Reading Room KING OF FUTURIA "To the Futur(ia)"

Can a 20th Century man prove superior to his 30th Century descendants?

Read on..and discover the startling answer!

Much like Buck Rogers, Dick Devens used his military skills (long forgotten in the future) to assist the humans of the time period he was now trapped in.

After this debut tale in Nedor's Mystery Comics #1 (1944), Dick Devens would appear in the remaining three issues of the title, then transfer with a number of other features to Wonder Comics when it dropped super-heroes in favor of sci-fi/fantasy.

We'll be presenting the entire run of the series, so keep an eye on us.

BTW, sadly, nobody can identify the writer and/or artist of the strip.

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Reading Room AMAZING ADVENTURES "Adonis 2-PX-89"

Our Valentine's Day entry is a weird combo of sci-fi and humor...

Art by Allen Anderson

...which was probably written by the man who created the Clark Kent/Superman/Lois Lane love/hate triangle...

This cover story from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #4 (1951) was illustrated by Henry Sharp who, during his decade in comics, illustrated only sci-fi or war stories!

Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel was the editor of the Ziff-Davis comics line, and wrote many of the stories that appeared in it, so it's not unreasonable to assume this tale, which contains many plot aspects common to those tales of Superman and Lois Lane, was scripted by the same writer!

Happy Valentine's Day!

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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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Charlton Arrow #4

featuring non-superhero stories from the long-gone and greatly-missed publisher!

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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