Monday Mecha Madness: Before ULTRON...there was MAKINO!

Who created Ultron, the Ultimate Evil AI?

If you go with the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron...Tony Stark aka Iron Man. and Bruce Banner aka The Hulk!

If you go with Marvel Comics history...Henry Pym aka Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Goliath/Yellowjacket/Wasp/etc (Don't ask. It's too long a story...).

In reality, it was writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema in Marvel's Avengers V1 #54 (1967).

But where did Roy come up with the idea?

Well, he "borrowed" it from Captain Video!

Yep!

In #3 of Captain Video's short-lived 1950s Fawcett Comics title, he faced a robot named Makino who killed his scientist creator and then threatened all mankind!

The story left such an impression on the young Roy Thomas that, almost two decades later, he adapted elements of that story into the long-running saga of Ultron!

Roy explained how it came about in TwoMorrows' Alter Ego #114.

You can read the actual comic story on our "brother" RetroBlog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video HERE and HERE!

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The Past is Present at SECRET SANCTUM OF CAPTAIN VIDEO with Masters of the Universe & Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Currently, at Our 'Brother" RetroBlog...

...we celebrate the new Masters of the Universe movie with a re-presentation of the never-reprinted comic adaptation of the 40-year old first live-action movie based on the animated series and toy line!
Click HERE to read the first three parts, and catch the final chapter tomorrow!
(Note: they're in reverse order, most recent post first!)
And, starting Tuesday, in tribute to Stephen Spielberg's new movie about alien visitation, Disclosure Day,,,
...the Secret Sanctum re-presents the comic adaptation of the director's first film about alien visitation from almost a half-century ago...

...by Archie Goodwin, Walt Simonson and Klaus Janson!
And to think I saw the flick in the movie theatres when it opened!
Lord, I feel old!

Bonus:

Here's the original version of Bob Larkin's painted cover, showing Roy Neary and Jillian Guller running away from the alien ship!

(I've never seen it anywhere in color...)
And here's Simonson & Janson's cover for the tabloid-sized Treasury Edition reprint...

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Monday Mecha Madness TERMINATOR "Down to Earth" Conclusion

When Last We Left Pop Culture's Most Famous Killer AI, SkyNet...

...in the ruins of Miami, "Sarah's Slammers" (a human resistance group named after Sarah O'Connor) inadvertently shoot down a spacecraft from a human colony on the moon, believing it to be a Terminator aircraft.

The combined human groups repel a Terminator assault, then retreat to the Slammers' hidden base.

Meanwhile, one of the Slammers, Martin Redfoot, has discovered a nearby town that looks like an intact pre-war town, but...

Is Moonman Konrad a Terminator?

Or is there another, far more innocent, explanation?

Youll have to wait until June to find out, because...

Next Week: the Return of

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Monday Mecha Madness TERMINATOR "Down to Earth" Part 1

Between the first Terminator  movie and Terminator 2: Judgment Day...

...a brand-new comics publisher secured the rights to do a sequel comic.

Note: the "three years since" reference is to 2028, the year The Terminator was sent into the past, not 1984, the year it arrived in the past.

To Be Concluded Next Monday!

Scripted by publisher Tony Caputo, penciled by Tony Akins, and inked by Jim Brozman, this never-reprinted adventure from NOW's Terminator #1 (1988) introduced the inhabitants of a moonbase untouched by SkyNet, who will prove vital to future storylines in comics, novels, roleplaying games, and the movies themselves.

BTW, it's not the premiere comics tale of the Terminator Multiverse!

That honor goes to a 5-page introduction in the back of NOW's Rust #12 (1988) which leads into this story.

Unfortunately, that book is extremely-expensive and I've never seen anybody else post scans of the Terminator back-up tale online!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MAN-GODS FROM BEYOND THE STARS Part 1

 Chariots of the Gods? was the primary inspiration for Jack Kirby's Eternals...

...now part of both the Marvel Multiverse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
So let's look at a strip from the same era, the mid-1970s, also inspired by Erich Von Daniken's concepts!

The Story Continues..Next Wednesday!

Written by Doug Moench, illustrated by Alex Nino.

Though largely discredited today, Von Daniken's books about "ancient astronauts" influenced pop culture from the 1970s to the present, including tv (BattleStar Galactica), movies (Prometheus and Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull), and comics (Tragg and the Sky Gods)

The Eternals was originally called Return of the Gods and, like Mister Machine/Machine Man was intentionally not intended to be part of the Marvel Universe!
We'll go more into that next week...

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