Sunday, July 19, 2020

America's Future?

Is this our future...
...thanks to the ineptitude of Don da Con?
Legendary artist Basil Wolverton did these illustrations for articles in a religious organization's magazine about the Book of Revelations.
They were later compiled, along with others, into a multi-volume version of the Bible which covered from Genesis to Revelations by that same organization!
Be here Tuesday as we reveal the final image in the series that was so shocking, the editors initially refused to publish it!
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Compiled and edited by Wolverton's son, Monte, the 304-page Bible Stories includes all of Wolverton's artwork for the Worldwide Church of God project.
Recording artist and noted EC Comics authority Grant Geissman (Tales of Terror: The E.C. Companion and Foul Play!: The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics!provides an insightful foreword, while Monte Wolverton delivers commentary and background in the introduction and in each section.
This volume is authorized and commissioned by the Worldwide Church of God and endorsed by the Wolverton family.
BTW, Many of the illustrations (some never previously-published) are regarded as Basil Wolverton's finest work.

Friday, July 17, 2020

Friday Fun HARRY HOT DOG "Peevy Over TV"

He's not a dachshund, but a generic canine with no self-control...
...who just can't understand what's going on with the then-"newfangled" tech known as "television"!
For those under 60, when TV was introduced to the American public in the early 1950s, it featured news, old movies, and low-budget original programming which this never-reprinted story from Magazine Enterprises' Hot Dog #1 (1954) aka A-1 #107 satirizes!
If you're wondering why the comic has two titles and numberings, let me explain...
Like Dell's Four Color Comics, A-1 was an anthology title which served as a tryout platform for various concepts, so it had both the strip's numbering and the title's numbering.
That way, if the strip didn't sell well, the publisher wouldn't have to pay for another second-class mailing permit (which was required for each title published) for a new series!
Numerous ME series were published this way, including Cave Girl, I Am a Cop, Trail Colt, Manhunt, Ghost Rider, and Thun'da!
This issue was the first of four Harry Hotdog-starring issues!
Writer/Artist George Crenshaw began as an animator for Walt Disney, then MGM before going to comic strips and books.
Besides being a longtime "ghost" on Dennis the Menace, he created his own long-running strip, Belevdere, about (surprise) a dog...but not an anthropomorphic one like Harry!
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Thursday, July 16, 2020

Reading Room JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN WORLDS "Devil's Day Off!"

Here's a never-reprinted tale that's really a product of its' time...
...the 1950s, when paranoia and fear ruled the USA!
You know you're evil when Satan admires to your skillsat torture!
Written by Stan Lee and beautifully-illustrated by Joe Maneely, this story from Atlas' Journey into Unknown Worlds #22 (1953) is good clean fun (not gory, like so much of the material at the time) for the entire family!
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HARSH REALM "Hazards" Part 1

...now that was exactly what we needed after a several-month break due to CoronaVirus!
From here on, it's nonstop Harsh Realm RPG action to the end of the series...
Is he an obvious ally...or secret enemy?
Be Here Next Wednesday!
Please note: Harris' Harsh Realm #3 (1994) was published over 25 years ago, when online gaming, virtual reality, and many technical aspects of the story were vastly-different than they are today.
Younger readers, in particular, might find things a little...weird, but at the time, they were considered visionary!
The legendary Jack Kirby did a combination superhero amusement park/virtual reality plotline even earlier in Marvel's 2001: a Space Odyssey #5 (1977)!
Like Harsh Realm's creators, he got some elements amazingly-correct...and some parts startlingly-wrong!
But give him credit, it was far more correct than incorrect!
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