From Fawcett's Mechanix Illustrated V49N8 (1953)...
Did it help inspire Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Werner Roth, and Vince Colletta in creating this sequence in Marvel's X-Men #14 (1965)?
You tell us!
Showing posts with label Otto Binder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Otto Binder. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2024
Monday Mutant Madness MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED "How Nuclear Radiation can Change Our Race"
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "Peril on Venus!"
...now the Sovereign of the Spaceways is about to encounter the Scoundrel of Space again!
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Writer Otto Binder and artist Leonard Frank continue the battle with Jagga (who's gone from Caucasian skin-tone to grey in his second appearance) in this tale from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #53 (1947).
He'll turn green (though not with envy) in later appearances!
Note that the then-current science of 1947 theorized Venus might, in fact, be habitable.
The idea that Atlanteans would've migrated there centuries earlier, when their continent sank beneath the waves, was unique.
The idea that Atlanteans would've migrated there centuries earlier, when their continent sank beneath the waves, was unique.
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Saturday, September 16, 2023
Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "versus the Space Raider!"
Our intrepid aviator-turned-astronaut faces his first interplanetary foe...
...in this never-reprinted story from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #52 (1947)!
Oh, you can bet on it, Cap!
Scripted by noted pulp and comic author Otto Binder, and illustrated by Leonard Frank, this was the first of several encounters with Jagga, who seemed able to change his skin color in each tale, likely due to colorists not being given reference of the character's previous appearances!
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Thursday, August 25, 2022
Reading Room UNEARTHLY SPECTACULARS "Saucerer"
The 1960s were a weird period in comics (and pop culture in general)...
...as this camp-fest from the "Swinging Sixties" amply demonstrates!
BTW, could you guess that the creators were both middle-aged guys whose exposure to "rock-n-roll" was through their kids (more likely, their grand-kids)?
Yep!
Written by long-time sci-fi and comics author Otto Binder (born 1911), and illustrated by Golden and Silver Age artist Carl Pfeufer (born 1910), this never-reprinted two-pager appeared in the back of Harvey's Unearthly Spectaculars #3 (1967)!.
In point of fact, most Silver Age creators were 40 (or over)!
In comparison, today's comic creators are mostly in their 20s and early 30s...and judging from their output, I'm wondering if that's such a good thing...
Monday, June 21, 2021
Monday Mars Madness MAN FROM S.R.A.M. "vs the Devil Man from S.U.N.E.V.!"
A couple of weeks ago we presented the Man from S.R.A.M. in his only published adventure!
...but there's one more tale to be told...that wasn't told!
Written by Otto Binder (with re-write by Editor Joe Simon?) and illustrated by George Tuska, this story produced for Harvey's never-published Jigsaw #3 features a different Martian form for the protaganist, as well as a different vehicle from the previous chapter!
At the same time, Tuska also drew all three issues of Harvey's SpyMan, another cross-genre (super hero/spy/sci-fi) series just before moving on to a long run as Marvel's primary Silver Age Iron Man artist after Gene Colan!
At the same time, Tuska also drew all three issues of Harvey's SpyMan, another cross-genre (super hero/spy/sci-fi) series just before moving on to a long run as Marvel's primary Silver Age Iron Man artist after Gene Colan!
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Thursday, June 10, 2021
Reading Room TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED / FROM BEYOND THE UNKNOWN "Cartoon That Came to Life"
Here's an off-beat tale...
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| Art by Nick Cardy |
...that made the cover both times it was published!
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| Art by Bill Ely |
...though I have to admit the original cover (above) is a bit dull compared to the reprint's cover (top)
Written by Otto Binder and illustrated by Bill Ely, it's a nicely-done story with one obvious question?
Why is the Martian called a "dragon-man"?
His wings are feathered and look more like a bird's...or even an angel's!
The new art for the cover of the reprint gives him scales and a beak so it's a little more like a dragon, but still...
Was the original concept much more lizard/dragon-looking, but the Comics Code Authority forced DC to "tone it down" to the rather innocuous-looking alien?
