Friday, August 7, 2020

Friday Fun SNAFU "Emilie Toast's Etiquette Page

For those who claim we've become a rude, crude society...
.......... a never-reprinted spoof of classic etiquette expert Emily Post's ever-eloquent diatribes about politeness from Atlas' SNAFU b/w mag, courtesy of an unknown writer (possibly editor Stan Lee) and artist John Severin, who could draw literally anything in any genre!
Note: though the issue is V2N1 (1956) it's actually only #2 because Volume 1 had only one issue!
In the old days, "Volumes" were date-related, so if you began publication at the end of the year, as this did, the next issue, which would be published in the following year, was a new Volume!
(Hey, don't blame me, colectors! I didn't make the rules!)

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Thursday, August 6, 2020

Reading Room ALIEN WORLDS "Collector's Item"

With eBayAmazon, and other sites on the 'Net, it's hard for fans today to perceive when it was a real achievement to track down a...
...like the final card in a set it took months to complete!
Written by Bruce Jones and illustrated with some kool pseudo-Mars Attacks! card graphics by Ken Steacy, this tale of trading cards and terror from Eclipse's anthology Alien Worlds #8 (1984) perfectly captures the obsessive-collector mindset all of us suffer from at one point or another during our FIAWOL (Fandom is a Way of Life) period.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "United We Stand"

...now that was a serious synopsis for this tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #22 (1943)!
Though the writer is still unknown, the strip has a new look thanks to artist Nick Cardy (using his full name "Viscardy").
But it'll change when yet another artist does the next chapter!
BTW, I have no idea why page 38 has a 1/3 page ad on the left!
Next Week, the return of 1990s cyber-weirdness with Harsh Realm!
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(which includes this story and other kool space-oriented stuff)

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Reading Room FLASH GORDON "Even Legends May Die"

I'm a fan of literally everything relating to Flash Gordon...
...and this never-reprinted short from the HTF fanzine Heritage (1971) is one of the best Flash stories ever!
You can tell writer/artist Estaban Maroto is a serious Alex Raymond fan, right?
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Monday, August 3, 2020

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics MORLOCK: 2001 "Coming of Morlock!" Conclusion

...actually, we haven't seen this, because the cover (which features Morlock's human and monster forms together) is symbolic!
In the Fahrenheit 451/1984-style world of 2001 (as seen from 1975), the government controls everything!
When the lab of a rebel scientist is discovered and destroyed, the only things salvaged are a couple of plant-like pods plus notes and chemicals related to them.
One of them contains a sentient humanoid who can turn humans to shrubbery-like vegetables simply by touching them!
Seeing the potential for a lethal and untraceable weapon to keep the populace in line through terror, the government officials brainwash the humanoid, now code-named "Morlock" after the creatures in HG Wells' novel The Time Machine to serve them as a killer...
Written by Micahel Fleischer, penciled by Al Milgrom and inked by Jack Abel, this premiere issue of Atlas/Seaboard's Morlock: 2001 (1975), presented some interesting concepts, but, since the company folded after only three issues were published, never really-developed the concepts...
Will Morlock Return?
It's Up to YOU!
Let us Know!
Bonus Material
The original, unused cover, inked by Jack Abel instead of the Dick Giordano-inked final cover above!
The cover of the Australian reprint
(Note it's rated "adult readers only", despite passing the rather strict Comics Code Authority in America!)
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A "Lost" Graphic Novel about Dystopia