Friday, February 11, 2022

Frigid Friday Fun PLANET COMICS "Cosmo Corrigan and the Cosmic Chorus Girls!"

What do you do when you want to heat up a planet that's colder than America's MidWest in February?
Cosmo Corrigan has the answer...cosmic chorus girls!
Sady, Cosmo never got back to Pluto.
He wasn't in the next issue of Planet Comics, nor would he reappear anywhere else in the known universe.
His fate remains a mystery...

Written and illustrated by Seymour Reit (who later co-created Casper the Friendly Ghost), Cosmo's final tale appeared in Fiction House's Planet Comics #11 (1941).
But don't think this is the end of our winter-inspired posts!
There's more frigid fun to come!

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Thursday, February 10, 2022

Reading Room WORLD OF FANTASY "It Stands in the Snow"

We've presented abominable snowman stories before...
...but none that ends like this one!
We guarantee it!
OK, did you follow the surprise ending?
Admittedly, it's a little difficult due to the final panel being drawn sideways.
Let's run the final panel the way it should be shown...
Now that works!
Was this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' World of Fantasy #2 (1956) a four-pager that was re-worked into three pages?
Only artist (and Atlas/Marvel production whiz) Sol Brodsky and the unknown writer knew...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder NIOURK Prologue & 1: the Tribe

We told you about this fascinating post-apocalyptic graphic novel HERE...

Now, you're going to get a look at it!


Adapted by writer/artist Olivier Vatine from the novel by Stefan Wul, Niourk is a superb graphic novel deserving of a place on your bookshelf!
(And if you haven't guessed what "Niourk" means, the cover below should give you a pretty good hint!)
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Reading Room TIME WARP "Man Who Could See Yesterday!"

You'd think "everybody can see yesterday! It's the guy who can see tomorrow who's unique!"
Not in this tale, dear reader!
This tale from DC's Time Warp #1 (1979) was written by Paul Levitz, illustrated and lettered by Jim Aparo.
Using both established pros and talented newcomers, Time Warp, an oversized anthology (68 pages for $1 when the standard comic was 36 pages for 40¢) presented all-new material, almost all of which (including this story) has never been reprinted!
Mike Kaluta, definitive artist for the comic version of The Shadow, provided pulp-style covers for the entire run.
While they had no relation to any of the stories in the book, they were spectacular!
The series lasted only five issues.
The remaining unused stories appeared in the horror/fantasy anthology The Unexpected with a "Time Warp" logo on the splash page.
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Monday, February 7, 2022

Monday Madness MYSTERIES OF UNEXPLORED WORLDS "World Where I was King!"

We could call this "The Challenge that Made a Man Out of Bill Jones..."
...since it's a plotline out of the Charles Atlas ads that used to appear on the back covers of comic books, but with a fantasy twist!
This tale of alpha males on other worlds from Charlton's Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #3 (1957) was illustrated by the legendary Steve Ditko and an unknown writer (who could be Ditko himself or Joe Gill)!
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...which reprints many Ditko short stories...but not this one!