Tales Twice Told TALES OF VOODOO "Devil's Machine"

If you're a faithful reader, you've already seen the 1950s version of this story on Tuesday!

Now here's a retitled, redrawn (and only slightly rewritten) retelling from Eerie Publications' Tales of Voodoo V4N5 (1971)!

Why was the story redrawn when so little was changed from one version to another?
It's not like they made it even more gruesome...as some of Eerie Publications' reworkings did, since they weren't under Comics Code Authority restraints like color comic book were!
Note: illustrator Walter 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 horror/sci-fi!

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The Worst of Eerie Publications

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MERCHANTS OF VENUS Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Charming, rougish (yet honest) tour guide Audree Walthers is engaged by a rich couple to visit (hopefully) untouched Heechee archeological sites on Venus, hoping to find artifacts.

(The Heechee were the inhabitants of the planet, but none are currently known to be alive, so their cities and habitats are considered "abandoned" and legally-salvageble!)

Things take an unexpected turn when Audree discovers his clients are, in fact, totally-broke and hope to cash in on Heechee artifacts he'll lead them to.
But would that mean cutting him out of their contracted profit-sharing deal...

...one way or another?

Sadly, DC's Graphic Novel Series ended before a sequel, based on Frederik Pohl's then-ongoing Heechee series, could be developed!

If you haven't read it, you should...because the Heechee aren't gone!

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Gateway Trip

Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee

by Frederik Pohl

(which reprints Merchants of Venus and adds nine new short stories all illustrated by the legendary Frank Kelly Freas!)

Tales Twice Told WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Jonah"

In 1950s science fiction, the technology available in the year 2000 was truly amazing...

...it's a pity we didn't really have this stuff when the Millennium came about!

When this story was published in Key's Weird Tales of the Future #6 (1953), we really thought we'd have moving sidewalks, flying cars, interplanetary travel, and shrinking rays by 2000!

The writer is unknown, but the artist is Tony Mortellaro.

Be here Thursday, when we show how this story was retold in 1971!

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Science Fiction Comics

Taylor History of Comics

Vol 3

Monday Madness THIS MAGAZINE IS CRAZY "Russians are Stealing Our Comics!"

Russians using pop culture to spread disinformation is nothing new...

...as this never-reprinted feature from Charlton's MAD clone This Magazine is Crazy V4N8 (1959) by an unknown writer and artist (or writer/artist) demonstrates!

The really sad thing is how few of these strips survive to this day!

Nancy, Dennis the Menace, and Beetle Bailey are still being published.

Peanuts is in reprints only, with no new strips since creator Charles Schultz retired.

Abernathy and They'll Do It Every Time are gone and pretty much forgotten.

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Sincerest Form of Parody

Holiday Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Easter Sunday"

Our final Walt (Pogo) Kelly post for Easter...

...is a never-reprinted piece from Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #220 (1949).

We hope you've enjoyed our presentation of these long-lost pieces by one of the field's masters.

Now go eat a chocolate bunny and some marshmallow chicks!