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Friday, September 1, 2023

Friday Fun WILD "I Was an 88 Pound Weakling"

As we enter the final weekend of summer vacation...

...lets look at a parody of a classic tale of humiliation and redemption on the beach!

This never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Wild #5 (1954) spoofs the plot of this ad...

...which had already become a cliche!

Penciler Al Hartley, inker Carl Burgos, and an unknown scripter (likely the book's editor Stan Lee) knew the audience would get the joke especially since the ad ran in almost every comic of the 1950s!

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Sincerest Form of Parody

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Reading Room BARBARIAN COMICS "...friend in need..."

Tuesday, we presented a tale that had been published a decade earlier...

...in a somewhat different version.

Here's the original...

This initial version of the tale appeared in California Comics' Barbarian Comics #3 (1974).

Comparing the two, the dialogue and layout are unchanged in both versions, but the later one was re-inked and re-lettered, presumably because writer/artist Ron Harris had improved his skills in the intervening decade.

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Star Trek: the Newspaper Strip

Volume 2

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SONIC DISRUPTORS "Are You Ready to Rock?" Conclusion

In 2030...as seen from 1987...

...the world has gone to shit!

How did it happen?

Read on...

While it won't be "next month", we will present "Republic of Rock" in the near future!

Writer Mike Baron, penciler Barry Crain, and inker John Nyberg created this series for DC in 1986, when the company was encouraging creatives to present new, creator-owned, projects either as stand-alone graphic novels or mini-series.
Though this was proposed as a 12-issue series, only seven issues were published, and contrary to rumors, there was no unpublished 8th issue!
We'll tell that tale...someday!

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