Monday Madness FLYING SAUCERS "Spawn of Terror"

Was Erich Von Däniken the first to tie flying saucers to ancient civilizations?

Nope!

The idea of aliens visiting us in ancient times had been popular for as long as fantasy and science fiction have been around.

Next Monday:

First Contact!

Inspired by the flying saucer craze of the late 1940s-early 1950s, this 1950 Wally Wood-illustrated book was one of many one-shot titles from Avon Comics during their short, but prolific existence.

Another one-shot (though it probably wasn't intended to be such), was Fawcett's Vic Torry and His Flying Saucer (1950).

Flying saucers also popped-up in almost every already-running comic book from funny animals to mysteries.

They even appeared in Charlton's Cowboy Western Comics, which changed it's name for a year to Space Western Comics to play up the connection!

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Celebrate America's Pastime...Baseball...with "Jackie Robinson Story" Collectibles

Baseball's back, and better than ever!
Celebrate with...

Poster

...the poster and lobbycards from the first movie about the first Black player in the major leagues (which starred Jackie Robinson as himself), now offered as posters and prints, digitally-remastered and restored from the actual poster and cards!

LobbyCard 1

LobbyCard 2

The originals are worth hundreds, even thousands of dollars!
But these affordable reproductions can put these HTF examples of classic Baseball Americana in your den, study, game/media room, bedroom or wherever you want at reasonable cost!

Space Heroine Saturdays TARA "Death that Grew!"

You think COVID-19 was bad?

How about a disease created as a biological weapon, as in this never-reprinted tale illustrated by Gene Fawcette?

The writer for this never-reprinted tale from Nedor's Wonder Comics #20 (1948) is (as usual) unknown.

This was the final issue of Wonder Comics...but not then end of the adventures of the Queen of the Space Pirates!

Tara will return with a final tale from another Nedor comic as well as several illustrated text features we haven't run yet, and a cover art gallery!

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Tara: Queen of the Space Pirates™

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Friday Fun NUTS! "Comics is Wonderful!"

We keep telling you "comics can be educational"!

This feature, though it looks like it, is not an example of that!

How "meta" can you get?

A comic that spoofs other comics' genres!

This feature illustrated by Hy Fleishman from Premier Magazine's Nuts! #4 (1954) demonstrates the quality this undeservedly-obscure, short-lived (1953-1956) company gave to the titles in its' multi-genre lineup!

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Reading Room VENUS COMICS "Thru the Lens"

Now this is how you tell a story in four pages...

...as demonstrated by artist Joe Maneely, a talent who died long before his time, and an unknown writer.

Who knew the world could end so...simply?

BTW, did you note the alien astronomer got it wrong?

Our planet blew up, not our sun!

If I was his boss, I'd fire him!

Originally-published in Atlas' Venus Comics #16 (1951), the tale was reprinted in the back of Marvel's X-Men #88 (1974), while the book was a reprint title, about a year before its' resurrection as the All-New X-Men!

So, the odds are that you, dear reader, have never seen it before!

And that, is what this blog is all about, showing you "lost" treasures!