Archive for July, 2007
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Extinction
Advertisement from Alarming Tales #1 (November 1958)
As I have been scanning Alarming Tales comics I kept coming across the above advertisement. I remember this ad from when I was young, it ran in a lot of different comics and did so for a number of years. I remember it because I always had a fascination […]
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
The Final Issues of Alarming Tales
As I am in the process of restoring the last issue for Alarming Tales I ponder the significance, if any, of the change that came over the final two books. As I previously mentioned, I find issues #5 and #6 to have an Atlas flavor to them.
Alarming Tales #5 (September 1958) art by John Severin
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Rambling About Joe Simon and Alarming Tales #4
Previously I mentioned what a fine comic Alarming Tales #1 was. Actually the first four issues are rather good even though Kirby’s presence diminishes with each issue until with Alarming Tales #4 Jack is completely absent. I am less enthusiastic about issues #5 and #6. The final issues seem to have succumbed to a case […]
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
More Robots
Blast-Off #1 (October 1965) “Lunar Goliaths” pencils by Jack Kirby inks by Al Williamson
In the comments to my recent post on the Year of the Robot comic scholar Stan Taylor pointed out another robot story “Lunar Goliaths”. As he indicated although it was published in Blast-Off in 1965 it probably was originally intended for Race […]
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
The Cover for Alarming Tales #2
Alarming Tales #2 (November 1957) art by Mort Meskin and Joe Simon
The Simon and Kirby studio must have been closed at the time Joe Simon produced a new title, Alarming Tales, for Harvey Comics. Jack Kirby had been doing freelance work for almost a year. Jack and Joe were still listed as editors for Young […]
