Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MERCHANTS OF VENUS Part 1

What's it like to be a working stiff (albeit a charming and roguish one) in the far future?
You're about to find out in this graphic novel based on a novella by a multi-award-winning sci-fi writer!
To Be Continued...
Next Wednesday!
Adapted by the wife-husband team of Victoria Peterson and Neal McPheeters, this never-reprinted 1986 graphic novel could've been the first of a series since Pohl did several follow-up novels about the Heechee, but DC ended the graphic novel line shortly after this!
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Gold at the Starbow's End
(Anthology of Frederick Pohl's work featuring the novella "Merchants of Venus"!)

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Reading Room WORLD OF SUSPENSE "Very Old Man"

Despite Marvel Entertainment's extensive reprinting program...
...there's an incredible amount of Timely/Atlas material that hasn't seen the light of day since the 1940s-50s!
This is one such tale...
Edited (and likely plotted) by Stan Lee, and penciled by Sol Brodsky, this never-reprinted story from Atlas' World of Suspense #8 (1957) is a typical morality tale from the Comics Code-controlled era.
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Monday, March 20, 2023

Monday Madness HOME RUN "Daffy Dodgers"

This year is the 65th Anniversary of baseball's Dodgers deserting my beloved Brooklyn (sob) for Los Angeles...
...so let's look at a few of the most infamous moments of the "Da Bums" during their long stay in the illustrious County of Kings!
Rendered by Bob Powell in his rarely-seen humorous style, this piece appeared in Magazine Enterprises' Home Run #3 (1953)...which was the only issue of that title!
Note: Almost everybody attempted one or more sports-themed titles to show comics were still wholesome, all-ages appropriate entertainment during this period as "comics cause juvenile delinquency" mania swept America!
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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Toddler and Kiddie EasterWear Egg-citment!

Choose from Ducky's 1st Easter...
Bibs, creepers, toddlers' and kids' t-shirts, sweatshirts, and adult goodies like maternitywear!
Order now, so you'll have it in time for Easter!

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Space Hero Saturdays AMAZING ADVENTURES OF BUSTER CRABBE "Invisible Monsters of Callisto"

With a title like that, you know you're in for space-going excitement...
...starring the greatest sci-fi/fantasy movie serial hero of all...Larry (Buster) Crabbe!
Penciled by Alex (Space Ghost) Toth and inked by Mike Peppe, this never-reprinted tale from Lev Gleason's Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe #3 (1953) delivered on the promise on every cover of the series which promised tales of Space, Jungle, and Western action in every issue...the three movie genres Buster appeared in from the 1930s to the 1950s!
(If he ever did a musical or comedy, nobody told me!)
Note: the comic writers and artists always showed Crabbe as "Buster Crabbe", not Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Billy the Kid, Tarzan, or any of the characters he portrayed, while postulating he could do anything in real-life that he was shown doing on-screen!
There's even more alien butt-kicking four-color action with the greatest movie action hero of the 1940s-50s to come!
Watch for it!
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