Why is a man in ancient Chinese garb greeting an aviator debarking...
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| Art by Warren King |
.. from an ultra-modern rocket plane?
And what is Conqueror Comics?
The answers to these and other pertinent questions will be found here
TOMORROW!
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Reading Room: CAPTAIN SCIENCE "Science vs Sorcery"
Comic book space adventurers were a dime-a-dozen in the 1950s...
...but none had better art than Captain Science!
Wow, a story where Arabs are actually good guys!
Wally Wood and Joe Orlando did the art for this tale from Youthful's Captain Science #5 (1951), and you can tell they were having the time of their
lives, as they cut loose with some of the wildest stuff ever to grace
sci-fi comic books.
Unlike the earlier Captain Science stories,
which have never been reprinted, these Orlando/Wood stories have been
re-published all over the place, but they're still well-worth seeing
again!
Friday, March 28, 2014
Reading Room BLACK CAT MYSTIC "MysteryVision"
Here's a tale that could've inspired the movie They Live! as well as several Twilight Zone eps...
...plus it has a rather unique aspect we'll explain at the conclusion...
"We take our leave of Herman Scudder, who discovered that "reading" people can be as easy as reading an eye-chart...in the Twilight Zone..."
(Sorry, instinctively channeled Rod Serling for a moment...)
Pencils and inks for this never-reprinted story from Harvey's Black Cat Mystic #57 (1956) are by Jack Kirby, who rarely inked his own work since editors felt his time was better-spent penciling at a rate of up to four pages per day!
(Yes, I said per day!)
Probably written by either Kirby himself ,or partner Joe Simon.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Reading Room RACE FOR THE MOON "Turmoil in the Heavens"
Here's a weird one-page tale...
...produced by an unknown writer and artist for Harvey's Race for the Moon #2 (1958).
Beyond the obvious questions of...
How do we know what life-forms lived on Polis?
How do we know it was called "Polis"?
...we are compelled to ask...
Why doesn't the chart in Panel 2 make any sense?
Why, in Panel 5, does Jupiter look like a comet hurtling towards Polis, when Polis was hurtling towards Jupiter?
We will never know the answers to those mysteries...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Reading Room JET POWERS "Metal Monsters"
After two tales with aliens, mad scientists, and no sign of Jet's arch-enemy...
...we come to the final tale in the issue, and...well, I think you can guess who...
Oddly, the previously green-skinned Mr Sinn now has the standard lemon-yellow coloring used in the 1940s and '50s for most Asian comic characters.
Illustrated by Bob Powell, these three tales from Magazine Enterprises' Jet Powers #2 (1951) cover almost every cliche of sci-fi including time travel, alien invasion, mad scientists, and robots.
The only thing they left out of this issue was space opera!
They'd get to that next issue...
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