Here's a tale written by the co-creator of the Lone Ranger...
...originally-published in the newspaper strip, and probably based on a radio show episode!
Click on the link HERE to read it!
Monday, July 29, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Design of the Week: Steve Savage Over Korea!
This week,with the 60th Anniversary of the end of the Korean War, we look at one of the more popular characters to come out of the conflict, aviator Steve Savage with this kool retro-style cover from his 1950s Avon Comics run.
Available on t-shirts, mugs, iPad and laptop cases, and other goodies!
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Reading Room: SAVAGE TALES "Fury of the Femizons"
Rush Limbaugh whines about "Feminazis", but personally, I think he'd be turned-on by...
...as portrayed in this Women's Lib-era story from the b/w magazine Savage Tales #1 (1971)!
Written by Stan Lee and illustrated in kool pen & ink with pencil highlights by John Romita, Sr, this tale had an unusual genesis, as detailed on the editorial page...
Women's liberation.
It's all around us, be we male or female.
marches, intellectual treatises, picketing, bra-burning, some four-letter forensics, and more burnings–not always of bras.
"Women are the equals of men every day, in every way!'
Men are beginning to believe it.
Women always knew it.
So what happens if maybe we come the full circle in, say the next hundred years or so?
What if women turn the rascals out–and we do mean out!
What would we have then?
A better world? Perhaps.
A gentler world? Could be.
A different world? Believe it.
Stan Lee got to wondering-and, by and by, he set imaginative artist Johnny Romita to wondering along with him.
The result is, perhaps, something just a wee bit new under the sun.
Not quite sword-and-sorcery–certainly not science-fiction–and not exactly a political polemic.
Robin Morgan clobbers Buck Rogers in the 25th century!
Kate Millett zaps both Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless–then takes over Mongo for good measure!
The hand that rocks the cradle really rules the world!
Today's look at the future...as seen from the past. ;-)
Friday, July 26, 2013
Reading Room: MAN O' MARS
The interior artist is Maurice Gutwirth, but the writer is uknown.
The cover was done by Maurice Whitman, one of Fiction House's more prolific artists.
When the book was reprinted in 1958, yet another cover was done (see left), featuring totally different-looking characters and flying saucers that appeared nowhere in the story!
We included the original cover as part of our Martians! Martians! Martians! retro collectibles line including mugs, t-shirts and other nifty stuff.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Reading Room: WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Jonah"
In 1950s science fiction, the technology available in the year 2000 was amazing...
...it's a pity we didn't really have this stuff when the Millenium came about!
When this story was published in Key's Weird Tales of the Future #6 (1953), we really thought we'd have moving sidewalks, flying cars, interplanetary travel, and shrinking rays by 2000!
The writer is unknown, but the artist is Tony Mortellaro.
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