It's My Birthday!

Taking the day off to celebrate...

See you tomorrow...

Reading Room ZIP-JET COMICS "Space Doom"

Here's a one-shot tale in the Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers vein...

...that's not quite what it seems to be.

Did I say "in the Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers vein"?

Numerous panels are swiped almost verbatim by artist Ralph Mayo from those strips!

Quinto, the villain, looks like Ming the Merciless with five o'clock shadow!

When I came across this tale from St John's Zip-Jet Comics #2 (1953), I had the feeling it was an older story that was reworked.

(In fact, the entire Zip-Jet run consisted of modified reprints, with a couple of new covers and splash pages tossed in!)

Be here Thursday to see the original version of this tale!

Why not tomorrow?

It's a sacred day on our calendar!

Stop by and find out...

Shaggy and Captain Scarlet Have Passed Away...

Well, not quite.
The characters are alive and well.
But the actors who defined them have passed away.

Francis Matthews, who sounded exactly like Cary Grant, was the voice of Captain Scarlet (whose "look" was based on Grant) on the cult-hit 1960s puppet tv series.

Casey Kasem was Shaggy on the various Scooby Doo tv series...

...Robin on the first Batman animated series (1969) as well as several Super Friends series...

...Mark on Battle of the Planets, the first "Americanization" of Gatchaman...
plus Alex on the several Josie and the Pussycat shows and numerous other one-shot voice-overs.

Though they are gone, their performances will live on...

Happy Father's Day!

Or Else!

It's Flag Day!