Tales Twice Told WEIRD WORLDS "Green Horror"

We presented the 1950s version of this tale HERE...

...now here's the redrawn 1970s version...with the script taken almost verbatim from the original!

"They went beyond the stars only to find terror that could destroy everything"

That was the contents page description from Eerie Publications' Weird Worlds V1N10 (1970) for this reworking by artist Walter Casadei of "Planet Eaters" from Key's Weird Mysteries #1 (1952).

Casadei started his career as a humor and "good girl" artist.

But when he proved he could handle any genre, Walter's assignments became predominantly a horror/sci-fi illustrator!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AN EARTH MAN ON VENUS Part 3

We Have Already Seen...

Cover art by Gene Fawcette

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

Both species communicate only via telepathy on a frequency close to radio waves, so Cabot builds a device to comunicate with them.
He becomes friends with Formian Doggo and Cupian Princess Lilla, which leads to his involvement with Lilla's evil cousin Yuri, who betrays Cabot to the Formians with whom he's formed an alliance...

Next Wednesday:

The Fateful Finale!

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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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 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!

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

...with the annual feature-length "beach read" Gothic Romance comic at

True Love Comics Tales

starting Monday

(Normally we post at TLCT on Wednesdays, but it's a four-part story, so we're starting early!)