Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AMAZING HIGH ADVENTURE "Saurian Remains"

In the 1980s, Marvel Launched a New Comic...

...an anthology dedicated to 1920s-50s pulp-style "high adventure" tales...but in comics form!













Is this fascinating tale historically-accurate?

The locations, institutions, and some of the characters are real!

There was a controversy in this era among paleontologists about properly-authenticating fossils!
But i don't know if things got as...violent...as presented here!

Only writer Stephen Perry and artist Stephen Bissette (along with Rick Veitch) would knoe the answer, and they've kept mum since the story's sole publication in Marvel's Amazing High Adventure #4 (1986), 40 years ago.
And, if they've kept quiet for almost four decades, I doubt they'll blab about it now...

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Monday Mecha Madness SHOGUN WARRIORS "Demonicus Scheme!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Art by Herb Trimpe & Jack Abel

...as Combatra and Raideen hurtle towards the Moon to assist Dangard Ace, trapped inside Dr Demonicus' MoonBase, pilot Ilongo Savage and Dr Tambura are cooking up a plan...

Next Month: Rematch!

Plus Some Surprise Guest Stars!

Written by Doug Moench, penciled by Herb Trimpe and inked by Mike Esposito!

Reading Room JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY / WHERE MONSTERS DWELL "Ruler of Earth!"

We had something much different for today's post...

...but after Don the Con's announcement at the United Nations that the US government would now refer to Artificial Intelligence only as "Super Intelligence",  my mind immediately returned to this article we posted last year at fellow RetroBlog Hero Histories!

So, let's travel to the "future" year of 1990...as seen from 1962...

Appearing as the cover-featured story in one of the final pre-Mighty Thor issues of Atlas' Journey into Mystery (#82 in 1962), this story by plotter/editor Stan Lee, writer Larry Leiber, penciler Jack Kirby, and inker Dick Ayers is a clear Cold War/anti-Communist parable!

But, when the tale was reprinted at the end of the Cold War in Marvel's Where Monsters Dwell #25 (1973)...

...editor Roy Thomas had the hammer and sickle and red star insignias removed from the Russkies' hats...

...and replaced with an "H", which was explained with the change in the dialogue balloon above!

HYDRA???

Why not AIM...who were always more tech-oriented?

So, presumably, there are at least two worlds in the Marvel Multiverse where ROE presides, to this day, over a peaceful Earth!

Bonus for putting up with this all this fanboy mishigas...the lovingly-detailed original art for the spash page by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers!

BTW, did you note how warm, cuddly, and almost teddy-bear-like the cover's RoE is, compared to the version in the story itself?

Monday Mecha Madness SHOGUN WARRIORS "Demonicus Scheme!" Part 1

When Last We Left Our Gleaming Gulliver...

...our narrator will kindly (and conveniently) fill us in on the previous goings-on...

To Be Concluded Next Monday!

You'll note they didn't mention S.H.I.E.L.D. or Godzilla (whom Dr Demonicus previously fought) by name in Marvel's Godzilla #4-5 (1977)!
While I understand them not being able to identify Godzilla by name (due to the expiration of the licence from Toho Studios), S.H.I.E.L.D. (which is owned by Marvel) shouldn't be a problem, especially since (SPOILER) the agency shows up next issue!
Written and illustrated by the classic crew of Doug Moench, Herb Trimpe, and Mike Esposito.

Monday Mecha Madness SHOGUN WARRIORS "Moon Menace!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Art by Walt Simonson

...having driven off three creatures spawned by meteors, the Shogun Warriors now face the prospect of a gigantic meteor about to strike the Earth!

Coincidence?

I don't think so...

"Doctor Demonicus"?

Yes!

Before doing Shogun Warriors, writer Doug Moench and artst Herb Trimpe handled the creative chores on Marvel's previous adaptation of a Japanese media property...Godzilla: King of the Monsters!
(Sadly, the Goszilla comic ented just after Shogun Warriors began, preventing a kool crossover storyline!)
Dr Demonicus first appeared there, in issues 4 & 5 (1977), though not illustrated by Trimpe, but by guest-artist Tom Sutton, who filled-in for those two issues!

As for exactly who the demented doctor is...

Wow, the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe was really handy, eh?

The Shogun Warriors (and Doctor Demonicus) will return in September!