Friday Fun YAK YAK "How to Win Friends"

Sometimes, we need to get away from current events...

...and just enjoy a good laugh, courtesy of legendary writer/artist Jack Davis!

From Dell's Four-Color Comics #1186 (1961)

Dell gave MAD mainstay Jack Davis his own title in the Four Color Comics series, 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!
It's never been reprinted, except for excerpts here and there.
Hopefully, somebody will do so in the near future...

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Art of Jack Davis

Reading Room CAPTAIN SCIENCE COMICS "Flower of Death"

In sci fi/fantasy, meteors and meteorites often brought aliens to Earth...

...as in this never-reprinted tale from Youthful's Captain Science #5 (1951) shows!

NOTE: May be NSFW due to politically-incorrect ethnic stereotypes.

Both the writer and artist(s) of this odd tale (that would've made a kool B-movie) are unknown!

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Mysteries in Space

The Best of DC Science Fiction Comics

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Betrayal by Basil"

We Have Already Seen...

...now let's continue, and keep an eye on one of the cast (guess who?)!

Note, though Earth of the Future isn't initially the series title's "Lost World" it eventually is inferred to be the planet the title refers to, dinve most of the tales after this are located there.

(It's much like Detective Nick Charles isn't The Thin Man, who was the novel's murder victim, but Nick became identified to the audience by that name!)

The artist round-robin continues with little-known illustrator Pagsilang Rey Isip taking over the strip for a single issue with this strip from Planet Comics #23 (1943)!

Isip was a pulp magazine and movie poster illustrator whose brief stopover in comics only ran for three years and several dozen stories, mostly for Fiction House.

Next Week...

...the return of 1990s cyber-weirdness with Harsh Realm!

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Roy Thomas Presents

Planet Comics

Volume 6

(which includes this story and other kool space-oriented stuff)

Reading Room WORLD OF FANTASY "Iron Hulk!"

 Just before it transformed into Marvel, Atlas Comics was heavy into sci-fi...

...and I'm talking more than the giant monsters like Googam that most people think of.

(Though they were pretty kool...)

This never-reprinted tale from Atlas' World of Fantasy #19 (1959), scripted by either Stan Lee or Larry Lieber, is cliched beyond belief.

The reason I'm re-presenting it is to showcase the lovely art by Joe Sinnott.

While most of you know Sinnott as one of the best inkers in the business, he was also a competent penciler as well.

Ironically, Joe didn't ink much of his own pencil work, since it was subcontracted by Vince Colletta's prolific studio for use by Charlton, Gold Key, and Dell and inked by Colletta!

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Brush Strokes with Greatness

Life and Art of Joe Sinnott

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics MORLOCK 2001 AND THE MIDNIGHT MEN "Then Came the Midnight Man" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Protagonists...

...Professor Eugene Whitlock possesses books (forbidden in the year 2001)!

For that crime alone, he is sentenced to death.

The execution is interrupted by the arrival of Morlock, who changes to his lethal plant form to save the scientist because he believes Whitlock can duplicate the serum that allows him to control the transformation.

Morlock drives off the Thought Police and the scientist, though scarred, survives...

Sadly, I couldn't spend 25₵ on the next issue...since it never came out!

If you look at the last page, you'll see Morlock reverting to his human form after being shot.

He probably survived.

And, it's likely the self-destruct system either was defective, or only partially-functioned, leaving the Midnight Man, Morlock, and some of the freedom fighters separated from the Thought Police and able to escape!

As I mentioned earlier, this was a one-time collaboration between two legends (even in 1975) of the comics field...Steve (Spider-Man) Ditko and Berni (Swamp Thing) Wrightson!

This concludes our re-presentation of the time-lost Morlock 2001 series from 1975.

Next week we'll see...

Actually we don't know yet what we'll run, but it'll be interesting, disease/infection-related, and likely never-before seen by most of you!

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Fahrenheit 451

the Authorized (Graphic Novel) Adaptation