Best of Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CHRONICLES OF GENGHIS GRIMTOAD

I'm Sure a Lot of You are Going...WTF???

It's the story of the heroic and handsome Prince Erik, the heroic and beautiful Princess Jade (his MILFy mother...don't get any ideas!)..and the decidedly un-heroic and...well...toadlike, inept sorcerer's apprentice Genghis Grimtoad!

Written by Alan Grant & John Wagner and illustrated by Ian Gibson, it was originally-published in Marvel UK's bi-weekly anthology magazine Strip (their counterpart to American Marvel's Epic Magazine), it appeared in the entire 20-issue run, but remained unfinished since the magazine was cancelled before the strip was scheduled to finish several issues later!
However, due to public demand, Marvel UK gathered up the published storyline, added in the unpublished material and issued it as a graphic novel!

We presented the entire rarely-seen-in-America tale here...

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Conclusion

Take Robert E Howard, JRR Tolkien, and Terry Pratchett and toss in talking toads, this is what you get!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder PSYCHO "Swordsman of Sarn in 'City of Living Light!' "

Created in 1971 for Skywald's b/w magazine Science Fiction Odyssey...

...this cover by Jeffrey Catherine Jones and the following story by writer Gardner Fox, penciler Jack Katz, and inker Vince Colletta were left homeless when the book was cancelled before publication.

However, both were presented in Skywald's Psycho #12 (1973!)!

Enjoy!

This was obviously-meant to be an ongoing high-adventure series in the John Carter/Gullivar Jones mold.

Sadly, there was no follow-up!
Note: Though the cover for Psycho #12 didn't really display Jeff Jones' art to best advantage...

 ...when the cover was reprinted in Toutain Editor's 1984 #36 (1982) in Spain...

...it got the treatment it deserved!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION "Vision of Venus"

Though not as prolific as Edgar Rice Burroughs or Robert E Howard...

...Otis Adelbert Kline deserves a place on any bookshelf of "scientific romances/high adventure"!

Weird Observation: Why do so many of these early writers have three names?

This never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #4 (1975) by writer/artist Tim Conrad adapts one of Kline's Venus stories.

Like ERB and others, Kline did multiple stories set on Venus, Mars, and the Moon.

(His lunar-located novel, Maza of the Moon, was adapted into the one-shot comic Rocket to the Moon, which we presented HERE!)
Sadly, none of Kline's other works have ever been presented in graphic form.
This text piece might offer a clue as to why...

Hopefully, someday, some publisher will take a shot at a new adpataion!
Next Week:
We turn to HORROR for the month of October!
Miss It at Your Own Peril!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ADVENTURES OF THE DOVER BOYS Chapter 6 "Treasure Trove"

We Have Already Seen...

Don't wait!

Here it is!

The Big Finale!

(One codicil: may be NSFW due to racial stereotypes common to the era [1950].)

Apparently very few people sent postcards because the Dover Boys never reappeared anywhere else.

And I do mean NEVER!

In 2011, Archie and Friends #137-138 and #150 featured a storyline involving almost all the "forgotten" characters from MLJ/Archie's long publishing history from Suzie to Sam Hill: Detective to Super Duck crossing dimensions to Riverdale to encounter Archie and the gang...except the Dover Boys!

Sad, ain't it?

Next Wednesday...

Join Us as We Journey to a New World of Wonder!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ADVENTURES OF THE DOVER BOYS Chapter 5 "Power of the Evil Eye!"

When Last We Left Our Heroes...

Before I present the synopsis, note that the material that follows may be NSFW due to politically-incorrect racial stereotypes common to fiction of the era (1950).

No need to hold your breath, just dive right in...

Suzie was a combination of the teen-age antics of Archie's crew and the bubble-headed blonde stereotype common to movies/tv/radio shows/comic books of the era.

The character first appeared in 1942, the same year as Archie, and kept going until 1954, ending her own book with #100.

Next Wednesday:
THE BIG FINALE!

Don't miss it!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ADVENTURES OF THE DOVER BOYS Chapter 4 "Molten Death"

You May Recall...

Now that you've been updated, read on...with one caveat:

May be NSFW due to politically-incorrect stereotypes common to the period (1950).

Super Duck was a duck, but was not "super"...at this point (1950).

He did start out in 1943 as an anthropromorphic superhero in red and blue, but lost both the costume and powers within six issues, becoming Archie's answer to those other ducks, Donald and Daffy.

It obviously worked since he kept going until 1960, and has been reprinted occasionally since then.

Be here

NEXT WEDNESDAY

when we will continue our re-presentation of this never-reprinted story and you'll see "the most thrilling scenes you have ever witnessed!"
(Hey, they said it above!)

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ADVENTURES OF THE DOVER BOYS Chapter 3 "Lost in the Jungle"

When Last We Left Our Heroes...

Is your spine tingling?

Then let's continue, boys and girls...with one caveat:

May be NSFW due to politically-incorrect ethnic/racial stereotypes common to the period (1950).

As you might have guessed from the ad at the end of this chapter, Archie Comics was not above doing their own imitation of their most successful character!

Be here...
NEXT WEDNESDAY
...to see if The Dover Boys can avoid a "certain and horrible death!"

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ADVENTURES OF THE DOVER BOYS "Chapter 2: Wings of Doom"

We Have Already Seen...

Now that you're caught up, let's continue...

Note the ad for the lead title from this publisher, which began as MLJ Magazines, but changed it's name to Archie Comics when it became clear that the red-headed teen outsold everything else they published.

At this point (1950), Archie was slowly phasing-out their non-humor strips in existing books like Pep Comics and Laugh Comics, but were still willing to try non-teen humor material in standalone titles like this one, Sam Hill: Private Eye and Darling Love, none of which lasted more than eight issues.
Be here next Wednesday as we continue this never-reprinted tale!