Reading Room MYSTERY IN SPACE "Operation Phobos"

We presented the first Swinging Sixties Interplanetary Investigations tale HERE...

..now here's their final adventure from DC's Mystery in Space #102 (1965)!

Note Sean Connery-lookalike Damos appears again.

Also note (from the ad at the end of the story), this month also saw the Strange Adventures premiere/origin of "The Man with the Animal Powers" who would morph a couple of issues later into superhero Animal Man, who's still active in DC comics and tv series over 50 years later, unlike the secret agents of Interplanetary Investigations!

Written by Dave Wood, illustrated by Gil Kane, the series had a lot of potential.

Jan and Davos could've become a futuristic Man from U.N.C.L.E./Wild, Wild West/I Spy duo...

What could have been...

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Mystery in Space

Pulp Fiction Library

(which contains only a couple of stories from this previously-listed volume)

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Battle Cry!"

We Have Already Seen...

Wein and Kaluta have brought us up to date!
Buckle your swashes and read on...

Needless to say...

Continued Next Wednesday!

To his credit, Edgar Rice Burroughs made each of his series as different from the others as possible.
Except for an American protaganist and a beautiful woman to lust after, Barsoom, Amtor, Caspak, Pelucidar, and the Moon have vastly-different enviroments, unique flora and fauna, and differently-structured humanoid civilizations and governments!
Written by Len Wein and illustrated by Mike Kaluta, this tale from DC's Korak: Son of Tarzan #48 (1972) continues the adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Pirates of Venus, the first of the Carson of Venus series!

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The Complete Ace Books Carson of Venus Series

Reading Room OUT OF THIS WORLD "LIttle Things!"

One thing Charlton excelled at...

...was saving a buck by creating distinctive covers using existing interior artwork!

Of course, it helps if the art is by Steve Ditko at one of his peaks!

The story from Charlton's Out of This World #16 (1959) is one of those "I screwed up something in the past, thus changing the present" tales.

But it's Ditko's art that elevates it from "merely average" to "really kool"!

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Steve Ditko Archives

Volume 6

Outer Limits

Reading Room NORGE BENSON "Mammoth Poachers of Thor"

Add a mammoth to your cast, and what's the first thing that happens?

You encounter mammoth poachers, of course!

Perhaps it's a blessing that this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #32 (1944) is the final Norge Benson adventure.

The writing, which had never been the strip's greatest asset, has deteriorated remarkably.

Even Lily Renee's constantly-improving artwork can't save the series.
Be here next Monday as we begin a new time-lost series!

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Planet Comics
Vol. 8

Reading Room PANIC "What to Do with Ebbet's Field?"

As I had mentioned previously, baseball's Dodgers had left Brooklyn for Los Angeles in 1957...

...leaving an empty stadium in the heart of the Borough of Kings!

This never-reprinted strip from Panic Publications' Panic #1 (1958) takes the "Man on the Street" skit from then-popular The Steve Allen Show (featuring Don Knotts, Tom Poston, and Louie Nye) and uses it to answer the question!

(You can read about Ebbets [no apostrophe] Field's fate HERE.)

As to who wrote and drew the four-pager...we have no idea!

Only Publisher Robert Farrell and Editor/Art Director Bob Powell used their own names on the masthead!

Panic survived longer than most other MAD clones, running nine issues from 1958 to 1966.

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Sincerest Form of Parody

Best 1950s MAD-Inspired Satirical Comics