Space Hero Saturdays LANCE LEWIS: SPACE DETECTIVE "Amoeba Men of Saturn"

Another Golden Age interstellar private eye joins our feature...

...as he meets the first of two alien races who will become his arch-foes, and rescues the woman who will become his constant...(ahem)...friend and companion!

Referred to as both "Saturnians" and "Amoeba Men", these aliens would return to wage a full-scale interplanetary war with Earth.

This story from Nedor/Standard's Mystery Comics #4 (1944) was Lance's second appearance ever.

Both the writer and artist are currently unknown, even to the Grand Comic Database.

Since Mystery Comics was cancelled as of #4, Lance moved over to Startling Comics, where he became the cover feature from his premiere in #44 to the book's demise as of #53.

Several years after this series ended, an unrelated Space Detective series written by Walter (The Shadow) Gibson with art by Wally Wood and Joe Orlando ran in its own title at Avon Comics.

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Reading Room KING OF FUTURIA "The Wall Comes Tumbling Down!"

We Have Already Seen...

...the tale itself provides the synopsis for this Buck Rogers-esque saga of a 20th Century American in a post-apocalyptic future!

Damn, we 20th Century Americans were good at this save-the-world stuff!
The parallels with Buck Rogers become more apparent in this tale from Nedor's Mystery Comics #2 (1944), including a traitorous Earthman (Karlak) working with aliens, outnumbered and ill-equipped free humans, and a bad guy (Karlak again) who keeps surviving his apparent demises...as we shall see next time!

BTW, sadly, nobody can identify the writer and/or artist of the strip.

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Reading Room KING OF FUTURIA "To the Futur(ia)"

Can a 20th Century man prove superior to his 30th Century descendants?

Read on..and discover the startling answer!

Much like Buck Rogers, Dick Devens used his military skills (long forgotten in the future) to assist the humans of the time period he was now trapped in.

After this debut tale in Nedor's Mystery Comics #1 (1944), Dick Devens would appear in the remaining three issues of the title, then transfer with a number of other features to Wonder Comics when it dropped super-heroes in favor of sci-fi/fantasy.

We'll be presenting the entire run of the series, so keep an eye on us.

BTW, sadly, nobody can identify the writer and/or artist of the strip.

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