Give Someone a Batman Christmas!

Want to give your Batman-obsessed loved one a "Batty" Christmas?

Combine the new blu ray (or dvd) set...

...with a not-available-in-stores digitally-restored reproduction of a 1966 Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson promo piece...

...created in 1966 to hype the then-new tv show!

Ironically, the visual looks more like a huge flat-screen tv than the small cathode-ray tv tubes of the 1960s!

Available in a variety of formats to fit both decor and budget!

Reading Room SILVER STARR "Operation Space Disc" Conclusion

When Last We Left Flash...

...er...Silver...the blond, square-jawed space hero's beautful girlfriend and stalwart bearded scientist ally had fallen captive to a sneering planetary dictator who lusted for the girlfriend (not the scientist)...

You'll be able to follow the Australian comic strip hero's never-reprinted in America adventures by writer Frank Ashley and illustrator Stanley Pitt if you bookmark this blog!

Reading Room SILVER STARR "Operation Space Disc" Part 3

When Last We Left the Blond, Muscular, Space Hero who isn't Flash Gordon...

Original art of the cover for this premiere issue of Silver Starr by Stanley Pitt

 ...travelling to Mongo...er...Spherule, Flash...I mean Silver joines forces with Barin...Miduan to overthrow Ming...no, that's dictator Gorla...oh, heck...just read it...

Tomorrow: the BIG Finale!

Written by Frank Ashley, beautifully-illustrated by Stanley Pitt.

Reading Room SILVER STARR "Operation Space Disc" Part 2

When Last We Left Flash...er...Silver...

...the handsome, muscular, blond hero, his girlfriend, and their bearded scientist buddy meet the despotic ruler of another world...

And on that diverting note, we bid the visitors to Mongo...I mean Spherule "adieu" until tomorrow...

Written by Frank Ashley, illustrated by Stanley Pitt.

Reading Room SILVER STARR "Operation Space Disc" Part 1

A blond space adventurer with a hot girlfriend and bearded scientist...

 ...you were expecting, maybe, Flash Gordon?

To be continued...
NEXT WEDNESDAY!

An illustrator in the classic Alex Raymond/Austin Briggs vein, Australian Stanley Pitt worked on a number of beautifully-rendered, commercially-successful strips that could charitably be called "carbon copies" of previous series.

Ironically, his most innovative strip, Gully Foyle (based on Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, failed to make it to market. (Read why HERE.)

Written by Frank Ashley, illustrated by Pitt for Silver Starr #1 (1952)

BTW, note that, in an era where most Australian comic books were b/w or two-color, Silver Starr gets the more-expensive full color treatment!