...he was showing us how to survive an atomic attack!
Let's continue...
Let's continue...
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Friday, February 25, 2022
Thursday, February 24, 2022
DUCK & COVER Part 1
As Putin's Russia attacks Ukraine, bringing the world closer to a potential nuclear conflict...
...it behooves us to look back at how the government thought we'd have to deal with a potential nuclear attack!
As you might have guessed, this was a comic booklet that was handed out to students in the 1950s-1960s who were shown the famous Duck and Cover movie in their classroom!
Be here tomorrow for the conclusion...but, in the meantime, here's a kool download from the Library of Congress about Duck and Cover and similar Civil Defense films!
Be here tomorrow for the conclusion...but, in the meantime, here's a kool download from the Library of Congress about Duck and Cover and similar Civil Defense films!
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder NIOURK Chapter 13: Alpha
When Last We Saw the Black Child (as he calls himself)...
Weird how it's in VF to NM shape, eh?)
...he reaches the ruins of New York City (Niourk) and encounters robots who examine him, finding anomalies from normal human readings.
But, there are scientifically-advanced humans (from Earth's colony on Mars which survived the catastrophe), in the city!
They find the Black Child, unconscious, and bring him back to their improvised base in the city to be treated...
Want to see the rest...because this isn't the end of the story!
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Reading Room STRANGE WORLDS "I Couldn't Stop the Runaway Comet!"
With most of America still in a deep freeze, let's see if we can warm you up...
...with this scientifically-inaccurate, never-reprinted tale about death by extreme heat from Atlas' Strange Worlds #5 (1959)!
There's also a really kool Easter Egg within the story!
See if you can find it!
No, we're not going to explore whether God exists or not.
Though popularized as fireballs in bad science fiction, the fact that comets were really composed primarily of rock and ice which vaporized as they approached the Sun, creating the "tail", was known as far back as Issac Newton's time.
So the whole idea of the comet generating heat like a star was ludicrous...even in the 1950s!
Though the writer is unknown, the artist was Steve (Spider-Man) Ditko.
That fact is crucial for understanding the Easter Egg...
The name "Victor Sage", used here for the extremely-fallible protagonist, later became "Vic Sage", the secret identity of one of Ditko's more durable creations...Charlton's The Question!
Besides becoming a DC mainstay with his own title and spotlighted appearances in the Justice League animated series, the character was the basis for Rorschach in Alan Moore's "reimagining" of classic comic character archetypes in Watchmen!
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Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
Monday, February 21, 2022
Monday Madness "Supreme Penalty" 1.0 & 2.0
Here's two radically-different versions of the same sci-fi comic tale...
...with changes in the reprint forced upon the publisher by the Comics Code Authority!
This version appeared in Harvey's Black Cat Mystery #47 (1953) during the height of the horror comics boom.
It was re-presented in Harvey's Race for the Moon #1 (1959) after the Comics Code went into effect.
Let's see how things have changed...
Almost every panel has a change from the original, either in art or balloons!
Panel 4 has an interesting change in dialogue indicating the condemned survive in space...
Only change is dialogue in the first panel, which indicates the exiled criminals are still alive, but in orbit.
The figure of Judge Krenk being murdered in Panel 6, and his corpse in Panel 7 have been removed!
Panel One: Judge Krenk is said to be wounded, not dead!
Panel Six: Frances' face redrawn to look less maniacal and his sentence altered to confine him to his lab!
Interesting to note the alterations inflicted by the Comics Code!
Art (and probably story) by Bob Powell.
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Bob Powell's
Terror
(Anthology of the best of his 1950s horror and sci-fi tales)
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Terror
(Anthology of the best of his 1950s horror and sci-fi tales)
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