50 Years Ago Today...2001 Arrived!

No, I haven't gone senile...yet!

On this date in 1968, Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: a Space Odyssey, hit movie theatres like an atom bomb!

Eight years after that, a comic adaptation finally appeared...in the now-defunct, tabloid-sized "Treasury" format by none other than Jack (King) Kirby...

(You can read it at this amazing site!)

...followed by an ongoing series by Kirby that, to this day, generates controversy among comics aficionados!

Due to licensing limitations, neither the movie adaptation or the sequel series have been reprinted in the US, but we've re-presented the complete set of these otherwise lost tales on this blog!

Click on the titles below the covers to go to each story!

#1 "Beast Killer"

#2 "Vira, the She-Demon"

#3 "Marak"

#4 "Wheels of Death" ("Marak" Part 2)

#5 "Norton of New York: 2040 AD"

#6 "Inter-Galactica" ("Norton of New York: 2040 AD" Part 2)

#7 "New Seed"

#8 "Capture of X-51" (Mister Machine Part 1)

#9 "Mister Machine" (Mister Machine Part 2)

#10 "Hotline to Hades" (Mister Machine Conclusion)

Blow Your Mind, True Believer!

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Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: a Space Odyssey

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Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Time Travel Terror"

In the far future of Pluto's Norge Benson...

...science is sorta arbitrary and time travel is as easy as being swept up by a cyclone!

"Murphy the Mammoth"?

With Frosting the Polar Bear's mysterious reduction from full-size bear to puppy dog-sized cub, the editors must have felt they needed a character who could do "bull in a china shop" slapstick he used to do, as well as provide occasional sheer muscle in dangerous situations.

As a result, Murphy was added to the cast in this Lily Renee-rendered tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #31 (1944)!

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Planet Comics
Vol. 8

Easter & April Fool's Day Reading Room SPEED BUGGY COMICS "Magic Easter Candy"

Here's a never-reprinted tale from Charlton's Speed Buggy #3 (1975)...

...just in time for the first joint Easter/April Fools Day in 62 years!

Scripted by Mike Pellowski and illustrated by Alan James Hanley (not to be confused with the NYC comic book store owner), this was one of numerous one-off text features created to fulfill the second-class (magazine) privilege requirements for subscription copies when they didn't have a letters page or short story based on the specific comic's characters!

EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE Cover Galllery

From 1946 through 1949, Dell produced an annual Easter with Mother Goose...

...with all-new stories and art by Walt (Pogo) Kelly!

We've presented a number of the stories (most never-reprinted since the 1940s) HERE.

Friday Fun JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Hot Rod Rocket"

Like most comics of the era, Jetta of the 21st Century had text stories...

...to qualify for second-class (magazine) mailing rates!

The text stories featured other characters from the "Jetta-verse"!

Written by "Dixon Wells" (a pen-name used only for Jetta text stories), this never-reprinted piece from Standard's Jetta of the 21st Century #6 (1953) would've made a pretty good comic story.

Perhaps it was scripted by Dan DeCarlo?
The artist, who used a more "realistic" style than Dan DeCarlo or Fred Eng, is unknown!

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Dan DeCarlo's Jetta