Trivia: This story is one of the few to be the cover feature both for its' original publication (Tales of the Unexpected #1 [1956]) and the reprint (From Beyond the Unknown #24 [1970])
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Monday Mars Madness MAN FROM S.R.A.M. "Madhouse in Hollywood!"
In the Silver Age, comics mixed genres with wild abandon...
...as this tale, which combines no less than three of them demonstrates, albeit a bit ham-handedly!
When the protaganist has to spend half the story explaining his name, you know the writer's really desperate.
Which is surprising since the guy who penned this tale is Otto Binder, a prolific sci-fi writer who not only scripted classic Superman and Golden Age Captain Marvel stories (including The Monster Society of Evil serial!), but also wrote the first Marvel Comics novel, The Avengers Versus the Earth-Wrecker!
But this never-reprinted, Carl Pfeufer-illustrated tale from Harvey's Jigsaw #2 (1966) is so incredibly-silly that it's surprising Binder was so over-the-top!
Personally, I suspect editor Joe Simon rewrote the story, inserting the SRAM = MARS explanation on practically every page.
Note: Though identified as "Jigsaw" in the indicia, the book's working title was apparently "Big Hero Adventures", which appears as a sub-title on both issues' covers and title pages as well as on the original art for the first issue.
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Saturday, September 8, 2018
Did You Miss ANY of the Chapters of the Story DC Comics REFUSES to Publish...MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL?
We Ran the ENTIRE Serial...
...and now you can read the entire, unexpurgated tale for the first time in decades!
Chapter XVI: Earth Must Die!
Chapter XX: Mr Mind's Book!
Chapter XXI: the Unholy Hydra!
Chapter XXII: Mr Mind Loses His Mind
Chapter XXIII: Mr Mind's School for Evil
Chapter XXIV: the Undersea Monster Brigade
Chapter XXV: the End of Mr Mind!
Epilogue: Mr Mind LIVES!
Chapter XXI: the Unholy Hydra!
Chapter XXII: Mr Mind Loses His Mind
Chapter XXIII: Mr Mind's School for Evil
Chapter XXIV: the Undersea Monster Brigade
Chapter XXV: the End of Mr Mind!
Epilogue: Mr Mind LIVES!
We hope you enjoyed our presentation, and keep us bookmarked for more long-out-of-print comics!
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Saturday, September 1, 2018
Did You Miss the Fourth Week's Chapters of the Story DC Comics REFUSES to Publish...MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL?
Did you know we cracked the Captain Marvel Code which had been ending each chapter!
On the back of the Captain Marvel Club Membership Card (shown here) is that code!
Since we believe the story has historical significance, and the racism (which we abhor) is part of the tale, RetroBlogs
dropped the plans we had for various summer mini-blogathons to
re-present the entire, unexpurgated story scanned from the original
issues of Fawcett's Captain Marvel Adventures at Hero Histories and Not Safe For Work Comics!
Remember how I told you the Captain Marvel Code-Finder was a mail-in premium that would enable you to understand the cryptic messages (like this one) in stories?
And that, without it, you'd be as helpless as an Axis spy to figure out what the message was!
And that I didn't have one of the HTF and expensive Code Finders?
Well, guess what?
We don't need it!
Enjoy, and keep up with the saga Monday through Friday!
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Saturday, August 25, 2018
Did You Miss the Third Week's Chapters of the Story DC Comics REFUSES to Publish...MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL?
Did you know we cracked the Captain Marvel Code which had been ending each chapter!
On the back of the Captain Marvel Club Membership Card (shown here) is that code!
Remember how I told you the Captain Marvel Code-Finder was a mail-in premium that would enable you to understand the cryptic messages (like this one) in stories?
And that, without it, you'd be as helpless as an Axis spy to figure out what the message was!
And that I didn't have one of the HTF and expensive Code Finders?
Well, guess what?
We don't need it!
Enjoy, and keep up with the saga Monday through Friday!
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Saturday, August 18, 2018
Did You Miss Last Week's Chapters of the Story DC Comics REFUSES to Publish...MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL?
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Enjoy, and keep up with the saga Monday through Friday!
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