Space Heroine Saturdays BARBARELLA 1.2

When Last We Left Our Space Heroine...

Barbarella crash-landed on the planet Lythion where, after a number of...interesting...situations, she managed to reunite two long-feuding races, ending their centuries-long war.
With her ship destroyed, the amazing woman gets a lift from a conveniently-arriving space freighter and is off to another astounding adventure on other worlds...

We'll return to Barbarella in the near future...after we catch our breath...

It's interesting to see various plot elements and characters that Roger Vadim and Claude Brulé re-composited in the 1960s movie's script!

Speaking of which...

Support Atomic Kommie Comics
Visit Amazon and Buy

Barbarella
2-Disc 4K Blu Ray
with Lots of Kool Extras
Paid Link

Flag Day

 

Reading Room STRANGE WORLDS "End of His Service!"

Though Isaac Asimov had introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in 1942...

...obviously the unknown scripter of this never-reprinted tale from Avon's Strange Worlds #5 (1951) never read the story,or chose to disregard the concept!

No less than three illustrators contributed to this story.

Norman Nodell did the bulk of the art, and inked the others' pages.
Those others were John Rosenberger on Page 3 and Werner Roth on Page 4.

The reason for the artist round-robin is unknown, though it was likely a tight deadline.

Support Atomic Kommie Comics!

Visit Amazon and Order...

Taylor Illustrated History

Science Fiction Comics 

Paid Link

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION "Day of the Triffids" Parts 1 & 2

Since we mentioned "The Day of the Triffids" was scheduled for the next issue after "Black Destroyer"...

.

...we thought it would be kool to run that adaptation where it was originally-intended...as Worlds Unknown #6, albeit in b/w instead of color!

To Be Concluded
Next Wednesday

Based on the John Wyndham novel, this cover-featured adaptation in Marvel's Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1 (1975) was scripted by Gerry Conway, penciled by Ross Andru, and inked by Ernie Chua.
Trivia: This was the only time Worlds Unknown adapted an entire novel (instead of a short story/novelette/novella) into only 17 pages (the length of a book-length color comic story at that time)..though it ended up in the b/w magazine Unknown Worlds after the color comic was cancelled!
(WU's "brother"anthology comic, Supernatural Thrillers, also did only one full-length novel adaptation in 17 pages...H G Wells' The Invisible Man.)

Support Atomic Kommie Comics
Visit Amazon and Buy

Day of the Triffids
Paid Link

Reading Room STARSTREAM "City"

Here's a tangled tale of time travel...

...based on the prose short story "A Nice Place to Visit" by Stephen Goldin.

Adapted by Silver Age comics veteran Arnold Drake and illustrated by Jose Delbo, this story was part of the 1976 anthology mini-series Starstream, Western Publishing's move away from the Gold Key imprint and branding to create a less-juvenile presence in newsstands, supermarket magazine racks, and bookstores.

Note: there were less than a dozen dedicated comic book shops in America in 1976!

The 64-page anthologies featured comic adaptations of short stories by noted (and marketable) authors like Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, Theodore Sturgeon, A E van Vogt, and Anne McCaffrey, with a couple of non-adaptation stories by Arnold Drake and series editor Roger Elwood to fill out the page count.

Sadly, the project, which came out a year before Star Wars was released, disappeared within six months.

Support Atomic Kommie Comics
Visit Amazon and Buy...

Questar
OOP 1979 Trade Paperback Reprinting Most (but not all) of the Material from the Starstream Mini-Series
Paid Link