Friday Fun TRUMP "Toys Realistic in Every Detail!"

Since brick-and-mortar retail stores began running Christmas sales before Halloween...

...we feel we're actually behind schedule running this classic feature about one of the most important aspects of the Yuletide season...TOYS...illustrated by Al Jaffee and likely written by Editor Harvey Kurtzman from Playboy Press' Trump #1 (1957)!

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Reading Room / Tales Twice Told WEIRD "Thing in a Box"

On Tuesday, we posted the original 1950s version of this tale, entitled "Death on the Earth-Mars Run!"!

Here's the re-titled and re-illustrated, but not re-written (except for the opening caption) 1970s version!

You'll note the rich Martian and his adopted Venusian daughter are much more "alien" here than in the 1950s art.

In addition, the ship, technology, and clothing are more in line with late-1960s/early 1970s visualizations of such things.
(No more capes and other fashion elements so prevalent in Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon!)

Sadly, artist Antonio Reynoso's storytelling style isn't quite as sharp as original artist Everett Raymond Kinstler's, with the captions covering story elements the artist doesn't quite get across in this story from Eerie Publications' Weird V6N1 (1972).
As in the case of the vast majority of Eerie Publications' comic magazines, all the stories in this issue were either direct reprints of 1950s comic stories or redrawn (and re-titled) versions of 1950s comic stories.
Remember, at that time, there was no Grand Comics Database...or even a World Wide Web the average reader could access to figure out where the stories, from defunct publishers, originally-appeared!
Nor were there even reference books (like the one conveniently-listed below) which contained such minutia for the serious aficionado of graphic arts!

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Friday Fun GRIN "Knowstalgia!"

From the short-lived MAD clone GRIN...

comes this "what the future will be like" feature which we're looking at from the future they "predicted"!

Illustrated by Al Scaduto and likely written by D J Arneson, this never-reprinted feature from the final issue of APAG House's GRIN (#3 in 1973) combines both topical humor and predictions about the future including technology, morals, and behavior that are amazingly-off from what actually happened!

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Friday Holiday Fun WEB OF HORROR "Santa's Claws"

As shown in the new movie Violent Night...

...besides traversing the Earth on Christmas Eve distributing gifts, Kris Kringle protects the innocent from threats both real and imagined!.

Story and art for this tale from Major Magazines' Web of Horror #3 (1970) were by Frank Brunner, who would go on to fame and artistic success in sf/fantasy including acclaimed runs on the comics Dr Strange and Man-Thing, and the 1990s X-Men animated series.

BTW, the spider-like host of the book was named (what else?) "Webster"!