Reading Room: FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Mysteries of the Unknown: Interplanetary Episode"

Here's a tale filled with irony...

...about a special man who held the fate of the world in his hands.

Note: there are some "politically-incorrect" references to mental illness, so it might be NSFW.

Appearing in ACG's Forbidden Worlds #86 (1960), this Richard Hughes-scripted and Ken Landau-illustrated tale was an oddly-modified re-presentation of a story originally-published in a pre-Comics Code issue of Adventures into the Unknown!

For one thing, most of the artwork changes restore the original Ken Landau artwork that was modified by Ogden Whitney in the AitU tale!

(The exception is the splash page which is changed from the original version (which had Landau's signature.)

Plus, an entire plot point, involving the dead dog, which was redrawn in the original story into a "mistaken identity" plotline by Whitney, is restored!

Check out our "brother" blog, Seduction of the Innocent™, tomorrow (Wednesday) for the first version of this tale that the Comics Code disapproved of!

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Reading Room: SPACE ACTION "Double Menace on Jupiter's Moon"

Strap on your rocket-packs, space cadets...

...because we're about to blast off to the future...as seen in the 1950s!

Penciled by Lou Cameron and inked by Rocco Mastroserio, this tale from Ace's Space Action #1 (1952), was typical of pulp and comic sci-fi of the era with it's flagrant disregard for science, not to mention simple logic.

The writer is, mercifully, unknown.

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Return of the Ants, Man!

Due to the mild winter, the ants are back in the kitchen...in force!

Makes you wonder if Henry Pym's a little perturbed he wasn't included in the Avengers movie, and is getting his six-legged friends to "lobby" for his big screen debut...

Jackie Robinson 1950s Comic Book Covers

With the new flick, 42, opening next week...

...let's look at the superb covers for the short-lived (and never reprinted) groundbreaking comic book series from Fawcett Comics that ran from 1950 to 1952, now being offered as posters and prints, digitally-remastered and restored from the actual covers, by a good friend of ours!

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Collect all six for a kool wall display!

They'll also be doing reproductions of the poster and lobby cards for the first Jackie Robinson movie The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), starring the man as himself (in his only movie appearance) along with Ruby Dee as Rachel "Rae" Robinson, and Minor Watson as Branch Rickey.

Here's the complete movie...

 

In the new movie, Chadwick Boseman is Jackie Robinson, Nicole Beharie is Rachel Robinson, and Harrison Ford is Branch Rickey.

Carmine Infantino (May 24, 1925–April 4, 2013)

Licensing art original by Infantino and Murphy Anderson

The man who visually-redefined DC Comics in the Silver Age, first as an artist, then as art director, finally as publisher, has passed away.

(Mind you, that's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of his work, but it's the most prominent aspect, and the one that Baby Boomers like myself will talk about.)