Reading Room CLIFF HANGER "Chapter Five: Slaves to the Fiend"

We Have Already Seen...

Take a deep breath and dive in, fans...

Next Week:

The Thrill-Packed FINALE!

This penultimate chapter of the serial appeared in Eclipse's Somerset Holmes #5 (1984), written by Bruce Jones and illustrated by Al Williamson.
BTW, notice something different about the above description of the comic?
Between issues #4 and #5, Pacific Comics shut down due to cash-flow problems.
Eclipse Comics picked up a number of properties from their creators who were left high and dry by the shutdown, including Somerset Holmes and Cliff Hanger.
Besides finishing the 6-issue series, Eclipse also published a tpb collection of the Holmes (but not the Hanger) tales...

Reading Room FLICK FALCON IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION "Power of the Slave Giants' Goddess"

When Last We Left Our Time and Space-Hopping Hero and Heroine...

...so, let's go to dinner!

But, is it truly over?

Don't miss the next exciting adventure of Flick Falcon and Adele!

Using the pen-name "Orville Wells" (a variation of "Orson Welles", who a couple of years earlier, frightened America with a dramatic radio adaptation of HG Wells' War of the Worlds performed like a news broadcast), writer-penciler Don Rico's wild imagination goes full-speed, combining science fiction and fantasy elements with equal aplomb in this never-reprinted tale from Fox's Fantastic Comics #3 (1940).

Reading Room: FLASH GORDON "Chapter Three: Danger in Volcania"

When Last We Left Our Hero...

...and now, on with the show!

Next Week:

The Secret Origin of Flash Gordon!

Who He Is and How He Came to Be!

(Not a dream!

Not an imaginary story!)

Writer Mark Schultz and artist Al Williamson's labor of love is about to take us where no one has gone before in Flash Gordon's history!

Don't miss it!

Trump Reading Room aka the Outhouse FARMER'S DAUGHTER "Gig McCoy: Around the Cracker Barrel"

Continuing our look at the comics Don the Con's audience probably likes...

...with a story about a businessman who specializes in tall tales!

This never-reprinted story from Stanhall's Farmer's Daughter #1 (1954) was typical of the sort of lowbrow humor the publisher specialized in.

With titles including Broadway-Hollywood Blackouts and G.I. Jane, Stanhall produced adult-oriented (but never more risque than PG-13) humor.

Animator Hal Seegar was the editor/writer/illustrator for the non "good girl" strips like this one, while Bill Williams handled the art for the more risque material (like the title feature) which Seegar wrote and edited.

Reading Room CAPTAIN JOHNER AND THE ALIENS "Alien Welcome"

As the first human visitors tour the aliens' home world...

...tbey discover the two species are not so different, after all!

Written and illustrated by series creator Russ Manning, the tale from Gold Key's Magnus, Robot Fighter #8 (1964) intrroduces more background about the alien homeworld, including weapons technology like the previously-unseen helmet-guns!

(In the first chapter, the aliens used hand weapons, like the Earthmen.

Perhaps, at home, among civilians, their police/soldiers don't want to display obvious weaponry...)