Showing posts with label Ken Hooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ken Hooper. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HUNT BOWMAN AND THE LOST WORLD Part 3

Nope, you don't have to reboot your tablet/laptop/desktop/smartphone...

...this story was published in b/w instead of color!
...hapless astronaut Hunt Bowman, put in suspended animation by a NASA experiment, slept through World War III, which reduced Earth to a barren world populated by savages.
Finally defrosted, he meets a mute woman flying a jetcycle and armed with advanced focused-energy weapons.
She flies him to a nearby small city where he discovers...an exact look-alike of himself!
You'll note all three of my theories are still equally-valid...
1) Since Bowman is from the past, is this guy also from the past...or Bowman himself, returned from further into the future?
2) Is he a clone, created from Bowman's cells taken before he went into space?
3) Is this not only a future Earth, but an alternate universe as well?
Regrettably, we'll never know the answer, since this was the final issue of Blackthorne's revival of Planet Comics! (The book being printed in b/w instead of the previous issues' full color might've been a tip-off!).
Neither the Golden Age nor Bronze Age versions of Hunt Bowman have appeared in new tales since!
Next Week...
A New Wednesday World of Wonder!
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HUNT BOWMAN OF THE LOST WORLD Part 2

The original Hunt Bowman was an marksman with a bow and a decent shot with a handgun!
The new "astronaut-frozen-in-time" Buck Rogers-wannabe is obviously not the same guy!
To Be Continued
NEXT WEEK!
Since Bowman is from the past, is this guy also from the past...or further into the future?
Or is he a clone, created from Bowman's cells taken before he went into space?
Or is this not only a future Earth, but an alternate universe as well?
Makes you wonder why writer Bruce Jones and artist Ken Hooper even tried to adapt the original Lost World strip!
Except for the character's name, it has nothing in common with the 1940s series!

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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HUNT BOWMAN IN THE LOST WORLD Part 1B

When Last We Left Our Hero...

...he's the Buck Rogers-ripoff "astronaut frozen and defrosted centuries later in a post-apocalyptic Earth" guy underneath this incredibly-kool Dave Stevens cover, which is based very loosely on what's about to occur in the story...
Computer system...in a cave?
The cliches just keep coming!
While writer Bruce Jones has done some absolutely spectacular work in comics, I'd say this is not one of his award-winning moments!
Clearly, the Dave Stevens cover (above) is the reason Blackthorne's Planet Comics V2N1 (1988) is $50 (or more) on the back-issue market!
Note also that Stevens did exactly what the original Fiction House Planet Comics' cover artists did in the 1940s...take a plot element and hyper-cheesecake it!
(Not that I'm complaining...)
Nonetheless, if you want to see what develops, be here next Wednesday.
Warning: the remaining issues do not have Dave Stevens covers!
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Out of Print 12x18" book of frameable full-page cheesecake posters taken directly from Stevens' original art used for comic and book covers...including the Planet Comics cover...without any logos or lettering!

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HUNT BOWMAN IN THE LOST WORLD Part 1A

After almost a year reading this feature, you think you know about Hunt Bowman and The Lost World?
Prepare to be disillusioned!
Needless to say...
In 1988, Blackthorne Publishing relaunched Fiction House's Planet Comics with all-new revamped/rebooted versions of several strips, only one of which was from Planet Comics.
(Oddly, the other strips in Planet were from other, non sci-fi Fiction House titles!)
In the case of Lost World, writer Bruce Jones and artist Ken Hooper went the Buck Rogers route taking a human from the then-present and putting him in suspended animation to awaken in a post-apocalyptic far future.
The revived Planet Comics lasted only three issues and has never been reprinted.
Correction: the stories have never been reprinted, but the cover to #1, by the late, legendary Dave Stevens has been reprinted as both a print and a poster several times since.
That cover is the reason why back issues of #1 go for over $50 on the secondary market.
You'll see it next week.
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Prison Ship
by Bruce Jones and Estaban Maroto