Monday Madness / Holiday Reading Room HOT WHEELS "Humbug Run"

If a Santa in a motorized sleigh running two teens down isn't the very definition of "madness"...

Art by Neal Adams & Dick Giordano

...I don't know what is!
Enjoy this never-reprinted tale from the Silver Age of Comics!

The cover story for DC's Hot Wheels #6 (1971) was written by Len Wein, with art by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano, following Alex Toth's character designs from the 1969-1971 animated series based on the toy line.
Toth also illustrated most of the stories in the comic series, as shown below!

Art by Alex Toth from Hot Wheels #1

Space Hero Saturdays STAR WARS the Lost Comic Books!

Since today is May the 4th Be With You Day...

...we're showing the covers of the only Star Wars comics that have never been reprinted in their original format!

Blackthorne's three-issue mini-series from 1987, Star Wars 3-D!

The stories are new tales by Len Wein, Patrick Zircher, Jim Nelson, and Caesar MacSombol!

While these comics have been reprinted (as shown below), the reprints aren't 3-D!

Would you like to see the 3-D versions?

Let us know!

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Star Wars Omnibus

Wild Space

Volume 1

(Which reprints the issues shown above...but in 2-D!)

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Bet You've NEVER Seen Santa Claus Like THIS...

Ah, the Silver Age of Comics!

When situations like the one portrayed above were the norm, rather than the exception.
From DC's Hot Wheels #6 (1970), the last issue of the first comic based on a TV series based on a toy line.

Ironically, it was the Christmas issue...

Long before He-Man, Micronauts, GI Joe and Transformers presented toys as animated action heroes, Hanna-Barbera's Hot Wheels animated series (based on the still-highly successful Mattel toys) featured a politically-correct team of teens battling evil while engaging in auto races in nifty cars (with their seat belts firmly buckled, of course)!
Yes, it sounds like Scooby Doo...but without the annoying talking dog...

To see this never-reprinted story, click HERE.

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Duare: Princess of Venus"

When Last We Left the First EarthMan on Venus...

...now let the fun begin!

OK, it's an unlikely coincidence, but remember, Carson thwarted a previous kidnapping attempt HERE.
Apparently, when he's not nearby, potential kidnappers are far more successful!
The adaptation of Pirates on Venus races along with this action-packed chapter from DC's Korak: Son of Tarzan #52 (1973).

Considering this was a bi-monthly series, writer Len Wein and artist Mike Kaluta felt the pressure to deliver a serialized tale that would hold the audience's interest for two months at a time...and they always delivered!

Be here
Next Wednesday
for the astounding conclusion!

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Pirates of Venus & Lost on Venus

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Mutiny at Sea"

We Have Already Seen...

BTW, I find it strange an American would take the side of a monarch against rebels.

Note also, the re-drawing of a couple of heads by editor Joe Kubert in the first panel below...

The adaptation of Pirates on Venus races along with this action-packed chapter from DC's Korak: Son of Tarzan #51 (1973).

Considering this was a bi-monthly series, writer Len Wein and artist Mike Kaluta felt the pressure to deliver a serialized tale that would hold the audience's interest for two months at a time...and they always delivered...as you'll see next Wednesday!

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Pirates of Venus & Lost on Venus

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Terror from the Sky!"

It's not easy when you lose your only friend on an alien world...

...but if there's anything a lifetime of reading/watching science fiction has taught me, it's that things are not as they seem...

There's Always Hope...as We'll See...

Next Wednesday!

Remember, while the "you're not really dead because your alien biology is different from mine" concept is a cliche these days, the novel Pirates of Venus was written in 1932, and was a relatively new idea back then.

(One of the things that drove me nuts about reviews of the movie John Carter was the complaint it was "so derivative" of everything from Flash Gordon to Superman to Star Wars...when the 1911 story Princess of Mars was the inspiration for the aspects of those properties that people were complaining John Carter copied!)

Len Wein and Mike Kaluta keep the story racing along in this chapter from DC's Korak Son of Tarzan #50 (1973).

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by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Gathering Tarel"

When Last We Left the First EarthMan on Venus...

...he apparently was getting rather, well...horny (in a Comics Code-approved way, of course)!

Talk about going from bad to worse!
While this chapter from DC's Korak: Son of Tarzan #49 (1972) doesn't end promisingly, trust us, it's going to get better...next Wednesday!

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Pirates of Venus & Lost on Venus

by Edgar Rice Burroughs