Reading Room OPERATION: PERIL "Time Travelers in 'Date with Danger' "

Sci-fi of the 1950s wasn't limited to space opera...

...as this series from the AGC adventure anthology comic Operation: Peril demonstrates!

Operation: Peril was an interesting multi-genre anthology featuring on-going strips about time travel (as seen above), a hard-boiled private eye (Danny Danger), and high adventure in the Pacific (Typhoon Tyler), as well as a historicalshort story.

While the other series featured stand-alone stories, Time Travelers presented a couple of on-going plotlines, as you'll see in future posts.

Though Time Travelers didn't appear on the first few covers, by issue #4, they took over the cover spot until their final appearance in #12, after which the book changed focus and became a war comic.

This premiere tale from Operation: Peril #1 (1950) was written by the book's Editor, Richard Hughes and illustrated by Ken Bald.

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Monday Madness FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Vampire Cat!"

It's Halloween, boyfiends and ghoulfriends...

...and you're invited to an absolutely killer Halloween costume party in this tale from ACG's Forbidden Worlds #15 (1953)!

So, why is it so "horrible" to be trapped in a harmless kitty?

We'll never know the answer!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Reading Room OPERATION: PERIL "Time Travelers: Adventure Among the Stars" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Time Travelers...

...no, they weren't shooting it out with aliens on an airless planetoid, as this misleading Odgen Whitney cover shows, but they have been transported to Saturn, where Tom is about to do battle, unarmed, against a really big green alien...

Will the Saturnians reappear?
And if they do, will it be as friend or foe?

Only writer Richard Hughes and artist Ken Bald, who produced this tale for ACG's Operation Peril #4 (1951) know the answer!

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Reading Room OPERATION: PERIL "Time Travelers: Adventure Among the Stars" Part 1

Let's look in on a team of scientific explorers we haven't seen in a while...

...as they decide to seek government financing!

Looks like a classic "man vs alien in hand to hand combat" scenario!

You've seen it in Flash Gordon, Star Trek, and numerous other movies, tv shows, pulps, and comics, right?

But writer Richard Hughes and artist Ken Bald have a couple of surprises up their sleeves, as you see...tomorrow!

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Reading Room: SECRETS BEHIND THE COMICS by STAN LEE...Secrets 7-10!

Join us, as we continue to explore the sacred writings of Stan (the Man) Lee...

 ...as he shows us how a comic story is created!

Note: the "Marvel Method" of a writer giving just a basic plot outline or even a page-by-page synopsis to a penciler who would have greater input into the story direction didn't come about until the early 1960s, when the sheer volume of material Stan Lee was editing/art directing/writing by himself became too much to handle.

We'll return to Secrets Behind the Comics in the near future.

Reading Room: SECRETS BEHIND THE COMICS by STAN LEE...Secrets 4-6!

Let's rejoin comics legend Stan (the Man) Lee as he reveals...

...in this incredibly HTF book from 1948!

All this has been mere prologue.

Tomorrow we get to the stuff you're dying to see...so don't miss it, true believers!

BTW, you probably don't recognize most of the characters Lee mentions.

Timely/Atlas/Marvel hasn't published most of them in decades.

Note: the blonde model/actress Hedy Devine, (aka "Hedy de Vine"), is not the Hedy who became part of the team of Patsy & Hedy, who had their own book through the mid-60s.

That was brunette Hedy Wolfe, who was a teenager, like her "frenemy" Patsy Walker.
Both of them eventually became part of the Marvel multiverse.

Reading Room: SECRETS BEHIND THE COMICS by STAN LEE...Secrets 1-3!

For those, like myself, who aren't (sob) going to San Diego this weekend...

...here's a "how-to" manual from The Man himself...Stan Lee!

(As if you couldn't tell from the "soft-sell" text!)

Tomorrow...

MORE SECRETS!