Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MEDUSA CHAIN Part 4

Things are about to get really intense in...

...and the story is already way too complex to synopsize.

So, if you haven't read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, do so.

Then continue...

Next Wednesday: An Epic Space Battle!

Give Ernie Colon credit.

He has a little bit of almost every fiction genre you can think of in this one graphic novel.

Mystery and crime.

Sci-fi/space opera.

War.

Horror.

(OK, maybe he left out romance...)

Reading Room SCIENCE COMICS "Build an Arctic Schooner"

Man it's c-c-c-old outside!

How am I gonna get around?

Why, with this kool cut-out transport courtesy of an unnamed artist in Fox's Science Comics #3 (1940)!
(BTW, despite the title, it was a science fiction comic!
A later Science Comics from Ace Publications was a comic about real-life scientists and actual science!)

Though the caption seems to indicate it's something we've seen before, there's nothing in any of the stories in the issue even vaguely like it!

I'll peruse the previous and later issues to see if it appeared in any of the tales...

Monday Madness FLYING SAUCERS "Far Out Physical"

To wind up this month of flying saucer fun...

...here's a long-unseen tale with a decidedly-different approach to the aliens!

You'll note that the aliens' world balloons are left blank!

Editor Don (D J) Arneson wrote all the stories in the four-issue run of Dell's Flying Saucers, also making sure the various artists presented a fairly-consistent "look" to the aliens.
(Note: the series ran five issues, but the fifth was a reprint of #1)
In the case of this tale from #1 (1967), Sam Glanzman brought his realistic, natural style to a story using many of the already-established elements of UFO lore.
Trivia: Both Dell and Gold Key produced anthology comics about alien visitors and their kitchenware-shaped vessels during this period.
Gold Key's UFO: Flying Saucers ran for twenty five issues, changing to UFO and Outer Space as of #14!

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Voyage to the Deep

TPB reprinting the complete four-issue sci-fi/fantasy 1960s series illustrated by Sam Glanzman, plus some kool features!

Give True Love (Comics Tales) to YOUR True Love!

Comics aren't just about spandex-clad heroes and heroines in battles of cosmic import!
They also tell intimate tales of heartbreak and true love, betrayal and redemption, and misery and sheer joy!

With than in mind, Valentine's Day is coming!
What says "True Love" better than a kool, kitchy gift from True Love Comics Tales™? (Plus, it's both longer-lasting AND cheaper than a dozen roses!)
Choose from over 50 heart-rending designs in eleven categories including...
All You Need is Love...
Confessions
Dear Beatrice Fairfax 
(The ORIGINAL LonelyHearts Columnist)
Diaries and Letters
Lovers Lane
Mod Love
(1960s Pop-art!)
Negro Romance
The First (and only) Black Love Comic!
School of Love 
(or is that Love in School?)
'70s Tender Love Stories
Weddings
Western Love
on greeting cards, teddy bears, calendars, shirts/tops/intimate wear, diaries, and many other kool kollectibles!
Hey, they're cheaper than roses...and much longer-lasting!

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Space Hero Saturdays MAN O' MARS

Here's a kool klassic from the 1950s...the lead story from a 1953 one-shot that combined all the great cliches of space opera (spaceships, ray guns, aliens, half-naked space babes) in one tight ten-page tale set only thirteen years from now...

These days, this story would be a six-issue mini-series with tie-ins to several other titles.

The rest of Fiction House's Man O' Mars one-shot from 1953 was made up of unrelated reprints from earlier issues of Planet Comics.

The interior artist is Maurice Gutwirth, but the writer is unknown.

The original cover was done by Maurice Whitman, one of the Golden Age's more prolific artists with credits at almost every company of the era!

When the book was reprinted by IW Comics in 1958 from the original printing plates, the covers weren't included, so publisher Israel Waldman commissioned Angelo Torres...

...who created a superb Frank Frazetta-style cover, doing his fellow Fleagle Gang member proud!

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