Monday Madness FAIRY TALES "Gingerbread Boy"

We skipped our usual Monday Madness entry due to Labor Day...

...so lets's make up for it with the cover-featured (and never-reprinted) tale from Ziff-Davis' Fairy Tales #11 (1951)!

This is not so much a fairy tale as a folk tale or fable.

In most versions it's a fox who carries the Gingerbread Boy across the river and devours him!

The comic strip's art is by Leon Winik, who probably also did the cover, which matches the third panel on the final page above perfectly!

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Design of the Week Redux SPACE ACE!

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

...unless it sells really well, then we continue it for a second week!

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Before Don Bluth appropriated the name for his video game, there were a couple of totally different Space Aces in the Golden Age of Comics!

This particular one was a Flash Gordon-type set in the then-distant future year of 2000, complete with one-man spacecraft, moving sidewalks, flying cars, mile-high skyscrapers, human colonies on other worlds, etc.! (You remember all that stuff, don't you?)

And, of course, aliens!

LOTS of aliens!

One of the interesting things about this image is that it doesn't feature a scantily-clad woman being held captive by the tentacled alien, making it particularly age-appropriate (but still retro-kool) for under-10 year-old kids' (pre-K / 4th Grade) back-to-school stuff!

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Reading Room FANTASTIC WORLDS "Boy Who Saved the World!

The short-lived anthology Fantastic Worlds featured Earth-based stories...

...contrasting with the other anthology from Standard Comics, Lost Worlds, which was a space-opera book.

This kid-friendly tale from Standard's Fantastic Worlds #6 (1952) was drawn by Alex Toth and Mike Peppe, though the writer is unknown.

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Friday Fun SPACE MOUSE "Tasty Planet"

Along with comic tales, comic books ran text features...

...in order to qualify as magazines and get special low mailing rates!

Here's the never-reprinted story from Avon's Space Comics #4 (1954)!

It reads like it was probably written by series creator Frank Carin.

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Reading Room LARS OF MARS "Terror Weapon" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Martian disguised as an Actor Playing a Martian on TV...

Art by Allen Anderson

...he was heading for Manchuria to stop a mad Soviet scientist from unleashing a super-weapon that could freeze anything!

After facing several deadly devices, Lars uses his ability to travel at light-speed...

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!

BTW, the cover artist is Allen Anderson (no relation to Murphy)

And, Allen also did the cover to the second (and last) issue of Ziff-Davis' Space Busters...which was illustrated by Murphy!

Weird, huh? 

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