Reading Room VOYAGE TO THE DEEP "Disaster Rises" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

An unnamed enemy has tilted the Earth's axis, creating tsunamis that have already destroyed most of the East Coast south of Washington DC, with the US capital and New York City soon to follow.

The nuclear sub Proteus heads towards the Mariana Trench in an attempt to counteract the threat, but it is attacked by a gigantic sea creature awakened by the catastrophe...

What the hell just happened???

This is, easily, one of the weirdest comics ever published.

The never-reprinted tale features art by talented, yet extremely-underrated Sam Glanzman (who also did the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea feature film adaptation), but the scriptwriter is unknown.
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Voyage to the Deep

TPB reprinting the complete four-issue series, plus some kool features!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "VoltaMen Defeated?"

Is the conflict between Terrans and their VoltaMen conquerers reaching a conclusion?

Or is this a sinister plot to catch the amazingly-effective Resistance off-guard?

New, but not-entirely trustworthy, allies are better than no allies...I hope!

Unfortunately, this series has a tendency to introduce potential situations and ongoing characters, then drop them!
Since the credited writer, Thorncliffe Herrick, is actually a house pen-name, there's no way of knowing how often scripters have been changed!

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Planet Comics

Volume 11

(contains issues 48-53) 

Reading Room VOYAGE TO THE DEEP "Disaster Rises" Part 1

After publishing the comics adaptation of the movie Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...

...Dell Comics planned to do an ongoing comic series.

However, they lost the license  for reasons unknown and decided to rework the existing material into a new, similar, series...

 The saga continues...

Thursday!

Art for Dell's Voyage to the Bottom of the Deep #1 (1962) is by Sam Glanzman, who also did the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie adaptation, but the scriptwriter is unknown.

There are a lot of similarities in characters and tech between this series and the VttBotS movie.
(The TV series wouldn't debut for another two years...)

But the submarine being able to adapt its' shape as needed was something 1960s special effects couldn't handle so it was considered a defining characteristic to avoid questions of copyright infringement.

They also eliminated the big bay "windows" in the nose of the sub, moving them to the conning tower, just to be safe...

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Voyage to the Deep
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Monday Mars Madness VENUS COMICS "Invasion from Mars!"

Orson Welles wasn't the only one to tell this tale...

...but this never-reprinted story takes a slightly different turn!

While the scripter for this story from Atlas' Venus #13 (1951) is unknown, the artist is Dave Berg, who would make a name for himself as one of the mainstays of MAD Magazine with his Lighter Side of... feature!
Berg started at the beginning of the Golden Age as one of the Eisner/Iger Studio artists providing material in various genres for Quality Comics and Fiction House.

He eventually went solo doing stories and covers for St John, Toby, Ziff-Davis, Dell, Fawcett, Archie, and, as you can see here, Timely/Atlas, before finally landing at EC doing one war story and then switching to MAD as of #34, becoming one of the steadiest of the "Usual Gang of Idiots" (as the contributors referrred to themselves).

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Dave Berg

Five Decades of the Lighter Side