Showing posts with label Power Records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Power Records. Show all posts

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Space Force Saturdays STAR TREK "Dinosaur Planet" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...(at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video) the Enterprise, after launching on it's second five-year mission, arrives at the Oblik star system.
They discover an M-Class planet, but one that's in the same stage of development as Earth was around 124,000,000 years ago!
And, they find the primordial world has primordial inhabitants...dinosaurs!
HERE'S a link to the audio file, so you can have a classic Power Records "read-along" experience!
Just move the sound bar control to 6:55 to continue the story!
Written by Ric Meyers and illustrated by Kirby Martin & Associates,
Power Records PR45 STAR TREK "Dinosaur Planet"(1979) is different from most of the famous "record and comic book" series.
It's one of two tales published after the release of Star Trek the Motion Picture, showing the crew in the grey and beige uniforms from the film.
However, the Enterprise itself is rendered as an amalgam of the TV series & movie versions.
And phasers and other tech are incorrectly-illustrated all the way through the story.
Neither of these tales were produced by Neal Adams' Continuity Associates, as all the previous tv show-based stories were.
Instead, Kirby Martin & Associates, a company that handled licensing art on merchandise like coffee mugs, t-shirts, and lunchboxes, was brought in to package the graphics.
Pavel Chekov, who was not on any of the previous Power Records, makes his audio debut here.
And Hikaru Sulu, who was illustrated as African-American in previous Power Records comics is finally rendered correctly as Japanese!

Friday, August 7, 2015

The REAL Fantastic Four!

Word is the new Fantastic Four flick is crap...
...so let's look at one of the more successful media adaptations...
Adapted from Marvel's Fantastic Four #126 (1972), this Roy Thomas-written, John Buscema/Joe Sinnott-illustrated tale beautifully-expanded on the original Stan Lee/Jack Kirby story!
The voices are a fascinating group.
Johnny Storm/Human Torch (and Narrator) was Peter Fernandez (Speed Racer himself).
Reed Richards/Mr Fantastic sounds like Les Tremayne (Mentor on the SHAZAM! TV series) who started out on dramatic radio in the late 1940s!
Enjoy the REAL Fantastic Four!