Reading Room WORLD OF MYSTERY "Night I Lost My Body!"

Some people lose their minds!

This guy will tell you about something even worse...

...in a never-reprinted tale from Atlas' World of Mystery #7 (1957)!

Illustrated by longtime Simon & Kirby Studio artist Marvin Stein, the story seems to have a very Jack Kirby "feel" to the panel structures and character poses.

Could Kirby have helped out by doing uncredited layouts?

We'll never know...

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder STARFAWN "To the Nearest Quasar" Part 1.5

We Have Already Seen...

...and, as the crew encounters an artifact floating in space, a team led by scout Shalla (aka "StarFawn") sent to retrieve it runs into a problem...

Things are looking bad, indeed!

But, if you journey on Friday over to our "sister"RetroBlog

Heroines!

you'll see the next chapter of this startling saga!

Note to Gardner Fox/Crom fans:

We apologize for the interruption of the re-presentation of Comics' First Barbarian, but he'll be back in a couple of weeks!

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Reading Room WORLD OF FANTASY "Brain Destroyer!"

This title reminded me of Don (da Con) Trump...

...even though the story itself has nothing to connect it to the Republicans' hilarious convicted criminal candidate!

No matter whether you agree for my reason for running the story, it's still a long-lost, never-reprinted tale from Atlas' World of Fantasy #19 (1959) you probably would never have seen otherwise.
Plotted by Stan Lee, written by Larry Lieber, and illustrated by Carl Burgos, it's typical of the sort of stuff Atlas was running as it transitioned into what we would know as Marvel only a couple of years later.

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Monday Maternity Madness THE HANDMAID'S TALE

Much as George Orwell's prophetic dystopian novel 1984 was published decades before many elements of it became fact...

Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel about a future America (renamed Gilead in the early 21st Century) approaches realization in 2024!

We proudly present a couple of excerpts from the graphic novel adaptation, published in 2019.

Note that the Handmaids' clothing designs and other uniforms are somewhat different from the movie or TV series.

Before selection, potential Handmaids live in dorms where communication with each other is forbidden.

The "lucky" ones are placed only in households of the rich and powerful whose wives cannot conceive children.

Note that it is mentioned that failure to conceive is sometimes the husband's fault!
(But it's a situation that likely happens more often than discussed...)
The unnamed narrator is assigned to The Commander and given the name "Offred" since her new master is Fred...

Offred manages to escape, but her fate is unknown.

The epilogue is set in the future (specifically 2195), when Gilead has been replaced by a more rational government and way of life...

There's an award-winning sequel novel published in 2019, The Testaments, set fifteen years after the conclusion of Tale and chronicles the fall of Gilead.
This graphic novel was also published in 2019.
HERE'S an interview with the adaptation writer/artist with some concept art!
Whether you borrow the prose novel or graphic novel from the library or buy it (new or used), please READ it!
Too many of the concepts shown are in the Republican platform and its' manual Mandate for Leadership: Project 2025 (which you can download in PDF form at Archive.org HERE)!

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Graphic Novel Adaptation by Renée Nault
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The Latest RetroBlog Time-Lost Blogathon Entry Started YESTERDAY...

...as the re-presentation of the Never-Reprinted Premiere Space-Opera Graphic Novel Began!

Don't Worry, You Can Catch Up Before the Next Chapter.

But Before You Do, It Would be Helpful if You Read This Intro First...

Historical Notes:

The Dune movie referred to was Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious and potentially-ground-breaking, but sadly-stillborn production detailed in the recent documentary Jodorowsky's Dune.
Side note: Many of the creatives gathered for this project ended up working on Ridley Scott's Alien! including HR Giger, Chris Foss, Moebius and Dan O'Bannon!
The Space Wars, which was filming at the time, was, as you might have guessed, Star Wars!
Now that you have some context for the era StarFawn was created in, go HERE to read the first part, then return to this blog on Wednesday, to read the next chapter!

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