Wednesday World of Wolverton JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN WORLDS "Planet of Terror!"

Our Final Basil Wolverton Tale is Illustrated by Him...

...but likely not scripted by him, from Atlas' Journey into Unknown Worlds #7 (1951)!

Even the Grand Comics Database, which normally attributes scripting of Basil's tales to him is uncertain what to make of this somewhat disorienting ending!

You'll note the inset art for the story on the cover, by an unknown artist, has none of the elements of the tale itself!

What's the truth?

We'll likely never know...

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Brain Bats of Venus

Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton

Volume Two

1942-1952
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Reading Room / Halloween Horror MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN COMICS "Premonition of Death!"

Some things just can't be explained by current science...

...but that doesn't make them any less real!

Is this a lost "Kirby Klassic" from the 1950s?

When Prize Comics' Monster of Frankenstein title was revived during the horror comic boom of the early 1950s, besides a wonderfully-gruesome version of Dick Briefer's previously-humorous Monster, it featured a number of two to four page "fillers".

Most of these tales appear to be, at the very least, laid-out by Jack Kirby.

This never-reprinted story from V3N3 (1954) is a prime example.

The Grand Comics Database lists the story's illustrator as Marvin Stein, who worked primarily for the Simon & Kirby studio, so this most likely was an S&K "inventory" story laid-out by Kirby and meant for insertion wherever editorial page count came up short.

Sadly, the writer of the story is, as in so many cases, unknown...

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Marvel Masterworks

Atlas-Era Journey into Mystery

Volume 1

Macabre Monday Madness BLACK MAGIC "Madame Cyanide and Mister Tricks!" & HORROR TALES "Broomstick Witch"

Here's a maddening tale (for several reasons) on the Monday before Halloween...

...a never-reprinted tale, which was redone with new art decades later!

Steve (Dr Strange) Ditko illustrated this story from Prize's Black Magic V4N5 (1954).

The writer is unknown, but could be Joe Simon and/or Jack Kirby, since the book was packaged by their studio.

Was it meant to be the first in an ongoing series about Mister Tricks and his attempts at debunking?

The tale's script (with minor changes) served as the basis of this story from Eerie Publications' Horror Tales V6N4 (1974) twenty years later...

"Romero", the artist who signed the piece is not Enrique Romero, who illustrated Modesty Blaise and Axa, but one of several other Romeros who've worked in American comics over the decades. 

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Simon & Kirby Library: Horror!

(which doesn't include this tale!)

It's the Final Week of the CountDown to Halloween 2024 Blogathon...

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Art by the late, great, Dave Stevens!

There's Still Time to Get In On on the Fiendish Fun!!!

(In Alphabetical Order)

Hero Histories

Heroines!

Horror Comics of the 1950s

Medical Comics & Stories

True Love Comics Tales

Western Comics Adventures

Space...Hero? Saturdays WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Jumpin' Jupiter and the Strange Case of Gzink Bfnxpp!"

Perhaps the very antithesis of a "Space Hero"...

...Basil Wolverton's Jumpin' Jupiter strip constantly shows us why he shouldn't be among such august company!

This never-reprinted feature from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #3 (1952) is a classic example of Wolverton's...unique...sense of humor and his absolutely-superb design and illustration abilities!

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Creeping Death from Neptune

Life and Comics of Basil Woverton

Volume 1

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