Space Hero Saturdays BUZZY BEAN AND HIS FLYING SAUCER "Mystery of the Meteor"

Though it's been a couple of months since we looked in on Buzzy Bean...

 ..it's been mere days for him and his sister...

This never-reprinted second tale in the all-too-brief series appeared in Good Comics' Johnny Law, Sky Ranger #2 (1955).

Written by publisher Edmond Good and illustrated by Robert Martinott, the story completes the "set-up" for further adventures, which we'll present in the future.

Buzzy Bean Will Return...

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FLYING SAUCERS Cover Gallery

Here's the cover art by Gene Fawcette...

...to the story we've been running the past few Wednesdays.

Oddly, when the issue was reprinted a couple of years later, the art was altered...

...and I've never heard an explanation as to why!

For the record, I like the original cover better!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder FLYING SAUCERS "Final Objective"

When Last We Left Heroic Aviator Ross Lanning...

Art by Wally Wood

...he was rescued by the aliens from foreign spies who wanted the secret of alien technology!

Inspired by the flying saucer craze of the late 1940s-early 1950s, this 1950 Wally Wood-illustrated book was one of many one-shot titles from Avon Comics during their short, but prolific existence.

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Space Hero Saturdays BUZZY BEAN AND HIS FLYING SAUCER

The US government finally admits we're using flying saucers...

But sci-fi fans have known the truth about flying saucers for years...nay, decades!

Here's a never-reprinted strip about a boy and his personal flying saucer from the 1950s...

...from a short-lived company that only put out two titles with a combined total of nine issues!

Artist Carl Hubbell (no relation to the Hall of Fame baseball player) illustrated over 300 tales from the late Golden Age through the Silver Age at almost every company in the business.

Sadly, the writer of this premiere installment of the series in Good Comics' Johnny Law: Sky Ranger #1 (1955) is unknown.

BTW, the company name was not a boast, since the publisher was Edmond Good, an artist with both newspaper and comic book credits from the beginning of the Golden Age to the end of the Bronze Age.

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder FLYING SAUCERS "First Contact"

We Have Already Seen...

...well, between the kool inside front cover (with art by Wally Wood and an unknown inker) above, and the first paragraph below, you have all you need to follow the tale, so dive right in...

Next Wednesday:

Final Objective!

Inspired by the flying saucer craze of the late 1940s-early 1950s, this 1950 Wally Wood-illustrated book was one of many one-shot titles from Avon Comics during their short, but prolific existence.

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder FLYING SAUCERS "Spawn of Terror"

Was Erich Von Däniken (Chariots of the Gods) the first to tie flying saucers to ancient civilizations?

Nope!

The idea of aliens visiting us in ancient times had been popular for as long as fantasy and science fiction have been around.

Next Wednesday:

First Contact!

Inspired by the flying saucer craze of the late 1940s-early 1950s, this 1950 Wally Wood-illustrated book was one of many one-shot titles from Avon Comics during their short, but prolific existence.

Another one-shot (though it probably wasn't intended to be such), was Fawcett's Vic Torry and His Flying Saucer (1950).

Flying saucers also popped-up in almost every already-running comic book from funny animals to mysteries.

They even appeared in Charlton's Cowboy Western Comics, which changed it's name for a year to Space Western Comics to play up the connection!

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Reading Room UFO FLYING SAUCERS "Life on Other Worlds"

Specifically-themed anthologies are difficult to keep going for more than a few issues at a time...

...but Gold Key's UFO Flying Saucers / UFOs and Outer Space managed an impressive 25-issue run!

The series combined stories using documented UFO sightings with features based on reasonable speculation and tales that were flights of sheer fantasy,

Written by Leo Dorfman and illustrated by Luis Dominguez, this short from  UFO Flying Saucers #1 (1968) falls into the "reasonable speculation" category...albeit with aliens who look like refugees from a Golden Age (1920s-1940s) pulp magazine!

BTW, Gold Key's former publishing partner Dell, had their own 1960s anthology, Flying Saucers, which began before UFO Flying Saucers, but only managed five issues!

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Space Hero Saturdays SHADOW COMICS "Riddle of the Flying Saucers"

Who Knows What Evil Lurks...on Earth and the Moon?

Yeah, that guy!

As they used to say...
Not a dream!

Not a hoax!

Not an "imaginary story"!

This never-reprinted tale from S&S's Shadow Comics V7N10 (1948) is illustrated by Bob Powell, who may have written it..although it could be The Shadow's primary writer, Walter Gibson, who co-created and scripted the Spurs Jackson and His Space Vigilantes strip in Charlton's Space Cowboy Comics a few years later!
It's definitely not an adaptation of a Shadow radio show episode, which most of the comic stories during this period, in fact, were...as shown HERE and HERE!
BTW, this wasn't the last time He Who Knows What Evil would be involved in a Moon-related story...

...which you can learn more about

TOMORROW

...when we detail our plans for this year's

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