Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Reading Room Annex: DOC SAVAGE "Thousand-Headed Man" Part 1

Have NO Fear! The Man of Bronze is HERE!
From 1966, a never-reprinted Silver Age tale, one of many one-shots from Gold Key based on classic properties during the Superhero '60s!
Script by Leo Dorfman, based on the novel by Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent).
Art by Jack Sparling.
The mystery deepens for the Man of Bronze...tomorrow!

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Reading Room Annex: SPACE BUSTERS in "Remember Makano"

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From "Remember the Alamo!" to "Remember the Maine!" most wars have one such atrocity which ends up inspiring even greater levels of valor against an evil foe.
The War Against Belzar was no different...
Art by Murphy Anderson, who was also doing the Buck Rogers newspaper strip at the time.
The remaining stories are by other artists, but Murphy did a couple of one-page features we'll be presenting at the end of this series.

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Friday, April 8, 2011

Little Shop of Horrors...the ORIGINAL Ending!

In the film's original ending, like the stage play...everybody DIES, and Audrey II's spawn conquer the world!
Test audiences found it too depressing, so a new ending (with a possibility of a sequel) was filmed.
Here is the complete original ending from the point when Audrey (Ellen Greene) realizes Audrey II is sentient...
NOTE: this is a combo of final footage and a colorized b/w "workprint", so things go from clean to rough, indicating what's the "never seen-before" material!
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Reading Room Annex: SPACE BUSTERS in "Victory on Valda"

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In the second, and final issue of SpaceBusters, the action moves outside the Solar System as the war against Belzar escalates...
BTW, you'll notice that April is wearing considerably less on the cover, shown below.
Art by Murphy Anderson, who was also doing the Buck Rogers newspaper strip at the time.

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Reading Room Annex: THE MEAN HORNET

Since it's just after April Fools Day, it's only appropriate we present a kool spoof/satire.
And since we've been on a Green Hornet binge, why not run the only spoof done (until the 2011 movie) of The Green Hornet and Kato?
Even though Mad (both comic and magazine incarnations) ran numerous parodies of everything from Superman (comic and movies) to Batman (comic, tv show, and movies) to Blackhawk, they never did any of the various incarnations of The Green Hornet!
(If Cracked or Sick did tales, I never saw them.)
There's only this never-reprinted six-pager from Marvel's Not Brand Echh! #9, 1968.
Written by Roy Thomas, Illustrated by Tom Sutton.

Here's a bonus: the original art to page 1!