Space Hero Saturdays ROCKETMAN "Venus Afire" / SPURT HAMMOND "Fiery World"

Apparently, People Being Unwilling to Take in Refugees is Not a New Problem!

In fact, it dates back to the 1950s, when this tale was published...or an unspecified future, where this story is set!

This tale from Ajax/Farrell's Rocketman #1 (1952) ignores some basic science, like the fact that the homeless Venusians would have to pass Earth's orbit to get to Mars!

Perhaps that's because this story originally-appeared a dozen years earlier, when science in comic books was at a somewhat more primitive state!

And, please, no jokes about the lead character's name...

When this tale, part of an ongoing Spurt Hammond series (which ran in Planet Comics from #1 to #12), appeared in Fiction House's Planet Comics #8 (1940), the artist was identified through Fiction House records as Henry Kiefer.

But as for who modified the art at the Iger Studios for re-use in Rocketman, we have no idea!
In addition, the other three Rocketman stories were modified and re-used from earlier Iger Studio-provided art for other features...and other publishers!

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Reading Room CLASSIC COMICS "Frankenstein" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Monster...

Original art for the cover by Norm Saunders

Victor Frankenstein is insane!

With his wife strangled by his own creation and his father dead from shock, the scientist collapses from exhaustion and is placed in an asylum.

This adaptation was a change of pace for writer Ruth Roche, who served as an editor for the Iger Comics Studios and Ajax/Farrell Comics as well as (probably) writing almost all the Fox-Ajax/Farrell Phantom Lady stories during the Golden Age.

She also penned the Classics Comics version of Lorna Doone.

As a bonus, here's a bio about the novel's author...

Reading Room CLASSIC COMICS "Frankenstein" Part 3

When Last We Left Our Monster...

Cover by Norm Saunders

Unable to prevent his family's nanny from being wrongfully-convicted and executed for the murder of his brother, Victor Frankenstein goes on a retreat with his family to their cabin in the mountains.

He encounters his runaway creation who reveals that the death of Frankenstein's sibling was an accident caused by the Monster's inability to judge his own strength.

The Monster offers Victor a bargain; if Frankenstein will construct and animate a mate for him, the Monster will leave Europe forever.

Victor agrees...

TOMORROW, the terrifying conclusion!

Reading Room CLASSIC COMICS "Frankenstein" Part 2

When Last We Left Our Monster...

Victor Frankenstein, scion of a wealthy and well-connected family, becomes obsessed with preserving human life and creating virtual immortality.

After assembling a test subject from the parts of recently-deceased men, he manages to animate the creature, who escapes when Victor is taken ill due to exhaustion.

Weeks later, when he recovers, Victor receives news that his brother has been murdered!

Returning home, Frankenstein sees the Monster wandering thru nearby woods.

Victor believes the Monster is the killer, though circumstantial evidence points to the Frankenstein family's nanny..

...as will we, TOMORROW!

Reading Room CLASSIC COMICS "Frankenstein" Part 1

For Halloween, we're going the "classics are the best" route and presenting the Classic Comics (later Classics Illustrated) adaptation of Frankenstein from the mid-1940s!

Find out the frightening truth TOMORROW!