Besides the ongoing Polar Vortex posts on this blog...
...every RetroBlog has featured a post with a winter/Arctic/extreme cold theme!
Here's the list (with links)...
Read them in front of a roaring fire with a mug of hot chocolate!
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Reading Room COSMO CORRIGAN "and the Space ShowGirls!"
What do you do when you want to heat up a planet that's colder than the Polar Vortex?
Cosmo Corrigan has the answer...cosmic chorus girls!
Sady, Cosmo never got back to Pluto.
He wasn't in the next issue of Planet Comics, nor would he reappear anywhere else in the known universe.
His fate remains a mystery...
But don't think that's the end of our Polar Vortex-inspired posts!
There's more frigid fun to come!
Friday, January 10, 2014
Reading Room COSMO CORRIGAN "Martians, Mercurians and Money!"
Yeah, I know the logo says "Cosmic", not "Cosmo"...
...but he's called "Cosmo" in the story itself, as well as the next (and final) tale, so I conder the logo to be a typo!
Now, back to Pluto, the world that makes the Polar Vortex look like a balmy summer day!
Illustrated by George Tuska (who would handle the Buck Rogers newspaper strip in the 1950s, as well as become Iron Man's illustrator when he received his own book in the 1960s) the scripter for this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #10 (1941) is, regrettably, unknown.
("Ray Alexander" was a Fiction House pseudonom.)
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Reading Room COSMO CORRIGAN "Exiled to Pluto"
Like Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and many other space heroes...
...Cosmo Corrigan had a weird first name.
Unlike them, he was a bit of a screw-up and wise-ass...
...so he was sent to the Solar System's equivalent of Siberia...the frozen planet Pluto, thereby qualifying his strip for inclusion during our week of Polar Vortex-related posts!
Planet Comics was noted for its...well...lack of scientific accuracy, being much more "science fantasy" than hard science fiction (which at least tried to apply known scientific facts to the storytelling).
But this series seems almost like a space opera sit-com, featuring a slacker as the hero!
Sadly, it only ran for three installments...which you'll see tomorrow and Saturday!
Illustrated by George Tuska (who would handle the Buck Rogers newspaper strip in the 1950s, as well as become Iron Man's illustrator when he received his own book in the 1960s) the scripter for this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #9 (1940) is, regrettably, unknown.
("Ray Alexander" was a Fiction House pseudonom.)
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Reading Room PLANET COMICS "Life on Other Worlds: Pluto"
You think the Polar Vortex makes things cold here on Earth?
Then visit the cold planet that's no longer a planet (at least officially)...Pluto!
Mind you, Pluto was a planet when this chapter of the ongoing feature Life on Other Worlds appeared in Fiction House's Planet Comics #45 (1946).
In fact, it had only been discovered 16 years earlier and little was known about it beyond the fact that it was out there at the edge of the Solar System!
So, it was a blank slate for sci fi writers to play with, as artist Murphy Anderson and the unknown writer did in this "cool" 2-pager!
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