See It NOW, Before It Goes to Broadway...and becomes a LOT MORE EXPENSIVE!

Legendary cartoon character Betty Boop has returned to pop culture prominence in a big way...

...a live-action musical!

(Hey, it worked for Little Orphan Annie!)

Photo: Mark Seliger

Starring gorgeous Broadway veteran Jasmine Amy Rogers as the embodiment of Betty,

...the show looks like an absolute hoot!

With award-winning creatives handling writing, directing, and production

(including effects like transitioning the cast and sets from black and white to color on stage), the production should appeal to old (who remember the cartoons) and young, who will be introed to the pop art icon!
If you're in the Chicago area now through Christmas Eve, see
Boop! the Musical!

Space Force Saturdays SPACE PATROL "Lady of Diamonds"

It's not the Basil Wolverton series we previously presented...

...but a comic based on a saga about those who protect the 30th Century space-lanes in both the video and audio realms!

Tonga later reformed and ended up as the Assistant Security Chief for the entire Space Patrol organization!

Space Patrol ran Monday thru Friday on tv and semi-weekly on radio from 1950 to 1955, using the same performers for both media.

For a more extensive look at the tv and radio shows go HERE.

This comic book adaptation from Ziff-Davis Publishing ran for only two issues in 1952, was written by Philip Evans (who did a lot of movie and tv tie-ins and co-created Drift Marlo, which we presented HERE and HERE), and illustrated by Bernie Krigstein (who also did SpaceBusters, a comic series about intergalactic Marines, before moving on to EC Comics, where he achieved his greatest fame).
The book ended, not due to poor sales, but because Ziff-Davis left the comic book business during the "comics cause juvenile delinquency" controversy of the early 1950s, deciding to concentrate on publishing slick magazines instead, and still continuing to this day as seen HERE.

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Friday Holiday Fun CHRISTMAS TREASURY "Christmas Carol"

Here's a "Reader's Digest" condensed version of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol...

...in only 10 pages, illustrated by Mike Sekowsky and adapted from the novelette by an unknown scripter.

This was included in Dell's 100-page one-shot anthology, Christmas Treasury, published in 1954.

It included a wide range of material from a graphic story retelling of the birth of Jesus Christ, to a tale about Santa Claus, to actual Christmas carols (complete with sheet music), to Clement Clarke Moore's "Night Before Christmas", to features about "Christmas Around the World", to this Dickens story!
Usually, a comic adaptation of A Christmas Carol takes anywhere from 30 to 50 pages, like the Marvel Classics Comics version we presented HERE.
But this one is pretty concise, leaving out only a couple of details, and hitting all the major plot points!

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Holiday Reading Room UNCANNY TALES "Executioner"

This may not appear to be a holiday tale...

...but it is...for everyone except the unseen (until the end) victim!

Could you tell that this Myron Fass-illustrated story from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #9 (1953) was done during the horror comics craze of the early 1950s?

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AGAR-AGAR "Even Heroes Get Tired!"

When Last We Left Our Innocent, yet Horny, Heroine...

...oh, c'mon!

You really think there's a coherent narrative link in this strip?

So that's why Clark and Lois never...you know...until recently!

This story from New England Library's Dracula #7 (1971) was written by Luis Gasca under the pen-name Sadko  and illustrated in a Peter Max-esque style by Alberto Solsona.

It's the first of four tales unseen by American audiences, since Warren Magazines reprinted only the first six issues of Dracula in their 1972 trade paperback.
But you'll see the other three on the next few Wednesdays!

It'll be a groovy trip, baby!