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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Remember INAPAK, the Amazing Chocolate Drink?

Bosco?

Bah!

Quik?

Crap!

Ovaltine?

Ewww!

You want serious chocolate flavor in your milk?

Here it is...

It must be true!

Major Inapak says so!

And Major Inapak wouldn't lie!

In fact, he uses science to prove his point...

Major Inapak returns to tell the Youth of America what to do...

You'll pardon me while I scamper out to the supermarket to get a box!

Be back Thursday for more on...Inapak!

Monday, May 17, 2021

Monday Mars Madness AMAZING ADVENTURES "Man Who Killed a World!"

Who would've thought a "War of the Worlds" would be decided by hand-to-hand combat?

This never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #6 (1952) gives the details, along with a trick ending...

So, even though the Earthman was defeated, we won!

Heckuva moral lesson there, guys!

Though the writer is unknown, the art is by Paul Parker, who left the comics field after a decade and over 100 stories to became a news reporter for several radio stations in New York City including the all-news station WINS.

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Sunday, May 16, 2021

Asians and Asian-Americans in Comics...Continued

More from our ongoing examination of how American comics portray Asians and Asian-Americans...

Meet the only costumed Golden Age Asian super-heroine in (where else?)

Heroines!

The Blackhawks' Chinese teammate "Chop-Chop" gets not just one, but two different stories of how he joined the already-established aviator team!

His Silver Age origin at

Hero Histories...

...plus his politically-incorrect (and somewhat racist) Golden Age Origin at

Not Safe for Work Comics!

Meet the immortal "World's Greatest Lover" who seduces (among others) Pacific Islanders in...

True Love Comics Tales!

Discover secrets about the 1970s Charlie Chan cartoon (and other media versions) that you never dreamed of in...

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

and finally, meet the villain who's personified the racist concept of "Yellow Peril" for over a century in...

Seduction of the Innocent!

There's lots more coming!
Don't miss it!

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Space Force Saturdays SPACE SQUADRON & SPEED CARTER: SPACEMAN "Famous Explorers of Space" Part 5

Both Atlas' Space Squadron and Speed Carter: SpaceMan had "future history" features...

...set in the "past", like this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Space Squadron #5 (1953), which took place in the then-future of 1976!

Ah, the year of America's Bicentennial...when we discovered valleys with oxygen, water, and edible vegetation on the Moon!
In contrast, let's look at how such "Future History" was told in Speed Carter...

Oh, dear!

We're not off to a good start, are we?

Makes you wonder what, exactly, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and several others are investing in...and why, eh?

Besides "Famous Explorers", Space Squadron also presented "future history tales" about the guy who was young hotshot Jet Dixon's crusty Commander-in-Chief when he was a young hotshot pilot...