Reading Room: FANTASTIC WORLDS "Invaders"

The short-lived anthology Fantastic Worlds featured Earth-based stories...

...contrasting with the other anthology from Standard Comics, Lost Worlds, which was a space-opera book.

This tale from Standard's Fantastic Worlds #5 (1952) was drawn by Alex Toth and Mike Peppe, though the writer is unknown.
(Page 7, Panel 6 is apparently a redraw by Carmine Infantino!)

BTW, though it's #5, this is actually the first issue of the title!

There was no #1-#4!

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Reading Room: SPACE DETECTIVE "Slave Ship of Saturn"

When Last We Left Our Interplanetary Investigator....

Art by Wally Wood and Joe Orlando

Don't freak out!

You didn't miss Part 2, "Metal Murderers of Mars"!

It was at our "brother" RetroBlog™, Crime & Punishment™...

Ah, another happy ending!

Justice is served, and all that!

Nobody's been able to identify the writer or artist(s) of this opener of a kool 3-part tale from Avon's Space Detective #2 (1951).
Personally, I see elements of Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, and Joe Kubert in the art, but nothing definitive.

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Reading Room: SPACE DETECTIVE "BatWomen of Venus"

Fighting Crime in a Future Time...

...let's blast off for action with the Interstellar Shamus who's never actually called "Space Detective" and his (ahem) friend and companion (nudge, nudge, wink, wink), Teena!

The story continues tomorrow...

First at our "brother" blog Crime & Punishment™,

then, back here for the conclusion!

Nobody's been able to identify the writer or artist(s) of this opener of a kool 3-part tale from Avon's Space Detective #2 (1951).
Personally, I see elements of Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, and Joe Kubert in the art, but nothing definitive.

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Reading Room: ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN "Why the Leprechauns Left Ireland"

At last, the long-repressed (and never-reprinted) story can be told...

...on, appropriately enough, St Patrick's Day!

So, the left Earth...not just Ireland!
Wotta story!
Leprechauns!
Nikita Khrushchev, Communists and possible Atomic War!
Cape Canaveral!
Plus:  Giants from the center of the Earth!
Does it get any better than this?
I don't think so.

Writer/editor Richard Hughes (under the appropriate pen-name Shane O'Shea) and illustrator Odgen Whitney probably thought the same when they created this whimsical tale for AGC's Adventures into the Unknown #132 (1962).

51 years later, it's my pleasure to present it for your St Patricks Day entertainment.

Now, if you'll excuse me, there's several pints of Guinness Extra Stout in my fridge, waiting to meet me...

Reading Room "Jackie and the Leprechaun King"

For St Patrick's Day, here's an offbeat tale about leprechauns...

...as rendered in an extremely non-traditional way by comics legend Estban Maroto!

Written by Bill DuBay, this somewhat more "heroic fantasy" approach to the legend of leprechauns appeared in Warren's Vampirella #53 (1976) when elves and related creatures were experiencing a revival in popularity due to the 20th Anniversary of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Be here tomorrow (on the actual St Patrick's Day) for a more traditional story.