Reading Room WORLDS UNKNOWN "Farewell to the Master" Part 1

You know the story...sorta.
You've seen (and/or heard) the story adapted...sorta.
Now read the most faithful adaptation of the tale...short of the original novelette!








And before you go any further, "Gnut" is pronounced "Nut".

That's one of the reasons it was changed when the story by Harry Bates was adapted in 1951 into a movie...

Aw, you guessed!

As you've surmised, there were quite a few changes made when the silver screen version was created and produced!

And, when writer Roy Thomas, penciler Ross Andru and inker Wayne Howard went back to the source material for the never-reprinted Marvel's Worlds Unknown #3 (1973)...well, let's let Rascally Roy himself tell you about that...

Be Here on Thursday for the ASTOUNDING conclusion...plus some kool extras (which will explain why I capitalized "astounding"!)

Reading Room 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

and Other Stories

(featuring "Doorstep")

Reading Room WORLDS UNKNOWN "Day After the Day the Martians Came!"

With NASA's Perseverance probe about to land on Mars...

Art by Ross Andru & John Romita

We thought we'd present a tale of the Martians returning the favor that also ties-in with Black History Month!
Wonder how?
Keep reading...

The short story this comic tale is based upon first appeared in the ground-breaking 1960s anthology Dangerous Visions, a collection of original novelettes and novellas conceived and edited by Harlan Ellison, which should be on any science fiction fan's bookshelf or eReader.

Several of the stories in the anthology, in particular this one and "Riders of the Purple Wage" by Phillip Jose Farmer, explored the subject of racial prejudice.

The never-reprinted comic adaptation from the first issue of Marvel's short-lived anthology Worlds Unknown, is scripted by Gerry Conway and illustrated by Ralph Reese, who began in 1966 as an assistant to Wally Wood and went solo within a couple of years, first as an inker, and later as a penciler/inker.

He's done work for all the major comics companies (usually on their anthology titles), as well as stints on the Flash Gordon newspaper strip and licensing art for Childrens' Television Workshop!

BTW, the Grand Comics Database lists John Romita as sole artist of the cover, but, IMHO, the figure poses are clearly Ross Andru, not Romita.

(And the GCD originally listed Marie Severin and Sal Buscema as the artists!)

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 Dangerous Visions

(where the prose version of this tale first appeared!) 

Reading Room WORLDS UNKNOWN "A Gun for Dinosaur" Conclusion

After you gaze at this eye-catching cover by an unknown penciler and penciler/inker John Romita Sr...

...we'll recap What Has Gone Before!

Time-traveling safari guide/hunter Reginald Rivers offers a cautionary tale to an overly-enthusiastic prospective client.

His story concerns two other clients who disregarded the experienced Rivers' warnings...

To enhance your appreciation of this tale, here's a couple of unique treats...

The dramatic radio adaptation of "A Gun for Dinosaur" fro the classic series X Minus One, starring Mason Adams.

Plus, the illustrations by Emsh (Ed Emshwiller) from the original prose tale in Galaxy Magazine!

Be here tomorrow for more Friday Fun with Big Apple Comix!

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Rivers of Time

by

L Sprague deCamp

featuring the complete time travel adventures of Reginald Rivers!

Reading Room WORLDS UNKNOWN "A Gun for Dinosaur" Part 1

One of the great hokey time travel stories of all time...

...beautifully-adapted by some of Bronze Age Marvel's best creatives!

Be here tomorrow for the astounding conclusion!

Originally written in 1956 by L Sprague deCamp for Galaxy Magazine as a counterpoint to Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"...

Art by Ed Emshwiller

...the one-shot spawned a series of stories about time traveling hunter Reginald Rivers!

The adaptation in Marvel's Worlds Unknown #2 (1973) by writer Roy Thomas and illustrators Val Mayerick and Ernie Chua/Chan is extremely faithful to the prose tale.

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Rivers of Time

by

L Sprague deCamp

featuring the complete time travel adventures of Reginald Rivers!