Reading Room PHASE 1 "Impact"

Best-known for his work on Richie Rich and Casper the Friendly Ghost...

...writer/artist Ernie Colon started expanding his creative horizons with samples like this!

Shortly after this, Ernie started getting more non-humor work from Warren, the short-lived Atlas/Seaboard, and Marvel, eventually ending up as a writer/artist/editor for DC in the early 1980s, where he co-created Arak: Son of Thunder and Amythyst: Princess of Gemworld!

This never-reprinted piece was just one of many pin-ups and short stories that appeared in the extremely HTF 80-page fanzine Phase 1 (1971) featuring work from gifted up-and-comers like Bernie Wrightson and Frank Brunner and long-established pros including Neal Adams, Murphy Anderson, Gray Morrow, and Ken Barr.

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Reading Room PHASE 1 "Rocket Jets Thundering..."

It's a never-reprinted single-page...

...from an incredibly-HTF one-shot early 1970s fanzine!

But WHAT a page!

A solo piece by the legendary Murphy Anderson at his Silver/Bronze Age prime!

Is this illo from SQ's Phase 1 (1971) a beautiful example of pulp-style sci-fi or what?
BTW, note the elegant way Murphy solves the problem of the jet-pack NOT burning the wearer's butt...by using flanges/pylons to keep the engines attached to the back, but not on it!

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