Monday, August 6, 2018

Monday Madness FANTASTIC COMICS "Space Smith and the Death of a Planetary Policeman!"

This series has become "gangsters in space"...
...with plots right out of the then-popular crime films of the 1930s, transposed into the future!
This never-reprinted tale from Fox's Fantastuc Comics #17 (1941) isn't a bad story, just...familiar.
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Sunday, August 5, 2018

Reading Room ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN "Vampire Spider"

Here's a tale that combines two of the most popular themes of sci-fi/horror...
...science-induced mutation in human beings and giant arachnids (which includes both insects and spiders)!
This never-reprinted cover story from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #50 (1953) was written by Richard Hughes and illustrated by Robert McCarty, who, unfortunately, doesn't do a very accurate (most panels show the arachnid with only six legs) or scary spider...
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Saturday, August 4, 2018

Reading Room ALARMING ADVENTURES "Earth Went Haywire"

Here's a never-reprinted tale from Harvey's Alarming Adventures #3 (1963)...
...about a "forgotten man" who saves the world from Armageddon!
With today's "decompressed storytelling, this five-page short would be, at least, a mini-series with numerous full-page and double-page spreads...collected, of course into a tpb reprint!
The creators are unknown, but knowledgable sources have suggested Carl Burgos, Bernard Baily, and Stan Goldberg as the artists...
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Friday, August 3, 2018

Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Creator AND Destroyer of Worlds"

It's a typical day for Rex Dexter...
...starting off with a fascinating "flashback" to Rex's childhood and a look at what science at the time said the origin of the Earth was!
Let me see if I have this straight...
Rex's friend blows up a planet!
A fragment of that world crashes on Earth!
Somehow, evolution speeds up on that fragment and creatures soon migrate to the surrounding area, attacking people!
Rex and the military manage to stop the aliens!
Our lesson for today, kiddies: "We created a planetm but it nearly destroyed all of Mankind! That was a close call!"
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Thursday, August 2, 2018

DC Won't Present the "Monster Society of Evil"...But WE Will!

SHAZAM MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL DELUXE EDITION HC
(Writer) Otto Binder (Artists) C. C. Beck, Pete Costanza (Cover Artist) Michael Cho
At first he was simply a disembodied voice on the radio, taunting Captain Marvel with his ever-more-fiendish schemes to conquer the world.
Then, readers gasped as Mr. Mind was revealed-all two inches of him!
Was this lowly creature really the epitome of evil he claimed to be?
Fortunately, Billy Batson understood the folly of underestimating someone based on their size!
As small as he was, Mr. Mind was big trouble-especially once he turned the menacing members of his Monster Society of Evil loose to wreak havoc!

This new title collects the entire 24-chapter serial from the Golden Age of Comics with new essays by Fawcett Comics expert P.C. Hamerlinck and film producer and comics historian Michael Uslan.
Collects stories from Captain Marvel Adventures #22-46!
In Shops: Feb 06, 2019
 Then DC pulled the plug!
After careful consideration, DC announces that the Shazam!: The Monster Society fo Evil Deluxe Edition HC (JUL180783) is cancelled due to concerns over its contents,
This title will not be resolicited.
The mini-series had been reprinted once, in 1989 by American Nostalgia Library in a magnificent oversized hardcover with a run of only 3000 copies.
That edition, seen below, is incredibly HTF.

Since we believe the story has historical significance, and the racism (which we abhor) is part of the tale, RetroBlogs is going to drop the plans we had for various summer mini-blogathons (finishing the one currently running at True Love Comics Tales) and, beginning on Monday, re-present the entire, unexpurgated story scanned from the original issues of Fawcett's Captain Marvel Adventures at Hero Histories and Not Safe For Work Comics!
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