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Enclosed in a Globe of Pure Force is a Submicroscopic Insect!

13 Monday Jan 2014

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This panel comes from Jet Powers #1; Magazine Enterprises, 1950. The Thing in the Meteor. Artwork by Bob Powell.

Bob Powell’s work also appeared in the first issue of Race to the Moon, in the stories The Invasion and Disc Jockey.

Jukebox Comics: Jazz Biographies

26 Thursday Dec 2013

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Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Famous Funnies, golden age, Jazz, Jazz Comics, Jukebox, Jukebox Comics, Lena Horne, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, music, Nat King Cole

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We ran these biographical jazz comics from 1948’s Jukebox by Famous Funnies as a series in our first year here on Mars, but you might have missed them. Now you can read them all in one post! Retailers don’t often carry these in stock, although you can find a few issues on eBay every now and then. We are so grateful to the Digital Comic Museum for these scans!













Jack Kirby Crime: Tomorrow’s Murder!

04 Friday Oct 2013

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Prize published Treasure Comics from 1943-1947. It had all kinds of stories, from humor to adventure to fantasy. Lurking in the pages of the tenth issue you will find a crime story by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon: Tomorrow’s Murder! Kirby and Simon did not stay on the title for long but other greats like Frank Frazetta were also featured in it before its demise.

Collector’s Guide: From Treasure Comics #10; 1946



From Here to Insanity: 20,000 Lugs under the Sea, by Julius Vermin

15 Thursday Aug 2013

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20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Charlton comics, Comet Feldmeyer, From Here to Insanity, giant squid, golden age, Jack Kirby, Julius Vermin

You have enjoyed our 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea posts featuring the Moby Books adaptations and Pablo Marcos artwork. Now, let’s just keep proving that Jack Kirby did it all — including a giant squid! Today you will find in our gallery a six-page story from 1955, published by Charlton Comics, that spoofs the Jules Verne classic.

Just for fun, we threw in a one-page superhero spoof from Uncle Jack, too: Comet Feldmeyer and his lovable companion The Electronic Nuisance! Consider yourself a major geek if you get the “Dial M for Myrtle” comics reference, and move to the head of the class.

Collector’s Guide: from From Here to Insanity #11; Charlton, 1955. All art by Jack Kirby other than four pages out of the 68-page issue.

Underwater adventures also await you in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!




Jack Kirby’s Captain 3-D!

13 Tuesday Aug 2013

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Captain 3D, golden age, Harvey Comics, Jack Kirby

One of our guest bloggers, Kandou Erik, covered Captain 3-D by Jack Kirby for us in detail. We refer you to that post! Since then, we found scans of the entire issue you might like to see. Enjoy!

Collector’s Guide:
– From Captain 3-D #1; Harvey, 1953.
Pencils by Jack Kirby; Inks by Steve Ditko.













The Scorn of the Faceless People!

11 Sunday Aug 2013

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Bill Draut, Black Magic, dreams, golden age, Headline Publications, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Mort Meskin

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In this nearly forgotten issue of Black Magic from 1950, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby again tackled a subject of great interest to them in those years: dreams. Mort Meskin and Bill Draut also contribute to this issue. We saw their work alongside Kirby & Simon in Strange World of Your Dreams and other golden age gems.

Collector’s Guide: The first three issues of Black Magic are now collected in a Kindle version! Originally from Black Magic Vol. 1, #2, Headline Publications, Dec. 1950. Produced by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby















Cover art by Jack Kirby. The Scorn of the Faceless People!, art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; dream analysis story. The Cheerful Old Lady in Black!, art by Mort Meskin. The Cloak!, art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; Paul Darvas orders a new cloak, only to receive a cursed cloak from Asmodeus himself. Out of Your Mind text story. I’ve Seen You Before, art by Bruno Premiani. Yesterday You Died!, art by Bill Draut; When Grace Hanley is looking to buy a house she sees a ghostly image of a murder that has yet to happen in that house. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price

The Garden of Death!

