Monday, January 12, 2015

Reading Room ALARMING TALES "Secret Weapon"

We've worried about homeland security for decades...
...but, quite frankly, we're damned good at it!
OK, maybe we haven't produced an invisibility device/formula...yet, but we Americans can handle anything terrorists (religious or political) can throw at us, as this never-reprinted Silver Age story from Harvey's Alarming Tales #4 (1958) shows!
BTW, it's written by Jack Oleck (a talented novelist and comic book writer who was the brother-in-law of Alarming Tales editor Joe Simon) and illustrated by Johnny Quest's co-creator Doug Wildey!
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Pop-Culture 2015 12-Month Calendars

Plus MANY MORE!
Classic comic book and pulp magazine covers and movie posters, scanned from the originals and digitally-remastered and restored!
NOT available in stores, only on-line! Order now...before time runs out! ;-)
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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Reading Room CAPTAIN QUICK AND THE SPACE SCOUTS "Mystery of the Moon of Mars"

Here's the first of three short features...
...that appeared in the second Tom Corbett: Space Cadet comic series.
Though the art for this never-reprinted tale from Prize Comics' Tom Corbett: Space Cadet V2#1 (1955) is credited solely to Marvin Stein at the Grand Comics Database, the layout appears to be by Jack Kirby, which would make sense since Simon & Kirby's studio was packaging the book for Prize.
Beyond being set in the future, there was no connection to Tom Corbett.
This "Captain Quick" is no relation to the suave secret agent character played by Adam West in early 1960s Quick commercials...

...which many attribute to causing the producers of a new show to cast him as their campy caped crusader!
BTW, in a weird bit of comic numbering, this second series' #1 is Tom Corbett's first #1!
The earlier series (from Dell Comics) began with #4 since the first three issues were part of the Four Color series (378, 400, and 421)!
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Friday, January 9, 2015

Reading Room KEN BRADY: ROCKET PILOT "Boy Who Wasn't There"

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!
The second, and last, Ken Brady: Rocket Pilot tale from Lars of Mars #11 (1951), the second, and last, issue of the title.
This tale from Ziff-Davis' Lars of Mars #11 (1951) was written by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Gene Colan.
It's both the character's second and last appearance and the second and last issue of the comic!
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!
While the series isn't anything particularly innovative, it's a classic example of 1950s-style sci-fi.
And Gene, who was doing a little of everything from horror to romance to Westerns, showed his versatility with this too-brief run.
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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Reading Room SCIENCE COMICS "Build an Arctic Schooner"

Man it's c-c-c-old outside!
How am I gonna get around?
Why, with this kool cut-out transport courtesy of an unnamed artist in Fox's Science Comics #3 (1940)!
Though the caption seems to indicate it's something we've seen before, there's nothing in any of the stories in the issue even vaguely like it!
I'll peruse the previous and later issues to see if it appeared in any of the tales...
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