Reading Room FLIP FALCON IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION "Marriage on Mercury!"

It's been almost eighty years since this never-reprinted story appeared...

...but it's astonishing what we've learned about the planet Mercury in the interim!

Wow!
This Don Rico-written and illustrated tale from Fox's Fantastic Comics #7 (1940) might well be the first example of inter-species...er...relations with the female as the aggressor!
(The hot-to-trot one in such stories is usually the alien male!)
BTW, what happened to the Queen's father, whom she claimed was an Earthman?
How'd he get there in the early 1900s?
What happened to him?
Another example of the multiple concepts the amazing Rico just tossed off the top of his head, then promptly forgot about while working on these maniacally-paced stories!

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Lorelei

by Don Rico

(who turned novelist after leaving comics!)

Trump Reading Room HILLBILLY COMICS "Inquiring Artist" & "Meeting of the Staff of Hillbilly Comics!"

Let's look at two short features starring Don (the Con) Trump's "deplorables"...

These never-reprinted strips from Charlton's Hillbilly Comics #1 (1955) seem to mirror the mind-set of those whom Don (the Con) Trump lovingly-referred to as "poorly-educated".

Writer /artist Art Gates never imagined his work from over a half-century ago would be relevant decades later!

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Trump Coloring Book

Reading Room: WORLD OF FANTASY "When a Planet Dies!"

Let's end the week with a never-reprinted Silver Age tale...

...about a leader whose overweening ego leads his people to disaster!

Not seen since its' publication in Atlas' World of Fantasy #17 (1959), this tale by plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and artist Don Heck goes a step further than similar stories about "worlds within worlds" by suggesting a dimensional barrier between the two "realities"!

Otherwise the aliens would've been seeing a giant eye peering at them instead of stars in the vacuum of outer space!

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Atlas Era Masterworks

Tales of Suspense

Volume 4

IS THIS TOMORROW? Communists and Propaganda

Unlike Don (the Con) Trump, even children 70 years ago knew how Russkies use propaganda...

...as this 1940s tale on our "brother" RetroBlog, Seduction of the Innocent! demonstrates!

Remember that Jabba the Trump's buddy, Vladimir Putin, is both a KGB officer and high-ranking Communist Party member!

(If you believe Vlad's "ex" KGB and Communist Party, his actions in this [and other] matters would say otherwise...)

Part 1

Part 2

Conclusion

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Invasion USA

(not the 1980s Chuck Norris film!)

Reading Room WAR COMICS "Greg Gilday and the Martians" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...wow!

This strip is running at mach speed, adding genres every minute!

Greg Gilday isn't just Superman!
He's Moses, too!
In the Golden Age, creators, unrestrained by preconceptions, tried genre mash-ups we wouldn't dream of doing today, hoping to find a "hook" to grab readers!
Drawn (and probably written) by Richard Fletcher, this never-reprinted series only ran three chapters (this is the second, from Dell's War Comics #3, published in 1940) before disappearing despite the final strip ending with a caption promising more adventures!
Note: the Richard Fletcher who did this strip is not the Dick Fletcher who worked with Chester Gould before taking over as the artist on the Dick Tracy newspaper strip in 1977.
This guy is Richard Martin Fletcher.
The Dick Tracy artist was Richard E Fletcher and didn't begin his art career until after being diacharged from the Army in 1945.