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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics CONAN THE BARBARIAN ANNUAL "Bride of the Oculist!" Part 1

Conan meets Covid...

...sort of!

Well, he does deal with disease, eventually...

Scripted by Christopher Priest (as "James C Owlsey"), and illustrated by Ernie Chan/Chua (with an assist on layouts by John Buscema), this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Conan the Barbarian Annual #11 (1987) does deal with disease, as shown by the disfigured Habar shown above.

But most of that material is later in the tale...which you'll see...
...Next Wednesday!
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Essential Conan
Volume 1
(and ONLY!)
Featuring issues 1 to 25

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Reading Room WORLDS UNKNOWN "A Gun for Dinosaur" Conclusion

After you gaze at this eye-catching cover by an unknown penciler and penciler/inker John Romita Sr...

...we'll recap What Has Gone Before!

Time-traveling safari guide/hunter Reginald Rivers offers a cautionary tale to an overly-enthusiastic prospective client.

His story concerns two other clients who disregarded the experienced Rivers' warnings...

To enhance your appreciation of this tale, here's a couple of unique treats...

The dramatic radio adaptation of "A Gun for Dinosaur" fro the classic series X Minus One, starring Mason Adams.

Plus, the illustrations by Emsh (Ed Emshwiller) from the original prose tale in Galaxy Magazine!

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Rivers of Time

L Sprague deCamp

featuring the complete time travel adventures of Reginald Rivers!

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Reading Room WORLDS UNKNOWN "A Gun for Dinosaur" Part 1

One of the great hokey time travel stories of all time...

...beautifully-adapted by some of Bronze Age Marvel's best creatives!

Be here tomorrow for the astounding conclusion!

Originally written in 1956 by L Sprague deCamp for Galaxy Magazine as a counterpoint to Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"...

Art by Ed Emshwiller

...the one-shot spawned a series of stories about time traveling hunter Reginald Rivers!

The adaptation in Marvel's Worlds Unknown #2 (1973) by writer Roy Thomas and illustrators Val Mayerick and Ernie Chua/Chan is extremely faithful to the prose tale.