Reading Room MYSTIC "Dinosaur"

We Recently Ran a Dinosaur-Themed Story Illustrated by the Amazing Bernie Krigstein HERE...

...and this one, done around the same time, is so totally-different, we felt we had to present it!

(BTW, when we ran the previous Krigstein dino-story "Lair of the Thunder Lizard" back in May, we were planning a totally-different Halloween blogathon!)

Note: While Krigstein superbly-illustrated this kool tale from Atlas Comics' Mystic #56 (1957) about a dinosaur you never see, the writer is currently-unknown, but might be the comic's editor Stan Lee!

Sadly, we'll never know!

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Monday Mecha Madness SPIRIT OF FRANKENSTEIN "Dagget's Phantoms"

We Have Already Seen...

...disgruntled elderly Professor Lambert Pardway, working as an assistant to Doctor Daniel Warren, tricks Warren into implanting the dying Pardway's brain into an experimental android.

Before Pardway's brain can use the android body to destroy Warren and his girlfriend, it is "short circuited" by Warren...

Writer/editor Richard Hughes and artist Charles Sultan merrily combine science and the supernatural in this wild tale from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #6 (1949), setting a tone that would countinue for the remainder of the series...

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Friday Fun KANDI THE CAVE KID "Dinosaur"

Creationists believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old...

...so to them, this could be considered a chapter in a history textbook!

This never-reprinted story from Dell's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #15 (1943) was the final appearance of the Walt Kelly-created character.

Besides both print adaptations of theatrical cartoons and new tales of existing Warner Brothers characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Dell introduced a number of new characters to fill out the pages of the comic anthology, including Kandi and Pat, Patsy & Pete.

Kandi was one of the shorter-lived ones, with only a half-dozen short tales from #3 to #15.

Dinosaurs and Cavemen---and Aliens! Meet TRAGG & THE SKY GODS!

There were Several Comics Series which Featured Cave People & Dinosaurs Together...

...but none weirder than this never-reprinted series, which added Chariots of the Gods-type aliens into the mix!

To be fair, writer Don Glut explained how the giant lizards and proto-people existed side by side, using the classic Lost World/Savage Land explanation of an isolated area where the prehistoric creatures avoided extinction...

Jesse Santos did the interior art for the "tryout stories" listed plus the first two regular issues and continued doing covers for the remainder of the run, while Dan Spiegle took over the art for the actual stories for the remainder of the series.
Tragg was incorporated into an already-existing universe of characters at Gold Key also written by Don Glut, including present-day mystic Doctor Spektor and ancient warrior Dagar the Invincible, even doing crossovers through space and time with those other characters!
We're not going to re-present the tales in Wednesday Worlds of Wonder (which would end up running from now to next Spring non-stop), but here are links to the entire series, since every chapter featured dinosaurs....

Spawn of Yargon

Part 1, Part 2

Day the Earth Thundered

Part 1, Part 2

Race Against Death

Standalone Story featuring Lorn

Slaves of Fire Mountain

Part 1, Part 2

Project: Sabre: Fang

Part 1, Part 2

Attack of the Man-Apes

Part 1, Part 2

Death-Duel

Part 1, Part 2

Battle for a World

Part 1, Part 2

Master of the Living Bones

(Crossover story with Dagar the Invincible & Dr Spekor)

Part 1, Part 2

Where Prowls the Devil Shark

Part 1, Part 2

Plus: Three Text Stories

"Tragg and the Jaws of Death", "Valley of the Shadow" & "Spotlight on Keera"
BTW: On Sunday, we asked: "What do these three dinosaur-themed covers have in common?"

Art by Paul Gattuso

Art by Ogden Whitney

Art by L B Cole
The Answer is:
None of the covers have anything to do with any of the stories inside the comics!

Were the covers done first as "springboards" for potential stories, but for whatever reason, the stories were dropped at some stage (script/pencils/inks)?

Sadly, we'll never know the answer!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder PLASM "The Sedition Agenda: Prologue 'The Death of Love' " Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...an alternate dimension/universe where Plasm, a world of humanoids using organic technology, dominates the region!

With their technology requiring constant intake of organic material as both fuel and construction material, the Plasmoids prize professional "seekers" like Lorca above all others in their society...except the ruling class.
But Lorca has begun to feel guilt about destroying all others the Plasmoids encounter simply to sustain their society.

And he's begun to question the "groupthink" that restrains individualism and free thought...

With an intriguing start like this, you may well ask...what happened?

Marvel Comics happened!

You can read the gory details HERE.

End result: Defiant Comics was gone in two years!

Sad, eh?

Depending upon the audience response, we may present more tales of Plasm and the Defiant Comics multiverse.

It's up to you, dear readers!

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Reading Room: When Frank Miller Did a Story About Dinosaurs...with a Delicious Ending!

Since One of the Criteria for our Halloween Dinosaur Blogathon is Only Earth-Based Dinos...

...we're re-presenting this titillating tale from Space Hero Saturdays which featured Frank Miller's redneck Space Hero, Lance Blastoff before we flood the Internet beginning on October 1st!

All I'm going to say is..."Just read it!"

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Friday Fun WHACK! "Ghastly Dee-fective Comics"

Get out your red/blue 3-D glasses (red on the left, blue on the right)...

 ...as we present a never-reprinted tale co-created by Joe Kubert!

This satirical, silly story, penciled by Norman Maurer and inked by Joe Kubert for St John's Whack! #1 (1953), was was especially-designed for use as a 3-D story (unlike some comic tales that were adapted from 2-D to 3-D during the 1950s 3-D craze.) 

Whack! was one of numerous MAD comic book clones that popped up in the early 1950s.

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Reading Room MYSTERY IN SPACE "Singling"

A well-done graphic story can be understood without captions or word balloons...

...as this never-reprinted tale from DC's Mystery in Space #111 (1980), illustrated by Jim Aparo, demonstrates!

Scripter Gerald J Brown penned only a few stories before disappearing from comics.
He was also a writer/editor of the prozine Night Voyages. which ran for 10 issues between 1977 and 1984.
This particular issue of Mystery in Space was the first issue of a revival of the legendary anthology which was cancelled 14 years earlier, in 1966.
Sadly, the book only lasted for 7 issues before being cancelled again...

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