Frankenstein Reading Room: NOT BRAND ECHH "Frankenstein Sicksty-Nine!"

As we said earlier...

...the Frankenstein Monster made a number of...untraditional...appearances in 1960s comics, including this saga from Marvel's Not Brand Echh #12 (1969)!

Let's see what lurks under this kool Marie Severin cover...

Almost always, the Monster's 1960s comic appearances were humorous rather than frightening due to the fact the Comics Code Authority limited how such creatures could be used!

(B/w magazines like this weren't affected by the Code!) 

We'll be presenting a couple more of the wilder ones before the month is over!

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Not Brand Echh

Reading Room: ROBOTMEN OF THE LOST PLANET "Chapter One: Massacre of Mankind!"

On Friday, We Showed You a 1970s Take on This Tale...

...now you'll see the original from the 1950s!

The art for this 1952 one-shot title from Avon Comics is by Gene Fawcette, an Avon mainstay who did everything from horror to Westerns to romance.
If you compare the two tales, you'll see the robots are totally different in this version.
They're based on a still-popular toy first marketed in the early 1950s... Obie the Popping Martian/Panic Pete/Bug-Out Bob!
Who came up with the idea is unknown, and there was no attempt at an actual tie-in between the toy and the comic...

But the most unusual aspect of this tale is the scripter...Walter Gibson, aka "Maxwell Grant", the primary writer of the legendary pulp character, The Shadow!

Gibson, a trained magician-turned writer did very little "hard" sci-fi during his long career...except in 1951-54, where he edited (and wrote under several pseudonoms) most of the contents of Charlton's short-lived (2 issues) Fantastic Science Fiction pulp magazine, editing Charlton's Space Adventures comic for it's first 11 issues, as well as scripting several other one-shots for Avon Comics.

For the record, Gibson also wrote two volumes of adaptations of Twilight Zone TV episodes (with a couple of original tales mixed in), but none of those were sci-fi.
BTW, while this was the only tale adapted into b/w in the 1970s, there were two more chapters of the man vs funky robot saga!
You'll see them next Monday and the Monday after that...

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Are You Missing These Kool COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN Blog Posts?

Just a reminder, the RetroBlogs are proudly participating in the...

Countdown to Halloween

(2016 Edition)

Blogathon

with the following blogs returning to weekly publication for October..

presents the skull-visaged Masked Marvel II and The Original Ghost Rider!

features never-reprinted stories by the Simon & Kirby studio from Prize's Black Magic

and the already weekly...

is running tales of love from the dark recesses of haunted houses to the bright centers of supernovas in horror and sci-fi tales with a romantic bent!

Don't Miss Any of Them!

Design of the EEK Redux! ZOMBIE!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another (unless it's selling really-well, like this one!)

Once more...It's an amazingly-detailed graphic of a half-eaten zombie, making the perfect Halloween gift for that loved (or loathed) one in your life!
Grab it now..before it grabs you!

Reading Room NIGHTMARE "Massacre of Mankind!"

Look at this tale and tell us, if you can...when was it created?

Was it the 1940s? 1950s? 1960s? or 1970s?

The answer will surprise you!

It was written and laid-out in the 1950s, but penciled and inked in the 1970s!

Scripted by Walter (The Shadow) Gibson and laid-out by Gene Fawcette back in 1952, the tale was fully-penciled and inked by Bill (Sub-Mariner) Everett for Skywald's b/w anthology Nightmare #2 (1971)!

To learn why it was done, you'll have to return Monday...

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