Reading Room: "Weekend on the Moon"

It's vacation time in the US, and if you really want to get away from it all...

..."space is the place" as this never-reprinted piece from Ziff-Davis' Lars of Mars #11 (1951), demonstrates.

And, it's illustrated by young up-and-comer Gene Colan, who also rendered the never-reprinted adventures of Ken Brady: Space Pilot in both issues of Lars of Mars.

You can read those tales HERE and HERE!

The writer is unknown, but believed to be the book's editor, Jerry (Superman) Siegel.

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Safety Tip from the Fighting Yank on the 4th of July...

Here's the word, kids, from the Fighting Yank himself...

Art by Mort Meskin

...from the final issue of his 1940s series, Standard's Fighting Yank #29 (1949)

Art by Alex Schomburg

And here's the patriotic cover from that issue, which features the only time the character appears in costume, but without a mask!

Update: I goofed.
When the art team of Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin took over the book as of #25, they modified Fighting Yank's costume, removing the mask and adding a Revolutionary War-era powdered wig and the frilled, looser shirt.
However, the covers, prepared in advance by Alex Schomburg, didn't reflect the change until #27 (which I had not read).
My bad.

Reading Room WORLD OF FANTASY "Inside the Tunnel"

Ever wonder where writers come up with their ideas?

Art by Joe Maneely

...well, here's a never-reprinted story from Atlas' World of Fantasy #2 (1956) that offers a clue!

Of course, if it was an original manuscript/draft by Verne (which I think was the writer's intent), it would be in French...

The writer is unknown, but could be Stan Lee or Larry Lieber.

The art is by Al Williamson who did quite a bit of work in the fantasy and Western genres during the late 1950s for Atlas before it became Marvel.

Reading Room "Sinner"

The late Archie Goodwin was an amazing editor and writer...

...who could also illustrate in a unique whimsical style.

In case you have trouble reading the marker, here it is...enlarged...

Originally published in Wally Wood's Witzend #1 in 1966, it's appeared several times since, never losing it's impact.