Saturday, May 4, 2024

Space Hero Saturdays STAR WARS the Lost Comic Books!

Since today is May the 4th Be With You Day...
...we're showing the covers of the only Star Wars comics that have never been reprinted in their original format!
Blackthorne's three-issue mini-series from 1987, Star Wars 3-D!
The stories are new tales by Len Wein, Patrick Zircher, Jim Nelson, and Caesar MacSombol!
While these comics have been reprinted (as shown below), the reprints aren't 3-D!
Would you like to see the 3-D versions?
Let us know!
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(Which reprints the issues shown above...but in 2-D!)
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Friday, May 3, 2024

Friday Fun BLAST-OFF "Danger! Atoms!"

Some stories need little extrapolation...
...such as this never-reprinted short by writer/artist Howard Nostrand from Harvey's Blast-Off! #1 (1965)
Cute, eh?
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Thursday, May 2, 2024

Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Survival of the Fittest"

Fiction or prophecy?
This is only 8 years away!
Consider recent developments in Artificial Intelligence and prepare for the possible (if not probable) mechanical Armageddon!
The penciler of this never-reprinted story from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #1 (1952) was a young Ross Andru, but the mediocre inking is clearly not his soon-to-be-partner Mike Esposito!
The identity of the embellisher, as well as the scripter remain a mystery to this day...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ADVENTURE COMICS "SWORD OF THE DEAD!"

Here's a never-reprinted tale of "HIGH adventure"...
...written and illustrated by Gil Kane during the same period he was producing his landmark graphic novel BlackMark!
Simple.
Visceral.
Effective.
Now, THAT'S the way to tell a story!
This tale appeared in DC's Adventure Comics #425 (1972-73), when it was, briefly, an anthology between the departure of Supergirl into her own short-lived title and the debut of heroine Black Orchid!
BTW, BlackMark will be coming to Wednesday Worlds of Wonder this summer!
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One of the first true graphic novels

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Reading Room WEIRD ADVENTURES "Dome of Death"

Reading this blog,  you might think that "sci-fi" just means "space opera" or "futuristic"...
...but it can be set on present-day (meaning when the story was created) Earth, as well!
This never-reprinted tale from the Ziff-Davis one-shot Weird Adventures #10 (1951) reads like a script for an anthology tv show or a b-movie.
It's mostly character interaction and a crime/thriller plot with some easily-done (even for the 1950s) sfx!
Illustrated by John Giunta, whose long career spans both the Golden and Silver Ages with work for literally every company in every genre!
However, Giunta may be best-known to today's audiences as the artist who gave the legendary Frank Frazetta his first job, when he hired the talented teen as a studio assistant!
The writer of this unusual tale is unknown, but could be Giunta himself!

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(which contains only a couple of stories from this previously-listed volume)