Reading Room WORLD OF FANTASY "Guardian of the Stars!"

What's kooler than a Jack (King) Kirby cover?

How about the never-reprinted Steve Ditko story it leads into?

Did the cover or the story come first?

The total redesign of the robot indicates whichever was done first wasn't provided to the other artist as reference!

Also, shouldn't the title be "Guardian of the Earth"?

Of course, that would be a "spoiler", ruining the drama shown on the cover...

Illustrated by Steve Ditko, this tale from Atlas' World of Fantasy #17 (1959) was probably plotted by Stan Lee, though the scripting doesn't read like his work.

Keep an eye on this blog as we re-present more never-reprinted Steve Ditko stories and covers!

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Monday Madness FANTASTIC COMICS "Space Smith and the Death of a Planetary Policeman!"

This series has become "gangsters in space"...

...with plots right out of the then-popular crime films of the 1930s, transposed into the future!

This never-reprinted tale from Fox's Fantastuc Comics #17 (1941) isn't a bad story, just...familiar.

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Reading Room ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN "Vampire Spider"

Here's a tale that combines two of the most popular themes of sci-fi/horror...

...science-induced mutation in human beings and giant arachnids (which includes both insects and spiders)!

This never-reprinted cover story from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #50 (1953) was written by Richard Hughes and illustrated by Robert McCarty, who, unfortunately, doesn't do a very accurate (most panels show the arachnid with only six legs) or scary spider...

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Reading Room ALARMING ADVENTURES "Earth Went Haywire"

Here's a never-reprinted tale from Harvey's Alarming Adventures #3 (1963)...

...about a "forgotten man" who saves the world from Armageddon!

With today's "decompressed storytelling, this five-page short would be, at least, a mini-series with numerous full-page and double-page spreads...collected, of course into a tpb reprint!

The creators are unknown, but knowledgable sources have suggested Carl Burgos, Bernard Baily, and Stan Goldberg as the artists...

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Creator AND Destroyer of Worlds"

It's a typical day for Rex Dexter...

...starting off with a fascinating "flashback" to Rex's childhood and a look at what science at the time said the origin of the Earth was!

Let me see if I have this straight...
Rex's friend blows up a planet!
A fragment of that world crashes on Earth!
Somehow, evolution speeds up on that fragment and creatures soon migrate to the surrounding area, attacking people!
Rex and the military manage to stop the aliens!
Our lesson for today, kiddies: "We created a planetm but it nearly destroyed all of Mankind! That was a close call!"

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