Friday, August 30, 2013

Reading Room: BLAST-OFF! 3 Rocketeers "Great Moon Mystery"

Three-day weekend coming up.
Let's blow your mind...
Art by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, and Al Williamson.
...with a tale that starts with finding an unconscious TV star on the Moon and gets wilder and wilder...
IIRC, Carl Sagan postulated a similar concept decades later about wormhole travel in the novel Cosmos...
Intended for the never-published Race for the Moon #4 (1960), this Jack Kirby/Al Williamson collaboration finally saw print in Harvey's Blast-Off #1 (1965), long after Kirby, along with Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and others began the amazing resurrection of the almost-defunct Atlas Comics line into Marvel Comics!

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Reading Room: UNEARTHLY SPECTACULARS "Hidden World"

"Men in Black" were here long before the movie and comic...
...as this never-reprinted story from Harvey's Unearthly Spectaculars #1 (1965) by Doug (Jonny Quest) Wildey shows!
The story was probably part of the inventory of material left over by the cancellation of Race for the Moon in 1960.
In 1965, Wildey was too busy working in California on Jonny Quest, and then, the Marvel Super-Heroes animated series to do comic book work in NYC.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Reading Room: BLAST-OFF! 3 Rocketeers "Lunar Goliaths"

On his 96th birthday, we see that Jack Kirby could produce astounding work on a daily basis...
...that other artists would take weeks to conceive and create!
This was literally a day's work (two if Kirby was doing full pencils) for the King.
Can you name any other artist who could do quality art like this, five to six days a week?
Intended for the never-published Race for the Moon #4 (1960), this Jack Kirby/Al Williamson collaboration finally saw print in Harvey's Blast-Off #1 (1965), long after Kirby, along with Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and others began the amazing resurrection of the almost-defunct Atlas Comics line into Marvel Comics!
Happy Birthday, Jack!
And thanks for the memories!

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Technical Difficulties...

Since today was the hottest day of the year, we had a blackout...
...until power was restored about a half-hour ago.
The feature for today, The 3 Rocketeers, has been postponed, but only until tomorrow!
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Reading Room:: BLAST-OFF! "Danger! Atoms!"

Some stories need little extrapolation...
...such as this never-reprinted short by writer/artist Howard Nostrand from Harvey's Blast-Off! #1 (1965)
Cute, eh?
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