (1988) adds some interesting backstory to the scarce info then available about the future cyber-controlled Earth!
(Terminator 2: Judgement Day didn't come out until 1991, and, until then, there were novels, comics, and games to flesh out (as it were) the history of Earth...and most of them have since been shown to be apocryphal/not canon!)

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Space Hero Saturdays: The Comic Book Trade Paperback You SHOULD have Bought in 1980...but DIDN'T!

Remember this spectacular wraparound cover?

This superb, never-reprinted Murphy Anderson illustration encapsulates what made DC's science fiction line in the 1950s and 60s so entertaining!

• Adam Strange and Alanna! (DC's premiere Silver Age space-going heroes!)
• Winged Apes! (DC was famous for using apes almost anywhere you could think of!)
• A ridiculous, physically-impossible image (giant arrow thrown by aforementioned winged [but normal-sized] ape through the Earth) that you just must know the story behind! (Though, sadly, in this case, there's no actual story behind this particular piece!)

Fireside's Mysteries in Space (1980), a $7.95 trade paperback reprint compiled from Strange Adventures, Mystery in Space, Tales of the Unexpected, and From Beyond the Unknown came and went quickly through bookstores.

Sadly, it didn't sell well, and many copies were returned to the publisher and pulped!

It's not available in e-book form, and a different 1999 trade paperback, Mystery in Space, doesn't reprint any of the stories featured in this compilation!

When you can find a copy now, it runs from $30 to $100, depending on condition!

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Monday Mecha Madness TERMINATOR "Down to Earth" Conclusion

When Last We Left Pop Culture's Most Famous Killer AI, SkyNet...

...in the ruins of Miami, "Sarah's Slammers" (a human resistance group named after Sarah O'Connor) inadvertently shoot down a spacecraft from a human colony on the moon, believing it to be a Terminator aircraft.

The combined human groups repel a Terminator assault, then retreat to the Slammers' hidden base.

Meanwhile, one of the Slammers, Martin Redfoot, has discovered a nearby town that looks like an intact pre-war town, but...

Is Moonman Konrad a Terminator?

Or is there another, far more innocent, explanation?

You'll have to wait until August to find out, because...

Next Week: the Return of

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Monday Mecha Madness TERMINATOR "Down to Earth" Part 1

Between the first Terminator  movie and Terminator 2: Judgment Day...

...a brand-new comics publisher secured the rights to do a sequel comic.

Note: the "three years since" reference is to 2028, the year The Terminator was sent into the past, not 1984, the year it arrived in the past.

To Be Concluded Next Monday!

Scripted by publisher Tony Caputo, penciled by Tony Akins, and inked by Jim Brozman, this never-reprinted adventure from NOW's Terminator #1 (1988) introduced the inhabitants of a moonbase untouched by SkyNet, who will prove vital to future storylines in comics, novels, roleplaying games, and the movies themselves.

BTW, it's not the premiere comics tale of the Terminator Multiverse!

That honor goes to a 5-page introduction in the back of NOW's Rust #12 (1988) which leads into this story.

Unfortunately, that book is extremely-expensive and I've never seen anybody else post scans of the Terminator back-up tale online!

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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 Foundation, Galactic 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!