Showing posts with label Strange Suspense Stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strange Suspense Stories. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Reading Room STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES "One Last Chance"

A never-reprinted, Ditko-rendered, Silver Age tale...
...is the sort of thing we delight in presenting to our blog's loyal fans!
I rather like the idea that the protaganists will never know if they succeeded in saving the future...or inadvertently destroyed it!
Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories V3#2 (1968) was written entirely by Steve Skeates, though the stories in the anthology were illustrated by different artists.
Apparently editor Dick Giordano had planned to allow a single writer to carry each issue, with Denny O'Neil penning all the stories in the first issue and Skeates scripting the the tales in the second one.
Giordano's departure to DC scuttled the concept, and from the third issue onward, a variety of writers would fill the pages.
BTW, though the tale was never reprinted, the cover was...
...to represent a different Ditko-illustrated story reprint in Charlton's Space War #31 (1978)!
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Baker Reading Room STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES "Inexplicable"

Can you guess which cover-featured tale from this book was pencilled by Matt Baker?
Considering Baker was one of the foremost "good girl" illustrators of the 1940s-50s, it should be obvious, even with the terrible inking by Vince Colletta!
That is one smart bear!
This never-reprinted story from Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories #44 (1959), penciled by Baker and inked by Vince Colletta, was one of the last tales published before his death earlier in 1959 of a heart attack at the age of 38.
Note that Matt was so prolific that the inventory of stories he worked on though Colletta's studio for both Charlton and Atlas (later Marvel) wasn't exhausted until a year after his passing!
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