Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AN EARTHMAN ON VENUS Part 4

Inside front cover art by Wally Wood
WOW!
Don't just sit there!
Start reading!
Well, that's it for 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.)
BTW, both Doggo's and Yuri's "deaths" were exaggerations.
Both survived to return in the sequel novels, Radio Beasts and Radio Planet.
Only the first novel, Radio Man/Earth Man on Venus, has been adapted into comics form.
Too bad, since the later novels are even better.
Next Week
We Return to Earth for another
Wednesday World of Wonder!

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Reading Room: UNEARTHLY SPECTACULARS "Hidden World"

"Men in Black" were here long before the 1990s comic (much less the movies)...
...as this never-reprinted story from Harvey's Unearthly Spectaculars #1 (1965) by Doug (Jonny Quest) Wildey shows!
The story was probably part of the inventory of material left over by the cancellation of Race for the Moon in 1960.
After all, in 1965, Wildey was far too busy working on both Jonny Quest, and the Marvel Super-Heroes animated series in California to do comic book work in NYC!
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Monday, August 22, 2022

Monday Maternity Madness ABORTION EVE & FACTS 'O LIFE FUNNIES

...as legal, safe abortions were finally allowed in the United States of America!
Unfortunately, in 2022, that decision was overturned, and the Dark Ages returned to America!
Here's an example of what it was like pre-Roe V Wade...

...from Facts 'O Life Funnies, published in 1972!
Do we really want that again?

Sunday, August 21, 2022

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!

Saturday, August 20, 2022

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

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)