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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Volta's Vichy Vassal"

We finally discover what far-distant future era Lost World takes place in...
...1982???
Well, when this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #59 (1949) was published, it was the "far future"...

The title reference is to the puppet government Nazi Germany installed in southern France to attempt to convince the French they weren't really conquered and occupied.
The implication was that if the Resistance stopped operations, northern France could be given (illusory) self-governance again!
It didn't work.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Food for Freedom!"

There's been a running sub-plot involving Volta schoolchildren...
...witnessing their soldiers battling Hunt Bowman, Lyssa, and other humans both on video, and even in person...with mixed results...causing some ofthe kids to doubt the righteousness of their planet's invasion of Earth!
Well, this certainly didn't have the effect the Volta government hoped it would have on their children!
The parallel to World War II's Axis countries' attempts to indoctrinate their youth to their point of view is obvious.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Jupiterians & Jovians"

The war against the VoltaMen continues...
...as yet another alien race enters the fray on the side of Earth!
So now we have support from Venus, Mars, and Jupiter against the VoltaMen.
Will the alliance bear fruit, or will the invaders from Volta tighten their iron grip on the Solar System?
Keep reading...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Of Vultures and VoltaMen!"

...and it appears secrets from the distant past are about to be revealed!
Thanks to this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #56 (1948), we now know the Martians tried to warn us in August, 1968 that the VoltaMen were en-route to attack and conquer Earth, with the invasion actually occurring shortly after that!
We don't know exactly how long after then that the "present-day" adventures of Hunt Bowman and Lyssa take place, but it's likely less than a century...perhaps even around 2020!
Will Eon the Martian return...and bring his fellow aliens with him?
Note that artist George Evans is improving by leaps and bounds since his debut only a few months ago in #50 as shown HERE!
He's experimenting with perspective and "camera angles", showing much more drama and in the individual panels.
While not quite where he'll be when he works on EC Comics' sci-fi, horror, and war books several years down the line, it's exciting to see his evolution as an illustrator!

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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Winter in July!"

Now that we're past the "Dreaded Deadline Doom"...
...let proceed forward with a new adventure with Hunt Bowman and Lyssa as they encounter...climate change!
But that will prove to be the least of their worries...
Zombie Vikings!
That's something you don't see every day...even in the Lost World!
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