Monday Maternity Madness CHOICES "People Like This Really Exist!"

It's sad and amazing how this strip from 1990 by writer/artist Nina Paley...

...is so relevant (and accurate) today!

From Isis Press' Choices: a Pro-Choice Benefit Comic for the Anthology National Organization for Women, produced to raise money after the Supreme Court ruling of Webster V Reproductive Health Services (1989) began the re-imposition of limits to the rights of women over their own bodies!

A Long-Standing RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Tradition Continues...

...with the annual feature-length "beach read" Gothic Romance comic at

True Love Comics Tales

starting Monday

(Normally we post at TLCT on Wednesdays, but it's a four-part story, so we're starting early!)

Space Hero Saturdays VIC TORRY AND HIS FLYING SAUCER "Chapter Two: The Evil of Szzz!"

When Last We Left Our Hero...

Ace test pilot Victor Torry and his aviation-enthusiast girlfriend Laura are testing a new jet when they encounter a flying saucer!
They pursue it and, when it lands in the desert, they also land, then go aboard the alien ship where they meet an elderly alien.
Unable to return to Mercury (his home world) in time to regenerate, he bequeaths the spacecraft to Vic and Laura, then disintegrates.
Exploring the ship, they accidentally activate the propulsion system and the ship, operating on automatic pilot, returns to Mercury, with them aboard.
It lands, and a group of Mercurians greet the ship.
They are not pleased to see Earthlings instead of one of their own exiting the ship...

Script by Roy Ald, who also edited Fawcett's Captain Video!

Art by Golden Age great Bob Powell.

Be here next Saturday for the final chapter of Vic Torry!

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Friday Fun HARVEY "Beauty and the Beach"

When summer vacation comes, comic book teens run for, where else...

...the beach!

This never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Harvey #5 (1972) was the penultimate issue of their last attempt at "teen" humor.
Written and penciled by Stu Schwartzberg and inked by Henry Scarpelli (clearly imitating Dan DeCarlo's art style which became the "look" of Archie Comics), this book and Millie the Model ended in 1972-73, leaving Archie and his spawn standing alone (except for occasional one-shots) in the teen humor genre to this day.

COWBOYS & ALIENS Part 4

When Last We Left Cowboys and Aliens (and Indians)...

Unused C&A movie poster by Drew Struzan

...in 1873 Arizona, a battle between a wagon train heading for Silver City and Indians is interrupted by a crippled flying saucer crashing nearby!

The surviving aliens decide to conquer the "primitive" humans while they await rescue by their fellow space travelers.

After quickly destroying a nearby US Army outpost, they head for the nearest group of structures, Silver City...where the wagon train has just arrived!
In the ensuing battle, the cowboys, joined by the Indians they were fighting earlier, manage to drive off the aliens, who aren't as invincible as they believed.
The humans join forces against a common foe.
And they gain a new ally...an enslaved alien who has escaped from her masters...and who believes "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"!

"Maw hunters"?
Don't miss the next exciting chapter...tomorrow, at...
Western Comics Adventures!