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Saturday, October 20, 2018
The MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN Blogathon Rampages Through HORROR COMICS OF THE 1950s!
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Friday, October 19, 2018
Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Who He Is and How He Came to Be" Conclusion
...he was experiencing his revised origin (as compared to his origin as shown in his premiere appearance HERE!)
So far, we've witnessed Rex's great-grandfather Montague leaving Earth in 1939, Rex's childhood after being born on Mars, and his romance as a young man with Cynde, also a descendent of the group who traveled from Earth with Montague Dexter in 1939!
Many of the plot elements from the original origin were altered in this new version which led off Fox's Rex Dexter #1 (1940), which was hoped to be a new, ongoing title, spun-off from Mystery Men Comics!
However. sales weren't strong enough to warrant continuing the separate title, and Rex remained in Mystery Men Comics until the end of its' run!
Next week: Our final Rex Dexter story, featuring space zombies!
However. sales weren't strong enough to warrant continuing the separate title, and Rex remained in Mystery Men Comics until the end of its' run!
Next week: Our final Rex Dexter story, featuring space zombies!
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Thursday, October 18, 2018
Reading Room CRUSADER FROM MARS COMICS "Tower of Jacob Dis"
What if someone discovered the Ultimate Power?
Would he use it for good...or evil?
This tale, unseen for over 65 years, holds one possible answer!
Underrated artist George Roussos and an unknown writer told this story which appeared as filler in the back of Ziff-Davis' Crusader from Mars #1 (1952).
If this tale was created today, Jacob would be seen as almost idiotically-idealistic, and his wife as a pragmatic realist.
Sad, isn't it!
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ZANGAR
One of the few (if not the only) red-headed jungle heroes...
...Zangar swung through all three issues of Skywald's short-lived Jungle Adventures, fronting reprints of everything from Jo-Jo to Sheena!
You have to wonder what was going through writer Gardner Fox and penciler Jack Katz's minds when they created this feature!
Is Zangar just Bob Gordon with an untreated concussion?
Or did he, almost mystically, bond with the jungle-dwelling animals?
This never-reprinted Bronze Age tale, inked by John Tartaglione and Bill Everett, leaves it somewhat nebulous...
Be Here Next Week as We Continue Zangar's High Adventures!
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Reading Room AMAZING ADVENTURES OF BUSTER CRABBE "Science Lore"
Who says comics ain't educational?
One and two-page featurettes, based on the science known at the time, offer fascinating insight into the mindset of the sci-fi/comics writers and what info they had to work with!
This never-reprinted, Pete Morisi-illustrated piece from Lev Gleason's Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe #3 (1954) is typical of the era, except for the fact all the spaceship designs, combining real and fictional vessels are from different eras!
Among them are a Mongo warship from the Flash Gordon comic strip, a ship from the movies Destination Moon and/or Conquest of Space, and what's described as a "WAC Corporal", but is rendered as a German V-2!
Among them are a Mongo warship from the Flash Gordon comic strip, a ship from the movies Destination Moon and/or Conquest of Space, and what's described as a "WAC Corporal", but is rendered as a German V-2!
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