Monday, April 28, 2025

Monday Madness LEFTY FLYNN "and the Diamond Death"

Take me out at the ball game...
Who knew baseball could be such a violent sport?
No, you won't!
This never-reprinted story from S&S's Doc Savage Comics V1N4 (1941) was Lefty's first, last, and only appearance anywhere!
Both the writer and artist of this one-shot strip are unknown.

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Reading Room HOME RUN "Little Leagues"

With the return of fans worshipping at the temples of the National Pastime (aka "baseball stadiums")...
...we thought we'd look at the origin of how many of us (myself included) first experienced organized baseball!
There was a short-lived surge in sports-themed comic books from 1949 to 1952.
This particular one-shot from Magazine Enterprises, produced in 1952 (but published in '53), was the last gasp of that cycle.
Produced/packaged by writer/artist Bob Powell's studio, this non-fiction historical piece was typical of the high-quality material he supplied to numerous publishers including Magazine EnterprisesStreet & SmithPrize Comics, and Harvey Comics, from the mid-1940s to the early 1960s.

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Space Hero (& Heroine) Saturdays BUZZY BEAN AND HIS FLYING SAUCER "Space Pirates of Callisto"

...but the aliens are about to discover humans (even young ones) are not easy prey!
This never-reprinted third tale in the all-too-brief series appeared in Good Comics' Johnny Law, Sky Marshal #3 (1955).
Written by publisher Edmond Good and illustrated by Robert Martinott, it ends on a cliff-hanger that may (or may not) be resolved when we present the next chapter...
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Friday, April 25, 2025

Friday Fun GRIN "Pollution is a 9 Letter Word"

We End the Week as We Began It...Talking About Ecology!

...with a never-reprinted feature from APAG House's short-lived MAD magazine clone, Grin #3 (1973)!


Scripted by D J Arneson and illustrated by Al Scaduto, it's a lightweight, mild take on a problem that still affects us to this day!

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Reading Room TWILIGHT ZONE "Mars: Dead or Alive"

Almost 60 years ago, when I saw this painted George Wilson cover on the comics spinner...
...I just had to read it!
(BTW, the model posing as the astronaut is Steve (Doc Savage) Holland!)
Written by Dick Wood and illustrated by Nevio Zaccara, the cover-feature (though not lead story) from Gold Key's Twilight Zone #17 (1966) offered a somewhat-plausable explanation (in those pre-Mars Rover days) as to why we hadn't seen signs of life on Mars.
Wood and Zaccara also collaborated on the never-reprinted Explorers in the Unknown strip that ran in Gold Key's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea comic.

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