Happy New Year!

Why not celebrate the New Year with the most famous time-travel story of all?

HG Wells' The Time Machine...

...and Alex Toth's never-reprinted adaptation of the classic George Pal movie at our "brother" blog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™?

Reading Room MARVEL PREVIEW "Man-Gods from Beyond the Stars" Part 1

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

...now the newest Marvel movie!

So let's look at a strip from the same era also inspired by Erich Von Daniken's concepts!

The story continues..Tuesday!

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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You Think You Know All About the Newest Marvel Cinematic Universe Hero?

With the new Marvel movie...

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

opening September 3rd, we thought we'd show you the never-reprinted first "revamping" of the character who was created during the Kung-Fu craze of the 1970s.
While it's not as extreme as what the movie's doing, it was considered surprising and controversial at the time!

Begin the adventure unseen for over 40 years on Monday at...

Pop Art Martial Arts

Friday Fun: Mars STILL Attacks...25 Years Later!

With the landing of NASA's Perseverance Mars probe, and, in a fit of nostalgia, I searched the Net for info about the movie Mars Attacks. (I worked for Topps Comics when the film came out in 1996!)

Imagine my surprise to discover...thanks to the WayBack Machine, that the movie's site was operational until July of 2011, and still exists HERE a decade later!

If you want to see a classic example of pre-Web 2.0 site-making, have a look!

It's retro-kool!

ACK! ACK ACK!

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Mars Attacks!
The Art of the Movie

The Inspiration for Disney's "Frozen"...Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen"

Disney has a long history of adapting classic fairy tales...

...but none went further away from the source material than "Frozen".

Yes, it's been a commercial phenomenon, but, if you're looking for the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale...this ain't it!

If you want to see an extremely-faithful version of the classic tale...

...click HERE, and "Let It Go, Let It Go, Let It Go!"

A Hallmark Channel-type Christmas Tale...in Comic Book Form!

Ever watch a romantic Hallmark Channel Christmas movie?

Well, our "sister" RetroBlog, True Love Comics Tales, is presenting a novel-length comic story that reads exactly like one of those astonishingly-popular tearjerker flicks!

Big city girl unable to find a romantic partner journeys to the countryside to spend Christmas with relatives!

She meets a guy who she had briefly (and klutzilly) encountered back in the city!

Note: he's the very image of a potential lover she had been dreaming about for months! (hence the title)

Is it fate they encounter each other?

Or will his dark secret drive them apart?

Click HERE to find out!

Gone Too Soon...Chadwick Boseman 1976-2020

I didn't know he had cancer...

...and he didn't publicize the fact, preferring to perform and create memorable cinematic personas, both real and fictional.

As a Brooklyn boy born the year the Dodgers left town, I grew up with my dad (who hated the Yankees) telling the story of Jackie Robinson and the incredible guts he had in order to do what no Black man had done before!

When the movie 42 hit theaters, I rushed out to catch it, and see the tales my dad told me about (including some of the really-nasty, racist shit) brought to life.

Boseman's Jackie Robinson wasn't a pure, larger-than-life icon, but a guy who wanted to do something he loved, no matter what it took.

When he was cast as The Black Panther (and yes, I bought Fantastic Four #52 at my local candy store in early 1966), I knew he'd have the physical prowess to make the character convincing on-screen, but wasn't sure he'd pull off the persona, not to mention the accent.

I shouldn't have worried.
He was great!
Now he's gone.
What can you do to pay respect?

VOTE!

No matter what it takes!

It's what Jackie and T'Challa Would Do!

His last tweet before he died celebrated fellow Howard U alumni VP candidate Kamilla Harris!

So, let your voice be heard!

If You Haven't Already Done So...Register!

#WhenWeAllVote

#Vote2020

He's NOT Your Father's Perry Mason...

...but he is your grandfather's!

...as these 1940s graphic adaptations of two of Erle Stanley Gardner's novels show!

Note: these are reformattings of the Perry Mason newspaper comic strip!

The new HBO series draws on several sources including the early novels, the newspaper comic strip, a six-film 1930s b-movie series adapting the books, and a long-running 1940s-50s radio show!

Trivia: the serialized radio show spawned a live daytime TV-show spinoff which Gardner disapproved of, so the character of Mason was replaced by Mike Karr and the show premiered as the soap-opera The Edge of Night (1956-1980)!

You can read both of the never-reprinted 1940s comics after the July 4th Weekend as part of our usual Summer Blogathon, spread out between this blog and "brother" RetroBlog Crime & Punishment!

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Perry Mason

Warner Brothers Movie Collection

How the World Ends by Virus...

The 1970s post-apocalyptic flick The Omega Man offers a frighteningly-familiar scenario for 2020...

Scary, eh?

BTW, our "brother" RetroBlog, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video, is running the comics adaptation/spoof of the movie...

HERE!

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I Am Legend/Omega Man

Which features both the recent Will Smith version and the 1970s Charlton Heston version!

(But not the 1960s Vincent Price adaptation.

That one, you can get here...)

Last Man on Earth

Little Women: the Comic Book!

There's a new movie version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel...

...that opened Christmas Day!

But, did you know there was a comic book adaptation...done over 30 years ago?

Our "sister" RetroBlog, True Love Comics Tales, is running the story (which was actually part of a read-along book and record set) now and next Wednesday!

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The Thanksgiving Turkey Cometh...

...and it's going to be tasty, indeed!

Perhaps the only Red Sonja-related comic to never be reprinted after its' initial publication, the adaptation of the 1985 movie was presented in two formats...
a magazine-sized Marvel Super Special, and a two-issue comic book-format mini-series.
As usual, we'll be presenting elements from both versions in our usual serialized format starting on Thanksgiving Day and running daily through Sunday through two RetroBlogs: Secret Sanctum of Captain Video and Heroines!
Don't Miss Them!
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Red Sonja
The Movie

Holiday Reading Room: SNOW QUEEN "About the Mirror and Its Pieces" and "A Little Boy and a Little Girl"

With the sequel film to Frozen opening tonite...

...we're re-presenting the classic (and extremely-different fairy tale the flick is based upon!
In fact, it's probably the most-altered of all the Disney flicks based upon old-time fairy tales!

Next Thursday:

The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Knew Magic

Written by Gaylord Du Bois and illustrated by Lea Bing, this never-reprinted tale from Dell's Fairy Tale Parade #9 (1943) is the only comic book adaptation of the Hand Christian Andersen fairy tale!
(The currently-available graphic novel is an adaptation of the movie, not the original story.)

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Frozen & Frozen 2

The Graphic Novels for BOTH Films in ONE Volume!

We've been to the Moon Dozens of Times...

..in movies and TV shows including...

Space: 1999!

MoonTrap!

Moon Zero Two!

(The only Apollo-era production in the group...before...well. see below!)

Destination: Moon!

Now, our "brother" RetroBlog, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video, is proud to present the only other Apollo-era movie comic adaptation...

Don't Miss It!