Reading Room OUT OF THIS WORLD "Conquered Earth"

Ever wonder if Steve Ditko could do Jack Kirby-style epic star-spanning storytelling?

Well, wonder no more, True Believer!

Illustrated by Ditko, written, most likely, by Joe Gill, this tale was tucked in the back of Charlton's Out of This World #4 (1957), which featured three Ditko-rendered stories out of four tales!

Ah, those were the days...

When the story was reprinted in Charlton's Space War #31 (1978), it was finally cover-featured, with the cover for a different (and still never-reprinted) Ditko-illustrated tale...

...which we re-presented a couple of days ago, as shown HERE!

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Unexplored Worlds

Steve Ditko Archives, Vol 2

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WOLFF "Manuscript of Rep-Tah"

When Last We Looked In on Our Favorite Post-Apocalyptic Barbarian...

...(except for Thundarr) rescued from wolves by a woman who calls herself Galadra, Wolff joins her on a quest...

From New England Library's Dracula #6 (1972), the Luis Gaska (aka Sadko) & Estaban Maroto series just gets weirder and even somewhat psychedelic!

It also looks like somebody lost track of who's who!

Galadra looks remarkably like Rulah, who enchanted Wolff, turning him into a werewolf!

Was it a error by translator Laurence James? 

(The original version of this story was in Spanish!)

Note: this tale concludes the six Wolff stories included in Warren's Dracula TPB.

The remainder of Wolff's adventures were never published in America, but we'll be presenting them here over the next few weeks.

BTW, here's the cover to this issue by Enrique Torres (aka Enrich) using horror icon Barbara Steele as Rulah/Galandra!
If his style looks familiar, he did a lot of covers for Warren Magazines in the 1970s!

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Wolff et la Reine des Loups

(aka Wolff and the Wolf Queen)

French Graphic Novel reprinting this storyline with superb printing!

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Friday Football Fun BABE "and the Chicago Crushers Football Team..." Part 1

With female interest in the Super Bowl at an all-time high...

...we thought we'd re-present an almost century-old example of how the game might be with a woman super-star...and what a woman she is!

This never-reprinted, intellectually-stimulating adventure from Prize's Babe #4 (1948-49) continues...
NEXT FRIDAY!

One of writer/artist Boody Rogers' wildest creations (and that's saying a lot), Babe: the Darling of the Hills, was a hillbilly series "inspired" by the phenomenal success of Al Capp's Li'l Abner in the late 1940s!

Babe Boone derived her abilities from "lightning juice" which was fermented from the bark of trees struck by lightning!

The series ran 11 issues.

When it and Rogers' other series, Sparky Watts, were cancelled, Boody retired from commercial art and comics, opening a pair of art supply stores!

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Boody

Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers

Reading Room UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION "Hunter and the Hunted"

This is a tale that requires careful study...

...since, according to it's author, only one person has ever figured it out on first reading!

Originally published in the one-shot fanzine Abyss in 1970, Marvel's Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #2 (1975) reprinted the tale after it's writer-artist, Mike Kaluta gained pop culture fame as the illustrator of DC Comics' revival of the pulp hero The Shadow!

UWoSF Editor Roy Thomas commented that Kaluta “…congratulated [him] for being one of the few human beings he’s met who actually figured the story out on first reading.”

Have you figured it out, dear reader?

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The Studio

A long-OOP trade paperback featuring the work of Kaluta, Jeffrey Jones, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Berni Wrightson when they shared a NY loft in the 1970s!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WOLFF "Lady of the Wolves"

When Last We Left Our Post-Apocalyptic Barbarian...

...he had been cursed to become a literal version of his name...a lycanthrope!

Is Wolff fated to repeat this nightmare whenever the Moon is full?

Or is there a way to defeat the curse?

While this chapter of the Wolff saga, written by Luis Gasca (aka Sadko) & Estaban Maroto and illustrated by Maroto from New English Library's Dracula #5 (1972) leaves us hanging, the next chapter will offer an answer...though it might not be one Wolff likes!

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Wolff et la Reine des Loups

(aka Wolff and the Wolf Queen)

French Graphic Novel reprinting this storyline with superb printing!
BTW, note the cover art is from Page 2 of this chapter!

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Reading Room VENUS COMICS "Little Man Who Wasn't There!"

What is "real" and what is "fiction"?

That's the basis for this story which would have qualified as "metafictional"...if the word had existed in 1951!

The writer for this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Venus Comics #14 (1951) is unknown.

Pity, since it's a clever little tale...though it would've benefited from being given a couple of additional pages to flesh out why the "creator" decided to suddenly alter the character's personality and actions so radically.

Perhaps the "creator"  in the last panel (artist John Tartaglione) was, himself, being manipulated by a creator who was going insane...

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Trump Reading Room DEATH RATTLE "Foreshadow"

Like Don da Con's "deplorables", the primitives below fail to actually listen...

...in this never-reprinted tale from Kitchen Sink's Death Rattle V1N2 (1973)!

Writer-artist John Pound is still going strong almost half-a-century later!

Besides underground comics, he also worked on Marvel's Howard the Duck, and was the primary artist on the original run of Garbage Pail Kids from Topps Cards!

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Garbage Pail Kids

(featuring the work of John Pound...plus an afterward!)

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WOLFF "Night of the WereWolf"

When Last We Left Our Favorite Post-Apocalyptic Barbarian...

...well, that turn of events doesn't sound promising, does it?

I don't remember this sort of thing ever happening to Conan!
This tale from Dracula #4 (1971) was written by Sadko superbly-illustrated and co-written by Esteban Maroto.

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Wolff et la Reine des Loups

(aka Wolff and the Wolf Queen)

French Graphic Novel reprinting this storyline with superb printing!

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