Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of What Th... SIDNEY MELLON'S THUNDERSKULL! "When Demons Do Clash!" Part 2

If you really think I'm gonna synopsize this startling storyline, you're outta your mind!
Click HERE to read the previous chapter, then continue...
For the answer to that question, you'll have to come back next Wednesday...
As for several other questions...
Yes, that's supposed to be Frank Miller and Chris Claremont praising Sidney Mellon; intellectual!
For the answers to the other questions, you'll have to return next Wednesday where you'll not only read the cataclysmic conclusion of this titanic tale and learn some sinister, long-suppressed secrets, but also witness the adults-only follow-up story!
(Got your attention, eh?)
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Reading Room ALARMING TALES "Hero"

Here's a short (in more ways than one) space-opera tale...
...though you won't get the pun until the end...
This story of size and space travel from Harvey's Alarming Tales #2 (1957) was produced by writer Jack Oleck, and illustrator Marvin Stein (with what appears to be uncredited layout help by Jack Kirby).
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Taylor History of Comics
Vol 3

Monday, June 25, 2018

Monday Madness FANTASTIC COMICS "Space Smith and the Sinister Saturnians"

The round-robin of writers and artists on this series continues...
...with more unknown creatives taking a crack at the interplanetary hero!
This tale from Fox's Fantastic Comics #11 (1940) has never been reprinted.
Pity, because it's a prime example of "compressed storytelling" that, if done today, would be a 20-page book-lengther...if not a two-parter!
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Taylor History of Comics
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Sunday, June 24, 2018

Reading Room STAR*REACH "A Nice Place to Live, But..."

...now a New Yorker visits the Left Coast...
Frank Brunner's counterpoint to Linda Fite's piece in Big Apple Comics (1975) was probably meant to appear in that book, either side-by-side or back-to-back.
It's likely he missed the deadline due to his heavy workload at Marvel!
Brunner's piece finally appeared (for the first and only time) in Star*Reach #5 (1976).
We're happy to present them together, as they were meant to be...
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Saturday, June 23, 2018

Reading Room ALIEN ENCOUNTERS "Great Outdoors"

At long last, we can scream..."It's summertime!"
And what's summer vacation without (at least once) camping out?
The two creators of this never-reprinted short from Eclipse's Alien Encounters #12 (1987) are relative unknowns.
Illustrator Doug Medved's comics credits are limited to this, another Alien Encounters, and an issue of Tales of Terror.
Writer Ruby's credits consist of scripting all three of Medved's art assignments as well as one by Graham Nolan in Alien Encounters.
A pity, since both Ruby and Doug showed a lot of unrealized potential.
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(which contains only a couple of stories from this previously-listed volume)
He did some excellent painted work for Topps' Universal Monsters cards in the early 1990s, then disappeared.