Monday, January 3, 2022

Monday Madness FANTASTIC "Deadly Doodles of Dandy!"

One of the funkiest versions of the "Everything I write comes to life!" concept...
...is this tormenting tale from Youthful's Fantastic #9 (1952)!
While the writer is unknown, the art is by Edwin Goldfarb and Bob Baer...or is it?
Oddly, the duo of Goldfarb and Baer poped up all over the place, always working together.
Yet the quality of their art fluctuated wildly from barely competent to superb!
This story has a lot of the stylistic hallmarks of both Mike Sekowsky and Carmine Infantino, while the inking looks a helluva lot like Frank Giacoia.
Were "Goldfarb & Baer" pen-names?
We may never know!
Note: For January, we're taking our leave of Mars-based stories, since our buddy at Rip Jagger's Dojo is doing a month-long look at the various renditions of life on the Red Planet...and how it affects life on our world!
We'll make a decision at the beginning of February as to what direction our Monday feature will take.
In the meantime, we're restoring the "Madness" aspect to this weekly feature!
Enjoy!
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Sunday, January 2, 2022

It's a New Year! Are You Ready for "A-DAY"?

Are you scared because you think the world is on the brink of war?
HA!
Back in the 1950s, we lived with the concept on a daily basis...and even told comic book tales about it!
This never-reprinted tale from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #1 (1950) offered some interesting, and (to some) subversive messages.
Illustrated by long-time pro Ogden Whitney, it shows how, unfortunately, human nature can destroy a potential Utopia...while ignoring how current technology wasn't (and still isn't) up to keeping "cheap" atomic power reasonably safe.
Something to ponder, even more than seven decades later...

Saturday, January 1, 2022

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Best of Reading Room UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION "Behold the Man" Conclusion

Art by Frank Brunner
Time traveler Karl Glogauer journeys to Palestine almost 2,000 years in the past to confirm the existence of Jesus Christ.
With his time machine damaged beyond repair and discovering he's gone a decade too far back, the now-stranded Glogauer encounters John the Baptist...
Published in the British sci-fi magazine New Worlds (which Moorcock himself edited) in 1966, the non-linear story running two parallel plot/timelines won the Nebula Award for "best novella".
Moorcock expanded it to novel length...
Art by Robert Foster
...and it is that currently OOP version which is best-known to American audiences and served as the basis of this never-reprinted adaptation in Marvel's Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #6 (1975) by writer Doug Moench and artist Alex Nino.
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