Maybe it's just the depressing, gray weather, but I want something colorful...
This HTF short story illustrated by the late, great, Wally Wood should fill the bill. Enjoy!
Wow! How "Age of Aquarius" can you get? ;-)
Sunday, January 5, 2020
Saturday, January 4, 2020
Reading Room WEIRD THRILLERS "Cycle of Time!"
Here's a sci-fi triple-treat: time travel, aliens, and dinosaurs!
This kool tale appeared in the HTF Ziff-Davis' anthology Weird Thrillers #2 (1951)!
Illustrated by Murphy Anderson, who was doing quite a bit of work for Z-D including the second issue of Space Busters and both issues of Lars of Mars as well as various one-shots like this.
We don't know who wrote this tale, but it might be series editor Jerry (Superman) Siegel.
Friday, January 3, 2020
Friday Fun YAK YAK "Drama vs Realism"
After hearing of recent events in the Middle East, I'm struck by the disparity of info presented by con and lib media...
...so to keep my spirits up, I decided to run this never-reprinted piece showing the stark difference between how each side portrays a given situation.
I leave it to the reader to decide which (drama or reality) is which (con or lib)...
Dell gave MAD mainstay Jack Davis his own title, to do with as he pleased.
The series, Yak Yak (subtitled "A Pathology of Humor") only ran two issues, but they were pure Davis, who wrote, penciled, inked, and colored the whole project as well as providing painted covers for both issues!
The next (and final issue) had another Drama vs Realism piece.
You'll see that next Friday!
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Thursday, January 2, 2020
Reading Room ANDROMEDA "Where Do You Get Those Ideas?"
It's a question creatives are constantly-asked...
Alan Dean Foster, whose prodigious output includes the novelization of Star Wars (and the in-between-SW & ESB novel Splinter of the Minds Eye) and the Star Trek Logs (which adapted the scripts of the Star Trek animated series), along with the plot for Star Trek the Motion Picture (far different from the final film), as well as hundreds of his own novels, novelettes, novellas, and short stories gives us an idea of the process in this never-reprinted piece from Andromeda/Silver Snail Publications' Andromeda #6 (1979)...which was an all-Foster scripted issue!
The illustration by Paul Rivoche is of a gigantic futuristic typewriter, the primary word processing device of the dark ages of the pre-PC era!
Interestingly, it's a manual, not electric, typewriter, which was the standard by that point!
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Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Celebrate the New Year with the Psychedelic Master of the Mystic Arts!
...produced not one...
...but two...
...classic blacklite posters in the early 1970s!
Third Eye Studios produced, using Marvel artwork, a line of fluorescent-ink posters, greeting cards, and puzzles that glowed under ultra-violet ("black") light...
(Click to enlarge)
...all of which are now hard-to-find and expensive!
Ironically, the most collectible of the posters are the montage shown above and this one with new art by John Romita Sr...
(Click to enlarge)
...which were not for sale, just display!
There were three Doctor Strange posters, the two Colan/Palmer ones and a Dan Adkins piece.
Note: while all the puzzles repeated art from the posters, some of the greeting cards used art not seen on the posters, so while there are repeats, there are also unique cards that make the set worth collecting!
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...which were not for sale, just display!
There were three Doctor Strange posters, the two Colan/Palmer ones and a Dan Adkins piece.
Note: while all the puzzles repeated art from the posters, some of the greeting cards used art not seen on the posters, so while there are repeats, there are also unique cards that make the set worth collecting!
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics This New Year's
Digitally-Restored and Remastered DIRECTLY From an Original Poster!
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