Reading Room SKATEMAN COMICS "FutureWorld"

Here's a "lost" tale by a talented artist nobody remembers...

...from a 1980s comic most people would rather forget!

With story and layouts by Jack Arata, inks by Andy Kubert, this never-reprinted tale from Pacific's SkateMan #1 (1983) is one of three sci-fi stories from Arata's brief comics career that spanned less than two dozen tales from 1982 to 1986.

A graduate of the Kubert School, he worked mostly for DC before returning to his farming roots in California, where he passed away in 2013.

As to why SkateMan the comic is so...to be blunt...reviled...this synopsis may explain it to those who didn't, like myself, live through it.

Oddly, despite its' reputation, the book is now extremely Hard to Find...and pricey!

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SkateMan

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Jupiterians & Jovians"

The war against the VoltaMen continues...

...as yet another alien race enters the fray on the side of Earth!

So now we have support from Venus, Mars, and Jupiter against the VoltaMen.

Will the alliance bear fruit, or will the invaders from Volta tighten their iron grip on the Solar System?

Keep reading...

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Planet Comics

Volume 12

(contains issues 54 to 59)

Reading Room BLAZE BARTON "and the World of the Future"

You think global warming is bad now, wait until 50,020 AD...

...when only Blaze Barton and his scientist friend Prof Solis stand between mankind and total annihilation!

Though the Core-Men remained an ongoing threat, the strip quickly changed emphasis to outer space as Blaze and associates began traveling to other worlds.

You'll see his entire 13-story run on this blog over the next few months.

While the writer of this premiere tale from Quality's Hit Comics #1 (1940) is unknown, the artist was Henry Kiefer, a craftsman with over 400 comics stories and covers from 1935 to 1954 including numerous Classics Illustrated adaptations.

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Taylor Illustrated History

Science Fiction Comics

Monday Mars Madness AMAZING ADVENTURES OF BUSTER CRABBE "I Cover Mars"

He was Flash Gordon!

He was Buck Rogers!

He was Thun'da!

He was Tarzan!

And, he was the star of his own comic book series...twice!

From the 1940s to the 60s, numerous celebrities had their own comic books which took the approach that anything they did on movie/tv/radio, they could do in "real life"!

While comics based on Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, et al, just did Western tales, the four-color stories of performers like John Wayne and Buster Crabbe covered as many genres as the actors themselves!

In fact, the issue this short appeared in (Lev Gleason's Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe #1 from 1953) had three tales, this space opera, a jungle adventure, and a Western!
Interestingly, in all of the stories, no matter the locale or time period, Buster is himself, not one of the characters he played!

This was Buster's second series.

(You can read another tale from this run HERE)

The first, from Eastern Color, ran a dozen issues over two years and featured art by, among others, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, George Evans, Bob Powell, and Roy Krenkel, among others.

(You can see several of those tales HERE)

This tale was illustrated by Ed Martinott, who worked exclusively for Lev Gleason and Good Comics in the early 1950s before switching to advertising.

Pretty good work, including accurate likenesses of Crabbe in most panels.

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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

The Complete 15-Chapter Serial Remastered from the Original Camera Negatives!

Reading Room BASEBALL COMICS "Rube Rooky"

Is there anything Will Eisner hadn't done during his long career?

He took chances experimenting with genres like this baseball-themed 1949 comic book...

...which predated a rush of sports-themed comics from various publishers the next year.

Unfortunately, the big problem with being first is that, often, the world isn't quite ready for you, and Baseball Comics lasted only one issue.

But it certainly wasn't for lack of quality, as this Eisner-written and penciled tale, inked by Tex Blaisdell, proves.

There's more to Rube Rooky's one shot at stardom, and we'll be running it on Sundays over the summer, so don't miss it!

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Baseball Comics #2
(A follow-up published decades later)