Reading Room: SPACE SQUADRON "Blast Revere: Volunteer for Death"

Besides a "future history", Space Squadron also had an ongoing strip set in the "past"...

...1960 (which was still "the future" in 1951)!

While the writer for Blast's never-reprinted debut in Atlas' Space Squadron #1 (1951) is unknown, the artist should be familiar to Speed Carter: SpaceMan fans...Joe Maneely, Speed's designer/co-creator and primary illustrator for the first half of his run!

Blast Revere ran in all six issues of Space Squadron. and it's one-issue "sequel", Space Worlds.

When Speed Carter: SpaceMan came along a couple of years later, series writer/co-creator Hank Chapman ignored everything done in Space Squadron, producing stories that often contradicted "future history" established in the earlier series.

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Romney and Ryan...the Secret Conspiracy!

The Visual Clue Right in Front of You!

And you thought our comparison of Republican methods to Communist techniques (as shown HERE) was off-base?

HA!

They're laughing at you, America!

Those dirty Conservatives think they're so smart that they can put clues literally right under your collective nose and you won't realize it!

Once Chairman Romney has been "elected", it's "Game Over" for the middle-class.

There will be only the 1% Party and the 99% Proletariat.

Reading Room: SPEED CARTER: SPACEMAN "Die, Spaceman, Die!"

Speed Carter gets a new look (again) as another artist takes over...

...as Space Squadron artist George Tuska assumes the art chores.

As we mentioned, everything from uniforms to tech to the look of aliens is re-conceived yet again with the debut of another artist who will do all three Speed Carter tales in the issue.

This story from Speed Carter: SpaceMan #5 (1954) was scripted (as were all Speed Carter tales) by Hank Chapman!

Illustrator George Tuska later became the final artist on the original Buck Rogers comic strip (1959-67) and then assumed the art duties for almost a decade on Marvel's Invincible Iron Man!

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Reading Room: LOST WORLDS "Space Race"

After yesterday's entry about civilians in space...

...we thought we'd take a look at what people over 50 years ago thought it would be like!

This is the sort of story that proves the trope that most sci-fi of the Golden Age was just re-written Western stories.

Replace the horse or stagecoach with a spaceship, six-shooters with ray blasters, and Indians with aliens, and voila, a sci-fi story!

This never-reprinted tale from Lost Worlds #6 (1954) was penciled by John Celardo and inked by Bernard Sachs.
The writer is unknown.

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NY Times gets sloppy with their graphics

When I picked up the Sunday NY Times this morning...

...I was disappointed that the opening page of the Travel section didn't look like the version seen here on their website.

Instead, the print version looked like there was no Black ink at all in the illustration!

No contrast in the darker areas, and the blue lettering all but merged into the background!

Pick up a copy to see for yourself.

(I took a digital picture of the front page to show for comparison, but any attempt to color-correct for the true value of the newsprint itself actually improved the image beyond the printed version!)

That sort of thing tends to occur when "webheads" (as I call web-only designers) fail to even do a simple color proof to check how their "optimized for web" RGB images will look as CMYK printed pieces.

It's the sort of sloppiness that's becoming way too common these days.

I e-mailed the NY Times with my concerns, and am awaiting a response.