Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Tales Twice Told WEIRD MYSTERIES "Planet Eaters"

Perhaps those who don't believe in saving the ecosphere read this story as kids...
...or maybe they're just idiots!
Either way, it's a kool story!
While the writer for this never-reprinted tale from Key Publications' Weird Mysteries #1 (1952) is unknown, the artist has been identified as Frank Frollo.
This story, like numerous others from smaller, defunct, comics publishers, was redrawn in an Eerie Publications b/w magazine, using the same script with a couple of minor revisions and retitled "Green Horror".
You'll see it on Thursday!
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Monday, August 15, 2022

Monday Maternity Madness CHOICES "People Like This Really Exist!"

It's sad and amazing how this strip from 1990 by writer/artist Nina Paley...

...is so relevant (and accurate) today!
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!

Sunday, August 14, 2022

A Long-Standing RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Tradition Continues...


...with the annual feature-length "beach read" Gothic Romance comic at
starting Monday
(Normally we post at TLCT on Wednesdays, but it's a four-part story, so we're starting early!)

Saturday, August 13, 2022

Space Hero Saturdays VIC TORRY AND HIS FLYING SAUCER "Chapter Two: The Evil of Szzz!"

Ace test pilot Victor Torry and his aviation-enthusiast girlfriend Laura are testing a new jet when they encounter a flying saucer!
They pursue it and, when it lands in the desert, they also land, then go aboard the alien ship where they meet an elderly alien.
Unable to return to Mercury (his home world) in time to regenerate, he bequeaths the spacecraft to Vic and Laura, then disintegrates.
Exploring the ship, they accidentally activate the propulsion system and the ship, operating on automatic pilot, returns to Mercury, with them aboard.
It lands, and a group of Mercurians greet the ship.
They are not pleased to see Earthlings instead of one of their own exiting the ship...
Script by Roy Ald, who also edited Fawcett's Captain Video!
Art by Golden Age great Bob Powell.
Be here next Saturday for the final chapter of Vic Torry!

Friday, August 12, 2022

Friday Fun HARVEY "Beauty and the Beach"

When summer vacation comes, comic book teens run for, where else...
...the beach!
This never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Harvey #5 (1972) was the penultimate issue of their last attempt at "teen" humor.
Written and penciled by Stu Schwartzberg and inked by Henry Scarpelli (clearly imitating Dan DeCarlo's art style which became the "look" of Archie Comics), this book and Millie the Model ended in 1972-73, leaving Archie and his spawn standing alone (except for occasional one-shots) in the teen humor genre to this day.