Before Trump's Space Force... PERIMETER PATROL SERVICE "Space Pirates on Xarpot"

Space military/police organizations were ubiquitous in 1950s sci-fi...

...and this story was the second one featuring the short-lived Perimeter Patrol Service.

BTW, note the painted cover is by the story's illustrator, Bernie Krigstein, who rarely did painted covers!

Considering the three tales were done by the artists who also did SpaceBusters, we wonder if this was intended as a backup series for that title.

This never-reprinted story from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #6 (1952) is a superb example of pulp/comic space opera of the era with all the classic elements:
Scantly-clad women.
Square-jawed heroes.
Rockets & ray-guns.
And, instead of bug-eyed monsters...space pirates!
Next Tuesday, the premiere appearance (and last of our stories) about the Perimeter Patrol Service!

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Before Trump's Space Force... PERIMETER PATROL SERVICE "City of Light"

 Much of early pulp/comic sci-fi utilized military or police organizations in their stories...

...including this tale from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #6 (1952) which featured members of the "Perimeter Patrol Service" in their second (and last) appearance!

Perhaps Don da Con was remembering a tale like this one when he "brainstormed" Space Force!

Though the writer is unknown, the art is attributed to Henry Sharp, who moved to comics from pulp magazines in 1951 and from comics to television in 1955.

You'll see the Perimeter Patrol Service's second appearance next Tuesday!

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Reading Room AMAZING ADVENTURES "Red Hills of Uganda"

Remember the scary-cool giant-ant movie THEM!?

This never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #5 (1951) predates it by three years!

While the writer is unknown, the art is by Ray Bailey, a long-time newspaper strip and comic book artist with a long string of sci-fi credits including Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, Bruce Gentry, and UNDERSEA Agent.
BTW, IMHO, if there was ever a good movie that deserved remaking with state-of-the-art SFX, it's THEM!.

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Reading Room AMAZING ADVENTURES "Exhibit One!"

One of the classic cliches of sci-fi is "aliens treating humans beings like zoo animals".

While this Allen Anderson cover indicates the story starts out that way...it ends...well, wait and see...

This never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis Amazing Adventures #2 (1951), takes the cliche and adds a new twist.

While we don't know who the writer is, we do know the artist is Alex Schomburg, who had a long career as a pulp and comic book artist, not only penciling and inking, but painting covers as well!

BTW, the writer, more than likely, is the book's editor...Jerry (Superman) Siegel.

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The Art of Alex Schomburg

Reading Room AMAZING ADVENTURES "Station in Space"

Today, we have the International Space Station.

But what we really wanted in the 1950s was a kool...

...as shown in this never-reprinted feature from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #6 (1952)!

The designs for the station and spacecraft match Chesley Bonestell's amazing graphics which were used by everyone from rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (promoting the space program which eventually became NASA) to movie and tv studios like Paramount and Disney!

Reading Room AMAZING ADVENTURES "What the Atom Can Do for Peace!"

Back in the 1950s, we believed this was...

According to this never-reprinted feature from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #5 (1951), even in the future, all women can do is gossip!
BTW, the identities of neither the writer nor artist are known.

Reading Room AMAZING ADVENTURES "Amazing Prophecies"

Let's peer once more into a crystal ball from the 1950s...

...and see they did predict 3-D TV and bigger women (as compared to the females of the 1950s).

But the other prophecies from this never-reprinted feature illustrated by Ross Andru in Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #4 (1951) have yet to occur...

Reading Room AMAZING ADVENTURES "Amazing Prophecies"

Let's take a look at what we (in the 1950s) thought the 21st Century would bring us...

...while none of the predictions illustrated by Ogden Whitney in this never-reprinted feature from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #1 (1950) have yet occured, the US has reached the moon, and the "mechanical means" of knowledge-seeking does resemble the Internet.

Plus, the threat of nuclear war continues to this day, and this past July has gone on record as the hottest July in recorded global history...hmmm...

Reading Room: AMAZING ADVENTURES "Escape on a Planetoid"

What if the Communusts had won the Cold War?

That's the premise of this never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #3 (1951)

Oddly, they never asked Rulak what happened to the second ship...
The writer and artist are officially unknown, but I see a great deal of Murphy Anderson's style in a number of panels.

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