Thinking About Sharks!

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20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo, Illustrated Classics Edition, Jules Verne, Malvina Vogel, Moby Books, Pablo Marcos Studio, shark

Last week, we posted the battle with the giant squid from the Moby Books Illustrated Classics Edition of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.

Our reader Martin commented that he remembers his favorite illustration in the book, by the talented comic book artist Pablo Marcos. On this page, our narrator reads of the island of Ceylon. He has a fantastic vision of sharks swarming around his head! Yes! Martin, here’s the iullustration you requested, below. In our gallery you will find the complete Chapter 9: Pearls and Sharks. It’s also got a bad-ass page of Captain Nemo battling a shark!

 
Collector’s Guide:
From 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, by Jules Verne.
Moby Books Illustrated Classics Edition, adapted by Malvina G. Vogel.
Illustrations by Pablo Marcos Studio; Cover illustration by Al Leiner.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!

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Dell, Dell Four Color, giant squid, Gold Key, golden age, Hermes Press, movie adaptation, shark, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Here’s a blast from the past for you, Martians: Dell’s adaptation of the movie Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Collector’s Guide: This single-issue adaptation comes from Dell Four Color #1230, 1961. Later, from 1964-1969, Gold Key had a 16-issue series that serialized the concept, called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. More recently, Hermes Press collected those Gold Key issues in a hardcover edition of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Dell Keys of Knowledge: Wild Animals!

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Baboon, Dell Comics, Elephant, golden age, Keys of Knowledge, shark, shrew, Tiger, Wild Animals of Asia, Wild Animals of North America, Wild Animals of South America, Wild Boar

Dell Comics’ Keys of Knowledge may not be comics at all. Why? Because comics are sequential. Comics tell stories. These are really illustrations with captions, not truly comics.

We won’t hold that fine distinction against them. Because… Dude! Anteater! Shark! Violent Baboons! Nuff Said! Anyway – The Keys of Knowledge in the Gallery below come from the original Turok Son of Stone. Yes, Martian, we are feverishly compiling all of the Young Earth stories from Turok to share with you very soon.

What’s Young Earth, you say? Dinosaurs. The first pure dinosaur comics of all time, according to Steve Bissette – and by pure we mean NO HUMANS and no anthropomorphizing. No time travel. JUST STORIES ABOUT PREHISTORIC CRITTERS DOING THEIR PREHISTORIC THING! YES!!

Anyway! Back to the Keys of Knowledge: Wild Animals of Africa from Turok #31, Fish from Turok #35, Wild Animals of South America from Turok #36, Wild Animals of North America from Turok #39 & #42, and Wild Animals of Asia (TIGER) from Turok #43. The black and white ones come from the inside covers of the issues. We don’t know if Dark Horse is including these babies in their new reprints of the original Turok, but we hope so. Because we dig these educational animal comics a hell of a lot more than those dumb Turok and Andar stories!