26 Friday Jul 2013

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atomic bomb, golden age, Hiroshima, occult, Strange Tales, Vernon Henkel

The April 1954 issue of Strange Tales contains four illustrated shorts and one text piece. Early work by Joe Sinnot appears in The Cask in the Cave. Vernon Henkel provides the eerie artwork for the brief but dramatic Garden of Death! This tale, narrated by Death, scanned a bit better than the other tales. Let’s take a look!

Collector’s Guide: From Strange Tales #27; Marvel, 1954.



Fear Walks on Four Feet!

25 Thursday Jul 2013

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So many things work against this piece of golden-age nonsense: disastrous dinosaur depictions, colors fading into putridity, and lots of development to squeeze into four pages. Somehow, they pull it off. This is Bernard Krigstein, isn’t it?

Collector’s Guide: From Strange Tales #61; Marvel, 1958.

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Alarming Tales 1: The Cadmus Seed by Jack Kirby!

14 Sunday Jul 2013

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In 1957 and 1958, Jack Kirby created artwork for Harvey’s six-issue series Alarming Tales. These hard-to-find stories from the Golden Age showcase Kirby’s early flair for science fiction. You will see familiar themes like Martians, strange dimensions, conscious robots, and alien worlds. You will witness harbingers of future sciences like genetic engineering and cloning.

And, you will see a few ideas Kirby revisited decades later in his original stories. Behold the walking dogs and rats of “The Last Enemy” who resemble the animalistic characters of Kamandi, and a flying chair that would get an upgrade to seat Metron of the New Gods. Enjoy!

Collector’s Guide: From Alarming Tales #1-4; Harvey, 1957-1958. Issues #1-3 are now collected in a Kindle version!



Mystery in Space: Astronomy Features!

25 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Last September, we ran a series of educational pieces from Mystery in Space. After we collected Giants of the Telescope, Our Amazing Universe, and Our Strange Universe, we had a batch of astronomy pages left that didn’t fall under any of those headings. They’re still cool, though, so we present to you the remaining astronomy features today. Enjoy!






Captain Science: The Dark O’ The Moon!

21 Friday Jun 2013

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We discovered Captain Science in a Caliber Press reprint called Buried Treasure. They created a fine black-and-white reprint of “Captain Science and the Insidious Dr. Khartoum!” Love the Wally Wood artwork!

Like many Golden Age Comics now in the public domain, you can find Captain Science scans at the Digital Comic Museum. Or, you can collect the original issues of Captain Science.




One of Us Is a Martian!

18 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Al Williamson, Beware the Robots, golden age, Martian, One of Us is a Martian, robot, Steve Ditko, Tales of Suspense

One of us is a Martian. It might be …you! Come to think of it, we’re all Martians, here! So let’s rock this Steve Ditko tale from the golden age of science-fiction comics and see what happens. We’re including an Al Williamson piece called Beware of the … Robots! Yes, the next time someone complains about machines taking their job, you can confidently say, “Let ’em! We’ve got better things to do!”

Thanks to The Warrior’s Comic Book Den for hipping us to this sci-fi classic. They’ve got some great Al Williamson pieces there and much more.

Collector’s Guide: From Tales of Suspense #4; Marvel, 1959.





I’m Not Marrying Any Creature from Mercury!

14 Friday Jun 2013

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alien, Carl Wessler, golden age, Jay Scott Pike, Mercury, World of Fantasy

In this short story from World of Fantasy, a man hesitates to start up conversation with a lovely lady standing in the rain one night. But, the reader gets a glimpse of the strange events that would unfold if the man had actually worked up the nerve to talk to her. We don’t want to spoil it for you, but it involves aliens!

Atlas published nineteen issues of World of Fantasy from 1956-1959. Stan Lee edited the series and wrote many of the stories. Besides golden age sci-fi greats like Joe Orlando, Joe Manelley, and Angelo Torres, World of Fantasy featured artists who would become big names at Marvel and DC afterward. Just to name a few: Bill Everett, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnot, Don Heck, Ross Andru, Jack Abel, Dick Giordano, Jim Mooney, Steve Ditko.

We haven’t had any luck tracking down a reprint collection of these. If you know of one, leave a comment for us!

