Monday, May 5, 2025

Monday Madness ADVENTURE INTO MYSTERY "Conquerors"

As Fascism/Authoritarianism sweeps across the globe, and even infiltrates America...

We have to ask ourselves...is there any way to stop it?


The answer presented in this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Adventure into Mystery #1 (1956) is rather symplistic, and likely wouldn't actually work in the real world!
But it's nice to believe it could work!
BTW, Silver Age comics aficionados might note that the art for this story (and a number of pre-Marvel Atlas tales, was by John Forte, best-remembered today as the first ongoing artist on DC's Legion of Super-Heroes during its run in Adventure Comics!

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Sunday, May 4, 2025

Yesterday Was Free Comic Book Day, and I Couldn't Help Wondering...

...What If Comics Were All That Remained of Humanity?

This never-reprinted short from Warren's Heavy Metal knock-off 1984 #1 (1978), written by Bill DuBay and illustrated by Alfredo Alcala, offers a more-than-likely answer!

Friday, May 2, 2025

Friday Fun FAIRY TALES "Belling the Cat" "Boy Who Cried Wolf!" "Lion and the Mouse"

Here's trio of never-reprinted one-pagers from Ziff-Davis' short-lived Fairy Tales!
A short based on the classic folktale rendered in a very Walt Kelly-esque style from Ziff-Davis' Fairy Tales #11 (1951)!
Short but effective, this re-telling of the parable/fable, also from Fairy Tales #11, was the inside back cover feature, which is why it's b/w instead of four-color!
The inside front cover of Fairy Tales #10 (which is actually the first issue) presents an adaption of one of Aesop's Fables, not a "fairy tale", per se!
We don't know who the creatives are, but we're willing to bet the writer/adapter is the comic's editor, Jerry (Superman) Siegel!
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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Reading Room BLACK CAT MYSTIC "MysteryVision!"

Here's a tale that could've inspired the movie They Live! as well as several Twilight Zone eps...
...plus it has a rather unique aspect we'll explain at the conclusion...
"We take our leave of Herman Scudder, who discovered that "reading" people can be as easy as reading an eye-chart...in the Twilight Zone..."
(Sorry, instinctively channeled Rod Serling for a moment...)
Pencils and inks for this never-reprinted story from Harvey's Black Cat Mystic #57 (1956) are by Jack Kirby, who rarely inked his own work since editors felt his time was better-spent penciling at a rate of up to four pages per day!
(Yes, I said per day!)
Probably written by either Kirby himself, or studio co-owner/creative partner Joe Simon.
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