The RetroBlogs' "Time-Lost" Summer Blogathon Rolls Along...

...with another never-reprinted tale from at least three decades ago...

...specifically, the origin story of the other "Dynamic Duo"...

The Green Hornet

and

Kato!

How did two total strangers meet, become close friends, and then, allies in a war against crime which would span several generations of both their families?

The never-reprinted truth can now be revealed, starting Monday at...

Crime and Punishment!

Feel the Buzz!

Space Hero Saturdays MOON ZERO TWO Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Space Western Hero...

Clementine Taplin arrives on the Moon and hires down-on-his-luck, former hot-shot space pilot Bill Kemp to find her space-miner brother, Wally.
Kemp considers doing it while he completes another job: diverting an asteroid composed primarily of sapphire to crash on an unoccupied area of the moon so it can be mined.
He succeeds, barely surviving the perilous task.
Returning to the Moon, the pilot is warned not to help Clementine.
Not the sort to bow to threats, Kemp takes the job and he and Taplin go in search of her brother. They find him at his remote mining location...dead!

It's actually a pretty good film with a lot of kool elements including...

• A real differentiation between "old style" 1970s-1999 tech used by the poor hero and 2020 tech used by rich villains!
• Set, prop and costume design motifs that proved so popular that they popped up for more than a decade on shows from UFO to Space:1999 to Starlost to Star Maidens to Blake's 7.
• A nice snarky action-hero performance by extremely-underrated actor James Olsen, whose main fault seems to be having a receding hairline at a time when a full head of hair was more important than acting ability in film.

Script adaptation and art by Paul Neary for this comic from Fleetway's House of Hammer #5 (1976).
The cover was by Brian Lewis.

For more background and pix from the film, there's a kool page covering all things MZ2 HERE!

and a special bonus...
Moon Zero Two: the Movie!

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Friday Fun / Trump Reading Room SAVAGE DRAGON

Didn't see any comics characters (and their creators) endorsing Don da Con at any time...

...but I did see them proudly endorsing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020...and will likely see them endorsing Kamala and whomever she selects as her running mate!

Wonder why?

Reading Room STRANGE TALES OF THE UNUSUAL "Stowaway in the Sky!"

Here's a never-reprinted Cold War tale...

...about secrets, spies, and sabotage from Atlas' Strange Tales of the Unusual #9 (1957).

Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Ed Winiarski, this was a typical 1950s tale of sneaky Russkies being out-maneuvered by smarter Americans!

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Taylor History of Comics

Vol 3

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BRAK THE BARBARIAN "Unspeakable Shrine" Part One

Though Brak was the least-successful of Marvel's early 1970s barbarian horde...

...it wasn't for lack of trying, as this never-reprinted story from Marvel's Savage Tales V1N7 (1974) demonstrates!

To Be Concluded

Next Issue

(I Mean Next Week!)

Doug Moench and Steve Gan both went on to other kool high-adventure projects at Marvel!

Doug scripted the b/w Doc Savage series (considered by many, myself included, to be the best comics version of the Man of Bronze ever) and Steve worked on Tarzan, Conan, co-created Skull the Slayer, and co-created the Guardians of the Galaxy's own Peter Quill/StarLord!

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Volume One & Volume Two

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