Monday Madness FANTASTIC COMICS "Space Smith Visits the Hollow World of Bloodu"

Here's the final, Fletcher Hanks Space Smith tale...

...unfortunately, scanned from a color microfiche copy so it's very blotchy!

Apparently, Fox's Fantastic Comics #8 (1940) is so rare, that only slabbed copies are known to exist!

And they can't be opened to scan the stories without losing value...
With Hanks' departure, several writers and artists would try their hands at the series!
Wait'll you see who's coming!

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I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!

by

Fletcher Hanks

Reading Room SPACE ACTION "Invaders From a Lost Galaxy"

A "Lost Galaxy"?

Not The "Lost Galaxy"?

How many "Lost Galaxies" are out there?

And, is it really lost, or just misplaced? ;-)

While the writer is unknown, the art for this Flash Gordon-inspired tale from Ace's Space Action #1 (1952) breaks down as pencils by Lou Cameron, inks by Rocco Mastroserio!

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It Was 50 Years Ago Today...

...that The Beatles released their "magnum opus", Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band!

Considered by many (myself included) to be their finest work, it left an impact on an entire generation that reverberates to this day!

Less than a year later, writer Gary Friedrich and illustrator John Verpoorten (with an assist on caricatures by Marie Severin) produced this amazingly-detailed send-up in Marvel's Not Brand Echh #12 (1969)...

Enjoy, True Believer!
BTW, here's a list of all those who appeared on the cover...

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Friday Fun REX DEXTER "Saves the World...Again!"

When Last We Left Our Interplanetary Hero...

...Rex has not only rebuilt a major part of Asia, but repopulates it with Americans, since all the locals were killed by the meteor strike!

Why wait?

We'll give you that kool page, from Fox's Mystery Man Comics #8 (1940), now!

Is that kool, or what?

TRIVIA: You may notice that pages 5-8 of this tale from Fox's Mystery Man Comics #7 (1940) have larger panels, and less-detailed art than the first four pages.

Did writer-artist Dick Briefer fall behind on the deadline and do the last four pages overnight?

Did the editor reject the original last four pages...forcing Briefer to re-write/re-draw them?

We'll never know...

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Reading Room MYSTERY IN SPACE "With His Head in the Stars"

In 1980 DC revived the sci-fi anthology Mystery in Space...

...which was canceled in 1966.

Despite the use of first-rate talent, including Ditko, Jim Starlin, Marshall Rogers, Dave Cockrum, Jim Aparo and others, it only ran seven issues before disappearing into the void again!

This particular tale, from #116 (1981), may demonstrate why the book failed.

It looks and feels like a 1950s-60s tale, rather than something contemporary!

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