Saturday, October 12, 2024

Space...Hero? Saturdays SUPERSONIC SAMMY "...Meets Stalin!"

Does a Martian who comes to Earth qualify as a "Space Hero"?
If it worked for Lars of Mars, it should be equally-valid for this guy, right?
For those not up on their history, the guy with the moustache is Joseph Stalin, the Communist Premier of the USSR (aka the Soviet Union/Russia) from 1924 to 1953.
Who sez comics ain't educational???
Created, written and illustrated by Basil Wolverton who created SpaceHawk, Space Patrol, and Jumpin' Jupiter, Supersonic Sammy is the least-known of his Space Heroes...because he never appeared in a comic book, until the 1980s!
(When he finally did appear in a reprint comic book, he was still in b/w!
So we have no idea what he would've looked like in color!)
He ended up as "filler" in Martin Goodman's "adult" humor magazines like Comedy, Laugh It Off, and Cartoon Parade, which were all b/w periodicals!
(Goodman was also the owner of Timely/Atlas/Marvel Comics until the late 1960s.)
As far as we can tell, there were only three adventures of the somewhat-merry Martian, of which this, which shows his being exiled from Mars, is the first!

You'll be seeing more of him in the future!
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Friday, October 11, 2024

Friday Fascist Fun UNQUOTABLE TRUMP "Nice Nurse"

From Now Until Election Day, We'll Be Presenting Examples of How Creatives See Don da Con...

Is he referring to his "concept of a plan"?
Note: In 2016, Don da Con said he had "a big, beautiful plan that'll be cheaper than ObamaCare, cover everyone, and be ready to go on Day One, 2017!"
Anybody ever see it?
I didn't!
Based on the cover for Marvel's Night Nurse #3 (1973) by Win Mortimer!
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Thursday, October 10, 2024

Reading Room / Tales Twice Told VOODOO "Goodbye...World!"

 ...with a cover that seemed as if was from another story entirely.
Well, it was...sort of.
The story in Ajax's Midnight #4 (1957) was a reprint of a tale from Ajax's Voodoo #7 (1953), which was published during the height of the horror comics boom!
And, let's just say that Ajax's editorial packager, the Iger Studio, was not noted for its' subtle (or even tasteful) stories.
The heavy hand of the Comics Code Authority forced quite a few changes from this wild original version, as you will see from the splash panel onward...
Beyond little things like making the duo who are sent into space to spawn the new human race a married couple instead of a pair of unmarried co-workers, the harpies were redrawn as insect-like humanoids (which made a certain amount of sense), and the ending was totally-redone as a happy ending with humanity surviving the alien onslaught!
Personally, I prefer the original!
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Wednesday Worlds of Wolverton MARVEL TALES "Gateway to Horror"

For Halloween, we're devoting this feature to the demented delineations of Basil Wolverton...
...such as this sordid story from Marvel Tales #104 (1951)!
Marvel Comics (known as this point as Atlas Comics) embraced horror comics as much as any other publisher during the 1950s, occasionally pushing the borders of "good taste" with work by Basil Wolverton, Russ Heath, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Steve Ditko, and others.

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Reading Room / Tales Twice Told MIDNIGHT "Project Final X"

Will the world end in an ecological disaster...
...or will it be something much more sinister?

Now that you've read this story from Ajax's Midnight #4 (1957), you might be asking yourself if it seems like it was a tad...disjointed, and that it didn't make much sense at a couple of points.
There's actually a good reason for thinking that.
The clues are in the cover for that issue...

Look carefully at the differences between the alien you see on the cover and the ones in the story itself.
There is a reason behind it all!
Be here Thursday for the surprising, shocking explanation!
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