Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Reading Room: ALARMING TALES "KIng of the Ants"

Here's a story done before Lee & Kirby's "Man in the Ant Hill"...
...which served as a "pilot" for Marvel's Astonishing Ant-Man series.
Did it help inspire that creation from studio-mate Jack Kirby?
Read and judge for yourself...
This tale from Harvey's Alarming Tales #6 (1958) was produced by writer Dick Wood, and illustrators Al Williamson and Angelo Torres.

Monday, September 9, 2013

Reading Room: ALARMING ADVENTURES "Secret of the Mountain"

Many humans think we've explored every inch of our home world, the Earth.
They'd be totally-wrong, as shown in this tale from Harvey's Alarming Adventures #3 (1963).
Penciled by Al Williamson and inked by Angelo Torres, this tale was probably intended for the never-published Race for the Moon #5.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Design of the Week: CAMPUS ROMANCES

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another.
This week: Vacation is over, time to get back to work or school!
But what goes on when class is not in session?
This vintage comic book cover from Avon's Campus Romances #2 (1949) gives you the answer!
NOTE: The art was originally used on an Avon paperback novel, entitled Where the Girls were Different by Erskine Caldwell [1948].
The comic does not adapt any Caldwell stories.
Available on adult t-shirts, mugs, e-reader, laptop, and phone cases, and many other goodies!

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Reading Room: JET POWERS "Thing from the Meteor"

We ran this tale in our old, smaller format, but it deserves a bigger presentation...
More 1950s alien invaders, this time with a never-reprinted tale from Magazine Enterprises' Jet #1 (1950)!
Of course,  if the insectoid alien invaded today, Earth would've been totally-screwed since both lead-based paint and DDT are now banned!
It's a tale that '50s state-of-the-art special effects would've been hard-pressed to do convincingly, but for illustrator Bob Powell, it took only his talented pencil and brush to make you believe a sentient insect could...dare I say it...rule the world!

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Friday, September 6, 2013

Reading Room: JUMBO COMICS "This Time Tomorrow"

What will TV be like in the 24th Century?

It could be a weird combo of fact and docudrama as shown in this never-reprinted tale from Fiction House's Jumbo Comics #166 (1953)
Was this meant to be the debut of an ongoing series?
Since a sequel didn't appear in the next issue of Jumbo Comics (which was the last one in the series), we'll never know.