Wednesday Worlds of Wonder PANIC! "Mars Man Chase"

Did screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan or director Steven Spielberg read this in 1955?

Both of them would've been the right age to have read this never-reprinted short (obviously inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom tales) from by writer/artist Don Orehek from Panic Publications' Panic #2 (1958), which might have inspired this legendary bit of high adventure cinema history...

Did it?

We'll never know!

Reading Room PANIC "What to Do with Ebbet's Field?"

As I had mentioned previously, baseball's Dodgers had left Brooklyn for Los Angeles in 1957...

...leaving an empty stadium in the heart of the Borough of Kings!

This never-reprinted strip from Panic Publications' Panic #1 (1958) takes the "Man on the Street" skit from then-popular The Steve Allen Show (featuring Don Knotts, Tom Poston, and Louie Nye) and uses it to answer the question!

(You can read about Ebbets [no apostrophe] Field's fate HERE.)

As to who wrote and drew the four-pager...we have no idea!

Only Publisher Robert Farrell and Editor/Art Director Bob Powell used their own names on the masthead!

Panic survived longer than most other MAD clones, running nine issues from 1958 to 1966.

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