Reading Room PLANET COMICS "Life on Other Worlds: Pluto"

While many in the Midwest and on the East Coast stay home due to blizzard-like conditions...

...let's visit an even colder planet that's no longer a planet (at least officially)...Pluto!

Mind you, Pluto was a planet when this chapter of the ongoing feature Life on Other Worlds appeared in Fiction House's Planet Comics #45 (1946).

In fact, it had only been discovered 16 years earlier and little was known about it beyond the fact that it was out there at the edge of the Solar System!

So, it was a blank slate for sci fi writers to play with, as artist Murphy Anderson and the unknown writer did in this "cool" 2-pager!

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The Pluto Files

The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

Trump Reading Room aka the Outhouse HICKORY "Reel Life"

Let's have a look at how some see Don (the Con) Trump's "deplorables"...

...in this never-reprinted tale from Quality's Hickory #6 (1949)

Illustrated (and probably written) by Harry Sahle, this comic series began in the anthology All-Humor Comics, then spun-off into it's own, short-lived, title when All-Humor was cancelled.

In 1948-49, superheroes were all but kaput.

Comics were experimenting with every genre imaginable to see what would sell.

Li'l Abner was a major success in newspapers and had already spawned a radio series and feature film!

Strips like Looie Lazybones had long been a part of anthology titles, and series like Ozark Ike, and Babe had earned their own titles, though it was probably due more to their emphasis on the characters' involvement in sports than their rural origins.

Hickory, the comic, only lasted six issues.

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Best of Li'l Abner

by Al Capp

Toddlers' and Kids' EasterWear Egg-citment!

Choose from Ducky's 1st Easter...

...Bunny Family Painting Eggs...

or Bunny Daddy, Baby Duck!

Bibs, creepers, toddlers' and kids' t-shirts, sweatshirts, and adult goodies like maternitywear!

NOTE: The organic clothing is from American Apparel!

Order now, so you'll have it in time for Easter!

Holiday Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Humpty Dumpty"

A new, Easter-themed variation on a classic nursery rhyme...

... courtesy of writer/artist Walt (Pogo) Kelly!

This never-reprinted short from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #185 (1948) expands on the nursery rhyme with a new adventure of the accident-prone ovum.
Walt Kelly also used Humpty in other Mother Goose comic stories.
Oddly, the cover, also by Walt Kelly, features a radically-different version of Humpty...

Weird, eh?

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Reading Room BLACK MAGIC "Way Out!"

From the final issue (#50 from 1961) of Prize's Black Magic...

..is a never-reprinted tale that might seem familiar to EC Comics fans!

Compare the last page to the last page below...

Did Black Magic editor Joe Simon swipe the Bill Gaines/Al Feldstein script for this tale, "Round Trip" from EC's Weird Science-Fantasy #28 (1955)?

Or was he given the script by a lazy writer who hoped he didn't recognize it?

We'll never know...

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Zero Hour and Other Stories

(which reprints the complete "Round Trip" from Weird Science-Fantasy #28)