Friday, September 23, 2022

Friday Fun GROOVY "Misery Loves Company" & "More Misery Loves Company"

Last week, we told you about Groovy, a weird Marvel "comic" from 1968...

...now we're going to show you the only ongoing feature from the book...excerpts from a cartoon book series called Misery by writer/illustrator Suzanne Heller!
There were four books between 1964 and 1970, Misery, More Misery, Misery Loves Company, and Misery for Everybody which detailed...well...misery...as experienced by a 'tween/teen, with the protagonists getting older in succeeding books.
Heller's strip was cover-featured on both the second and third (final) issue.
These were reprints of Heller's material which had already run in other non-Marvel magazines owned by Marvel's publisher Martin Goodman.
Next week, we'll show you what we consider to be the best of the other cartoons in Groovy!

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Tales Twice Told STRANGE WORLDS "Mystery of Asteroid 9!"

...today, we're presenting the original version of the story...from 1952!
It's not as visceral (even thought this was the era of horror comics), but still quite cool!
Penciler Gene Fawcette and inker Vince Alascia illustrated the first telling of this tale in Avon Comics' Strange Worlds #9 (1952).
The writer is, sadly, unknown.
The issue also had this kool inside cover contents page illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinsler...
...who also illustrated the story Ransom--One Million Decimars! in that issue.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY "Nightmare!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...Karg, would-be world conqueror from millennia ago attempts to finish what he started in the distant past.
Standing against him is the only person on present-day Earth who knows who he is and what danger he represents...


That prayer went unanswered as Bomba and Krag never met in mortal combat again!
This never-reprinted (in English) seventh issue of DC's Bomba the Jungle Boy was the final appearance of the character in comics.
Correction: a couple of the series' early issues were reprinted in the back of DC's Tarzan in the 1970s when the book switched to the "100-page Super-Spectacular" format after going from monthly to bi-monthly!
Since DC no longer had the rights to Bomba, the character was re-named "Simba"!
But neither this, nor the previous issue, were reprinted.
Trivia note: when this issue was reprinted in France, the cover art was modified...
I have no idea why!
(It looks like they're playing "tug of war"!)
Next Week:
A New World of Wonder!

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Tales Twice Told STRANGE GALAXY "Terror Asteroid"

With a really kool title like this...
...you can bet there'll be thrills and chills aplenty in the dark void of space..where no one can hear you scream!
If you think this story from Eerie Publications' b/w magazine Strange Galaxy V1N11 (1971) has a curiously-1950s retro feel to it, you'd be right...sort of.
Though the art by Antonio Reynoso is new, the story itself is lifted, with only minor caption and dialogue changes, from a tale in Avon Comics' Strange Worlds #9 (1952)!
We'll bring you that one on Thursday!
Note: Reynoso was one of numerous South American artists used by Eerie to re-interpret old comics stories in an updated, usually gorier, style for the b/w magazine market.
In fact, he did more stories (over 80 of them) than any other artist!
And, unlike most of their other illustrators, he worked exclusively for Eerie in the American comics business!
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Monday, September 19, 2022

Monday Maternity Madness CHOICES "Civilization as We Know It!!"

The male (not "men" by any standard) Republican mindset in a nutshell...
...and I do mean "nut"!
From Angry 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!