Reading Room OUTER SPACE "For Amusement Only"

Ever wonder if all the natural disasters we experience...

...are truly "natural" in origin?

"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;

They kill us for their sport."

King Lear Act 4, Scene 1
"Submitted for your approval...
A tale by writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko from Charlton's Outer Space #18 (1958) that Repugs would love since it disproves "global warming".
But, it replaces it with something else cons don't believe in...life on other worlds!
A conundrum that may never be solved...at least not in...The Twilight Zone!"

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Steve Ditko Archives Volume 5
Dripping with Fear
...which reprints this tale and numerous other long out-of-print short stories illustrated by Ditko!

Reading Room SPACE ADVENTURES "Surrender Earth!"

Now this is the way to tell a high-adventure space opera...

...quick synopsis, then jump into the action!

A rather nasty variation of the "rabbits in Australia" story that classic Star Trek treated humorously in "The Trouble with Tribbles"!

Sadly, this Joe Gill-written, Pat Boyette-illustrated tale from Charlton's Space Adventures V2N4 (1968) has never been reprinted, but I think it's make a helluva episode of an anthology series or portmanteau movie, keeping the retro-50s/60s look but using current makeup and sfx technology!

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Charlton Arrow #1

Reading Room CAPTAIN JOHNER AND THE ALIENS "An Alien Phobia"

When Last We Left Johner, Zarz, and the others...

...ok, this is an unexpected complication!

Creator/writer/artist Russ Manning's newest chapter in Gold Key's Magnus, Robot Fighter #19 (1967) is obviously leading up to something big which will blow your mind, next week!

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Captain Johner and the Aliens
Mini-Series

Reading Room ALIEN WORLDS "...and Miles to Go Before I Sleep"

We've been looking at older anthologies...

...but there were several in the 1980s that presented first-rate work as well!

Some say it's an ironic story.

I prefer to think of it as a tale of love between parents and their child taken to the nth degree...even beyond death itself!

Adapted from his own short story by noted sci-fi author Willlam F Nolan, and illustrated by Al Williamson, this never-reprinted piece from Eclipse's Alien Worlds #8 (1984) is a gentle tale that would have made a helluva episode of the classic Twilight Zone!

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Wild Galaxy

by William F Nolan

which reprints the original prose short story "...and Miles to Go Before I Sleep"

Reading Room: MYSTICAL TALES "On a Lonely Planet"

Can a sport unite alien cultures?

This never-reprinted story from Atlas' Mystical Tales #1 (1956) suggests an answer...

OK, it's an ethnocentric conceit that the aliens were playing something even remotely like baseball, but illustrator Bill Everett and the unknown writer still manage to "sell" it for four pages.

Can't ask for more than that on a lazy summer Saturday afternoon...