...he was returning to Pluto after spending a couple of issues on a jungle planet where he met the scantly-clad Princess Jolie...
More cold calamities next Monday!
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Monday, January 29, 2018
Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Plutonian Prehistoric Peril"
More cold calamities next Monday!
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Design of the Week NEGRO ROMANCE
Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...with Valentine's Day rapidly-approaching, here's a unique design for your loved one!
In the mid-1950s, with superheroes and horror stories all but eliminated from comics, other genres dominated!
Westerns, war, sci-fi, teen humor, and romance now filled the comics racks.
The big problem was finding a way to stand out from the crowd!
Fawcett (and Charlton, who bought a lot of Fawcett properties when they went out of business) were willing to take a crack at the untapped African-American teen/young adult audience.
Sadly, the book only ran four issues.
But, you can read the stories that appeared in this issue HERE!
Note: This design is the only comic art cover in the series (the rest were photo covers using models).
Besides being a kool retro romace cover, suitable as a Valentine's Day gift, it would also make an appropriate gift for someone celebrating Black History Month!
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Saturday, January 27, 2018
Trump Reading Room STRANGE STORIES OF SUSPENSE "Beware...a Martian"
Here's a tale of racism and innuendo involving an "illegal alien"...
...that all Trumpettes should take note of!
Written by Carl Wessler, penciled by Al Williamson, and inked by Ralph Mayo, this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Strange Stories of Suspense #14 (1957) uses science fiction to tell a civil rights parable, substituting a Martian (and the paranoia about his race) for a African-American, Hispanic, Japanese, or other minority group about whom equally-inane fantasies have been concocted!
Note: it's interesting that Nardo the Martian has the same appearance as DC's J'Onn J'Onzz: the Martian Manhunter (except for skin color), as well as MM's specific ability to shape-shift, not a talent usually attributed to inhabitants of the Red Planet!
J'Onn had debuted almost two years earlier!
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Friday, January 26, 2018
Friday Fun TRAGG AND THE SKY GODS "Jaws of Death" "Valley of the Shadow" "Spotlight on Keera"
The background info on Keera is especially interesting, giving some insight into the Yargonian social structure and mindset.
The story prepared Tragg and the Sky Gods #9 appeared in the anthology Gold Key Spotlight, which also featured the final appearances of numerous other characters, including Dagar and Doctor Spektor.
You'll see that tale next Friday!
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
Reading Room BOLD ADVENTURE "Time Force" Conclusion
...a group of superhumans, scientifically-created to be protectors of the weak and helpless throughout the universe, are being slaughtered, out-by-one.
Their killer was Baal, a member of their group, driven mad with a lust for power over all sentient beings.
Now, he has discovered the location of the last of his brethren...
No "next issue" blurb!
No "To Be Continued!"
Between this and the other two stories in Pacific's Bold Adventure #1 (1983), I wasn't sure if there would even be a second issue, much less a continuation of this tale.
Pacific wasn't the most reliable publisher, sometimes taking a year between issues!
But, eventually, a second issue came out (five months later).
We'll bring you that one soon...
We'll bring you that one soon...
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