Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN COMET, SPACE PILOT "vs the Vicious Space Pirates!"

A space-going hero named "Captain Comet" who saves the Earth?

Plus, he's drawn by Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta?

Sign me up!

Note: he's not DC Comics' mutant mental marvel...

 ...but a character who only appeared once, in 1953, two years after DC's space hero debuted in Strange Adventures #9, and would continue as an ongoing strip through 1955 (usually getting the cover slot)!

The Captain Comet we've just shown you was more a Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers-type hero, set in the future, battling interplanetary threats with fists and ray guns.

Appearing in the first issue of Toby Press' anthology title Danger is Our Business, he obviously was meant to be an ongoing character, but there was never another appearance, except for a reprint in 1958.

Did DC issue a "cease and desist" due to trademark infringement?

We'll never know...

Reading Room ALIEN ENCOUNTERS "Monster of Planet Og!"

If you (like me) enjoy space opera, you'll love the tale behind this cover...

...which gives a kool new twist to the classic cliches!

Writer Christy Marx and artist Peter Ledger handle this never-reprinted story from Eclipse's Alien Encounters #2 (1985) like it's a 1940s comic written by an alien Edmond (Captain Future) Hamilton!

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Space Hero Saturdays SPACEHAWK "My Friend, My Foe"

He's the mysterious "Superhuman Enemy of Crime" in space...

...but he has friends he's known for years...and the only way they refer to him is as "SpaceHawk"?

This action-packed tale from Novelty's Target Comics #11 (1940) was written, illustrated, and lettered by the one-and-only Basil Wolverton.

The sheer unfettered imagination of the man was astounding, creating vistas and aliens far beyond anything the technology of moviemaking at the time (except for animation) could match.

With the current fascination for high adventure and fantasy and the incredible level of realism CGI can provide, SpaceHawk would be an ideal project for either theatrical or direct-to-home video, and I'm surprised no one is doing it!

Space Hero Saturdays SPACEHAWK "Pirates of Uranus"

This tale from Novelty's Target Comics #10 (1940)...

...is the most reprinted and reformatted of all the stories about Basil Wolverton's "Superhuman Enemy of Crime!"!

Besides the usual reprintings in both color and b/w, the tale was hand-colored and edited down by two pages in Marvel's Epic Illustrated #12 (1984)...

...and even converted into blue/red 3-D in 3-D Zone #18 (1989)

Wouldn't you just love to see this stuff animated?
Lord knows I would...

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Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN ROCKET "Monstroids of the Underworld"

The final (in more ways than one) Captain Rocket comic tale...

...is not an outer space adventure, but an inner space one!

We had an atomic war in 1962...and nobody told us?

And Cap's adventures take place eons (or many millions of years) from now?

Writer/artist Harry Harrison handled the creative chores of the never-reprinted final story from PL's Captain Rocket #1 (1951), as he did every other story in this book.

Captain Rocket didn't have a second issue, and the character never reappeared, though his name has been appropriated for video games and halloween costumes for a totally-different character!

Little is known about PL Publishing, one of the least successful comic publishers in history, lasting less than a year and producing only eight titles, none of which ran more than three issues!
BTW, there was a third Captain Rocket story in that issue...but it was a text feature based on the cover!
We ran it last year, and you can read it HERE!

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Reading Room LOST WORLDS "Men and Fire"

In 1952, outer space was the "final frontier"...

...and humans were going to tame it, no matter what the consequences!

This never-reprinted tale from Standard's Lost Worlds #6 (1952) was penciled by Ross Andru and inked by Andru and Mike Esposito.
The writer is unknown.

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