Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Reading Room OUT OF THIS WORLD "Man Who Stepped Out of a Cloud"

Let's have a look at a Steve Ditko story...
...that shows both his storytelling and rendering talents at their best.
Written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Steve Ditko, this tale from Charlton's Out of This World #5 (1957) is a superb example of how to tell a complete story in just five pages.
While the script isn't the greatest, Ditko tells the story effectively with both "talking heads" (and very distinctive, individualistic talking heads, at that), and kool graphics showing things impossible to portray convincingly with the SFX technology of the 1950s.
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Monday, September 30, 2024

Monday Maternity Madness CHOICES "Son of (Obviously Republican) Judge"

"OK for me (and mine), but not for thee!"
-Republican mantra
Written and illustrated by Steve Lafler.
From Isis Press' Choices: a Pro-Choice Benefit Comic for the Anthology National Organization for Women, produced to raise money after the Supreme Court ruling of Webster V Reproductive Health Services (1989) began the re-imposition of limits to the rights of women over their own bodies!

Sunday, September 29, 2024

RetroBlogs Participating in the CountDown to Halloween 2024 Blogathon ...

...Begin Posting This Week!
(In Alphabetical Order)
Commie-Crushing Kaiju in
(Which, because it posts on Mondays, begins on October 7th!)
Supernatural Superwomen and/or Villainesses in
Heroines!
Seldom-Seen Sinister Stories from Long-Lost Publisher Comic Media in

Horror Comics of the 1950s
Hospital Horrors in
Medical Comics & Stories
Horrifying HeartBreak (Literally) at
True Love Comics Tales
Specters Amongst the SageBrush in

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Saturday, September 28, 2024

Space Hero Saturdays BUZZY BEAN AND HIS FLYING SAUCER

But sci-fi fans have known the truth about flying saucers for years...nay, decades!
Here's a never-reprinted strip about a boy and his personal flying saucer from the 1950s...
...from a short-lived company that only put out two titles with a combined total of nine issues!
Artist Carl Hubbell (no relation to the Hall of Fame baseball player) illustrated over 300 tales from the late Golden Age through the Silver Age at almost every company in the business.
Sadly, the writer of this premiere installment of the series in Good Comics' Johnny Law: Sky Ranger #1 (1955) is unknown.
BTW, the company name was not a boast, since the publisher was Edmond Good, an artist with both newspaper and comic book credits from the beginning of the Golden Age to the end of the Bronze Age.
Buzzy Bean Will Return...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

Friday Fascist Fun UNQUOTABLE TRUMP "Strange Wombs"

Sometimes Don da Con's incoherent ramblings are sadly, self-explanatory...
...as he misquotes others to make a "point" that doesn't actually exist!
The original cover by Wally Wood and Joe Orlando from Avon's Strange Worlds #5 (1951) is less frightening than the reworked version above!

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