Reading Room TOMB OF THE GODS "Horus"

The 1970s was a time of experimentation in comics...

Art by Enrich

...and one of the more interesting strips appeared in the back of Warren's b/w magazine Vampirella, beginning with this cover-featured tale...which may be NSFW...

Written and illustrated by Esteban Maroto, the strip played with a number of mythological characters from various pantheons, offering twists on the long-established legends.

This premiere tale appeared in Warren's Vampirella #17 (1972) with other Tomb of the Gods entries appearing irregularly until #23.

Reading Room KEN BRADY: ROCKET PILOT "Pirates of the Airways"

Here's a never-reprinted tale of high adventure in the 21st Century...

...from the co-creator of Superman and the definitive artist of Dracula!

This tale from Ziff-Davis' Lars of Mars #10* (1951) was written by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Gene Colan.
Like the book he appeared in, Captain Ken Brady only made two appearances.
The "Police in Space" genre was incredibly-popular during the early 1950s with numerous tv shows and comic books dedicated to military and para-military organizations defending us from alien menaces!

*Though it's number "10", this was actually the first issue of Lars of Mars.

We're not sure which other Ziff-Davis title's numbering this run continues from.

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Happy New Year!

Why not celebrate with the most famous time-travel story of all?

HG Wells' The Time Machine...

...and Alex Toth's never-reprinted adaptation of the classic George Pal movie at our "brother" blog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™?

Best of Reading Room SPACE ADVENTURES "Tale About Time: There Shall Be an Ending!"

When Last We Left Our Hero...

Art by Pat Boyette (left) and Jim Aparo (right)

...reporter Paul Mann is plucked from 1967 by the Esroms, peaceful humans from the year 4000 AD who travel in time machine/spacecraft that are mistaken for "flying saucers".

Mann and the Esroms pursue the Honjnosians (evil humans also from 4000 AD) to the time before the Big Bang when Paul falls out of the ship into the ether of the pre-universe...

You'll note the use of the "breaking the fouth wall" storytelling technique with Mann addressing the reader in several panels, (with one panel of other characters thinking Paul's a bit looney).
Denny O'Neil using his "Sergius O'Shaughnessy" pseudonom scripted this conclusion to the book-length tale from Space Adventures #2 (1968).
The art is by the highly-underrated Pat Boyette with what looks like minor redrawing by Jim Aparo in several panels featuring Paul Mann to maintain visual continuity.
Sadly, there were no further adventures of Mann and the men from 4000 AD...