Reading Room SPACE ADVENTURES "A Better World than Ours"

A never-reprinted tale with roots in Western (ie European, not Wild West) culture...

...particularly the repressive 18th-19th centuries!

This Joe Gill-scripted and Eccio-rendered tale from Charlton's Space Adventures V2N8 (1969) has it's roots in exhausted European 18th and 19th Century sailors' obsession with primitive island societies which they considered to be the incarnation of an innocent "paradise"!

Of course, being a Comics Code Authority-approved book, the creators couldn't present what Selig was probably doing besides "fi-shing"...

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Reading Room THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED "Secret of the Walking Dead"

Our final tale honoring the return of AMC's The Walking Dead...

...is a shocker involving somone deliberately creating a scientific zombie!

Could this be similar to how the walkers on Walking Dead came to be?

This never-reprinted tale from Fawcett's This Magazine is Haunted #6 (1952) was illustrated by Ed Waldman who worked on-and-off in comics from 1941 to 1954.

The writer and the cover artist are, sadly, unknown!

We hope you've enjoyed our look at golden age comics tales of "The Walking Dead"...even if they weren't the adventures of Rick, Michonne, Daryl, and the rest battling zombies...I mean "walkers"!

But you can catch their return tonight on AMC!

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Reading Room MENACE "Walking Dead"

As we pointed out yesterday, "Walking Dead" didn't always refer to zombies...

...but it sure does here!

This cover-featured story from Atlas' Menace #9 (1954) came at the tail-end of the horror comic craze.

Dr. Wertham's crusade against those magazines had already taken it's toll as entire comic companies folded due to falling sales and public outcry.

Menace itself only lasted two more issues before disappearing.

Luckily, Atlas, which already had a predeliction for jumping onto whatever current fad was selling, had such a diverse line, that it was easy for Stan Lee and company to simply "switch gears" and replace the disgraced horror genre with other types of books.

(For example, When MAD comics took off in the mid-1950s, Atlas had four MAD-clone comics; RIOT!, CRAZY!, WILD!, and SNAFU!!

None lasted more than five issues!)

With the Silver Age dawning only a couple of years later, Atlas hung on long enough to become Marvel, and the rest is history...

Illustrated by John Forte with a cover by Gene Colan, the story's writer is unknown.

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Reading Room CHAMBER OF CHILLS MAGAZINE "Walking Dead"

The phrase "Walking Dead" wasn't always synonymous with zombies...

...as this never-reprinted story from Harvey's Chamber of Chills Magazine #3 (1951) demonstrates!

Penciled by Bob Powell, inked by Powell, Howard Nostrand and Martin Epp, this tale was one of the earliest to use the phrase "Walking Dead"...but in connection with ghosts, not zombies!

But don't worry, zombies get equal time this weekend...

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Return of the Walking Dead!

We've already presented the origin of the first Walking Dead comic series...

...but before that, there were other "Walking Dead" stories!

Since the AMC tv series based on the wildly-successful current graphic tales is returning this Sunday, we're going to run several of these "predecessor" tales this weekend!

Be here Friday through Sunday for some long-unseen four-color zombie stories that'll thrill and chill you!