Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Pirates of the Lost Planet"

Frosting the bear suddenly shrinks to the size of a cub...

...a clear indication a new artist has taken over the strip!

This never-reprinted tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #27 introduces Jim (Supergirl) Mooney to the wacky world of Pluto and its' weird residents.

Despite a commendable effort (except reducing Frosting to half his normal size), it's a one-off for an artist who became synonymous with Silver-Age superheroines as the series' last illustrator (no stranger to sci-fi or scantily-clad females) debuts on the strip next issue!

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Planet Comics

Volume 7

Reading Room PHASE 1 "Rocket Jets Thundering..."

It's a never-reprinted single-page...

...from an incredibly-HTF one-shot early 1970s fanzine!

But WHAT a page!

A solo piece by the legendary Murphy Anderson at his Silver/Bronze Age prime!

Is this illo from SQ's Phase 1 (1971) a beautiful example of pulp-style sci-fi or what?
BTW, note the elegant way Murphy solves the problem of the jet-pack NOT burning the wearer's butt...by using flanges/pylons to keep the engines attached to the back, but not on it!

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Phase 1

The SEQUEL to the Swinging Seventies Black Super-Hero You NEVER Heard of...ACE OF SPADES II!

In 1971, two years before The Black Panther received his own series...

...a Black Super-Hero hit the newsstands of America for a two-issue run almost nobody remembers!

Who is he?

Where did he come from?

And why don't even the most obsessive comics fans remember him?

These, and other equally-valid questions are now answered at...

Not Safe for Work Comics!

...where his final adventure is now on-line!

Warning!

The Answers May NOT Be Suitable For the Faint-Hearted!

Click HERE at Your Own Risk!

Friday Fun JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Zoomer: Frat Race"

Jetta in the 21st Century told tales about other characters in the same future setting...

...creating a more extensive "universe" than you might have realized!

Though based on Dan DeCarlo's designs, the art on this never-reprinted story from Standard's Jetta of the 21st Century #5 (1952) about other students who weren't part of Jetta's entourage is by Fred Eng.

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Dan DeCarlo's Jetta

Reading Room PHANTASMAGORIA "Sinking Feeling"

One of the most unique talents to ever grace the comics field...

...Kenneth Smith's work is hard to find, but well-worth tracking down, as this story he wrote and illustrated proves!

This tale from Smith's self-published Phantasmagoria #2 (1972) is a pretty good example of both his scripting and illustrating, both of which are multi-layered and require several readings to grasp all the details.

Kenneth Smith's about as close to an actual Renaissance Man as has ever contributed to the comics field!

His best-known work was the self-published anthology Phantasmagoria, whose every aspect, including printing, was under his total control! 

Fantagraphics was so impressed they offered not only to publish a continuation of it (available below), they gave him an open forum for his writing, as shown HERE!

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Phantasmagoria

by Kenneth Smith