Collector’s Guide: From World of Fantasy #2; Atlas, 1956. Script by Carl Wessler, art by Jay Scott Pike.



Jack Kirby Crime: Underworld Snob!

02 Sunday Jun 2013

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crime, Eddie Bentz, golden age, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Justice Traps the Guilty, Prize

Early issues of Justice Traps the Guilty feature legendary collaborators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby producing “true” crime stories. The lives of criminals seemed to fascinate Kirby, and he would return to the subject twenty years later with In the Days of The Mob.

Collector’s Guide: From Justice Traps the Guilty; 1947-1953, Prize/Headline. The first three issues of Justice Traps the Guilty are now collected in a Kindle version!




Jack Kirby Crime: Gun Moll!

19 Sunday May 2013

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Early issues of Justice Traps the Guilty feature legendary collaborators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby producing “true” crime stories. The lives of criminals seemed to fascinate Kirby, and he would return to the subject twenty years later with In the Days of The Mob.

Collector’s Guide: From Justice Traps the Guilty; 1947-1953, Prize/Headline. The first three issues of Justice Traps the Guilty are now collected in a Kindle version!





Jack Kirby Crime: The True Life Story of Alvin Karpis!

12 Sunday May 2013

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Alvin Karpis, crime, golden age, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Justice Traps the Guilty, Prize

Early issues of Justice Traps the Guilty feature legendary collaborators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby producing “true” crime stories. The lives of criminals seemed to fascinate Kirby, and he would return to the subject twenty years later with In the Days of The Mob.

Collector’s Guide: From Justice Traps the Guilty; 1947-1953, Prize/Headline. The first three issues of Justice Traps the Guilty are now collected in a Kindle version!





Prehistoric World: In Search of the Past!

10 Friday May 2013

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Baron Cuvier, Classics Illustrated, dinosaur, dinosaur comics, Gideon Mantell, Gilberton, golden age, iguanodon, Prehistoric World, Richard Owen

As part of their Classics Illustrated series, Gilberton published Prehistoric World in 1962. It takes the reader from the beginning of life, through the age of dinosaurs, into the age of mammals, and ends with a detailed look at prehistoric man. Within its 100 pages, we also learn about many key people who shaped the study of prehistoric life.

Collector’s Guide: From Classics Illustrated Special #167: Prehistoric World; 1962. Not in stock? Try it on Newkadia.



Jack Kirby Crime: Alibi?

28 Sunday Apr 2013

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Charlton comics, crime, golden age, Jack Kirby, Jack Kirby Museum, Police Trap

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s work on Police Trap has been well-documented at The Jack Kirby Museum. The collaborators watched their publisher fall to pieces, and they found Charlton was willing to help continue the title. Police Trap #5 was the first Charlton issue, but it would only last through #6.

Collector’s Guide: From Police Trap #5; 1955, Charlton



High Priestess of the Snake People!

25 Monday Mar 2013

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What sold us was the hallway full of severed reptile arms holding torches. Now that’s decorating! We hope you enjoy “High Priestess of the Snake People” from Challenge of the Unknown. It’s just your usual boy-meets-girl, girl tries to transform boy into hideous reptile demon like the rest of her cult kind of story. Rock!

See more of our Golden Age Comics Gallery!




Little Nemo in Slumberland: Complete 1909 Sunday Features!

16 Saturday Feb 2013

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dreams, golden age, Little Nemo, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay

Greetings from the land of dreams, Martians! Gaze in awe at these awesome full-color Little Nemo in Slumberland strips from 1909. That’s right: 1909. Dude, that was a long time ago. Before women had voting rights in the USA. Before men walked on the moon. Heck, people hadn’t even adjusted to having cars, planes, and radios! But the imagination of artist Winsor McCay brought many people all the flights and trips they needed.

Little Nemo has been collected a few times. I like the “So Many Splendid Sundays” Vol. 1 & 2 because they are printed on large pages like the originals. But if you are looking for a complete collection, you want either the six-volume set published by Fantagraphics, or the two-volume hardcover collections by Checker.

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