Tales Twice Told WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Jonah"

In 1950s science fiction, the technology available in the year 2000 was truly amazing...

...it's a pity we didn't really have this stuff when the Millennium came about!

When this story was published in Key's Weird Tales of the Future #6 (1953), we really thought we'd have moving sidewalks, flying cars, interplanetary travel, and shrinking rays by 2000!

The writer is unknown, but the artist is Tony Mortellaro.

Be here Thursday, when we show how this story was retold in 1971!

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Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Beginning or the End!"

Let's start with ACTION and LOTS and LOTS of SPACESHIPS...

Is that an opening splash page or what?

The rest of the story isn't quite so frantic, but it is interesting...

Oops!

The writer of this never-reprinted story from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #6 (1953) is unknown, but the artist is Eugene E Hughes, who had a brief career in comics working exclusively for Key Publications, then disappeared from the art world (comic books/strips/commercial art) entirely!

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Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Time and Tide"

According to the cliche, what "waits for no man"?

The answer is in this never-reprinted tale from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #6 (1953).

The writer of this story is unknown, but the artist is Eugene E Hughes, who had a brief career in comics working exclusively for Key Publications, then disappearing from the art world (comic books/strips/commercial art) entirely!

Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Purple Mists!"

The perils of exploring the universe are many and varied...

...as seen in this never-reprinted story from Key Publications' Weird Tales of the Future #6 (1953)!

Though it's implied that one of the guys Rex and Tom shot was Rex's brother, that point is more-or-less ignored!

The writer is unknown, but artist Hy Fleishman signed his work in the first panel.

Fleishman worked for numerous publishers during the 1950s including Atlas (later Marvel), Story, Key, and Lev Gleason in various genres including horror, war, sci-fi, western, romance, and even humor.

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Trump Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "City of Primitive Man!"

This never-reprinted story is a Trumpster's sci-fi wet-dream...

...where it appears the geeks have inherited the Earth, and only the jocks can save civilization!

As this odd tale from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #2 (1952) shows, only extremely-manly men can keep civilization from being over-run when danger threatens.

The art is by Ed Smalle, a little-known, but prolific Golden Age artist producing almost 500 stories and covers starting in 1940 and ending in 1957, when he died.

Note: He might have scripted it as well, since he did that on occasion...

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Monday Madness WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Day of Doom"

It's Monday, which many of us considered, pre-coronavirus, to be the...

But we didn't mean the phrase quite as literally as this apocalyptic tale which...well, read for yourself...

Talk about "everything but the kitchen sink"! 

Us vs Commies!

Commies vs Aliens! 

Aliens vs Us!

Evacuation of the Earth! 

Destruction of the Moon!

Finally, to top it all off...Atlantis Rising!

And all that in only seven pages!

This story from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #4 (1952) could, with a little updating, make a helluva feature film or TV mini-series!
While the writer is unknown, the artist was Tony Mortellaro, who did hundreds of tales in various genres for Key and Atlas/Marvel, (where he became Associate Art Director under John Romita in the 1970s).

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Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Escape to Death!"

Yeah, you read that correctly.

"To Death", not "From Death".

Don't worry, this s-o-b deserves what he gets in the end...

It's a kool story with superb Basil Wolverton story and art.

But, there's one problem...the coloring.

Basil went to the trouble of doing a number of different alien races, but they're all colored the same shade of green!

(There is one panel with the various aliens colored differently, but even there, the coloring is not consistent.

Members of the same species are colored several different ways!)

Was this tale from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #2 recolored to play up the various species' differences when it was reprinted in Eclipse's Mr Monster's Super-Duper Special #8 in 1987?
When I get ahold of a copy, I'll let you know!

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Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton

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1942-1952

Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Flight to the Future"

"Jobs were scarce after the Great Atom Bomb War..."

They wrote that in 1952!
We haven't had an atomic war...yet.
But good jobs are still scarce in 2019, despite claims of "full employment by Don da Con!

The inimitable illustration style of Basil Wolverton just oozes from every panel of this tawdry tale from Key Publications' anthology Weird Tales of the Future #2 (1952).

And, the odds are he wrote the story as well.

Wotta guy!

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1942-1952

Reading Room: WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Plaything"

Ever feel like you're totally-insignificant?

Well, there might be a very good reason, as shown in Key's Weird Tales of the Future #6 (1953)!

"As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods. They kill us for their sport."

–Shakespeare "King Lear"

While the writer is unknown, the artist was Tony Mortellaro, who did hundreds of tales in various genres for Key and Atlas/Marvel, (where he became Associate Art Director under John Romita in the 1970s).

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