Reading Room PLANET OF VAMPIRES "Quest for Blood" Part 1

In the 1970s, science fiction writers thought the 21st century was going to be rather dystopic...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Planet of Vampires #2 (1975) demonstrates!

It's always fun to end a chapter with a BANG!

But LOTS more action awaits us...

...TOMORROW!

With the departure of writer/co-creator Larry Hama, John Albano (Jonah Hex) stepped in to the scripting slot, working off Hama's basic plot for the issue as well as several pages already laid out by penciler/co-creator Pat Broderick.

It'a a pretty good job, making the transition pretty seamless between the two writers.

Be here tomorrow, as the astronauts and street people take the fight back to the "domies"!

Trespassers Will Be EATEN!

Trick-or-Treaters Will be Licked! 

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Best of Reading Room MAN O' MARS

Here's a kool klassic from the 1950s...the lead story from a 1953 one-shot that combined all the great cliches of space opera (spaceships, ray guns, aliens, half-naked space babes) in one tight ten-page tale...

These days, this story would be a six-issue mini-series with tie-ins to several other titles.

The rest of the book was made up of unrelated reprints from earlier issues of Planet Comics.
The interior artist is Maurice Gutwirth, but the writer is unknown.
The cover was done by Maurice Whitman, one of Fiction House's more prolific artists.

The First Earthman on Mars...

With The Martian hitting theatres today...

...we thought it'd be fun to re-present a much earlier tale of a human on Mars.

In fact, it's so old that it wasn't even called "science fiction"!

It was a "scientific romance"!

...and, unlike The Martian, this Earthman found the Red Planet teeming with life!
Start HERE, and you'll be able to see the entire saga by clicking on the links at the end of each chapter!

Reading Room COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB "Day in the Life of an Atomic Commando"

How could we follow up going to the Moon and recruiting a new Atomic Commando?

How about a Cold War spy thriller?

How was that for a taste of hard-boiled Cold War paranoia?

This never-reprinted tale from ACG's Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub #3 (1954) was produced by series creators Richard Hughes (writer) and Sheldon Moldoff (illustrator).