Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Reading Room / Tales Twice Told TALES FROM THE TOMB "Weird House"

Usually, We Start With the Earlier (1950s) Version of a Story...

...but in this case, it's the later (1970s) telling of the tale!
(BTW, isn't it odd that scientists of 2995 use the technology and dress in clothing from the 1950s?)
Illustrated by Oscar Novelle, this story from Eerie Publications' Tales from the Tomb V3N5 (1971) is a simple, effective "haunted house/castle" story.
The jarring aspect is placing it over a thousand years in the future!
Why?
Thursday's re-presentation of the never-reprinted original version might hold the answer!
BTW, the author of both the original and reworked versions is...unknown!
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Monday, July 15, 2024

Monday Maternity Madness FACTS O' LIFE FUNNIES "Bitsy the TeenAge Bunny"


From Multi Media Resource Center's Facts O' Life Funnies (1972) an educational one-shot covering a host of topics, including STDs. pregnancy, birth control, and abortion.
Note, this is first and only comic from the organization, thought they did other print publications as well as film shorts about these topics.
This particular strip was written and illustraed by Michelle Brand.
Other contributors to the comic were Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Shary Flenniken, Bobby London, Gary Hallgren, and Lora Fountain.

Sunday, July 14, 2024

The RetroBlogs "Time-Lost" Summer Blogathon Continues on the Sizzling-Hot Sands of the Wild West with...

Sheriff Kitty Carson


...the saga of a woman alone upholding law and order, written and illustrated by comics legend Bob Powell, unseen for over seventy-five years, but re-presented in a week-long crossover between...
Heroines
and
Western Comics Adventures
Starting Monday!

Saturday, July 13, 2024

Space Force Saturdays PERIMETER PATROL SERVICE "Mission to Malooka"

Meet the Perimeter Patrol Service in their never-reprinted premiere...
...from Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures #5 (1951)!
This story is a superb example of pulp/comic space opera of the era with all the classic elements:
Square-jawed heroes!
Rockets & ray-guns!
Literal bug-eyed monsters!
No scantly-clad women in this particular tale, but the other Perimeter Patrol Service sagas have them!
BTW, this premiere appearance is illustrated by Murphy Anderson, who had just finished his first run on the Buck Rogers newspaper strip.
He would later specialize doing sci-fi/fantasy at DC Comics, including HawkmanAdam Strange, and Superman!
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Friday, July 12, 2024

Friday Fascist Fun / Trump Reading Room TRUMP'S ABC

 Considering this was created only six months into Don da Con's (hopefully) sole term of office...

...the fact that it's still potentially-pertinent almost a decade later is indeed disturbing!
We present selected excerpts...




Written in a sing-songy rhyme and drawn in a beguilingly-impeccable ink line by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes, each page is a miniature critique and expose of convicted criminal and impeached politician Don da Con and his janissaries, poltroons, and dissemblers, illustrating his public policies, his personal defects, his ethical dysfunction, and the unfortunate consequences of his Presidency on the lives of Americans ― in a format that is cleverly designed to reflect his minimal attention span and toddler-like mental level.
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