Good Friday Fun: Did You Know the First Captain of the USS Enterprise...

...was Jesus Christ?

Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus Christ in King of Kings (1961)

 Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike with Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock in Star Trek "The Cage" (1964)

Here's"six degrees of separation" trivia...
...in only five degrees:

• John Huston, who later did a prequel movie, The Bible: In the Beginning, directed Moby Dick, using a screenplay adapted by Ray (Martian Chronicles) Bradbury from the Herman Melville novel.
• Ray Bradbury wrote the voiceovers in King of Kings spoken by Orson Welles.
• Orson Welles' The Shadow and Mercury Theatre co-star Agnes Moorehead served as dialogue coach to  Jeffrey Hunter (Jesus Christ) in King of Kings.
• Jeffrey Hunter later played Christopher Pike, the first captain of the Starship Enterprise in the pilot episode of Star Trek, "The Cage".
• Star Trek did an episode, "Bread and Circuses", about a planet where parallel evolution produced a society that resembled a 20th Century version of the Roman Empire, complete with it's own "Christians" and Jesus Christ (who doesn't appear on-camera, but is mentioned in dialogue)!

Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Beginning or the End!"

Let's start with ACTION and LOTS and LOTS of SPACESHIPS...

Is that an opening splash page or what?

The rest of the story isn't quite so frantic, but it is interesting...

Oops!

The writer of this never-reprinted story from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #6 (1953) is unknown, but the artist is Eugene E Hughes, who had a brief career in comics working exclusively for Key Publications, then disappeared from the art world (comic books/strips/commercial art) entirely!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MERCHANTS OF VENUS Part 3

When Last We Left Our Protagonists...

Charming, rougish (yet honest) tour guide Audree Walthers is engaged by a rich couple to visit (hopefully) untouched Heechee archeological sites on Venus, hoping to find artifacts.

(The Heechee were the inhabitants of the planet, but none are currently known to be alive, so their cities and habitats are considered "abandoned" and legally-salvageble!)
But, now that they're out checking out sites, things are about to take an unexpected turn...

So, much like our Don da Con, the "rich guy" isn't as rich as he claimed!

Will money truly be proven to be the root of all evil?

Betrayal?

Murder?

Mayhem?

Be Here
Next Wednesday
to Find Out in the Exciting Conclusion!

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Reading Room: WEIRD THRILLERS "Last Man"

Who will bury...

...and how the hell did Dan Vickerson end up in a situation like this?

The answer will startle you...

This tale from Ziff-Davis' Weird Thrillers #2 (1951) was illustrated by Henry Sharp, who worked for Ziff-Davis  St John (who hired a lot of Ziff-Davis' writers and artists when Z-D went under) and DC Comics from 1951 to 1957.
The writer is unknown.

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Monday Madness TRUMP'S SPACE FORCE Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Protagonist (No way are we calling him a "hero"!) in This Fantasy...

...Don da Con, in his Spanx-reinforced spacesuit, has left the ship to engage the enemy on a more personal level...

Superb satire or conservative wet dream?

Only writer Chuck Dixon and artist Timothy Lim know, and they ain't telling!

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