Monday Madness VIDEO JACK "Pilot Error" Part 1

You know it's a story from the 1980s...

...when the book's editor deliberately looks like, and mentions, Max Headroom!

With that context, let's time-travel back to that era, when MTV dominated the airwaves with actual music videos, the internet was in its' infancy (no streaming video), video tapes were state-of-the-art to watch movies/tv shows, and a 27" TV screen was considered HUGE...

On the contrary, from the 1960s to the present, some kids have been all-but reared by television!

To be continued...

NEXT MONDAY!

Plotted and penciled by Keith Giffen, scripted by Cary Bates, and inked by Dave Hunt, the never-reprinted Epic's Video Jack #1 (1987) is truly a product of its' time!

Note that, unlike today, pop-culture aficionados were scorned as geeks and nerds (What a great name for a movie or tv series!) and considered social outcasts!

How times have changed...

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Kool Halloween T-Shirts for Kids and Toddlers!

Though there won't be much actual trick-or-treating this year...

...you can still wear kool monster-themed clothing as you spend Halloween with your family...and also show-off during pre-Halloween remote-learning classes!
All of them are exclusive designs only available through us, plus they're G or PG-rated, and we also have baby-sized onesies/creepers for the perfect Halloween pic to send out os use as your background screen on your phone!
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The Annual Countdown to Halloween Blogathon is coming...

...and, as usual we're enthusiastically-participating, starting with...

...never reprinted Silver/Bronze Age gothic and horror stories featuring The CW's favorite heroine in

Heroines!

Then, witness tales of terror from the 1950s...

...that were redone, not reprinted in the 1960s-70s...

...in

Horror Comics of the 1950s

And, finally, never-reprinted gothic romance stories from...

...the short-lived, but fondly-remembered Haunted Love in

True Love Comics Tales!

All begin the first week in October and run weekly though the macabre month!

Plus, every RetroBlog will have at one or more horror-themed posts!

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Friday Fun ALIEN ENCOUNTERS "Now Jr Behave Yourself"

It's the 19th Anniversary of the terrorist attack on 9/11...

...and we think that, with all the problems in the world, we need a laugh!

Kids (even alien ones) will be annoying little shits, as this never-reprinted tale from Eclipse's Alien Encounters #4 (1985) proves!

Though best-known for his adaptations of Clive Barker's work to comics, Chuck Wagner could display a, well, nasty sense of humor.

Illustrator Bill Wray's Wally Wood-esque inking made him an in-demand inker, and his pencils were top-notch as well!

But his inking (and coloring) speed was much faster, so he concentrated his efforts on those skills to pay the bills.

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Reading Room OUTER SPACE "Third Planet"

Some stories are truly a "product of their time"...

...such as this Silver Age story that reflects the pacifist attitudes of the 18-30 year-olds of the era.

That's how the tale ended in the idealistic 1960s.

If they re-did it today, in the far more cynical 2020s, one (or both) commanders would have had a strike force ready to attack the second the other side disarmed.

This tale from the Charlton one-shot Outer Space (1968) was illustrated by Pat Boyette.

As to who wrote it, it could have been Boyette (who had already proven himself as a writer with several stories for Charlton's anthologies as well as a couple of issues of Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt), or Joe Gill, who co-created several pacifist heroes including Peacemaker with Boyette, and GunMaster with Dick Giordano!

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