Wednesday Worlds of Wonder UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION "Vision of Venus"

Though not as prolific as Edgar Rice Burroughs or Robert E Howard...

...Otis Adelbert Kline deserves a place on any bookshelf of "scientific romances/high adventure"!

Weird Observation: Why do so many of these early writers have three names?

This never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #4 (1975) by writer/artist Tim Conrad adapts one of Kline's Venus stories.

Like ERB and others, Kline did multiple stories set on Venus, Mars, and the Moon.

(His lunar-located novel, Maza of the Moon, was adapted into the one-shot comic Rocket to the Moon, which we presented HERE!)
Sadly, none of Kline's other works have ever been presented in graphic form.
This text piece might offer a clue as to why...

Hopefully, someday, some publisher will take a shot at a new adpataion!
Next Week:
We turn to HORROR for the month of October!
Miss It at Your Own Peril!

Reading Room EERIE SMITH AND WALTER WEARY "Variable One: When Ya Gotta Go -- Ya Gotta Go..."

What if Bill and Ted had functioning brains?

They might have been these two guys, who had a brief, never-reprinted run in Pacific Comics' anthology Pacific Presents in 1984.

Written and illustrated by Tim Conrad, this cover-featured premiere in Pacific Presents #3 was moved up on the schedule to fill in a gap due to Dave Stevens being late on the third installment of The Rocketeer!

Despite being promised for the next issue, The Rocketeer never returned to the anthology, instead going on to his own book.

Eerie and Walter did, as you'll see in the near-future...