Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR "Forest of Peril!"

When Last We Left Our Hero...

...wait..."Lt James Farnsworth"?

Tangor's original name was never mentioned in either of the short stories that made up Beyond the Farthest Star!

Well, since we've already diverged from the source material, let's see where this leads...

Murphy Anderson takes over the art duties on the series with this never-reprinted installment from DC's Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle #217 (1973).

The question is...who scripted it?
Various sources attribute either Marv Wolfman or Denny O'Neil, with no definitive answer available. 

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Beyond the Farthest Star

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Reading Room STRANGE TALES "Mighty Oak!"

Look!

It's another wooden creature (like Groot) seeking to take over the world...

...in this never-reprinted Steve Ditko-rendered story!

Hah!

Thought it was going to just be a replay of "I Challenged Groot! The Monster from Planet X!"?

To give Stan Lee credit, he knew how to do variations on a theme!

This was the final tale in Atlas' Strange Tales #100 (1962), the final anthology issue of the series.

Beginning with the next issue, The Human Torch's solo strip would debut, and the title would become (like Journey into Mystery, Tales of Suspense, and Tales to Astonish), a superhero book with a couple of unrelated backups.

This, and several other Ditko tales from the era, have never been reprinted, and will be re-presented here over the next few months!

Watch for them!

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Ditko Unleashed

Monday Madness FANTASTIC COMICS "Space Smith vs Colt the Cosmic Criminal"

Gangsters wearing 20th Century fashions continue to menace Space Smith and Diana...

...as this somewhat anachronistic series continues its' journey into weirdness!

This never-reprinted story from Fox's Fantastic Comics #16 (1941) demonstrates the value of having a colorist who can keep track of who's who as almost everyone is mis-colored somewhere in this tale!

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Science Fiction Comics
Taylor History of Comics
Vol 3

Beginning Tomorrow: Our Annual Romance Comics "Beach Read" Story...

We're presenting a multi-chapter. full-length Gothic romance graphic novel...

...as our "Beach Read" at our "sister" RetroBlog True Love Comics Tales, starting Monday and running daily through Friday!

Don't Miss It!

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Gothic Tales of Haunted Love

Reading Room RIOT "Pascal the Rascal"

In 1956, one of the many MAD clones did a spoof of the then incredibly-hot new comic strip...

...Dennis the Menace illustrated by an artist whose identity you probably won't guess!

Was I right?

Did you guess who it was?

Atlas' MAD rip-off RIOT #6 (1956) ended the book's run with some spectacular (and never-reprinted) artwork by Bill Everett, John Severin, Dan DeCarlo and this piece by an unrecognizable Joe Maneely!

Joe, whose art normally looked like this...

...totally-suppressed his own style to match Hank Ketcham's style down to the thickness of the linework while making the character look just different enough to avoid copyright and trademark infringement!

It was a beautiful job, and an example of this amazingly-ignored artist!

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Hank Ketcham's Complete

Dennis the Menace

1951-1952

Volume 1