It's a hot Friday and my iMac is glitching and needs a clean-up...
...so this short and sweet beach-themed cover gag from Dell's Thirteen Going on Eighteen #7 (1963), scripted and rendered by the legendary John Stanley is all I can manage this morning!
Friday, July 22, 2022
Friday Fun THIRTEEN GOING ON EIGHTEEN "Hey Val, It's MY Turn!"
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Tales Twice Told WEIRD WORLDS "Creature"
What happens when you take a 1950s comic story, and redo the art 20 years later...
...but re-use the original dialogue and captions?
Read for yourself...
Read for yourself...
With a script taken almost verbatim from the (then) 20 year-old tale "Lost Kingdom of Althala" (which we showed you Tuesday), this story from Eerie Publications' Weird Worlds V1N10 (1970) had a complete redo on the art by Argentine illustrator Oscar Fraga, whose work in the American comics market was exclusively for Eerie Publications and consisted solely of re-dos of 1950s stories!
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SILVER STARR "Operation Space Disc" Part 3
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| Original art of the cover for this premiere issue of Silver Starr by Stanley Pitt |
...traveling to Mongo...er...Spherule, Flash...I mean Silver joins forces with Barin...Miduan to overthrow Ming...no, that's dictator Gorla...oh, heck...just read it...
Next Wednesday: the BIG Finale!
Written by Frank Ashley, beautifully-illustrated by Stanley Pitt.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Tales Twice Told STRANGE WORLDS "Lost Kingdom of Athala"
Here's a tale that would make a great "popcorn" CGI action flick!
It's hokey, doesn't make much sense, but boy, it's loaded with action and it looks great!
Written by Gardner Fox, penciled by Joe Orlando & Wally Wood, and inked by Wood, this fast-paced story from Avon's Strange Worlds #4 (1951), would make a great Saturday afternoon flick, thanks to current state-of-the-art special effects!
EXTRA: Here's the b/w inside cover for this issue, which featured an illustrated preview of all the stories in the issue by Wally Wood.
Note the heavy use of "craftint" texturing which Wood used to create a distinctive "look" for his art...
The script was re-used, almost verbatim, in 1970 by Eerie Publications, but the artwork for the retelling was nowhere near as good.
You'll see that version on Thursday!
Monday, July 18, 2022
Monday Maternity Madness MAD "Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Abortion Newspaper Story"
With minor updating, this never-reprinted two-page feature...
...written by long-time contributor Frank Jacobs from EC's MAD Magazine #324 (1994) could be used today!
Sad, isn't it?
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