Monday Mecha Madness JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!!"

Behind this Jack Kirby-penciled/Don Heck-inked splash...

...lurks a mystery. which we'll delve into after you read the story!

When this Stan Lee-scripted, Don Heck-illustrated (except for the splash) tale was reprinted in Marvel's Fantasy Masterpieces #2 (1967), the cover played-up Heck's Cyclopean robot (and Dashin' Don himself)...

...but when it was first published in Atlas' Journey into Mystery #57 (1960)...

...and reprinted a second time in Marvel's Where Monsters Dwell #12 (1971)...

...it used the original Kirby cover that seems to be a reverse-angle of the splash page above and shows a radically-different Orogo with two eyes!

Did editor/art director Stan the Man have The King do the cover and splash and then pass the rest of the story to Heck to finish,...but, for whatever reason, didn't give Dashing Don the cover as reference for Orogo, so Heck came up with his own version of the robot...with only one eye?

There are several Atlas-era monster stories where Kirby would do splashes, then another artist would complete the tale.

Bookmark us and keep an eye out as we attempt to solve the half century-old mystery....

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Space Hero Saturdays NORGE BENSON...plus DINOSAURS in ""Plutonian Prehistoric Peril"

When Last We Left Our Hapless Hero...

...he was returning to Pluto after spending a couple of issues on a jungle planet where he met the scantly-clad Princess Jolie...

This tale starring Space Hero Norge Benson from Fiction House's Planet Comics #22 (1943), while out of reprint order, proves artist Al Walker and whoever the writer is haven't lost their sense of the ludicrous!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder PLASM "The Sedition Agenda: Prologue 'The Death of Love' " Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...an alternate dimension/universe where Plasm, a world of humanoids using organic technology, dominates the region!

With their technology requiring constant intake of organic material as both fuel and construction material, the Plasmoids prize professional "seekers" like Lorca above all others in their society...except the ruling class.
But Lorca has begun to feel guilt about destroying all others the Plasmoids encounter simply to sustain their society.

And he's begun to question the "groupthink" that restrains individualism and free thought...

With an intriguing start like this, you may well ask...what happened?

Marvel Comics happened!

You can read the gory details HERE.

End result: Defiant Comics was gone in two years!

Sad, eh?

Depending upon the audience response, we may present more tales of Plasm and the Defiant Comics multiverse.

It's up to you, dear readers!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder PLASM "The Sedition Agenda: Prologue 'The Death of Love' " Part 1

There have been numerous comic companies that lasted only a couple of years...

...with Defiant Comics being one of the examples of a company who had all the right ingredients, but failing to achieve long-term success!

Their first, and longest-running title was Warriors of Plasm, which began with a unique #0 issue...

The Story Continues...Next Wednesday!

Conceived by Jim Shooter, fresh off his success at Valiant Comics, the tale sets up the Defiant Universe (actually a "multiverse" since this dimension and Earth's dimension, which it will soon interact with, are separate) and introduces us to the world of Plasm, where technology is organic and must be "fed" with other organic material in order to continue functioning!

You may ask "what makes this #0 issue so unique?"

Look at the page layouts.

Every page adheres to a grid pattern.

There's a good reason for that.

This entire issue was designed to be printed as trading cards!

So the panels, and most importantly, the captions and word balloons, all had to fit on what would be a "page" composed of nine cards!

No cutting-off titles, captions, or word balloons on seperate cards!

Here's Page 5 as a comic page...

...and here's how the cards that make up Page 5 look when placed in the album...

In addition, the cards were printed two-sided so that the cards of Page 1 had Page 2 on their backs, the cards of Page 3 had Page 4 on their backs, and so on!

Even so, the card set ran 150 cards, including four groups of chase cards which were rarer than the story cards!

And, of course, you had no idea what cards you'd get in a given pack!

You can see the complete set of cards HERE.

Be here next week for the rest of the comic story and more background about Defiant!

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Space Hero Satudays BRANT CRAIG: INTERPLANETARY DETECTIVE "Space Pirates of Lanthus IV"

He's not the first "Interplanetary Detective"...

...that honor goes to Planet Comics' Fero: Planetary Detective (who went "inter"planetary in his second appearance)!

But Brant Craig was the longest-lasting, with seven appearances!

Yeah, let's not worry about the innocent spacemen who were just killed during this raid, or their families.

They're just collateral damage...

This never-reprinted premiere from Youthful's Captain Science #2 (1951) was probably illustrated by Bill Molno.

The writer is unknown.

Brant Craig continued through the remaining five issues of Captain Science.

When the book was re-titled Fantastic, Brant (and Captain Science) made their final bows in the first issue.

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