Showing posts with label epidemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label epidemic. Show all posts

Monday, September 18, 2023

Monday Medical Madness TWILIGHT ZONE "Plague"

Submitted for your approval...
...a tale so frightening, it couldn't be told on TV...but it did appear in comic books...in The Twilight Zone!
There wasn't a sequel to this never-reprinted story by writer Leo Dorfman and illustrator Joe Orlando (with an assist from Mike Sekowsky) from Gold Key's Twilight Zone #20 (1967)!
Perhaps it's best we never know,,,
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and the sequel

Monday, July 24, 2023

Monday Madness MARVEL TALES "Last Man Alive!"

This lovely cover by Bill Everett is sorta true...

...but it's also sorta deceiving!
Read about Freddie Kruger (yep, that's his name)...
So he wasn't the last man alive...nor was he even on Earth!
Why the disconnect between the cover for Atlas' Marvel Tales #153 (1956) by Bill Everett and the story illustrated by Ed Winiarski?
Two possibilities!
1) the cover was conceived and drawn before the story was written, and the tale, done later on, was modified from the basic premise!
2) Editor Stan Lee (who probably didn't write the story) failed to convey the concept of the already-done story properly to the cover artist, and it was too late in the production process to correct it!
Trivia: It's not unusual for a one-shot character's name to became famous for another reason later on!
This character has no relation to the villain of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise!
Conversely, when Raymond Burr's character in the first Godzilla film, reporter "Steve Martin" was resurrected 29 years later in Godzilla 1985, a certain comedian by the same name had become extremely famous!
Despite that, Burr's character retained the name in the sequel...
BTW, the story's author is unknown and neither the cover nor the tale has ever been reprinted.
This is its' first appearance in 67 years!
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Monday, July 11, 2022

Monday Madness MARVEL TALES "Dictator!"

There's a rumor floating though the 'Net that the current coronavirus is a man-made disease!
It's unlikely, but, what if someone did do that horrible deed?
Did artist John Forte and an unknown writer of this story about a fat, insecure dictator from Atlas' Marvel Tales #125 (1954) predict something that could happen over 65 years later?
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Sunday, June 12, 2022

You Believed CoronaVirus was OVER?

As the Medical Menace makes an unwelcome comeback...
...why not Shelter-in-Place and read COMIC BOOKS about imaginary (hopefully) epidemic/pandemics devastating America (or Earth) in the past, present, and future...here on this blog, and on our other RetroBlogs, including...
...Medical Comics and Stories...
...plus...
...Heroines!...
...Seduction of the Innocent...
...Hero Histories...
...War: Past, Present and Future...

...the aptly-named
...True Love Comics Tales
(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...
...Horror Comics of the 1950s...
...Crime & Punishment...
...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...
...Western Comics Adventures!
There will also be new CoronaVirus-oriented posts from time to time, but we're getting back on track with, among other things, our traditional Summer Blogathons!
Be here next Saturday for details!

Friday, July 23, 2021

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics NEW YORKER "Self-Isolating"

...who, like most comic book/strip professionals, creates, undisturbed by others, in his own studio/office.
Besides his other work, he's been a steady contributor to The New Yorker, including covers and editorial cartoons during the pandemic like the one above from the March 30, 2020 issue!
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Thursday, July 22, 2021

CoronaVirus Comics Reading Room UNCANNY TALES "Cure"

Sometimes solving the puzzle of a pandemic is worse than the disease itself...
...as this never-reprinted tale set in the then-future year of 1976 from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #45 (1956) demonstrates!
It should be pointed out that the "common cold" virus, though known to mankind since 1600 BC, has never been known to affect any other, non-human species!
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Monday, February 8, 2021

Monday Madness THE STAND "Afterward"

...here's the personal notes of the writer, penciler, color artist, and editor of the maxi mini-series that, combined can be considered the War & Peace of graphic storytelling!
Roberto Aguirre-Sacsca is currently the executive producer/creative director of the various Archie Comics TV shows including Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Katy Keene, as well as the CEO of Archie Comics!
Mike Perkins continues to work for both Marvel and DC, usually both penciling and inking (a rarity in the business)!
Laura Martin may have started as a colorist, but she's now considered one of the preeminent color artists in the comics field, enhancing great illustrations and salvaging bad artwork!
Editor Ralph Macchio is now retired, no doubt exhausted from working on The Stand!
Sadly, he has no on-line presence I can link to!
He is not the actor who plays The Karate Kid nor is he related to him an any way!

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Monday, January 25, 2021

Monday Madness THE STAND: NIGHT HAS COME "Finale & Epilogue"

...the Dark Man (Randall Flagg) has been destroyed.
Stu and Frannie's baby, Peter, is born...with the disease, but quickly recovers!
Is The Stand 2 Coming?
Only Stephen King knows...
BTW, the Epilogue is only in the extended/expanded edition, not the original published text!
Behind-the-scenes info from the comics mini-series creatives!

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