Reading Room SPACE SQUADRON "Target Moon"

To close out the year, we're re-presenting never-reprinted adventures of...

...showing life in the early 21st Century as seen from the mid-20th Century!

1) Why wasn't the creature vaporized?

2) If it isn't dead after a direct hit by an atomic bomb, how do we know it won't reproduce before it dies?

3) What about radiation?

At the very least, the Space Squadron should all be sterile, if not dying of radiation poisoning!

Hope Blast isn't counting on grandchildren in his future!

4) Considering, in this future, we've populated the Solar System (as well as other systems), I can't believe we don't have one (or more) moonbases!

Are they in danger from radiation?

The author of this amazingly scientifically-illiterate tale from Atlas' Space Squadron #4 (1951) is unknown, but we do know the penciler is Werner Roth!

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Have Yourself a Star Wars Christmas!

Click on the pic to see the superb Ralph McQuarrie cover art in all it's glory!

You were expecting the Star Wars Christmas Special?

Here's John Boyega (Finn) hearing this album for the first time!
(For the record, I got the album when it came out..and still have it!)

Holiday Reading Room COMICO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL "Traditions Everlasting"

Beneath this never-reprinted Dave Stevens cover...

...lies the polar opposite of the cynical Christmas tale we told yesterday!

See?
There is hope for Christmas (if not humanity) after all!
Written by Doug Wheeler, illustrated by Steve Rude and Bret Blevins, this cover-featured tale from Comico Christmas Special #1 (1988) is this perfect closer to our little blogathon of Christmas-themed stories!
Now get out there, finish your last-minute shopping, and spend the evening with the family!

Holiday Reading Room ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HOLIDAYS SPECIAL " 'Twas the Night before X-Mas..."

Here's a never-reprinted variation of the Clement Clarke Moore tale...

...that, despite being published 30 years ago, seems as appropriate now as it was then!

Written and illustrated by Ed Hannigan, this downbeat story of slaughtered Santa finds us just as close to war as we were when DC's Elvira's Haunted Holidays Special #1 (1987) appeared!

But we can't let our fans be depressed just before Christmas!

So, on Christmas Eve, we'll present out final tale for the year...a sci-fi Santa spectacular with a much more upbeat theme!

Holiday Reading Room BEST OF O HENRY "Gift of the Magi"

With the last weekend before Christmas approaching...

...let's look at how True Love and Christmas shopping can go hand-in-hand!

This straightforward adaptation of O Henry's Christmas classic appeared in the HTF Pendulum Press' Best of O Henry (1977) digest-sized comic.
Written by John Fago (whose father, longtime comic artist/editor Vince Fago packaged the series) and illustrated by Anton Caravana, it was part of a series of Classics Illustrated-type publications released like the Scholastic Book Club, directly to students and school libraries.
(Don't despair Friday Fun fans!
Tragg and the Sky Gods will return next week!)