Reading Room: UNEARTHLY SPECTACULARS 3 Rocketeers "1...2...3...Infinity!"

Though the 3 Rocketeers were originally-set in the "day after tomorrow"...

...and based on the Moon, by the end of their too-brief run, they were traveling to other planets on a regular basis!

Written by noted sci fi novelist Otto Binder (who wrote over 3,000 comics scripts) and illustrated by Golden and Silver Age workhorse Bill Draut, the Rocketeers' final appearance in Harvey's UnEarthly Spectaculars #3 (1967) was not inventory from unpublished 1950s Race for the Moon material, but a new tale commissioned during Harvey's brief 1960s fling with non-humor comics.

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Design of the Week Redux: CAMPUS ROMANCES

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another.
This week we're rerunning a design that just won't quit selling!
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!

Have No Fear! The Man of Bronze is Here...

In a related note to our Shadow post yesterday...

...with Dynamite Entertainment reviving the Man of Bronze's checkered comics career, and a series of pulp reprints from Nostalgia Ventures selling well, we'd just like to remind you about a number of long out-of-print (and never-reprinted) tales presented at our "brother" RetroBlog™, Hero Histories, including the 1970s team-ups with The Thing and Spider-Man, the Gold Key one-shot (and the almost-made 1960s movie it was supposed to tie-in to), the Marvel tie-in to the 1975 flick, and a classic 1940s comic adventure involving...television!

Enjoy!

POW! THWOK! BIFF! Holy Heroes! It's The Shadow in the Swinging '60s!

With the revival of interest in The Shadow at Dynamite Entertainment (as well as the reprints of the pulps from Nostalgia Ventures), we'd like to remind you about a little project of ours now running at our brother RetroBlog™, Hero Histories™, are the never-reprinted Silver Age stories of The Shadow.
Believe me, the cover of the first issue, shown above, doesn't do it justice.  ;-)
It's based on a series of new novels from Belmont Books that ran from 1964-67.
The first was by the pulp Shadow's creator, Walter Gibson. The rest were by Dennis Lynds.
None of these books have ever been reprinted, either!
Here's the covers for the complete run of the paperbacks, in chronological order...

The ONLY time Gibson DOESN'T use the MAXWELL GRANT pen-name!

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(It ain't what you think!)

Reading Room: REX DEXTER OF MARS "To Mars and Back"

Remember the interplanetary rocket that took off during the World's Fair of 1939?

No?

Me neither.

But it occurred, because in 2000, this happened...

Wow, that's a helluva lot for only six pages in the back of Fox's Mystery Men Comics #1 (1939)!

Today, it'd be a four-issue mini-series!

Writer-artist Dick Briefer ended up creating a rather kool sci-fi character who became one of the longer-lasting strips of the Fox Comics line, lasting the entire run of Mystery Men Comics as well as his own one-shot title, and as one of the features in Victor Fox's proposed newspaper strip booklet (predating Will Eisner's Spirit inserts by a month or so in 1940).

We'll be running all of Rex's exploits over the next few months, so watch this blog...

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