Reading Room LARS OF MARS "Terror Weapon" Part 1

Old Commie Villains Never Die...

...they just return in the next issue, as the guy who doesn't just play a Martian on TV, but is a Martian playing an actor playing a Martian on TV while fighting crime in real life (got that?) discovers...

What Next?

Will Lars Stop Raskov?

Will Raskov Stop (and/or Kill) Lars?

Be Here Next Thursday for the Astounding Conclusion!

You'll note the Communist Chinese were illustrated in a non-cartoony manner, unlike the Japanese in most World War II comics and animated cartoons!
(The unfortunate lemon-yellow skin-tone wasn't artist Murphy Anderson's choice, I'm sure.)
Written by Jerry Siegel, illustrated by Murphy Anderson, this was the cover-featured tale from Ziff-Davis' Lars of Mars #11 (1951), the second (and last issue) of the series!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder "Secrets of SEEKER 3000!"

Before we continue our re-presentation of the time-lost Seeker 3000! series...

...here's some background on both "classic" and "next gen" versions of the series..

First, the original plans for the proposed series by co-creators Doug Moench and Tom Sutton from Marvel's FOOM Magazine #21 (1978)...

Sadly, 'twas not to be, as the series didn't make it beyond the "pilot" stage...until 21 years later!

The only reprinting it had before this was a serialized version in the Marvel British weekly Future Tense...

Now we'll have a look at the "next gen" version from 1998...

Be here next week as we begin the first re-presentation of the follow-up series, which has never been collected in TPB form or reprinted in any way!

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SEEKER 3000!

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Reading Room OUT OF THIS WORLD "Pallas Rebellion"

And we do mean Reading Room, today...

Art by Gene Fawcette

In the dark days before comic shops,  comic books were sold at newsstands, drugstores, lunchenette/soda fountains, etc. on racks along with magazines and newspapers.

To qualify as magazines/periodicals and receive special 2nd class (periodical) mailing discounts, comics had to include at least one text page per issue.

From the mid-1950s on, the quota was filled with a letters page.

But before that, the text page was often a short story.

In some cases, the story was based on the cover art, like this one from Avon's 1950 one-shot Out of This World...

The cover is by Gene Fawcette.

The story is by "W Malcolm White", a pen-name for Donald A Wollheim, a noted genre author who was the sci-fi/fantasy editor for Avon Magazines at this time.

Shortly after this, he moved to Ace Books, where he conceived the Ace Doubles paperback series and spearheaded the returns of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E Howard to the pop culture spotlight.

He also introduced JRR Tolkien to American audiences with an unauthorized (but legal) reprinting of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Later, Wollheim and his wife would found DAW Books, the first mass-market genre publisher!

(Today it's an imprint of Penguin Books.)

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Monday Madness FAIRY TALES "All About Fairies!"

It makes sense a comic called Fairy Tales would have a feature on fairies...

...although classifying witches as "bad fairies" seems to be stretching the concept to the breaking point!

From the inside cover of Ziff-Davis' Fairy Tales #11 (1951) comes this never-reprinted b/w feature by an anonymous writer/artist or writer and artist which raises more questions than it answers!

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Design of the Week Redux ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE: SEPTEMBER SQUALL

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days...

unless it sells exceptionally-well!

This Week...

With autumn right around the corner, it's time to wind summer up with a kool klassic romance comics cover design that exemplifies the time of year!

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