Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AN EARTH MAN ON VENUS Part 2

When Last We Left Our Hero...

Reprint cover art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito

...an experiment in "teleportation by radio wave" inadvertently sends technician Miles Cabot to the planet Venus, where he discovers humanoids (including a ravishingly-beautiful woman) and giant intelligent ants (who've enslaved the humanoids)!

Both species communicate only via telepathy on a frequency close to radio waves, so Cabot attempts to build a device...

 Next Wednesday:

Exile and Treachery...

Continuing our presentation of Avon's Earth Man on Venus (1950) one-shot comic adaptation illustrated by Wally Wood with Joe Orlando and Sid Check doing inking and minor redrawing.

(The adaptation's scripter is unknown.)

Ironically, the comic book version has been reprinted numerous times, and is probably far more familiar to current sci-fi fans than the original story by Ralph Milne Farley (which is a shame, since the novel is pretty good)!

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COWBOYS & ALIENS Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...in 1873 Arizona, gunslingers Zeke Jackson and Verity Jones are defending a wagon train heading for Silver City from Indian attack when a crippled flying saucer crashes nearby, interrupting the battle...

We don't think that's the proverbial cavalry coming over that there hill!
The mayhem continues Wednesday at
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Writers Fred Van Lente & Andrew Foley, penciler Luciano Lima, and inkers J Wilson, Silvio Spotto & Luciano Kars, working from a concept by Scott Rosenberg, produced a kool tale in 2006 that's quite different from the 2011 big-budget movie based on it!

Monday Maternity Madness CHOICES "Donahue"

The story's title refers to The Donahue Show...

...a daytime talk show hosted by Phil Donahue, who believed everyone should be able to present their viewpoints.

There's more about that incident HERE.

In an interesting twist, Killea herself is not pro-abortion, but believes others should have the right to choose!

“Abortion is a tragedy,” Killea said on The Donahue Show.

"However, even as government works to expand family-planning programs that could curtail the number of abortions," she said, "it also must ensure that abortions 'are legal and safe--and rare.' ”

Personally anti-abortion, but professionally pro-choice!

Heck of a lady...and a politician with integrity!

She passed in 2017!

From Isis Press' Choices: a Pro-Choice Benefit Comic for the Anthology National Organization for Women, produced to raise money after the Supreme Court ruling of Webster V Reproductive Health Services (1989) began the re-imposition of limits to the rights of women over their own bodies!

One final note: both writer Mindy Newell and artist Ramona Fradon are Jewish, so their disgust at the Holocaust comparison is both heartfelt and understandable!

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Goes Western AND Sci-Fi With...

...the OOP 2006 graphic novel that served as the basis for the 2011 cross-genre flick starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde in...

Western Comics Adventures

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Atomic Kommie Comics

Note: it's really different from the movie!
Here's the Prologue...

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Space Hero Saturdays VIC TORRY AND HIS FLYING SAUCER "Chapter One: The Captive Planet"

One of the weirdest one-shot comics ever...

...featuring art by Golden Age great Bob Powell!

We'll come back to Vic and Laura...
...Next Saturday!

Published in 1950 during the flying saucer craze caused by UFO sightings at Roswell in 1947, Vic Torry and His Flying Saucer was probably going to be an ongoing series, but never got past the first issue.
I have that impression because this issue is primarily an intro, detailing how Vic came into possession of the alien ship, as well as setting up an ongoing antagonistic situation with at least one extraterestrial race.
It's possible that the comic was intended as a lead-in to a toy line and/or live-action TV series which never developed.

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