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Saturday, August 8, 2020

Trump Reading Room / CoronaVirus Comics CHAMBER OF DARKNESS "Day of the Red Death!"

Don da Con's "let them eat cake" moment, including partygoers withour masks, yesterday..

...reminded me of an updated version of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of disease, "Masque of the Red Death"! Here's that updated "adaptation", set present-day, which freely admits the source material!

In fact, out of the mouth of the legendary Stan (the Man) Lee himself...

A rich, uncaring guy who has the power to destroy the entire world and wouldn't hesitate to allow a plague to do so...as long as he was safe!

Now who does that remind us of?

Writer Roy Thomas had been a teacher before turning to writing/editing comics, and he loved utilizing classic literature in his work!

Don Heck, whose Marvel work was usually inked by others, apparently relished the opportunity to do both penciling and inking, as he had done in his 1950s horror and war comics work!

In addition, John Romita Sr turned in a wonderfully-rendered cover which was somewhat obscured by the black tints used to create "mood".

Look at the original art to see the detail you might've missed on the printed version...

Kool, eh?

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Raven and the Red Death

Adapted by Richard Corben

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!)

Emily Post was considered the foremost expert on etiquette and gracious living for decades.

Her family is continuing the tradition with a website currently offering advice for dealing with complications created in the age of Covid-19

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Sincerest Form of Parody

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Reading Room ALIEN WORLDS "Collector's Item"

With eBay, Amazon, 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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