Space Hero Saturdays SHADOW COMICS "Riddle of the Flying Saucers"

Who Knows What Evil Lurks...on Earth and the Moon?

Yeah, that guy!

As they used to say...
Not a dream!

Not a hoax!

Not an "imaginary story"!

This never-reprinted tale from S&S's Shadow Comics V7N10 (1948) is illustrated by Bob Powell, who may have written it..although it could be The Shadow's primary writer, Walter Gibson, who co-created and scripted the Spurs Jackson and His Space Vigilantes strip in Charlton's Space Cowboy Comics a few years later!
It's definitely not an adaptation of a Shadow radio show episode, which most of the comic stories during this period, in fact, were...as shown HERE and HERE!
BTW, this wasn't the last time He Who Knows What Evil would be involved in a Moon-related story...

...which you can learn more about

TOMORROW

...when we detail our plans for this year's

RetroBlogs Summer Blogathons!

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Monday Mars Madness MARS ATTACKS "Martians Approaching"

We Have Already Seen...

Art by Wally Wood, Bob Powell and Norm Saunders

...do we really have to explain this?

I mean, "Martians Approaching" truly says it all!

Co-writer Bruce Spaulding Fuller takes over the art from Greg Capullo, going even gorier than the original card set!

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Space Hero Saturdays JET POWERS "InterPlanetary War"

Like any respectable Space Hero, Magazine Enterprises' Jet Powers visited Mars...

...and ran right into the middle of an interplanetary war...but one that, for a change, didn't involve Earth!

But, the Queen doesn't realize a danger threatening not only Mars, but Earth as well, lurks within her own court...in a sequel tale to this one by writer Gardner Fox and artist Bob Powell from ME's Jet Powers #3 (1951)!
Jet Powers was a typical all-American scientist/pilot/adventurer who fought foes of democracy on Earth, in space, and even other dimensions!

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Monday Madness HOME RUN "Daffy Dodgers"

This year is the 65th Anniversary of baseball's Dodgers deserting my beloved Brooklyn (sob) for Los Angeles...

...so let's look at a few of the most infamous moments of the "Da Bums" during their long stay in the illustrious County of Kings!

Rendered by Bob Powell in his rarely-seen humorous style, this piece appeared in Magazine Enterprises' Home Run #3 (1953)...which was the only issue of that title!

Note: Almost everybody attempted one or more sports-themed titles to show comics were still wholesome, all-ages appropriate entertainment during this period as "comics cause juvenile delinquency" mania swept America!

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Tales from the Dodgers Dugout

(the Brooklyn Dodgers!)

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The Ten-Cent Plague

The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

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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Chilling Archives of Horror Comics Vol 2