Reading Room: EXPLORERS IN THE UNKNOWN "Manhunt in Space"

These are the voyages of the Hunter I, it's ongoing mission...

...to fill four pages per issue of Gold Key's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Starting with this story in VttBotS #6 (1966), the Hunter I crew had adventures set in the near-future of the late 1990s-early 2000s, much like then-current films like Green Slime, Wild Wild Planet, and Battle in Outer Space.

With only four pages per issue, there was little character development (or even names) for the crew, but lots of action!

The entire never-reprinted series was written by Dick Wood, and this first tale was illustrated by the Alberto Giolitti Studio.

If that name is familiar, Alberto Giolitti (and his studio) handled the art for the first few years of Gold Key's Star Trek comic from #3 to #39, as well as numerous other movie/tv tie-ins.

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Reading Room: SPEED CARTER: SPACEMAN "Who Stole the Sun?"

When it's hot outside, sit in a room with air conditioning and read about...

...in this hot tale from Speed Carter: SpaceMan #2 (1953)!

"Giant Gravity Magnet" that looks like a big horseshoe magnet?

And, if you destroy the magnet which was towing the Sun (without at least turning it around to head back where it came from), the Sun will continue, unabated, in whatever direction it was going!

With all due respect, Hank and Joe, this was not your finest hour.

The series continues to play up the Saturnians as the future equivalent of the Chinese Communists of the 1950s

Written (as are all the Speed Carter stories) by Hank Chapman and illustrated by Joe Maneely.

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Taking the day off because...

...it's my birthday!

Actually, I'm older than this... ;-(

...but not by much! :-)

Design of the Week--King Kola

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week, an ad for a soft drink (like Kooba Cola) that never existed!
What's even kooler is that the art is by the renowned creator of Plastic Man, Jack Cole, who did very little advertising art!
(Cole was working for Harry Chesler Studios when he did this ad which appeared in several Chesler comic books.)
We've digitally-remastered it from a mint-condition comic for large repro on thing like beach blankets and posters as well as t-shirts, mugs, bags and other collectibles that would be perfect for beach and vacation use!
Order now, because next Sunday, it'll be gone like an ice cream cone in the hot sun!

Reading Room: "COMICS" McCORMICK "Octopus"

Each issue our hero encounters characters from a different comic genre!

This time, he faces a super-villain who's the lead in his own strip.
(Note: contains some racial stereotypes common to the period and may be NSFW)

In the early days of the Golden Age, most anthology comics had at least one strip with a villain as the lead, the most famous being The Claw who started as the lead in Silver Streak Comics, but was eventually superseded as the cover feature by the original DareDevil.

This story from Terrific Comics #3 (1944) features a villain who shared the same name as a pulp villain who had his own (one issue) title as well as The Spirit's arch-foe who never showed his face.

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