Saturday, May 5, 2018

Reading Room FLYING SAUCERS "Final Objective"

Art by Wally Wood
...he was rescued by the aliens from foreign spies who wanted the secret of alien technology!
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.
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Friday, May 4, 2018

Friday Fun REX DEXTER "Giant of the Cone Planet"

Who do you call when something weird (like a non-globe-shaped planet) appears?
Why, Rex Dexter of Mars, of course!
Boy, people are fickle!
Just because a giant monster you bring back from another planet tears up the city, everybody forgets all the good stuff you did before that!
Talk about "what have you done for us lately?"
OTOH, it does free up the character to wander the universe in search of adventure...
This 6-pager from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #3 (1939) has enough wild concepts and action from Dick Briefer's fertile imagination to fill an entire issue (if not a mini-series) today!
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Thursday, May 3, 2018

Reading Room FLYING SAUCERS "First Contact"

...well, between the kool inside front cover (with art by Wally Wood and an unknown inker) above, and the first paragraph below, you have all you need to follow the tale, so dive right in...
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.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CARSON OF VENUS "Mutiny at Sea"

BTW, I find it strange an American would take the side of a monarch against rebels.
Note also, the re-drawing of a couple of heads by editor Joe Kubert in the first panel below...
The adaptation of Pirates on Venus races along with this action-packed chapter from DC's Korak: Son of Tarzan #51 (1973).
Considering this was a bi-monthly series, writer Len Wein and artist Mike Kaluta felt the pressure to deliver a serialized tale that would hold the audience's interest for two months at a time...and they always delivered...as you'll see next Wednesday!
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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Reading Room 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.
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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