Showing posts with label Amazons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazons. Show all posts

Saturday, October 9, 2021

Space Force Saturdays SPACE BUSTERS "Death Rite of the Dwarfs"

In space no one can hear you die...
...as we present the third chapter of the Mars Campaign from Ziff-Davis' SpaceBusters #1 (1952)
This Bernie Krigstein-rendered story concludes the Space Busters tales from issue #1!
But we're not proceeding to #2 when we return to SpaceBusters after another two=part InterPlanetary Police tale!
There was a major artistic shift between issues, resulting in much of the already-completed work for #2 by Krigstein being "written-off" and later published by other companies who acquired the comic division's assets after Ziff-Davis dropped the line (except for G.I. Joe) in 1953!
The second issue contains an artistically-rebooted series with a new "look" created by illustrator, Murphy Anderson, fresh off a run on the Buck Rogers newspaper strip!
That's what you'll see in three weeks as we present those missing tales in the correct order (Space Busters #1.5, as it were!)
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Saturday, September 18, 2021

Space Force Saturdays SPACE BUSTERS "Charge of the Battle Women"

Continuing the Mars Campaign of the Earth-Belzar War from Ziff-Davis' SpaceBusters #1.

Part One can be found HERE.
It's a fascinating look at male-female relationships as shown in comic books of the 1950s, proving those Lois Lane comics and their attitudes towards women weren't an aberration.
Note: Jerry Siegel, the writer who co-created Superman/Clark Kent and Lois Lane, was the editor (and possibly writer) of this series!
BTW, you'll notice the Amazons on the cover by legendary pulp/comics/paperback/trading card artist Norman Saunders (shown above) are wearing considerably less...armor!
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