Ernie Colon (1931-2019)

Though best known for his Harvey Comics humor work...

...Ernie Colon had an impressive career as a sci-fi/horror/superhero editor/writer/artist as well, including this strip, his first non-humor comics work, in Wham-O Giant Comics (1967), the biggest single comic book in history (21" x 14")!

Ernie penciled and inked the story..and may have written it as well!

We've run a number of his HTF projects including...

The Medusa Chain

Phase 1 "Impact"

Battlestar Galactica "Saga of a Star World"

9/11 Report: the Graphic Adaptation

I have more Ernie Colon original art in my collection than any other artist's work!
He's one of the unappreciated geniuses of the business, and, now, sadly, he's gone!

Friday Fun SPACE MOUSE "Flying Saucers"

It was the 1950s, and this was a sci-fi (albeit funny animal) strip...

 ...so it was inevitable they'd do at least one tale about...FLYING SAUCERS!

Of course, if they hauled the suitcase/vehicle to the newspaper office, the editor might have believed them...
Writer/artist Frank Carin told this never-reprinted tale of space, saucers...and suitcases in Avon's Space Mouse #1 (1953)!
And you gotta admit, he had a way of making such an implausible concept as "suitcase/flying cars" work, even if the script reads like a "best of vaudeville" compilation!
And no, I'm not explaing what "vaudeville" was!
If you're not old enough to remember (and I am), Google it!

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Reading Room LARS OF MARS "Villain or Hero?"

What if 1950s sci-fi shows like Captain Video or Space Patrol were real?

 Or if the "alien hero" shown on the cathode-tube screen was a real alien?

As you've just read, that was the premise of the short-lived (two issues) 1951 Ziff-Davis series Lars of Mars!

Created by Jerry (Superman) Siegel and Murphy (Buck Rogers) Anderson, this story from the first issue of his own title (which was #10!) established the somewhat-silly premise.

During his run, Superm...ahem Lars battled Commies, crooks, and other aliens while protecting his "secret identity" from Lo...ahem June, his nosy producer.
(But then what would you expect from the guy who co-created Superman?)

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MARVEL PREMIERE "Seeker 3000!" Part 1

We're going from the past on other worlds...

...to the future on Earth and other worlds...and a starship exploring the Final Frontier!

To be Concluded

NEXT WEDNESDAY!

Writer Doug Moench and artist Tom Sutton had some kool ideas for this project, which they hoped would go to series.

Yes, there are elements of Star Trek.

But remember, Star Trek took elements from previous sci-fi projects like Voyage of the Space Beagle, Space Patrol, and Forbidden Planet and did something different with the concepts!

Come back next week and see where it goes...

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Marvel Premiere #41
SEEKER 3000!
(the first appearance of the series)

Public Service Ad EASY WAY TO A TUFF SURFBOARD! / IS THIS STORY ABOUT YOUR BOYFRIEND?

The legendary Frank Frazetta did a number of sadly, now-forgotten, pieces...

...like this public service anti-smoking ad that ran through the b/w Warren Magazines line from 1964 to 1971 or so.

Note the main aspect is the financial cost to the smoker, not the physical cost!

Publisher Jim Warren knew how to repurpose material to get additional free use out of it.

Just by changing the title, he found a re-use for this male bonding experience in his short-lived female-oriented Teen Love Stories magazine!

Fascinating, eh?

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