Reading Room THRILL-O-RAMA "Old Hulk"

A never-reprinted tale from an influental artist...

...whose greatest contributions were to animation, not comics!
(And no, it's not Alex Toth!)

During the mid-1960s, Harvey Comics jumped back into superhero and sci-fi/fantasy comics with several titles combining a mixture of reprints and new material.

This tale from Thrill-O-Rama #1 (1965) was one of the "new" ones, though it's likely left over from Harvey's previous sci-fi anthology, Race for the Moon (1958).

Though the writer is unknown, the artist is Doug Wildey, who spent several years in comics, but found working in tv animation steadier and more profitable!

His many credits include Jonny Quest, Godzilla, and, Return to the Planet of the Apes!

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Jonny Quest
the Complete Original Series

Reading Room THE UNEXPECTED "Choice"

When DC's 1979-80 sci-fi anthology Time Warp folded, the remaining stories...

...were published in the fantasy/horror anthology The Unexpected!

This tale of questionable "justice" was written by George Kashdan and illustrated by "Vicatan" (Vic Catan, Jr), this never-reprinted tale from DC's The Unexpected #210, (1981) was typical of the output by long-time pro Kashdan, solid, but not really memorable.
The art by Vicatan raises it a notch with effective storytelling and clean linework.

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Showcase presents Tales of the Unexpected

Vol 1

Super Bowl / SuperPro / Super-Heroes!

In 1991, Marvel and the NFL teamed up to produce...

...a football-themed superhero!

...who, despite meeting a couple of Marvel's best-known heroes...

...lasted only 13 issues, then disappeared into obscurity!

Due to licensing restrictions, NFL SuperPro will never be reprinted or offered as an e-book!

However, when you can find copies, they're usually pretty cheap, like the one below...

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NFL SuperPro

Super Bowl Special

Trump Reading Room aka the OutHouse OZARK IKE "Premiere Appearance"

As SuperBowl Sunday approaches...

...lets see how Jabba the Trump's "deplorables", unconcerned by such things as concussions or brain damage, play football!

The rest of the issue deals with the multi-talented Ike playing baseball, so we'll run it during baseball season.

Yes, the King Features strip was created in the mid-1940s as a competitor to Al Capp's wildly-successful Li'l Abner series!

No, it was nowhere near as successful.

The only known licensed spin-offs were this one-shot reprint collection in Dell's Four Color Comics #180 (1948), a subsequent 1950s comic series for Standard/Better/Nedor. and a couple of reprint paperbacks from Blackthorne Publishing.

Writer/artist Ray Gotto, though not a familar name to comics fans today, achieved sports immortality for designing one of the iconic images of baseball history still in use almost 60 years later: The New York Mets' logo!

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Best of Li'l Abner

by Al Capp

Reading Room TALES OF SUSPENSE "It Crawls by Night!"

The new issue of Monsters Unleashed is out...

...cover-featuring another retro-kool Kirby Kreature from the Atlas Comics days!

Written by Stan Lee, penciled by Jack Kirby, and inked by Dick Ayers, the cover-featured story from Atlas' Tales of Suspense #26 (1962) has one of "the silliest premises done well" I've ever seen!

Think of Little Shop of Horrors without the comedic aspects.

It's certainly helped by a kool Kirby/George Klein cover that doesn't betray the creature's humble veggie origins, making him look more like Groot than a rutabaga...

When it was reprinted in Marvel's Fear #8 (1972), a new cover by John Severin downplayed the "conquer the Earth" thrills for a more Gothic/Lovecraftian image...

Monsters Unleashed looks like a lot of fun, so get it at your local comic shop...NOW!

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Monsters Unleashed: Prelude