You're ENJOYING The Shadow: Destination Moon SO Much...

...that we're increasing the re-presentation of this never-reprinted final "Maxwell Grant" novel...

 ...from three entries per week to six, with two posts each on Hero Histories, Atomic Kommie Comics, and Crime and Punishment during the two remaining weeks before Labor Day!

Start the week on Monday with Chapter 7 at...

HERO HISTORIES

...then follow the links at the end of each chapter!

Space Hero Saturdays FLICK FALCON IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION "Return to Mars"

We Have Already Seen...

...now that you're caught up, watch as, unarmed and with Adele by his side, Flick prepares for another journey.

Writer-penciler Don Rico's wild imagination goes full-speed, combining science fiction and fantasy elements with equal aplomb in this never-reprinted tale from Fox's Fantastic Comics #2 (1940).

It's interesting to note the three-armed slavers introduced last time aren't native to Mars, as Flick thought...though no mention is made about whether the giants they control are Martians or not. 

Also, rather odd for a kids' story, is the fact that sexual attraction can be used to break the alien slavers' control!

Inker Claire Moe (who usually scripted, penciled and inked her own material for Fox, Centaur, and Novelty), helped out probably due to a tight deadline.

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Science Fiction Comics

Taylor History of Comics

Vol 3

Friday Fun DOLL MAN QUARTERLY "Torchy"

Here's the premiere tale of one of the best-known "good girl art" comic strips of the Golden Age...

...which according to the Grand Comics Database, has (surprisingly) never been reprinted!

From this debut in Quality's Doll Man Quarterly #8 (1946) onward, writer/artist Bill Ward's Torchy kept gaining fans with each appearance, continuing in Doll Man until the book's cancellation as of #47 in 1953 as well as simultaneously branching out into Modern Comics from #53 (1946) to #102 (1950) and a six-issue run of her own self-named comic in 1949-50!
The strip established Ward, who had been doing work in every genre, solidly as a "good girl" artist, which he utilized when the comics business collapsed in the mid-1950s to get assignments from men's magazines.

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Torchy #0

(which, despite the misleading cover featuring a "modern" interpretaion of Torchy, features a strip by Bill Ward detailing how the Torchy series was created!)

Reading Room WEIRD FANTASIES "Life Battery"

Though this may look like an EC Comic from the 1950s...

Art by Landon Chesney

...it's actually a one-shot underground comic from the 1970s.

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"Eando Binder" was the pen-name for the writing team of Earl and Otto ("EandO", get it?) Binder, whose tale from Startling Stories' July 1939 edition served as the basis for this adaptation by writer Bill Spicer and artist Landon Chesney.
Chesney was one of the major contributors to the just-developing comics fandom of the 1960s, contributing art to numerous short-run pamphlets and magazines, including the covers to Fantasy Illustrated 1 & 3, but not 2, where this story appeared.

He never turned pro, and passed away in 2001.
While this version (with some superb color work) appeared in Los Angeles Comic Book Company's underground one-shot Weird Fantasies #1 (1972),  it originally appeared in b/w form in the fan/prozine Fantasy Illustrated #2 (1964), published by Bill Spicer.

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CHILDREN OF DOOM "Part 3: The Final Hour"

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Cover of the 1978 reprint which left out one page. Which one?

Returning to an Earth already devastated by man-made disaster, a pair of astronauts inadvertently doom the entire planet by using their atomic engines to land safely, causing a Doomsday Weapon (which activates when it senses any uncontrolled radioactivity) to awaken and begin it's lethal countdown...

Shortly after this issue came out, editor Dick Giordano went to DC Comics, taking a number of people including Children of Doom creators Denny O'Neil and Pat Boyette with him.

O'Neil stayed at DC, helping to revitalize several series including (with Neal Adams) Batman and Green Lantern, and carving out a long, multi-award-winning career as one of graphic literature's finest writers!
Boyette did several stories at DC, then returned to Charlton, where he continued to be one of the mainstays of the art staff until the company shut down.

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Art in Time

Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980

which reprints this story