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Showing posts with label Basil Wolverton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Basil Wolverton. Show all posts
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Wednesday World of Wolverton JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN WORLDS "Planet of Terror!"
Our Final Basil Wolverton Tale is Illustrated by Him...
...but likely not scripted by him, from Atlas' Journey into Unknown Worlds #7 (1951)!
Even the Grand Comics Database, which normally attributes scripting of Basil's tales to him is uncertain what to make of this somewhat disorienting ending!
You'll note the inset art for the story on the cover, by an unknown artist, has none of the elements of the tale itself!
What's the truth?
We'll likely never know...
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
Space...Hero? Saturdays WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Jumpin' Jupiter and the Strange Case of Gzink Bfnxpp!"
Perhaps the very antithesis of a "Space Hero"...
...Basil Wolverton's Jumpin' Jupiter strip constantly shows us why he shouldn't be among such august company!
This never-reprinted feature from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #3 (1952) is a classic example of Wolverton's...unique...sense of humor and his absolutely-superb design and illustration abilities!
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Wednesday World of Wolverton ADVENTURES INTO TERROR "Where Monsters Dwell!"
Though this cover-featured tale's title became the name of a Marvel reprint comic...
...the story was never reprinted in its' namesake!
Nor does the cover art for Atlas' Adventures Into Terror #7 (1951) by George Tuska and Joe Maneely show anything even vaguely like what this Basil Wolverton penned and illustrated feature is about!
BTW, the splash panel was redrawn by another, unknown, artist!
When the tale was reprinted in Marvel's Curse of the Weird #3 (1994)...
...cover artist Ron Wagner deliberately mimicked the art style of each of the original tales' illustrators!
And, the story title on the cover used a modified version of the logo for the Bronze Age reprint book!
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Wednesday Worlds of Wolverton MYSTIC "Devil Birds!"
Behind a somewhat deceptive (though kool) cover by penciler Christopher Rule and inker Sol Brodsky...
...lurks a tale of terror by the one and only Basil Wolverton!
Besides that there's no "Gloria" in this story from Atlas' Mystic #4 (1951), the cover-featured "Devil Bird" features only a passing resemblance to the mutated creatures in this tale...who apparently are altered from any living entity, be it bird or mammal!
This loss of our humanity, whether physical or mental, is a concept Wolverton repeats several times, particularly in his all-time classic "Brain Bats of Venus"!
This loss of our humanity, whether physical or mental, is a concept Wolverton repeats several times, particularly in his all-time classic "Brain Bats of Venus"!
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Saturday, October 12, 2024
Space...Hero? Saturdays SUPERSONIC SAMMY "...Meets Stalin!"
Does a Martian who comes to Earth qualify as a "Space Hero"?
If it worked for Lars of Mars, it should be equally-valid for this guy, right?
For those not up on their history, the guy with the moustache is Joseph Stalin, the Communist Premier of the USSR (aka the Soviet Union/Russia) from 1924 to 1953.
Who sez comics ain't educational???
Created, written and illustrated by Basil Wolverton who created SpaceHawk, Space Patrol, and Jumpin' Jupiter, Supersonic Sammy is the least-known of his Space Heroes...because he never appeared in a comic book, until the 1980s!Who sez comics ain't educational???
(When he finally did appear in a reprint comic book, he was still in b/w!
So we have no idea what he would've looked like in color!)
He ended up as "filler" in Martin Goodman's "adult" humor magazines like Comedy, Laugh It Off, and Cartoon Parade, which were all b/w periodicals!
(Goodman was also the owner of Timely/Atlas/Marvel Comics until the late 1960s.)
As far as we can tell, there were only three adventures of the somewhat-merry Martian, of which this, which shows his being exiled from Mars, is the first!
You'll be seeing more of him in the future!
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Wednesday Worlds of Wolverton MARVEL TALES "Gateway to Horror"
For Halloween, we're devoting this feature to the demented delineations of Basil Wolverton...
...such as this sordid story from Marvel Tales #104 (1951)!
Marvel Comics (known as this point as Atlas Comics) embraced horror comics as much as any other publisher during the 1950s, occasionally pushing the borders of "good taste" with work by Basil Wolverton, Russ Heath, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Steve Ditko, and others.
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Saturday, April 20, 2024
Space...Hero? Saturdays WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Jumpin' Jupiter 'In Space No One Can Hear You Laugh' "
..his third appearance from Weird Tales of the Future #4 (1953) is gonna make you plotz!
Whether it's his ongoing SpaceHawk and Space Patrol strips or any of the numerous one-shot tales he did, Wolverton's Golden Age output was always instantly-recognizable!
The humor strip ran in #2 thru #5 of Key Publications' Weird Tales of the Future, along with several serious sci-fi/horror one-shot stories also written and illustrated by the amazing Basil!
And, yes, we'll get to the second tale, along with the fourth (and final) one...in the future! (Where else?)
The humor strip ran in #2 thru #5 of Key Publications' Weird Tales of the Future, along with several serious sci-fi/horror one-shot stories also written and illustrated by the amazing Basil!
And, yes, we'll get to the second tale, along with the fourth (and final) one...in the future! (Where else?)
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