MASKS: the Ultimate Mystery-Man Team-Up

We've shown you a team-up between The Shadow and The Avenger....

We'll be showing you a team-up between The Shadow and Doc Savage soon...

But there's a marathon team-up mini-series coming in November that'll make history for the sheer amount of pulp and media heroes from various companies combined in one story!

It's called, appropriately enough, MASKS, and features...

The Shadow!

Zorro!

The Spider!

The Green Hornet & Kato!

Plus other heroes like Miss Fury, The Black Bat, and The Black Terror are mentioned as appearing later on in the series!

Watch for it!
Plus see a sneak preview of the latest (#8) cover for The Shadow's solo title!

13 Ghosts and Illusion-O!

The 1960 William Castle movie 13 Ghosts used red/blue 3-D style glasses, but not for 3-D!

While most of the movie was black and white, certain sequences had red and blue tinting.
To see the ghosts, you looked thru the red "lens".
To not see the specters, you looked thru the blue "lens".
For years, you could only see the totally-b/w version on tv (including TCM), and the VHS release was b/w only.

When they finally issued a DVD edition, the initial one included the version with the color Illusion-O segments and red/blue viewers based on the ones given out in theatres.

Unfortunately, the "first edition" of the DVD was the only one to have both the Illusion-O version of the movie or the viewers!
The much-more available later pressings/editions are only b/w!
I finally found a copy of the original DVD release (with viewer) for only $4.99 in a used-DVD bin in a local music shop (we used to call them "record shops"), and spent the afternoon getting a real kick out of watching it!
It's an entertaining film, but it's better with Illusion-O!  ;-)

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Captain Midnight Returns!

The anthology comic Dark Horse Presents #18 will feature a new tale of...

...Captain Midnight, apparently based on his Fawcett Comics incarnation...

...but, according to the promo copy, updated to the present!

And, it features a painted cover by Steve Rude!

Available in November!

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Harry Harrison (1925-2012)

Noted sci-fi-author Harry Harrison passed away this week...

...and while he's best-known to the average person for the movie Soylent Green, based on his novel Make Room! Make Room!, sci-fi aficionados (myself included) love his Stainless Steel Rat and DeathWorld series.

But many sci-fi fans are not aware of his almost decade-long stint as a comic book professional, doing everything from writing to editing to penciling and inking over 150 stories in almost every genre from horror to war to romance to Western.

(Oddly, he never did a super-hero story!)

In tribute to his passing, our brother blog, Seduction of the Innocent™ is running one of his horror tales "Terror of the Vampires Kiss".

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Reading Room: STRANGE GALAXY "The Moon is Red"

In the late 1960s-early 1970s, numerous b/w comic magazines popped up...

...to publish the risque material the Comics Code Authority banned from color comic books!

This tale from Eerie Publications' Strange Galaxy #V1N8 (1971) has the feel of a 1950s tale, which wouldn't be surprising since the publisher both reprinted stories from defunct publishers when they could find photostats/printing film or re-illustrated stories using old scripts nearly verbatim.
UPDATE: As it turns out, the script is from a tale in Avon's Strange Planets #4 (1951) called "A Nation is Born" as shown HERE.

BTW, this issue, despite being #8, was actually the first issue under that title.
What it was before then is unknown, since the publisher did numerous titles in various categories including astrology, romance, crime, etc.

"Oswal" was the pen-name of Osvaldo Walter Viola, an Argentinean writer/artist who began his career in the early 1960s creating Argentine's first super-hero, Sónoman.

His only American comics work was for Eerie Publications' titles.

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