Reading Room: FANTASTIC WORLDS "Cosmic Terror"

Some say space opera is just a Western with ray guns instead of six-shooters...

...but this never-reprinted tale from Standard's Fantastic Worlds #6 (1952) is a Cold War tale with aliens instead of Communists!

Though the scripter is unknown, the artwork is by Art Saaf, who had a long career in comics from the mid-1940s to the mid 1970s, doing everything from romance to horror to sci-fi to superheroes!

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Reading Room: CAPTAIN SCIENCE "Metal Monsters"

Captain Science has faced aliens (twice) and an undead Adolf Hitler.

So what's next?

Giant robots, of course!

To be specific, giant robots sent by the aliens he's beaten twice!

The art on this never-reprinted story from Youthful's Captain Science #3 (1951)  is by Gustav Schrotter.

The writer is unknown.

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Steve Holland IS Steve Zodiac in STEVE ZODIAC & FIREBALL XL5

Art by George Wilson

Due to the passing of sci-fi movie/tv creator Gerry Anderson, we've been running tributes to his shows on our "brother" blog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™, including the never-reprinted one-shot Steve Zodiac and Fireball from Gold Key Comics (HERE and HERE).

When we posted the painted cover for SZ&F, the face of Steve Zodiac looked very familar to us.

It's Steve Holland, the manliest actor/model who ever lived!

Best known as the model for the iconic Doc Savage #1 paperback cover that redefined the "look" of the character from 1964 onward, Holland was also The Avenger, The Spider (both the masked Berkley Books and turtlenecked Pocket Books versions), James Bond (on Bantam Books' early 1970s reprints)

and as various characters (who aren't even in the movie) on movie posters including Danger: Diabolik and Wild, Wild Planet!

Plus. he was TV's Flash Gordon in the 1950s!

Now we can add the distinction of being the first person to appear as a live-action version of a Supermationation character to Holland's extensive resume!

Reading Room: SPACE SQUADRON "Planet of Madness"

Let's blast-off for excitement (if not scientific accuracy) in the year 2000...

...which was actually thirteen years ago!

You can move the Sun away from Mercury?
(Wouldn't moving the tiny planet Mercury be easier than moving the Sun, the largest body in the Solar System?)
Mercurians have the element Mercury in their veins?
And they possess both a "good" head and a "bad" head?
(Why not just remove the "bad" head at birth?)
The writer and artist for this lead story from Atlas/Marvel's Space Squadron #3 (1951) are unknown, though in the scripter's case, it might be best to remain anonymous.

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The Black Beetle is Not Just "Noir"...It's SUPER Noir!

It's not often you get to define (or redefine) an entire genre...

...but multi-award-winning artist Francesco Francavilla has done just that, with Dark Horse Comics christing his new pulp-style retro-hero series Black Beetle as "Super Noir"!

So, what are you waiting for?

Get out there, and buy it...NOW!