Due to problems with Picasa, we'll be unable to do our scheduled post for today.
Whenever we try to access Picasa, a popup forcing us to join Google+ or we can't access our albums "pops-up"!
We hope to resolve the problem (or figure out a workaround) by Monday.
Thank you for your patience.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
FLYING SAUCERS Comic Covers
Here's the cover art by Gene Fawcette...
...to the story we've been running the past few days.
Oddly, when the issue was reprinted a couple of years later, the art was altered...
...and I've never heard an explanation as to why!
For the record, I like the original cover better!
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Reading Room: FLYING SAUCERS "Final Objective"
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| Art by Wally Wood |
...he was rescued by the aliens from foreign spies who wanted the secret of alien technology!
Inspired
by the flying saucer craze of the late 1940s-early 1950s, this 1950
Wally Wood-illustrated book was one of many one-shot titles from Avon Comics during their short, but prolific existence.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Reading Room: FLYING SAUCERS "First Contact"
...well, between the kool inside front cover (with art by Wally Wood & an unknown inker) above, and the first paragraph below, you have all you need to follow the tale, so dive right in...
Inspired
by the flying saucer craze of the late 1940s-early 1950s, this 1950
Wally Wood-illustrated book was one of many one-shot titles from Avon Comics during their short, but prolific existence.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Reading Room: FLYING SAUCERS "Spawn of Terror"
Was Erich Von Däniken the first to tie flying saucers to ancient civilizations?
Nope!
The idea of aliens visiting us in ancient times had been popular for as long as fantasy and science fiction have been around.
Inspired by the flying saucer craze of the late 1940s-early 1950s, this 1950 Wally Wood-illustrated book was one of many one-shot titles from Avon Comics during their short, but prolific existence.
Another one-shot (though it probably wasn't intended to be such), was Fawcett's Vic Torry and His Flying Saucer (1950).
Flying saucers also popped-up in almost every already-running comic book from funny animals to mysteries.
They even appeared in Charlton's Cowboy Western Comics, which changed it's name for a year to Space Western Comics to play up the connection!
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