You Believed CoronaVirus was OVER?

As the Medical Menace makes an unwelcome comeback...

...why not Shelter-in-Place and read COMIC BOOKS about imaginary (hopefully) epidemic/pandemics devastating America (or Earth) in the past, present, and future...here on this blog, and on our other RetroBlogs, including...

...Medical Comics and Stories...

...plus...

...Heroines!...

...Seduction of the Innocent...

...Hero Histories...

...War: Past, Present and Future...

...the aptly-named

...Not Safe For Work Comics...

...True Love Comics Tales

(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...

...Horror Comics of the 1950s...

...Crime & Punishment...

...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...

...Western Comics Adventures!

There will also be new CoronaVirus-oriented posts from time to time, but we're getting back on track with, among other things, our traditional Summer Blogathons!

Be here next Saturday for details!

Space Hero Saturdays SPACEHAWK "Treachery of Smebar"

We present SpaceHawk's first two-part tale...
...involving the rechristened "Lone Wolf of the Void" in interstellar treachery!








Since this tale from Novelty's Target Comics #12 (1941) is continued next issue, well present the sequel story next week instead of the usual alternating with a different Space Hero, who will appear in two weeks!

Friday Fun FROM HERE TO INSANITY "Car Show"

Ever wonder how Serious Steve (Spider-Man) Ditko would've handled a MAD comic book-type story?

Well, wonder no longer, true believer!

Charlton's From Here to Insanity #10 (1955) provides the answer!

And it's surprisingly-good, despite the lame premise by an unknown scripter!

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Tales Twice Told STRANGE WORLDS "Sabotage on Space Station 1"

Tuesday, we presented a 1970s tale with a 1950s flavor...

...now you'll see where that "flavor" came from!

Damn, we humans are good at this sort of world-saving stuff, eh?

This Norman Nodel-illustrated tale from Avon's Strange Worlds #7 (1952) could have been the basis of an episode of Space: 1999 or Classic Star Trek with just a couple of tweaks!

As to why it was reworked...

Eerie Publications had been using photostats and negatives from defunct comics companies as the source material for their b/w magazine line.

About a year in, they started using South American artists eager to break into the comics market and American artists like Dick Ayers and Chic Stone (who were losing work as the Silver Age ended and comics companies cut back their lines) to re-do old stories with a more contemporary style.

Some illustrators totally-redid the art, using new "camera angles" and clothing/technology designs reflecting contemporary tastes.

In this particular case, artist Cirilo Munoz just lightboxed and re-inked the Nodel artwork!

Editor Carl (Golden Age Human Torch) Burgos eliminated the opening captions and modified a couple of captions and dialogue balloons, but otherwise left the unknown writer's original script intact.

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Mysteries in Space

The Best of DC Science Fiction Comics

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ADVENTURES OF THE DOVER BOYS Chapter 3 "Lost in the Jungle"

When Last We Left Our Heroes...

Is your spine tingling?

Then let's continue, boys and girls...with one caveat:

May be NSFW due to politically-incorrect ethnic/racial stereotypes common to the period (1950).

As you might have guessed from the ad at the end of this chapter, Archie Comics was not above doing their own imitation of their most successful character!

Be here...
NEXT WEDNESDAY
...to see if The Dover Boys can avoid a "certain and horrible death!"