Monday Madness FANTASTIC COMICS "Space Smith and the Sinister Sandblasts of Space"

What will Space Smith be like without Fletcher Hanks?

Well, it certainly reads differently than under the wild imagination of Hanks...

This never-reprinted tale from Fox's Fantastic Comics #9 (1940) is another artist trying to imitate Dick Calkins' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century art, as did a fill-in illustrator HERE.

However, the next issue brings in a radically-different approach...

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Best of Trump Reading Room DUCK AND COVER Part 2

When Last We Left Bert the Turtle...

...he was showing us how to survive an atomic attack!
Let's continue...

Tuesday...See the Legendary Movie!

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Best of Trump Reading Room DUCK AND COVER Part 1

As Don the Con allegedly prepares to negotiate face-to-face with Kim Jong Un in Singapore...

...it behooves us to look back at how the government thought we'd have to deal with a potential nuclear attack!

As you might have guessed, this was a comic booklet that was handed out to students in the 1950s-1960s who were shown the famous Duck and Cover movie in their classroom!
Be here tomorrow for the conclusion...but, in the meantime, here's a kool download from the Library of Congress about Duck and Cover and similar Civil Defense films!

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "...Goes Through!"

Ever hear of Nathaniel Nitkin?

If you're a Golden Age fan, you've probably read his work...including this story!

Nitkin wrote text features for Fox covering almost all their ongoing characters.

(Those text features were a requirement for the less-expensive periodical mailing permit the Post Office issued!)

Unfortunately, as this piece from Fox's Rex Dexter #1 (1940) shows, Nat would take a fairly generic genre plot and cram it into a story about whatever chararacter he was doing.

It's OK, but it lacks the weirdness of Dick Briefer's version of the strip.

BTW, the art is existing Briefer art "clipped" from a couple of stories!

Since it's never been reprinted, we thought Rex Dexter fans (and judging by the hits on his tales on Friday Fun, there are quite a number of you) would find the only non-Breifer Rex Dexter tale to be an interesting curiosity!

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Reading Room CRUSADER FROM MARS COMICS "Escape to Nowhere"

The idea that we should leave Earth before atomic war destroys it is not new...

...nor is the "surprise ending" to this never-reprinted backup tale from Ziff-Davis' Crusader from Mars #1 (1952)

"You blew it up!

Damn you!

Damn you all to hell!"

Almost two decades before Rod Serling had Charlton Heston scream those words to the sky at the conclusion of Planet of the Apes, artist Mike Becker and an unknown writer presented a much more mellow discovery by space travelers returning to Earth centuries in the future!

The script may be by editor Jerry (Superman) Siegel...

Mike Becker illustrated over 100 crime, horror, romance, sci-fi, sports, spy, war and western stories for various publishers including Timely, Ziff-Davis, Hillman, Youthful, and Nedor/Better/Standard from 1948 through 1956.

What happened after that is, regrettably, unknown.

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