Showing posts with label Mike Kaluta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Kaluta. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Into the Land of Noobol"

...and Amtorites (Venusians) wonder why the tourist trade stinks!
We're finally into the second Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, Lost on Venus as of this chapter from DC's Korak: Son of Tarzan #54 (1973).
Mike Kaluta continues doing a solid job, both writing and illustrating the adaptation.
Continued...
Next Wednesday!
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Catastrophe"

...ah, the "I hate you...I love you...I hate you!" trope so popular in fiction (and, as I discovered, in real life, too)!
The adaptation of Pirates on Venus sort-of concludes on a semi-cliffhanger with this action-packed chapter from DC's Korak: Son of Tarzan #53 (1973).
(The actual conclusion of the novel takes place in the first couple of pages of the next chapter, when Kaluta (who takes over the scripting for the remainder of the strip's run) knits it and the beginning of the next novel, Lost on Venus, together!
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Duare: Princess of 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!
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Wednesday, May 2, 2018

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

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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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

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

...but if there's anything a lifetime of reading/watching science fiction has taught me, it's that things are not as they seem...
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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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Gathering Tarel"

...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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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Battle Cry!"

Wein and Kaluta have brought us up to date!
Buckle your swashes and read on...
To his credit, Edgar Rice Burroughs made each of his series as different from the others as possible.
Except for an American protaganist and a beautiful woman to lust after, Barsoom, Amtor, Caspak, Pelucidar, and the Moon have vastly-different enviroments, unique flora and fauna, and differently-structured humanoid civilizations and governments!
Written by Len Wein and illustrated by Mike Kaluta, this tale from DC's Korak: Son of Tarzan #48 (1972) continues the adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Pirates of Venus, the first of the Carson of Venus series!
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Girl in the Garden"

...attempting to reach Mars, Carson Napier fails to take the Moon's gravity into consideration and his trajectory takes him to Venus instead!
Ejecting from the ship before it crashes, Napier encounters a giant crustacean which almost devours him but for the intervention of three humanoids who bring the shaken and stranded Earthman to their home...
Writer Len Wein and illustrator Mike Kaluta continue the high adventure with the second installment of their adaptation of Burroughs' Pirates of Venus from DC's Korak: Son of Tarzan #47 (1972).
To readers of the time, it must have been frustrating to only have 5 to 7 pages of Carson at a time, since the book was bi-monthly!
But it was probably the only thing keeping the detail-oriented, but notoriously-slow Kaluta on Carson, The Spawn of Frankenstein strip in Phantom Stranger, and The Shadow (both of which which were also bi-monthly) along with several cover assignments per month!
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