Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder AGAR-AGAR "Rendezvous with Aquarius"

As the world turns prematurely-dark with snow on Halloween...
...we're going to provide a neon/black lite psychedelic saga that'll run every Wednesday from now until Christmas!
♪"This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius...Age of Aquarius..."♫
Oops, sorry, got carried away there for a second.
This trippy mini-series had eight installments, each one weirder than the previous.
Agar-Agar "got physical" (in a PG-13 way) with a variety of life-forms including centaurs, super-heroes, and a human or two.
Illustrated in a Peter Max-esque style by Alberto Solsona.

Written by Luis Gasca under the pen-name "Sadko" and published in England as part of Dracula (1971), a 12-issue partworks by New English Library, the first 3 tales made their American debut in Warren Publishing's Dracula trade paperback which reprinted #1-#6 of the British Dracula's run in 1973.
You'll see those tales, plus the rest of the series, including the five stories that have never been seen by American readers!
It'll be a groovy trip, baby!

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Holiday Reading Room MARVEL TALES "Man Without Fear"

"What holiday?"
Why, Halloween, of course!
Or...is it!
Is this never-reprinted story by writer Carl Wessler and artist Joe Sinnott from Atlas' Marvel Tales #140 (1955) a Halloween treat...or trick?
You tell us, kiddo!

Monday, October 30, 2023

Macabre Monday Madness THE SPECTRE & THE FLASH "Phantom Flash, Cosmic Traitor" Part 3

We Have Already Seen...

Cover art penciled by Flash artist Carmine Infantino and inked by Spectre artist Murphy Anderson
...while visiting Earth-Two, The Flash is possessed by the ghost of World War I fighter pilot Luther Jarvis, who feels his comrades who survived the war allowed him to die due to their cowardice!
Using the Scarlet Speedster as a cats-paw to give him an davantage in a dogfight, the ghostly pilot pits the mind-controlled Flash Against The Spectre!

Next Week: Back to Our Usual Monday Madness!

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Sunday, October 29, 2023

Halloween is a Month-Long Party at RetroBlogs!

Art by the late, great, Dave Stevens!

Every RetroBlog Posted New Halloween/Horror Material During October, and Almost All are Posting New Entries on Halloween Itself!
Don't Miss Out on the Fiendish Fun!!!
(In Alphabetical Order)
Atomic Kommie Comics
(That's this blog, in case you've forgotten!)
Crime & Punishment
Hero Histories
(Part of the Countdown to Hallowen 2023 Blogathon)
Heroines!
Horror Comics of the 1950s
(Part of the Countdown to Hallowen 2023 Blogathon)
Medical Comics & Stories
(Part of the Countdown to Hallowen 2023 Blogathon)
Not Safe For Work Comics
Pop Art Martial Arts
Secret Sanctum of Captain Video
Seduction of the Innocent!
True Love Comics Tales
Western Comics Adventures
War: Past, Present & Future
Wow!
No Wonder I'm Exhausted!

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Spooky Space Force Saturdays STRANGE GALAXY "Space Monsters"

Art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito
...except, it both was and wasn't the final tale!
The script was used, almost verbatim (but with a renamed lead character), for a new story in the first issue of the short-lived 1970s b/w magazine Strange Galaxies!
All the other names, including the female lead, Maeve, and various locations, remained the same...
In fact, all the stories in Eerie Publications' Strange Galaxy V1N8 (which was the first issue), were re-dos of earlier stories from various defunct comic companies!
I guess they figured that no one would remember the original 1950s tales in 1971...
The rewriter/adaptor is unknown, but could be editor Carl Burgos, who created, among others, the Golden Age Human Torch and the first Silver Age Captain Marvel (the android who said "Split"!).
The stories don't have individual art credits, but according to the Weird World of Eerie Publications by Mike Howlett, the illustrator is one of the artists who were regular contiburors to the Eerie Publications line, Oscar Fraga.
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