Showing posts with label Alarming Adventures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alarming Adventures. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Reading Room ALARMING ADVENTURES "Earth Went Haywire"

Here's a never-reprinted tale from Harvey's Alarming Adventures #3 (1963)...
...about a "forgotten man" who saves the world from Armageddon!
With today's "decompressed storytelling, this five-page short would be, at least, a mini-series with numerous full-page and double-page spreads...collected, of course into a tpb reprint!
The creators are unknown, but knowledgable sources have suggested Carl Burgos, Bernard Baily, and Stan Goldberg as the artists...
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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Reading Room ALARMING ADVENTURES "New Star"

Things aren't always what they seem...
...as this story, with a Twilight Zone-style ending proves!
Ah, the old "it's Earth and we didn't realize it!" trope!
Did artist Bob Powell also write this never-reprinted tale from Harvey's Alarming Adventures #2 (1962)?
His studio was supplying a lot of comics material to several different publishers, and even from his earliest work for Fox back in the late 1930s, Powell would sometimes write the stories as well!
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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Reading Room ALARMING ADVENTURES "Silent Street"

A quiet suburban street late at night...
..hardly the typical locale for a sci-fi story, eh?
We'll see...
Did Harii take possession of Bowen's body after teleporting there or do the two simply look alike?
(Harii apparently didn't arrive in a ship of his own, so teleportation is the most obvious answer.)
The "poetic" explanation would be that Harii was waiting for Vlado inside Bowen and "emerged" when Vlado arrived...except we had seen Harii back on their world, so he couldn't have been waiting on Earth!
George Tuska illustrated this never-reprinted tale from Harvey's Alarming Tales #1 (1962), but the writer is unknown...
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Thursday, April 8, 2021

Reading Room ALARMING ADVENTURES "Secret of the Mountain"

Many people believe we've explored every inch of our home world, the Earth.
They'd be totally-wrong, as shown in this tale from Harvey's Alarming Adventures #3 (1963).
Penciled by Al Williamson and inked by Angelo Torres, this tale was probably intended for the never-published Race for the Moon #5.
The scripter is unknown, but it might have been Joe Simon, who was "packaging" the book after his partnership with Jack Kirby ended!