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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Best of Reading Room: "Monster God of Rogor"
Heroic Archeologists in torn shirts!
Scantly-clad Princesses!
Terrifying Monsters!
And, it's illustrated by Wally Wood!
I really should charge for entertainment this good...
Yeah, I know every blogger and his brother has run this tale.
But it's so damn kool, I just had to get it into the Atomic Kommie Comics™ archives.
The art for this tale from Youthful Publications' Captain Science #1 (1950) is signed by Wally Wood, and the inking is pure Woody.
But, it looks like he had assistance on pencils, perhaps by Joe Kubert.
The writer is unknown.
Friday, April 18, 2014
Best of Reading Room: 3-D: ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN "Nightmare"
You won't need red/blue 3-D glasses to read today's 3-D comic story, thanks to...
All the benefits!
None of the headaches (except for the artist who had to illustrate it)!
And now, on with today's story, the cover feature from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #51 (1953)...
The extensive use of Craftint for backgrounds, background objects, and shading is a clever idea, but I can see how it would become visually-irritating on an ongoing basis.
Art by Harry Lazarus, one of a trio of siblings (including Sid and Leon) who all ended up writing and/or illustrating comic books during the 1940s-1960s.
(They are not related to Mell Lazarus, writer/artist of the comic strips Miss Peach and Momma, who also worked in comic books in the 1950s.
Small world, ain't it?)
BTW, for another TrueVision tale, pop over to our "sister" blog True Love Comics Tales™!
Art by Harry Lazarus, one of a trio of siblings (including Sid and Leon) who all ended up writing and/or illustrating comic books during the 1940s-1960s.
(They are not related to Mell Lazarus, writer/artist of the comic strips Miss Peach and Momma, who also worked in comic books in the 1950s.
Small world, ain't it?)
BTW, for another TrueVision tale, pop over to our "sister" blog True Love Comics Tales™!
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Best of Reading Room: WITCHES' TALES "Invasion" (the Original, SCARIER Story!)
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| Edited version |
...but it had been radically-altered from it's first appearance, and
that the original version had never been reprinted!
We will now correct that mistake and present pages unseen in over fifty years!
First the toned-down version, then the original, scarier version...
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| Original version |
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| Edited version |
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| Original version |
Again, more cleavage in the original version...
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| Edited version |
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| Original version |
Oddly enough, the wife's cleavage is unchanged, but the look of terror in the last panel is toned down!
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| Edited version |
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| Original version |
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| Edited version |
This last page is radically-different! Prepare yourself!
Ready?
Proceed...but remember, I warned you...
Ready?
Proceed...but remember, I warned you...
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| Original version |
Wow!
The edited pages were from Race for the Moon #1 (1958)
The original story was from Witches' Tales #21 (1953)
As you can see, the Comics Code Authority insisted on some major redos, including most of the last page!
Whenever possible, we'll present examples of similar "reworking" of stories pre and post-Comics Code!
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Best of Reading Room: RACE FOR THE MOON "Invasion"
Some people called early television "just radio with pictures"...
...a premise taken to an obvious extreme in this tale...
The primary reason the inspiration for this story, the 1938 War of the Worlds radio hoax by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre of the Air, worked was because peoples' imaginations ran wild, fueled by sound effects and well-written dialogue!
The "visuals" were in their heads!
Nonetheless, the unknown writer and artist Bob Powell did their best in only five pages.
And, the comic's intended audience, kids aged 9-15, could accept the premise, especially if they had no knowledge of the Welles radio show, which wasn't often rebroadcast until old radio show reruns made a comeback in the mid-1960s on college radio stations and lp albums.
NOTE: This story is a radically toned-down version of a tale that appeared a decade earlier!
Tomorrow we'll show you how it ORIGINALLY looked...pre-Comics Code, which has NEVER been reprinted!
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