Showing posts with label comic book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comic book. Show all posts

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Space Force Saturdays STAR TREK "Dinosaur Planet" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...(at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video) the Enterprise, after launching on it's second five-year mission, arrives at the Oblik star system.
They discover an M-Class planet, but one that's in the same stage of development as Earth was around 124,000,000 years ago!
And, they find the primordial world has primordial inhabitants...dinosaurs!
HERE'S a link to the audio file, so you can have a classic Power Records "read-along" experience!
Just move the sound bar control to 6:55 to continue the story!
Written by Ric Meyers and illustrated by Kirby Martin & Associates,
Power Records PR45 STAR TREK "Dinosaur Planet"(1979) is different from most of the famous "record and comic book" series.
It's one of two tales published after the release of Star Trek the Motion Picture, showing the crew in the grey and beige uniforms from the film.
However, the Enterprise itself is rendered as an amalgam of the TV series & movie versions.
And phasers and other tech are incorrectly-illustrated all the way through the story.
Neither of these tales were produced by Neal Adams' Continuity Associates, as all the previous tv show-based stories were.
Instead, Kirby Martin & Associates, a company that handled licensing art on merchandise like coffee mugs, t-shirts, and lunchboxes, was brought in to package the graphics.
Pavel Chekov, who was not on any of the previous Power Records, makes his audio debut here.
And Hikaru Sulu, who was illustrated as African-American in previous Power Records comics is finally rendered correctly as Japanese!

Friday, September 25, 2026

Friday Fun WHACK! "Ghastly Dee-fective Comics"

Get out your red/blue 3-D glasses (red on the left, blue on the right)...
 ...as we present a never-reprinted tale co-created by Joe Kubert!
This satirical, silly story, penciled by Norman Maurer and inked by Joe Kubert for St John's Whack! #1 (1953), was was especially-designed for use as a 3-D story (unlike some comic tales that were adapted from 2-D to 3-D during the 1950s 3-D craze.) 
Whack! was one of numerous MAD comic book clones that popped up in the early 1950s.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Stephen Colbert IS Tek Jansen: Space Hero!

Did you know mild-mannered Late Show host Stephen Colbert is really...
...and that he had both a five-issue comic mini-series...
...and a number of animated cartoon episodes (with Colbert as the voice of Jansen)!
Sadly, the cartoons themselves are now lost to the cyber-winds, but the theme song survives HERE!
But hang tight, True Believers, 'cause we'll be posting some of the OOP (that's "out of print") adventures of everybody's (especially Stephen's) favorite space hero for the next couple of weeks on this blog at Wednesday Worlds of Wonder and Space Hero Saturdays plus, same day on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!
That's three chapters each week for the next two weeks!

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Sunday, December 7, 2025

Pearl Harbor Day Special: UNCLE SAM "Ruthless Invaders!"

Six months before Pearl Harbor, this comic book story predicted the event...
...in Quality Comics' National Comics #18, cover-dated December 1941!
Remember that comic books used to be cover-dated 2-4 months before the actual on-sale date, and that the actual production time for a comic is anywhere between 1-3 months!
So this comic was on sale in September or October of 1941, and the story was written by Will Eisner and drawn by Lou Fine sometime between May and August of that same year!
Eerie, eh?
Note: they didn't get some of the details quite right...
Guam is hit at the same time as Pearl Harbor.
This one is weirdly close to reality!
Guam was attacked and conquered the very next day, Dec 8th!
Aircraft bomb Guam and battleships shell Pearl Harbor.
In reality, aircraft bombed Pearl Harbor and battleships shelled Guam just before it was invaded!
A German invasion fleet heads for New England!
Plus, the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Guam were part of a coordinated plan by Japan and Germany!
In reality, Germany had no such trans-Atlantic fleet available.
Hell, they couldn't even invade England, only 35 miles away from Axis-occupied France across the English Channel at it's closest point!
And, the Germans were less than happy to discover they now had to deal with America, along with England and Russia!
Hitler had hoped to keep the US out of the war for at least another year.
However the Nazis did honor their pact with Japan and declared war on the USA less than a week after Pearl Harbor.

Monday, December 1, 2025

Monday Mecha Madness ASTRO BOY "Gangor the Monster"

Though technically a "robotto", not a "mecha"...
...this manga-to anime character was America's first exposure to Japanese pop culture's passion for artificial life-forms!

Now, we're presenting the first American comic book adaptation of one of the episodes from the 1963 series, which aired afternoons Monday through Friday on local channels!
But Wait!
Do You Believe the Threat of the Weird Robot is Over???
You're in for a surprise...
Next Monday!
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Friday, November 21, 2025

Friday Fun ALL-NEW COMICS "Mummy Madness"

If You Like Slapstick Abbott & Costello-Style Comedy...

...you'll love this never-reprinted one-shot feature from Harvey's All-New Comics #5 (1943)!
The team of Huff & Guff, produced by Bob Powell's art studio, were obviously patterned after Bud Abbott & Lou Costello, and were meant to be an ongoing feature.
Sadly, the response to them must have been absolutely minimal, since no further stories about them ever appeared!
Bob Powell and his assistants remained prolific contributors to numerous publishers (including Harvey) in every genre from romance to horror to humor to Westerns and more, through the 1940s and 50s

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