Monday, August 22, 2022

Monday Maternity Madness ABORTION EVE & FACTS 'O LIFE COMICS

...as legal, safe abortions were finally allowed in the United States of America!
Unfortunately, in 2022, that decision was overturned, and the Dark Ages returned to America!
Here's an example of what it was like pre-Roe V Wade...
...from Facts 'O Life Comics, published in 1972!
Do we really want that again?

Sunday, August 21, 2022

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Goes MULTIVERSAL...

...with the biggest entry we've ever done!

A loooong (almost 45 years) Out Of Print novel by noted sci-fi fantasy author William Rotsler!
And it's so big it takes two RetroBlogs; Seduction of the Innocent and Medical Comics and Stories, to accommodate the multiverse-spanning saga!

DON’T DARE GO TO SLEEP
Unless you are prepared to confront an evil that is older than time itself—a haunting, inhuman horror!
Unless you are prepared to share the fate of the dark-eyed Evangelist, the power-hungry Prize-fighter, the cold-blooded Assassin, and the stunning love-starved Starlet!
Unless you are prepared to enter the terrifying realm of NIGHTMARE, dark overlord of the dream dimension, and master of other men’s minds!
Unless you are prepared to trust your future, and the future of your world to...
Doctor Strange
Master of the Mystic Arts
in
NIGHTMARE
A soul-chilling tale of terror . . . terror that could be YOURS!
Begin HERE...and don't falter!
The fate of the Multiverse may depend on YOU!

Saturday, August 20, 2022

Space Hero Saturdays VIC TORRY AND HIS FLYING SAUCER "Chapter Three - Catastrophe!"

Ace test pilot Victor Torry and his aviation-enthusiast girlfriend Laura are bequeathed a flying saucer by a dying alien.
Operating on automatic pilot, the spacecraft returns to its' home on Mercury, where they discover a civil war under way against the tyrant Szzz, who has plans to conquer the entire solar system!
Vic and Laura manage to commandeer another ship, override the controls and leave.
But now, they are returning to Mercury...
Art by Golden Age great Bob Powell.
The tale has been reprinted only once, in Eclipse's Mr Monster's Hi-Voltage Super-Science (1987)...
...with this new, super-kool cover by Michael Gilbert!
Vic himself appears in a cameo in the SkyWolf back-up story "Bachelor Party" in AirBoy #36 (1986)

Friday, August 19, 2022

Friday Fun TRUMP! "Tranquilizers"

Ironically, from a 1950s magazine called Trump...

...(not named after a stress-inducing a-hole) comes this feature by artist Al Jaffee and (likely) writer Harvey Kurtzman about the "benefits" of stress-relieving drugs!
Note the Alfred E Neuman-esque figure at the end of the piece!
"What, me worry?', indeed!
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Thursday, August 18, 2022

Tales Twice Told WEIRD WORLDS "Green Horror"

We presented the 1950s version of this tale HERE...
...now here's the redrawn 1970s version...with the script taken almost verbatim from the original!
"They went beyond the stars only to find terror that could destroy everything"
That was the contents page description from Eerie Publications' Weird Worlds V1N10 (1970) for this reworking by artist Walter Casadei of "Planet Eaters" from Key's Weird Mysteries #1 (1952).
Casadei started his career as a humor and "good girl" artist.
But when he proved he could handle any genre, Walter's assignments became predominantly a horror/sci-fi illustrator!
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