...it's Americans vs The Red Chinese!
(Gee, just like real life!)
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(Gee, just like real life!)
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
Reading Room FANTASTIC WORLDS "Cosmic Terror"
Some say space opera is just a Western with ray guns instead of six-shooters...
...but this never-reprinted tale from Standard's Fantastic Worlds #6 (1952) is a Cold War tale with aliens instead of Communists!
Though the scripter is unknown, the artwork is by Art Saaf, who had a long career in comics from the mid-1940s to the mid 1970s, doing everything from romance to horror to sci-fi to superheroes!
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Sunday, April 23, 2017
For the Mother/Wife/Sister/Girlfriend/Veteran in Your Life!
Our War: Past, Present and Future store offers a unique idea for the female World War II veteran in your life.
Whether she's your mother or grandmother, sister or aunt, wife or ex-wife, we've got a bunch of items that show your respect and love in a kitchy kool kind of way.
Long and short-sleeve T-shirts, mugs, blank journals, even kitchen magnets, all adorned with a classic 1940s comic cover paying tribute to WWII-era WACs, WAVEs, and MCWRs!
Available on a variety of kool kollectibles!
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Reading Room LOST WORLDS Feature Pages
Besides stories, comics often run one or two-page features...
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| Lost Worlds #5 Art by Ross Andru & Mike Esposito |
...based on historical or scientific information available at the time...
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| Lost Worlds #6 Art by Rocco Mastroserio |
...or speculation about future developments, again, based on then-current knowledge!
(I love that third panel, showing spacesuit-garbed scientists on a balcony on the satellite!)
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Friday, April 21, 2017
Reading Room SPACE SQUADRON / MARVEL TALES "Fiends with Four Arms / Starmen"
Going over our previous posts...
...we realized we had stopped posting the saga of Jet Dixon and the Space Squadron long before the conclusion!
Let's continue with a rarity for Atlas Comics...a text feature based on the cover!
We don't know who the scripter is for the text feature from Atlas' Space Squadron #2 (1951), but the artist is George Tuska, who was also illustrating most of the Jet Dixon strips in the book.
Oddly, the feature was reprinted a couple of years later in Atlas' Marvel Tales #116 (1953)...when Jet Dixon's replacement series, Speed Carter: SpaceMan, was being published!
Since the Marvel Tales cover wasn't a reprint of the earlier cover, the title was changed, and the insert art replaced by a generic spaceship.
But the character names remained the same!
Note: This is the only Jet Dixon story to ever be reprinted!
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