Showing posts with label Wednesday Worlds of Wonder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wednesday Worlds of Wonder. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AMAZING HIGH ADVENTURE "Saurian Remains"

In the 1980s, Marvel Launched a New Comic...

...an anthology dedicated to 1920s-50s pulp-style "high adventure" tales...but in comics form!













Is this fascinating tale historically-accurate?

The locations, institutions, and some of the characters are real!
There was a controversy in this era among paleontologists about properly-authenticating fossils!
But i don't know if things got as...violent...as presented here!
Only writer Stephen Perry and artist Stephen Bissette (along with Rick Veitch) would knoe the answer, and they've kept mum since the story's sole publication in Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #4 (1986).
And, if they've kept quiet for almost four decades, I doubt they'll blab about it now...
Segueing into a sorta-related topic...publishing paleontology...
Since coming across (and reading) the entire five-issue run, I've found some really kool material by both well-known pros and some up-and-comers, along with a couple of established foreign creatives who don't get enough attention in the Americas!
And it's all OOP/never-reprinted material that deserves your attention!
So, for the rest of the year, Wednesday Worlds of Wonder will re-present these thrilling tales to an audience that likely didn't even know they existed!
We hope you'll enjoy them!

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Best of Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CHRONICLES OF GENGHIS GRIMTOAD

I'm Sure a Lot of You are Going...WTF???

It's the story of the heroic and handsome Prince Erik, the heroic and beautiful Princess Jade (his MILFy mother...don't get any ideas!)..and the decidedly un-heroic and...well...toadlike, inept sorcerer's apprentice Genghis Grimtoad!

Written by Alan Grant & John Wagner and illustrated by Ian Gibson, it was originally-published in Marvel UK's bi-weekly anthology magazine Strip (their counterpart to American Marvel's Epic Magazine), it appeared in the entire 20-issue run, but remained unfinished since the magazine was cancelled before the strip was scheduled to finish several issues later!
However, due to public demand, Marvel UK gathered up the published storyline, added in the unpublished material and issued it as a graphic novel!
We presented the entire rarely-seen-in-America tale here...
Take Robert E Howard, JRR Tolkien, and Terry Pratchett and toss in talking toads, this is what you get!

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CHAMBER OF DARKNESS "Music from Beyond!" aka "Music of Erich Zann"

H P Lovecraft's "Music of Erich Zann" Served as the Basis For This Terror Tale...

...which featured the return of an EC Comics stalwart to horror comics!
Adapted by writer Roy Thomas and illustrated by Johnny Craig (with some redrawing by Marie Severin), the story from Marvel's Chamber of Darkness #5 (1970) is pretty successful...within the limitations of the Comics Code Authority's restrictions.
(Ironically, the Code "loosened up" with some major revisions after this story was created and published.
As pointed out HERE at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's site: "The 1971 code relaxed the restrictions on crime comics and lifted the ban on horror comics [while still prohibiting the use of “horror” and “terror” in titles].")
Note: You may have noticed a b/w splash page just before the end of the story.
When it was reprinted in Marvel's b/w magazine Masters of Terror #2 (1975), the spash was inserted into the story with the last two captions from the previous page's final panel.
Plus, the reprint changed the title to the Lovecraft prose tale's "Music of Erich Zann".
We hope you've enjoyed a month of Lovecraft comic adaptations, and suggest you continue to check us out every Wednesday for more Worlds of Wonder!
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "Haunter of the Dark!"

...from one of the first "shared universes" in fantastic fiction!
Now, another author we've all heard of adds to the storyline...
Appearing the issue after Robert Bloch's "Shambler From the Stars", this adaptation of H P Lovecraft's response to that tale by writer Ron Goulart, penciler Gene Colan and inker Dan Adkins, continues building on elements and aspects of the Cthuthu Mythos, mentioning events, items, and even characters that played roles in future stories!
However, the man who began the exploration of the universe of the Elder Gods, Lovecraft humself, passed away shortly after writing this story!
Tomorrow: the Conclusion of the Trilogy...by Robert Bloch!

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Conclusion

...our intrepid explorers into the unknown approach an island...where none should exist...and see...R'lyeh...a city that shouldn't be there...
Once more, we present several pages with the truly unique, moody coloring used only in the Spanish-language publication of the tale...
Cthulhu Lives!
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