...so let's get the pilots aboard their mecha...and let them cut loose!
Well, three-on-one was a tad unfair!
To Be Continued Next Month!
But, Next Week
Another Mechanical Marvel!
This never-reprinted conclusion to the story from Marvel's Shogun Warriors #2 was written by Doug Moench, penciled by Herb Trimpe, and inked by Dan Green.
...normally, I'd explain what's going on, but the characters themselves, a rather chatty bunch, are happy to do so...
You and me both, Richard!
We'll return to the robot controller training session
Next Monday!
But I have a question...are all the robots designed for multiple controllers? And, if so, why don't we have more potential pilots being trained? Will Raydeen function as effectively with only one pilot?
..an ancient society of benevolent alien scientists called the Followers of the Light have recruited expert human pilots of land, sea, and air vehicles to operate a giant robot named Raydeen against a huge extraterrestrial menace known as Roc-Korr.
The recruits are about to learn why they were chosen and what threat the planet Earth faces...
We'll return to the tale of the three titanic robots next month!
Next week, however, a quite different mechanical man takes the stage!
...as we feature robots big and small, some sentient, some controled by humans and/or aliens!
You'll have to wait until next Monday to learn the backstory created by writer Doug Moench, penciler Herb Trimpe and inker Dan Green in this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Shogun Warriors #1 (1979)! (They ignored all the backstory and plotlines used in the Japanese animated series and packaging info for the toys.)
But we're not totally-heartless!
Here's a kool video about how the Shogun Warriors were assembled by Mattel out of three totally-unrelated robots, all with their own animated series from different Japanese TV studios, but all the toys were from the same Japanese toy company, Popy!
You'll note the TV commercials have the robots interacting with Godzilla, also from Mattel, but the characters never met up in the comics, although both the Godzilla and Shogun Warriors series were drawn by Herb Trimpe! In fact, Mattel utilized Herb's artwork in some of their advertising!
Writer Marv Wolfman and artist Dan Green continue their adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' only "hard sci-fi" story (as compared to the "scientific romances" of John Carter and Carson of Venus) with this fast-paced installment from DC's Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle #215 (1972).
...ok, it's been five years between chapters, but we've been busy!
Just go with it...
Written by Burroughs in 1940 and published in 1942, the story is basically an updating of John Carter of Mars or Carson of Venus but set "present-day" and with no hope of return to Earth since his body was destroyed in the rocket explosion.
In
addition, the world our hero ends up on is not the high-adventure
fantasyland of Barsoom, but the planet Poloda, where a technologically-advanced version of the
Cold War between America and the USSR (with elements of Nazism) in the
1950s is being waged!
(There's an excellent piece about history behind the storyHERE.)
Adapted by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by the highly-underrated Dan Green, this never-reprinted chapter from Tarzan #214 (1972) takes considerable liberties with the original storyline.
Our previous Wednesday Worlds of Wonder series, Carson of Venus, received great viewing numbers, so we thought we'd go with another Edgar Rice Burroughs series that hasn't been reprinted.
The first chapter appeared HERE, so you haven't missed anything, True Believer!