Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ORBIT "Marooned Off Vesta"

 We All Know Isaac Asimov!

Amazing Stories March 1939 Art by Robert Fuqa

The Three Laws of Robotics!

Several seminal series including Foundation, Galactic Empire, and Robots...all of which have been unified into one massive universe!

Literally hundreds of novels, novellas and short stories!

Amazing Stories, March 1959 Art by Virgil Finlay

But did you ever read his very first story?

(The pages above are from the tale's first publication in 1939 and it's (1959) 20th Anniversary appearance in the same magazine!

Now here's the never-reprinted 50th Anniversary adaptation of that tale, scripted by JD Scott and illustrated by Michael Davis.

It appeared in #2 of Eclipse's sci-fi anthology Orbit, which featured adaptations of stories from Davis Publications' Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine! and several of Asimov's own stories!

When the prose version of this story was reprinted in 1959 for its' 20th Anniversary appearance in Amazing Stories, Asimov penned a sequel, "Anniversary", featuring the characters gathering to celebrate their survival and then having a new, related, adventure!

The two tales have usually been reprinted together since.

But there's been no graphic adaptation of "Anniversary"...yet!

Next Week: A New World of Wonder!

Spooky Space Hero Saturdays ALIEN ENCOUNTERS "Monster of Planet Og!"

If you (like us) enjoy classic space opera, you'll love the tale behind this cover...

...which gives a new twist to the classic cliches!

Writer Christy Marx and artist Peter Ledger handle this never-reprinted story from Eclipse's Alien Encounters #2 (1985) like it's a 1940s comic written by an alien Edmond (Captain Future) Hamilton!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST PLANET "Thin Air" Part 1.5

We Have Already Seen...

Adventurer/fortune hunter Tyler Flynn, escaping from enraged South American natives in 1938, passes thru a portal from our world to...another!

It's a dimension where everybody speaks English (though they don't call it that), the technological level seems to be roughly around Europe's Middle Ages, dinosaur-like creatures are domesticated, ravens can talk, and the residents are used to people from Earth wandering into their realm!

Some also take an unhealthy interest in those Earthmen...

Could "Ambrose" be Ambrose Bierce?

He does know about guns, which no native of this dimension would have knowledge about!

Bierce disappeared around 1914, and Tyler fell in to this dimension in 1938, so that's not too unlikely!

And why does this woman want him dead?

Wha is he to her?

And who is she?

The Answers to These and Other Questions May Be Answered When We Return to The Lost Planet...Next Month!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST PLANET "Thin Air" Part 1

Amelia Earhart, Judge Crater and Ambrose Bierce!

What Do They Have in Common?

Ask adventurer Tyler Flynn as he enters a world that's a kool mashup of everything from Lord of the Rings to Jurassic Park to Indiana Jones!

To Be Continued...Next Wednesday

Note that Carl, the first person Tyler encounters, mentions the aborigine we saw on Page 1, indicating either that Time works differently on this world or Carl (and likely other inhabitants) is very long-lived!
Written and illustrated by Bo Hampton, Eclipse's Lost Planet #1 (1987) was a pet project for Bo, who had already made a name for himself with superb work on Swamp Thing, Moon Knight, and Greylore.
He had written and illustrated a couple of short tales, but this was the first mini-series he scripted.
Hampton’s line art was done on Craft-Tint Bristol Board, used primarily by newspaper comic strip artists for the daily (Monday thru Saturday) strips, though comic book artists also used it.
(Wally Wood and Al Williamson, in particular, were masters of it!)
The textures were embedded in the paper, and different chemicals would reveal different patterns without smearing the India ink art.
It's rarely-used today because the effect can be recreated using Photoshop or other graphic programs after the art is scanned in or created on-screen.
As a result, the paper and chemicals have become scarce and expensive.
But the computer effect doesn't have the "organic" feel of the original paper.

To his credit, colorist Tom Littlejohn did a remarkable job within the technical limitations of the flat four-color separation of the era to keep the final version from being too muddied!

BTW, you can visit Bo Hampton's website HERE!
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Reading Room ALIEN ENCOUNTERS "Invasion!"

Hostile, technologically-advanced aliens are coming our way!

Can we defeat them in only two pages?

The "menacing aliens are no threat because they're too small" trope is an old one, going back to golden-age comics.

My personal favorite, because of its' simple, effective storytelling by one of my all-time favorites, can be found HERE!

This never-reprinted Tim Truman written/illustrated "sci-fi Western" tale is from Eclipse's Alien Encounters #4 (1986).

There's a wealth of material from 1980s anthologies that has not seen the light of day since publication, and we will dip into this treasure trove of material as we find/acquire them!

BTW, "Fer SRB" on page 1 refers to fellow writer/artist Stephen R Bissette, presumably because the aliens resemble his creature designs.

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