Reading Room: SPACE PATROL "Stranded on the Sands of Mars"

Spacehawk wasn't Basil Wolverton's only sci-fi comic series...

...he also created and produced this strip, which was the first of numerous unrelated series in various media to use the title "Space Patrol", including three different TV series!

The multi-talented Basil Wolverton wrote, illustrated, lettered, and probably colored, this wild tale from Amazing Mystery Funnies #23 (1940).
I'd love to see someone animate these classics of surreal storytelling.

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Reading Room: "Prison Planet"

One of the oldest plots in fiction is "hero fakes going bad"...

...so why not try to "freshen it" by transposing the concept to outer space?

Both the writer and artist(s) for this one-off tale from Ziff-Davis' Crusader from Mars #2 (1952) are unknown.
Neither Jon Barrett nor this version of Space Police ever re-appeared.

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Reading Room: SUPERSNIPE "Benson Kidnapping Case" Part 2

When Last We Left the Kid with the MOST Comic Books in America...

...after becoming accidentally-enmeshed in the FBI's takedown of a pair of kidnappers, SuperSnipe thinks he's tricked the criminals into leading him to the captive girl.

But who has tricked who...especially when the girl doesn't want to be rescued!

The story's not over!

SuperSnipe meets the most unexpected guest-star of all...

...tomorrow at
Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™!

(Want to know who?

Consider that SSoCV is a blog about comic books relating to movies and radio/tv shows...)

Story and art for this tale from SuperSnipe Comics V1N7 (1942) by George Marcoux, who did all the "SuperSnipe Universe" strips himself!

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Reading Room: SUPERSNIPE "Benson Kidnapping Case" Part 1

The Kid with the MOST Comic Books in America returns...

...with an exciting tale full of blood and thunder!

(Or is it thud and blunder...?)

If SuperSnipe is the rescuer, who will rescue the rescuer?

Find out tomorrow!

Story and art for this tale from SuperSnipe Comics V1N7 (1942) by George Marcoux, who did all the "SuperSnipe Universe" strips himself!

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Jackie Robinson Story Poster and LobbyCards

The new flick, 42, about Jackie Robinson just opened...

...let's look at the poster and lobbycards from the first movie about the first Black player in the major leagues (which starred Jackie Robinson as himself), now being offered as posters and prints, digitally-remastered and restored from the actual poster and cards, by a good friend of ours!

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There's also a line of t-shirts featuring both the poster artwork and the photo covers for the never-reprinted 1950s comic book series about Jackie Robinson HERE.