Last Week on RetroBlogs...

Johnny Dynamite made his Crime & Punishment debut...

with three tales, including the landmark story that changed his life forever!

Heroines! featured another of the Phantom Lady's Twice-Told Tales...

...involving that then-new technological wonder...TELEVISION!

Unfortunately, due to Google porting over all our images from Picausa to Google Photos without warning, we've had to bounce a couple of the presentations from this week to next week, which will make it a really-busy week of RetroBlog goodies for fans!

Think of having all your pictures organized in a file cabinet by blog title, then by alphebetical order.

Then imagine someone tosses all of those pictures into a big box and loses all the file labels!

That's what happened to us!

But don't worry, we'll sort it all out...

Reading Room: JUMPIN' JUPITER "No Soup"

The mind of writer/artist Basil Wolverton was a fascinating thing...

...as this example of his humor work from Key Publications' Weird Tales of the Future #2 (1953) demonstrates!

Whether it's his ongoing SpaceHawk strip or any of the numerous one-shot tales he did, Wolverton's Golden Age output was always instantly-recognizable!
This humor strip ran in #2 thru #5 of Key Publications' Weird Tales of the Future, along with several sci-fi/horror stories also written and illustrated by the amazing Basil!

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Reading Room: JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Man Trouble"

To help ease the pain of returning to school on August 15th, here's fun with the futuristic femme, Jetta!

...in this case, her very first apperance from Jetta of the 21st Century #5 (1952), which was actually the first issue.

(Issues 1-4 were a romance comic called Today's Romance!)

Ya gotta love the futuristic slang they thought would be popular in the early 1950s!
Written and penciled by the legendary Dan DeCarlo, but may not have been inked by him.

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Reading Room: STRANGE ADVENTURES "Secret of the Cosmic Bullet!"

"Golden Gladiator"?
"Star Amazon"?

You't think this story should be in our brother RetroBlog, Hero Histories!
But you'd be wrong...

This never-reprinted tale from DC's Strange Adventures #119 (1960) by writer Gardner Fox and artist Sid Greene plays on the concept that beings from other worlds could take our writings, both fictional and non-fictional, and implement them in "real life"!
BTW, note the house ad at the end for three other sci-fi anthologies!
Man, those were the good old days...

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Reading Room 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY "Capture of 'X-51'" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...when all the prototype robots of a secret government project are ordered to be destroyed, Dr Abel Stack refuses to allow the model he was testing, X-51, to be blown up.

Dr Stack had programmed X-51 with the emotional capabilities of a human being and renamed him Aaron Stack.

Considering the now-sentient robot to be the son he hever had, Stack removes the self-destruct bomb from X-51/Aaron and...

The Saga of X-51/Aaron Stack Continues Next Tuesday!

Beyond the use of the Monolith as a catalyst for change, this story arc bears no connection to the movie!

Written and penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Mike Royer, Marvel's 2001: a Space Odyssey #8 (1977) was the beginning of the end for the title.

(Note: John Verpoorten inked the cover)

From what I've been told, Marvel and MGM were at loggerheads over the book.

Ending their contractual obligation with a reduced run of 10 issues instead of the original 12, Marvel suggested Kirby come up with something that could be spun-off into it's own title.

Thus was born Mister Machine...who had to be retitled Machine Man due to the fact Ideal Toys had revived the popular 1960s toy and had plans for marketing and licensing the property to other media, including comics.

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