Some stories need little extrapolation...
...such as this never-reprinted short by writer/artist Howard Nostrand from Harvey's Blast-Off! #1 (1965)
Cute, eh?
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Friday, May 3, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Survival of the Fittest"
Fiction or prophecy?
This is only 8 years away!
Consider recent developments in Artificial Intelligence and prepare for the possible (if not probable) mechanical Armageddon!
The penciler of this never-reprinted story from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #1 (1952) was a young Ross Andru, but the mediocre inking is clearly not his soon-to-be-partner Mike Esposito!
The identity of the embellisher, as well as the scripter remain a mystery to this day...
The identity of the embellisher, as well as the scripter remain a mystery to this day...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ADVENTURE COMICS "SWORD OF THE DEAD!"
Here's a never-reprinted tale of "HIGH adventure"...
...written and illustrated by Gil Kane during the same period he was producing his landmark graphic novel BlackMark!
Simple.
Visceral.
Effective.
Now, THAT'S the way to tell a story!
This tale appeared in DC's Adventure Comics #425 (1972-73), when it was, briefly, an anthology between the departure of Supergirl into her own short-lived title and the debut of heroine Black Orchid!
BTW, BlackMark will be coming to Wednesday Worlds of Wonder this summer!
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One of the first true graphic novels
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Reading Room WEIRD ADVENTURES "Dome of Death"
Reading this blog, you might think that "sci-fi" just means "space opera" or "futuristic"...
...but it can be set on present-day (meaning when the story was created) Earth, as well!
This never-reprinted tale from the Ziff-Davis one-shot Weird Adventures #10 (1951) reads like a script for an anthology tv show or a b-movie.
It's mostly character interaction and a crime/thriller plot with some easily-done (even for the 1950s) sfx!
It's mostly character interaction and a crime/thriller plot with some easily-done (even for the 1950s) sfx!
Illustrated by John Giunta, whose long career spans both the Golden and Silver Ages with work for literally every company in every genre!
However, Giunta may be best-known to today's audiences as the artist who gave the legendary Frank Frazetta his first job, when he hired the talented teen as a studio assistant!
The writer of this unusual tale is unknown, but could be Giunta himself!
However, Giunta may be best-known to today's audiences as the artist who gave the legendary Frank Frazetta his first job, when he hired the talented teen as a studio assistant!
The writer of this unusual tale is unknown, but could be Giunta himself!
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(which contains only a couple of stories from this previously-listed volume)
Monday, April 29, 2024
Monday Maternity Madness CHOICES "Silent Scream II: the Prequel"
In Choices: a Pro-Choice Benefit Anthology for the National Organization of Women (1990)...
...Garry Trudeau offered a reprint of a Doonesbury strip rejected by his syndicate, Universal Press, for newspaper distribution, though it was published in The New Republic in 1975.
The sequence was Trudeau's response to the then-recently-released anti-abortion film Silent Scream.In the strips, Trudeau utilized the same cinema verite/documentary-style techniques the movie used to make his point.
The movie is still distributed by religious and anti-choice groups, but has been disproven as hyperbolic and scientifically-inaccurate.
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