Showing posts with label Vernon Henkel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vernon Henkel. Show all posts

Monday, June 14, 2021

Monday Mars Madness (JOURNEY INTO) UNKNOWN WORLDS "End of the Earth"

There's a lot of never-reprinted Atlas/Marvel comics out there...
...including almost all of this anthology series!
By not accepting handouts from others, mankind is taught to, once more, be self-sufficient! 
Earth will not be a welfare state!
One other point: though the city containing all surviving humans is in Africa, there aren't any non-white people there!
Illustrated by Vernon Henkel, this never-reprinted cover and feature from Atlas' Unknown Worlds #36 (1950) is typical of sci-fi comics of the 1940s-early 1950s (pre-EC Comics' sci-fi line)
BTW, though the book is #36, it's really the first issue!
The previous issues were titled Teen Comics, before that, All-Teen Comics, and before that, All-Winners Comics!
Also note, I called it "Unknown Worlds", even though the cover says "Journey into Unknown Worlds"!
The indicia (which lists the actual title in official records) leaves out the "Journey into...", so that's what we, and indexers, go by.
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Saturday, May 15, 2021

Space Force Saturdays SPACE SQUADRON & SPEED CARTER: SPACEMAN "Famous Explorers of Space" Part 5

Both Atlas' Space Squadron and Speed Carter: SpaceMan had "future history" features...
...set in the "past", like this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Space Squadron #5 (1953), which took place in the then-future of 1976!
Ah, the year of America's Bicentennial...when we discovered valleys with oxygen, water, and edible vegetation on the Moon!
In contrast, let's look at how such "Future History" was told in Speed Carter...
Oh, dear!
We're not off to a good start, are we?
Makes you wonder what, exactly, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and several others are investing in...and why, eh?
Besides "Famous Explorers", Space Squadron also presented "future history tales" about the guy who was young hotshot Jet Dixon's crusty Commander-in-Chief when he was a young hotshot pilot...
 Think a space cadet named James T Kirk would've considered Blast Revere a role model?
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