The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Goes MULTIVERSAL...

...with the biggest entry we've ever done!

A loooong (almost 45 years) Out Of Print novel by noted sci-fi fantasy author William Rotsler!

And it's so big it takes two RetroBlogs; Seduction of the Innocent and Medical Comics and Stories, to accommodate the multiverse-spanning saga!

DON’T DARE GO TO SLEEP

Unless you are prepared to confront an evil that is older than time itself—a haunting, inhuman horror!

Unless you are prepared to share the fate of the dark-eyed Evangelist, the power-hungry Prize-fighter, the cold-blooded Assassin, and the stunning love-starved Starlet!

Unless you are prepared to enter the terrifying realm of NIGHTMARE, dark overlord of the dream dimension, and master of other men’s minds!

Unless you are prepared to trust your future, and the future of your world to...

Doctor Strange

Master of the Mystic Arts

in

NIGHTMARE

A soul-chilling tale of terror . . . terror that could be YOURS!

Begin HERE...and don't falter!

The fate of the Multiverse may depend on YOU!

Space Hero Saturdays VIC TORRY AND HIS FLYING SAUCER "Chapter Three - Catastrophe!"

We Have Already Seen...

Ace test pilot Victor Torry and his aviation-enthusiast girlfriend Laura are bequeathed a flying saucer by a dying alien.

Operating on automatic pilot, the spacecraft returns to its' home on Mercury, where they discover a civil war under way against the tyrant Szzz, who has plans to conquer the entire solar system!

Vic and Laura manage to commandeer another ship, override the controls and leave.

But now, they are returning to Mercury...

Art by Golden Age great Bob Powell.

The tale has been reprinted only once, in Eclipse's Mr Monster's Hi-Voltage Super-Science (1987)...

...with this new, super-kool cover by Michael Gilbert!

Vic himself appears in a cameo in the SkyWolf back-up story "Bachelor Party" in AirBoy #36 (1986)

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Friday Fun TRUMP! "Tranquilizers"

Ironically, from a 1950s magazine called Trump...

...(not named after a stress-inducing a-hole) comes this feature by artist Al Jaffee and (likely) writer Harvey Kurtzman about the "benefits" of stress-relieving drugs!

Note the Alfred E Neuman-esque figure at the end of the piece!

"What, me worry?', indeed!

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Sincerest Form of Parody

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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