From Fawcett's Mechanix Illustrated V49N8 (1953)...
Did it help inspire Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Werner Roth, and Vince Colletta in creating this sequence in Marvel's X-Men #14 (1965)?
You tell us!
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Showing posts with label fawcett. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2024
Monday Mutant Madness MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED "How Nuclear Radiation can Change Our Race"
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Space-Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "...Finds the Lunar Lair!"
Place Your Bets, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Note: they still haven't fixed Jagga's chameleon-like coloring!
Judging from the cover, that trial is going to be a killer!
The unknown writer and artist Leonard Frank bring back long-time aides Joyce Ryan and Chuck Ramsey for a brief visit in this tale from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #55 (1947), though they don't actually participate in the adventure!It's also their final appearance in the series.
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Thursday, March 7, 2024
Reading Room THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED "Secret of the Walking Dead"
With the return of AMC's The Walking Dead...
...we thought we'd present a shocker involving someone deliberately creating a scientific zombie!
Could this be similar to how the walkers on AMC's Walking Dead came to be?
This tale from Fawcett's This Magazine is Haunted #6 (1952) was illustrated by Ed Waldman who worked on-and-off in comics from 1941 to 1954.
The tale's writer is sadly, unknown!
However, the cover artist is Sheldon Moldoff!
However, the cover artist is Sheldon Moldoff!
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Saturday, January 6, 2024
Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "Asteroid Battle!"
You thought we'd heard the last of evil Jagga the Space Raider?
Really?
Not only is he back, but displaying his chameleon-like ability to change color between the cover and the first page of his new battle with Our Hero...the "Monarch of the Airways" himself...Captain Midnight!
BTW, Jagga doesn't have chameleon-like abilities, though they'd probably come in handy.
The comic's editor didn't coordinate between the cover and interior colorists!
Not surprising, since the cover (by Charley Tomsey) and interior (by Leonard Frank) were likely prepped a couple of months apart.
And note that when the story and cover were reprinted in Australia...
...the Aussie editor had Jabba's coloring (somewhat) corrected!
Now, on with today's adventure...
Artist Leonard Frank and a presently-unknown writer continue the battle with Jagga in this tale from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #54 (1947).
And, yes, he'll be back...though what color he'll be, you'll have to wait and see!
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Saturday, November 4, 2023
Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "Peril on Venus!"
...now the Sovereign of the Spaceways is about to encounter the Scoundrel of Space again!
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Writer Otto Binder and artist Leonard Frank continue the battle with Jagga (who's gone from Caucasian skin-tone to grey in his second appearance) in this tale from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #53 (1947).
He'll turn green (though not with envy) in later appearances!
Note that the then-current science of 1947 theorized Venus might, in fact, be habitable.
The idea that Atlanteans would've migrated there centuries earlier, when their continent sank beneath the waves, was unique.
The idea that Atlanteans would've migrated there centuries earlier, when their continent sank beneath the waves, was unique.
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Saturday, September 16, 2023
Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "versus the Space Raider!"
Our intrepid aviator-turned-astronaut faces his first interplanetary foe...
...in this never-reprinted story from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #52 (1947)!
Oh, you can bet on it, Cap!
Scripted by noted pulp and comic author Otto Binder, and illustrated by Leonard Frank, this was the first of several encounters with Jagga, who seemed able to change his skin color in each tale, likely due to colorists not being given reference of the character's previous appearances!
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Saturday, July 8, 2023
Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN VIDEO "Dark Side of the Moon" Conclusion
Aliens operating on the Dark Side of the Moon plan to attack Earth, and only Captain Video (with the Video Ranger) can stop them...
You may ask, "What's so special about this? It's typical sci-fi."
And you'd be right.
Except, due to their extremely low-budget nature, the Captain Video TV show and movie serial showed aliens who looked like this...
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| The "alien invasion force" from Captain Video; the Serial. Note Captain Video (Judd Holdren) and the Ranger on the left in "clever" disguises. |
Only in the comic, unencumbered by financial or special effect restrictions, was the full, unfettered potential of the concept realized.
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