Reading Room: JET DREAM "Farmer Brown Fiasco"

It's difficult fitting a team into only four pages...

...so Jet Dream usually had solo action stories or a team-up with one of the Stunt-Girl Counterspies!

Unfortunately, because of the 4-page per story limitation, the individual Stunt-Girls never had any real characterization.

Add Joe Certa's passable art using the same facial features for all the female characters, and the only things differentiating the women were hair color and stereotyped accents.

Script for this tale from Man from U.N.C.L.E. #17 (1968) by Dick Wood, art by Joe Certa.

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Man the Kremlin Applauded"

Though she lost her own title for the second time in 1955, Phantom Lady battled on...

...in new stories as a second feature in Ajax/Farrell's Wonder Boy!

Script for this tale from Wonder Boy #17 (1955) is probably by Ruth Roche.

However, the art is not by Matt Baker, and, while competent, is hardly the classic cheesecake we've come to expect of Phantom Lady!
Be here next week to see Phantom Lady's final Golden Age appearance (not counting reprints)!

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Reading Room: JET DREAM "Day of Infamy"

Is one of the Stunt-Girl CounterSpies a traitor?

Jet Dream must discover the truth in only four pages before it tears the team apart...or worse!

Didn't Ting-a-Ling do something similar because her family was threatened several issues ago?

Script for this tale from Man from U.N.C.L.E. #16 (1968) by Dick Wood (who also wrote the earlier tale so he should have remembered), art by Joe Certa.
(To be fair, Ting wasn't a member of the StuntGirls at that point...nit-pick, nit-pick...)

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "What Price Protection?"

Once again, if the story seems familiar...

...it's because this is yet another re-write of a story presented in the Fox Comics version of Phantom Lady several years earlier!

The first version of this tale appeared in Fox Publishing's Phantom Lady #17 (1947) and called "Soda Mint Killer", as shown HERE, but it's toned-down both in terms of sexiness and violence in the new version published in Ajax/Farrell's Phantom Lady #4 (1955)!

So both stories in this issue are re-writes of earlier tales!

Script in both versions probably by Ruth Roche.

However, this time the art is not by Matt Baker, and though adequate, is no match for the original!
This was the final issue of Phantom Lady, but not her final Golden Age appearance!
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Reading Room: AMAZING ADVENTURES OF HOLO-MAN "Birth of a Hero" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Hero...

Art for this page by Don Heck and Joe Giella

During a demonstration to President Jimmy Carter of a new thermonuclear power system, Dr Jim Robinson, inventor of the system, is sucked into a wormhole where an alien being gives him laser-based powers, then returns him to Earth...

I'm afraid you'll have to miss it since the "next issue" (presumably the next book/record) never came out!

Art for this page by Don Heck and Joe Giella

Pencils (uncredited) by John Buscema, inks by Joe Giella.
The only other Holo-Man art was the two splash pages (by Don Heck and Joe Giella) that bookend this blog entry and the painted cover by Bob Larkin based on the Heck-Giella splash page.

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