Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MONKEY PLANET Part 2

When Last We Left Our Stranded Protaganist...

Cover of 1st British hardcover edition

The diary of Ulysse Merou, journalist with an interstellar expedition from Earth, is found floating in space by other astronauts.

It recounts how the team landed on a planet in the Betelgeuse system discovering both primitive humans and a society of intelligent apes utilizing technology equal to late 20th Century Earth!

Captured by the simians, who don't realize he's not one of their primitive humans, Merou is taken to a major metropolis...

To be concluded...

...Next Wednesday!

Written and illustrated by Ernő Zórád, this 1981 Hungarian one-shot adaptation of the original French novel by Pierre Boule has never been officially-published in English.

But, thanks to the fine work of Kyriee (Scans), Swatura Od (translation) and Avoros (scripting), we're finally able to understand this tale in English.

Thanks, guys.

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Planet of the Apes

by Pierre Boulle

The novel (Monkey Planet) that the movie (and the graphic novel) were based upon!

There was never a novelization of the movie itself!

Kirby Reading Room SECRET CITY SAGA "When Titans Trash!" Part 1

We Rejoin the Ninth Men...

...wait, we're starting with a flashback...specifically to THIS scene?

OK, let's go to a recap...

Now, that clears it up, right?
Even if it doesn't, just go with it...

We'll Find Out What That is...

Thursday!

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Kirby: Genesis

A retelling of elements of the Secret City Saga which also combines other Kirby projects like Galaxy Green, Captain Victory and Silver Star!

Monday Madness RON WHITE

Ron DeSatan tries to compensate for his lack of "manhood"...

...by violating the 1st Amendment and other elements of the US Constitution.

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Tom the Dancing Bug

Into the Trumpverse

Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, 2016-2019

by Ruben Bolling

Revenge of the Ants, Man!

 

Got an unpleasant surprise this morning after the outside temperature hit 80 for the first time this year, as we discovered an invasion of ants in the kitchen!
It's been contained and almost eliminated, but we're not going to do the usual post today.

Space Hero Saturdays SKYROCKET STEELE "...in the Year 'X' "

Though best-known as the creator of Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner....

...Bill Everett's first published strip featured this Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers clone...

...Bill Everett's first published strip featured this Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers clone...

In this premiere chapter, the series starts "mid-stream", indicating events crucial to the plot occurred before we join Skyrocket and his buddies.

The captions and dialogue balloons are heavier than normal as expositional dialogue is used to clue the readers in on the situations in the "world of the future".

You'll also note the use of upper and lower-case lettering, unique, even then.

Everett's unique inking style is already developing, though crude in comparison to his later work.

To his credit, Bill doesn't swipe layouts from Alex (Flash Gordon) Raymond, Hal (Tarzan/Prince Valiant) Foster, or any of the already-established masters of the graphic storytelling form as so many of his comic book contemporaries do!

He's not afraid to try his own "camera angles" to tell the story...not always succeeding, but experimenting and learning!

Trivia: Though the character debuted in this tale which appeared in Centaur's Amazing Mystery Funnies #2 (1938), he was the cover feature of issue #1...

....where no sign of him can be found inside of the book!

No one knows why!
Trivia: Pop culture historian and prolific genre author Ron (Star Hawks) Goulart utilized the name (but nothing else from Everett's strip) for a hysterically-funny novel about 1940s sci-fi movie serials...

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...which, while available on Amazon (as seen below) can't be found as this 1980 first edition with a kool cover by noted artist Carl Lundgren!
Snarky Note: I bought it in 1980,when it came out!
That and Goulart's very HTF Tremendous Adventures of Bernie Wine...

...a PG-13/soft R mass-market novel about a young (and horny) comic book artist in NYC, are among my favorite Goulart books in my collection (and I have a lot of them, including ghost-written standalones and series)!

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Skyrocket Steele
by Ron Goulart