Reading Room: THOR GOD OF THUNDER "Blood Piracy in Shanghai"

The Golden Age Thor returns to battle a typical-for-the-period "Yellow Menace" Asian-stereotype villain in this tale from Weird Comics #5.
NOTE: this story may be NSFW due to the racial stereotypes.
Oddly, the Asian characters do not have yellow skin coloring, but standard comic book Caucasian flesh tones.

Despite the blurb in the last panel, this was Thor: God of Thunder's final appearance.
He didn't appear again until Erik Larsen revived him in Savage Dragon #141.

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Reading Room: CAVE GIRL "Ape God of Kor"

The very first Cave Girl story (but not her origin) from Thun'da #2, guest-starring Thun'da himself, along with his "mate", Pha!

Art by "good girl" artist Bob Powell, who took over on Thun'da from the legendary Frank Frazetta!
Cave Girl continued as a back-up in the remaining four issues of Thun'da, and as the lead in four issues of her own title (with a Thun'da strip as a back-up!) with lots more Bob Powell art!
Despite the overlapping of the strips in each other's books, the characters never guest-starred in each other's strips again.

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Shroud for the Bride"

This final tale from Phantom Lady #14 doesn't stint on what "good girl" artist Matt Baker does best...scantly-clad women and catfights!

MUCH MORE Phantom Lady action to come!

Next week: Zombies and her first supervillain: Dr Crime!

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Reading Room: DOC SAVAGE

John Buscema and Tony DeZuniga

Have NO Fear--Because YOU Demanded It--Doc Savage is HERE!
In fact, the Doc Savage posts have been among the most popular this blog has ever run!
And there's lots more to come...
Material that has not been reprinted/re-presented anywhere else!
Like the color pin-up (from Giant-Sized Doc Savage #1) above and this (from Doc Savage #1)...

Ross Andru and Jim Mooney

and stuff that has only been seen, albeit briefly, on other blogs or websites, but will now be all together on one easy-to-search blog, along with many other pulp-related goodies!

Note: there's lots of currently-available Doc Savage material (pulps, comics, movies, and even radio shows), all well-worth picking up (most of them are in my personal collection), but we'll be showing only the stuff not included in those volumes!

Video Fridays: The FIRST Live-Action THOR!

Thor (Erik Allan Kramer), Stan Lee, and The Hulk (Lou Ferrigno).

Face Front, True Believer!
Though Chris Hemsworth did a smashing job as The Mighty Thor, he wasn't the first choice to personify the God of Thunder in the flesh!
Erik Allan Kramer portrayed a somewhat headstrong Thor in the tv-movie The Incredible Hulk Returns.
Besides the quite-different costume, this version of Thor is two different people, the Thunder God and Don Blake (Steve Levett), a former student of David Banner's (Bill Bixby) who found Mjolnir and can summon Thor from between dimensions by holding the hammer and yelling "ODIN"...

And later the two team-up to...well, you'll get the idea...

Besides being a continuation of The Incredible Hulk tv storyline in a series of tv movies, this was a "backdoor pilot" to promote The Mighty Thor in his own tv series.