It's been a while since we last looked in on Barbarella...
...and you're about to encounter more plot elements and characters you saw in the 1960s movie, but in somewhat different form...
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Friday, February 28, 2025
Friday Fun / Baker Reading Room MGM's LASSIE "Down to the Sea"
As a dog owner, I say, there's nothing more fun than a playful dog!
Especially one who can do almost anything, except administer CPR!
Note: the b/w page is the comic's inside back cover, which was usually b/w or two-color.
The last page is the comic's back cover!
The last page is the comic's back cover!
After the last movie in the original series came out in 1951, the comic continued, with Lassie linked to new humans, including photographer Rocky Langford and his girlfriend Gerry Lawrence on their trip to South America!
Penciled by Matt Baker and inked by long-time artistic partner Ray Osrin (who inked, among other Baker stories, It Rhymes with Lust), this tale from Dell's MGM's Lassie #20 (1955) is from the first issue of Matt's three-issue tenure as the feature's primary artist.
The writer is unknown.
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
Baker Reading Room: VOODAH "Monster Fish"
One of the first Lords of the Jungle was Black...
...and illustrated by a Black artist, specifically the legendary Matt Baker!
Illustrated by Matt Baker (who most fans know was one of the premiere Good Girl artists of the '40s-'50s, but don't know was one of the few African-American comic artists of the era), the idea of a non-White jungle hero seems obvious today, but was extremely-daring in the 1940s!
In fact, it was so daring that Voodah slowly became paler over the next few issues, eventually becoming just another White guy bossing the locals around!
Compare Voodah here with his first appearance in the previous issue of McCombs' Crown Comics HERE!
BTW, the "Clarence Ramon" credit at top is a house pseudonym.
Baker is the artist.
The writer is unknown.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AIRSHIP ENTERPRISE "Infernal Machine" Conclusion
It's all been leading to this...
...as Captain Janus Tibbs, in a last, desperate move, has her steampunk airship do what, apparently, every flying vehicle named Enterprise can do...separate the saucer (er...discus) section from the rest of the ship!
"And the Adventure Continues..."
Sadly, no!
While there is a graphic novel compilation of the mini series, there hasn't been a follow-up since initial publication in 2014!
Next Week:
A New World of Wonder!
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Baker Reading Room UNUSUAL TALES "Bordoni the Great"
Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia's cover introduces a never-reprinted Matt Baker-penciled story...
..and there's not a single Baker-trademark beautiful woman in sight!
Cue The Twilight Zone music...
Writer Joe Gill and inker Vince Colletta join penciler Matt Baker in a simple, but effective story from Charlton's Unusual Tales #16 (1959) that could've worked as a standard-budget TV episode in the 1950s!
The tale reads like a set of storyboards with dramatic camera-angles and lighting effects!
The tale reads like a set of storyboards with dramatic camera-angles and lighting effects!
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