Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WORLDS UNKNOWN "Doorstep"

We've been showing aliens who dare to land on Earth "who's the boss" for centuries...

...but this is one time that may not have been the best approach!

Adapted from a short story by Keith Laumer, this tale from Marvel's Worlds Unknown #2 (1973) has a kool "Twilight Zone" twist ending, but couldn't have been adapted for the show due to the crudeness of tv special effects work at the time.

OTOH, writer Gerry Conway, penciler Gil Kane, and inker Tom Sutton had no such constraints, and they do EC Comics' writers and artists proud with a tale that would have fit right in with Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, or the merged Weird Science-Fantasy books!

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A Plague of Demons

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder PHANTASMAGORIA "Parasite!"

Kenneth Smith is a Remarkable Comics/Sci-Fi/Fantasy Creative!

Besides having a Doctorate in European Political Philosophy, Kenneth R Smith is a talented writer-artist who's done covers for paperbacks, magazines, and comics, themed illustration portfolios, spot illustrations for magazines and several comic stories.

Here's one from the second issue of his self-published magazine, Phantasmagoria...

Beautiful work.

His comics/sci-fi/fantasy career was short, but he produced spectacular material!
And he's happily-worked in his chosen field of interest, where he's a respected figure, both simultaneously and then full-time!
Would that we all could achieve that!

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Phantasmagoria

Complete Series

by Kenneth R Smith

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder STEPHEN COLBERT'S TEK JANSEN "Return to Space Academy!" Part 1

When Last We Left the Greatest Space Hero of All Time (according to him)...

...he had done a great job!

His boss had a different assessment...

Yes, it's a cliffhanger, written by John Layman & Tom Peyer and illustrated by Robbi Rodriguez...which is concluding right now at...
Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

So what are you waiting for???

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Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen

Complete Mini-Series

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder STEPHEN COLBERT'S TEK JANSEN "Invasion of the Optiklons!!!" Part 1

Somewhere out in space, beautiful green women are in peril...

...and only one manly man can save them!

Continued, right now, at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

Written by John Layman & Tom Peyer and illustrated by Scott Chantler, the premiere comic adventure of the one and only Tek Jansen in Oni Press' Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen #1 (2007) jumps into the lunacy head-first and won't let up!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder 3-D COLOR CLASSICS: TIME MACHINE (Part 2)

When Last We Left Our Chronic Argonaut...

...(note the reference to HG Wells' earlier time travel tale!)

Victorian inventor John travels to the future, where he discovers humans reached a remarkable level of scientific achievement, then apparently lost their knowledge over generations and became gentle primitives!

But not all of them!

When his time-travel vehicle is stolen and taken underground, John pursues the thieves, he discovers some humans had become savage primitives!

To Be Concluded...Tomorrow!

Adapted by Peter Stone, with layouts by Neal Adams and finishes by Adams, Rodolfo Damaggio, Andres Klasic, and John Nyberg, this adaptation takes considerable liberties with the original novel.

But, to be fair, almost every adaptation, no matter the media, has made changes, usually due to technical (sfx) or space limitations.

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Wednesday World of What the Hell??? SLOW DEATH FUNNIES "It Grows!"

Happy Earth Day...sort of!

We look back at the cover-featured (but never-reprinted) story of the first issue a now-legendary series that debuted on the very first Earth Day in 1970!

Though the cover of this first issue has reached "graphic icon" status, reproduced (often unlicensed/unauthorized) all over the place, the actual story by writer-artist Greg Irons has never been reprinted!

Slow Death was published for 11 irregularly-produced issues, from 1970 to 1992.

Besides environmental/ecological stories, it also featured tales about diseases/plagues/epidemics, and other (sometimes deliberately-produced) medical horrors!

A 50th Anniversary Special (numbered "Zero") appeared (a few months late) in 2021.

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Slow Death Zero

The Comix Anthology of Ecological Horror

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