Reading Room: DOC SAVAGE "Yesterday Connection & Secret Out of Time"

Surprised, True Believer?

Yes, that's your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man up there, not the Man of Bronze!

But don't worry, Doc Savage will be along soon enough...

So what ominous event did the warning portend?

And how does it affect Spider-Man in the 1970s?

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"Tomorrow is Too Late!"

Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Television Spies"

It may be 1948, but tv was already a national obsession...

 ...and Phantom Lady is about to go in front of the cameras!

Oddly enough, both Don and the criminals have color tvs, when they weren't available commercially until five years later!

And Ringo's cane-camera is a color transmitter, when even portable b/w tv cameras were the size of suitcases!

The superb art for this tale from All Top Comics #10 is, of course, by Matt Baker.

This plot, probably by Ruth Roche, was reused, but totally-redrawn for the Comics Code-approved Phantom Lady #3 in 1955!

We'll be re-presenting that when we get to it in the chronology.

Next week...

The issue Fredric Wertham singled-out in Seduction of the Innocent!

Phantom Lady #17!

Both Phantom Lady tales complete and uncut!

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Reading Room: IMPOSSIBLE MAN "Inhuman Menace"

Sadly, we present the final tale of Hugh Mann aka The Impossible Man...

...as he adapts to life on a world where everyone except him has super-powers!

And on that note, the recorded adventures of the original Impossible Man came to a conclusion.
Not that it was easy to find his funky fables!
All of Impossible Man's adventures were in the backs of different comics, none of which featured or even mentioned him on their covers!
This third and final tale is from Meteor Comics #1 (and only!) and it actually appeared several months before his second story, which we ran here, was published!
As we said earlier, some attribute the art to George Marcoux, who created SuperSnipe, the Kid with the Most Comic Books in America! and some say Charles "C.A." Voight, who did humor strips like Captain Milksop and Sir Prize.

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Monster in the Pool"

Sexy women and werewolves...

...long before Twilight or True Blood, the Phantom Lady put her scantly-clad body between lycanthropes and an innocent human race!

The art for this tale from Phantom Lady #16 is by the inimitable Matt Baker, and the story is probably by Ruth Roche.
Supernatural elements would crop up in several more Phantom Lady stories.

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Reading Room: THE SHADOW "Princess of Death"

When Last We Left The Shadow...

...we promised you  a look at the purple and green-garbed Silver Age version...

You'll note a number of changes since The (Silver Age) Shadow's last appearance...

He's now a brunette, not blonde.
He's no longer using hypnotic powers to cloud mens' minds, preferring stealth.

He's wearing a green and purple skintight costume!

The art style has changed, and not for the better.
(Paul Reinman, who was also illustrating Archie's other superhero titles, has replaced John Rosenberger.)
However, the writer was still Robert Bernstein. In fact, either this tale, or its' companion from this never-reprinted issue was his last comic book work.
We'll be re-presenting the other, longer tale from Archie's The Shadow #3 in the near future.
I can hear the screams of anguish already!

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