Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Return to America"

Trapped in Europe and still seeking a route back to America...

...Hunt Bowman and alien princess Lyssa once more make the cover!

(oddly, even though the cover is by the story's artist, Lily Renee, it has nothing to do with the tale!)

Let me get this straight...

Aliens smart and advanced enough to travel across interstellar space utilize a gas that's fatal to them...but not humans?

Did no one try this stuff out on captive Earthers to see if it would work before issuing it to combat troops?

Well, at least Hunt and Lyssa are back in the good ol' USA, specifically, Boston!

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Lily Renee, Escape Artist

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Secret Weapon Cache"

Still on the wrong side of the Atlantic Ocean...

...Hunt Bowman and alien princess Lyssa seek a way to return to America to continue the fight against the VoltaMen...invading aliens from a distant world!

Wait!

They're not taking any of the tech with them?

Though Graham Ingels does retouch work on some of the faces, the art chores as of Fiction House's Planet Comics #3 (1944) fall to up-and-comer Lily Renee, perhaps the most successful of the various women who took over the creative end of comics while the guys were off to war.

Lily was, herself, a Jewish escapee from Europe when the Holocaust began.

Amazingly-versatile, she handled everything from sci-fi to spies to horror to romance with equal finesse!

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Lily Renee, Escape Artist

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Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Mammoth Poachers of Thor"

Add a mammoth to your cast, and what's the first thing that happens?

You encounter mammoth poachers, of course!

Perhaps it's a blessing that this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #32 (1944) is the final Norge Benson adventure.

The writing, which had never been the strip's greatest asset, has deteriorated remarkably.

Even Lily Renee's constantly-improving artwork can't save the series.
Be here next Monday as we begin a new time-lost series!

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Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Time Travel Terror"

In the far future of Pluto's Norge Benson...

...science is sorta arbitrary and time travel is as easy as being swept up by a cyclone!

"Murphy the Mammoth"?

With Frosting the Polar Bear's mysterious reduction from full-size bear to puppy dog-sized cub, the editors must have felt they needed a character who could do "bull in a china shop" slapstick he used to do, as well as provide occasional sheer muscle in dangerous situations.

As a result, Murphy was added to the cast in this Lily Renee-rendered tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #31 (1944)!

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Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Kaws of the Lost Planetoid"

One thing you have to say about Pluto in Golden Age comic books...

...it certainly wasn't a dull place to live, or visit!

Is it just me or is Frosting getting even smaller than before?
Initially, he was the size of an adult bear, then he became the size of a chimpanzee!
Now he's small enough to sit on Norge's head like a hat!
Lily Renee continues the illustrating chores in this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #30 (1944), handling spacecraft, criminals, and beautiful women with equal aplomb!

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Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Dragons of Diablo"

One thing I've noticed about this strip...

...is that there seem to be a lot of alien worlds easily-accessible with a quick trip from Pluto!

This never-reprinted story from Fiction House's Planet Comics #29 (1944) showed the versatility of Iger Studios newcomer Lily Renee, who was already handling Ranger Comics' Werewolf Hunter and Wings Comics' Jane Martin with the best yet to come!

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