Why not celebrate the New Year with the most famous time-travel story of all?
HG Wells' The Time Machine...
...and Alex Toth's never-reprinted adaptation of the classic George Pal movie at our "brother" blog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™?
Showing posts with label H G Wells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label H G Wells. Show all posts
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Monday, October 25, 2021
Monday Mars Madness WAR OF THE WORLDS "Part V: End of the Invaders"
(This was Dave Cockrum's presentation piece for the Martians and their tripods, looking decidedly-different from the aliens and war machines from the then-recently cancelled Killraven: Warrior of the Worlds series!)
You know the story.
Guy meets alien!
Alien conquers planet!
Alien suddenly ghosts guy...
Overall, not a bad job by the creatives, eh?
The Marvel Classic Comics series ran 36 issues from 1976 to 1978, the first 12 of which were reprints of the b/w Pendulum Press Now Age Books comic adaptations of literary classics which had been sold directly to schools and libraries.
(Note: Classics Illustrated had ended in 1971, leaving a void in the retail comic market that Marvel attempted to fill.
Sadly, sales of the books after the reprints in 1-12 didn't warrant continuing the ambitious project.
The Direct Sales/Comic Book Shop market was just beginning, and if the project had survived another couple of years, it might have found a successful niche, but the timing was off.)
Like Classics Illustrated, the Marvel adaptations included text pieces about the original authors...
...and other goodies like the Dave Cockrum model sheet seen at the beginning of this post!
The adaptations featuring new material (13-36) have never been reprinted in America.
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics
Visit Amazon and Order...
Monday, October 18, 2021
Monday Mars Madness WAR OF THE WORLDS "Part IV: Earth Under the Martians"
...this ain't no treat, but the mother of all tricks, as the Martians have effectively conquered the Earth!
(Though you have to admit, this painted cover for the German edition, based on Gil Kane/Dave Cockrum's pen-and-ink art, is a treat, indeed!)
...what's the answer?
Another trick?
Or a life-saving treat?
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics
Visit Amazon and Buy...
(the First [and extremely-unauthorized] sequel to the HG Wells novel)
Monday, October 11, 2021
Monday Mars Madness WAR OF THE WORLDS "Part III: the Rout of Civilization"
When Last We Left our Protagonist...
...as this amazingly-kool Gil Kane/Dave Cockrum cover for the British edition shows, the Martians are here, and they're kicking Mankind's collective ass!
That's really all you need to know!
...we're safe for the moment...only...as we shall see>>>
NEXT MONDAY!
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!
Visit Amazon and Order...
(Including Leonard Nimoy, Brent Spiner, Gates McFadden, John DeLancie and other Star Trek castmembers!)
Monday, October 4, 2021
Monday Mars Madness WAR OF THE WORLDS "Part II: The Conquest of Earth!"
Yeah, we could've called this chapter...
...but then HG Wells' ghost would've risen from the grave and bitch-slapped us!
(and rightly so!)
...projectiles from Mars have landed on Earth in 1898, unleashing aliens with heat-rays destroying everything in range of their landing sites.
Unfortunately, the aliens are now mobile...
To Be Continued...
NEXT MONDAY!
NEXT MONDAY!
Adapted by Chris Claremont, penciled by Yong Montano, and inked by Dino Castrillo, it's a pretty straighforward visualization of the original novel, without updating to the present, as most adaptations of the tome have done.
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!
Visit Amazon and Order...
(Mars' Invasion of Earth from HG Wells to Orson Welles)
Sunday, October 3, 2021
Classic WAR OF THE WORLDS Movie Posters!
Because Halloween makes me think of War of the Worlds
Photographed from the original posters (not from second-generation repros, tiny pix in books or low-rez internet files), the art has been lovingly-restored and digitally-remastered.
And, best of all, every one of the posters features those really-kool Martian war machines!
And there's even a couple of foreign versions...
Enjoy!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)