IT'S ELECTION DAY AND...

And there came a day unlike any other day, when heroes banded together to battle a menace so overwhelming no single hero could stand against it...

,,,unless not enough of those heroes actually go to vote!

Here's a handy (very) basic guide...

Illustrated by Warren Kremer and Al Avision, this one-shot published by Harvey Comics in 1952 (66 years ago) was offered for only a couple of pennies a copy to anyone who wanted to utilize it to get out the vote!

Amazing how it's both generic and pertinent even decades later!
Note: Out gratitude to the ever-amazing Kracalactaka for the scans of this ultra-rare comic!

Now, unless you want things to stay as they are...or get worse...if you're over 18 and under 110...

...GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND

VOTE! 

Monday Madness ALICE "Lost Rag Doll"

When Walt Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland debuted in 1951...

...several comics publishers tried to take advantgage of the source book being in public domain by doing their own versions!
(Note that the Allen Anderson cover has Alice in a blue dress, like the animated character, but the stories show her wearing red!)

Writer/artist Dave Berg, who created this never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Alice #10 (1951), later achieved his greatest and longest-lasting success as the auteur behind MAD Magazine's "The Lighter Side of..." feature where his cranky self-portrait, Roger Kaputnik often appeared!

Note: Alice #10 was actually the first issue of the series, but there's no indication of a Ziff-Davis book that ended with #9 and was then retitled "Alice"...madness indeed!

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Dave Berg

Five Decades of "The Lighter Side of..."

Design of the Week SPACE SANTA

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This week...Space Santa (note the four arms!) listens to a cute alien child telling him what he/she/it wants for Christmas!

In the late 1950s-early 1960s we thought there was nothing science couldn't improve...including Santa Claus!

Galaxy Magazine's primary artist (both covers and interiors) in this era was Ed Emshwiller, who signed his work "Emsh".

Known for both detail and playfullness, Ed did a series of Christmas covers from 1951 to 1960 featuring a four-armed Santa in the future celebrating the Yuletide with humans and aliens alike!

Enjoy this final one in the series on mugs, t-shirts and other kool kollectibles!

Catch Up with the Now-Complete Dick Breifer's Horror-Era MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN Blogathon!

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Friday Fun SPACE MOUSE "Hunter"

Thought the Martian invasion stuff was over for the year?

Guess again, Earthling!

Even funny animals battled Martians!

Not a Dream!

Not a Hoax!

Not an Imaginary Story!

(though it is the ending of the movie Invaders from Mars, which came out the year before this never-reprinted tale from Avon's Space Comics #4 [1954] appeared!)

If I were a cynical sort, I'd say writer/artist Frank Carin copped that finale...

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Fleischer Story

A history of the Cartoon Studio in the Golden Age of Film Animation

(covering the studio where Frank Carin got his start)