Reading Room: SPACE ADVENTURES "U.F.O.: Plague"

We Have Already Seen...

Cover art by Rocke Mastroserio

Newspaper reporter Paul Mann researches a story about how, 100 years earlier, a flying saucer landed and aliens cured a local boy, ending a feud between two families that had gone on for generations.

With saucer sightings recently on the increase, Mann wonders if he'll encounter one...

 

But how can Mann be prepared for the senses-shattering Secret of the Saucer?

Find Out Tomorrow!

The second part of this book-length tale from Charlton's Space Adventures #60 (1967) was illustrated by artist Pat Boyette, an artist who usually did his own penciling, inking, and lettering, giving his work an immediately-distinctive visual style.
There's a kool tribute page to Boyette HERE.

BTW, all three parts of this story (and the sequel) were written by Denny O'Neil using his "Sergius O'Shaughnessy" pseudonom.

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Reading Room: SPACE ADVENTURES "U.F.O.: Healers from Nowhere"

What's more "halloweenie" than an alien invasion?

...so here's one that also involved a Hatfield & McCoy-type feud among hillbillies.

Sooner than you think, Mr Mann...like Tomorrow!

This rather low-key story from Charlton's Space Adventures #60 (1967) was the first part of a three-part book-length tale that gets wilder as it goes on.

Not that unusual for comics of the Silver Age...except for three things:

1) It was a full-length story in an anthology title.

Anthology books usually had two or more stand-alone stories.

2) The story produced a sequel, which was published a year later!

3) Most importantly, each chapter of this tale was illustrated by a different artist!

This premiere chapter was rendered by "Melonius Thonk" (a play on popular jazz musician Thelonius Monk) a pen-name used to cover an apparent artist jam since every page has different stylistic elements.

The remaining two chapters were rendered by artists who penciled and inked their own work, as you'll see tomorrow and Saturday.

BTW, the entire story from the final issue of this book's first run was written by Denny O'Neil using his "Sergius O'Shaughnessy" pseudonom.

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