Friday Fun BIG APPLE COMIX "Hi There! I'm Paranoia!"

As NYC's subways are shut down due to once in a quarter-century flooding (at least 7 inches of rain)...

...I fondly remember Big Apple Comix's back cover by Ralph Reese, personifying the response we New Yorkers tend to have to even the most outrageous occurrences!

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Big Apple Comix

Reading Room BARBARIAN COMICS "...friend in need..."

Tuesday, we presented a tale that had been published a decade earlier...

...in a somewhat different version.

Here's the original...

This initial version of the tale appeared in California Comics' Barbarian Comics #3 (1974).

Comparing the two, the dialogue and layout are unchanged in both versions, but the later one was re-inked and re-lettered, presumably because writer/artist Ron Harris had improved his skills in the intervening decade.

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Star Trek: the Newspaper Strip

Volume 2

Monday Madness SLOW DEATH ZERO "Shrink Wrapped!"

 Though it was produced during Don da Con's (hopefully) last term in office...

...this little tale seems apropos as Hurricane Hilary hits the West Coast, to compare and contrast how he and the current guy would handle natural disasters!

At least he didn't throw paper towels at the problem this time!

Written and illustrated by Tim Boxell, this tale was part of Last Gasp's Slow Death Zero (2021), an all-new anthology trade paperback in tribute to the legendary 1970s-80s "underground comic with a purpose"...to warn about ecological horrors to come in an entertaining way!

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Slow Death

Zero

The Comix Anthology of Ecological Horror

Reading Room WEIRD FANTASIES "Life Battery"

Though this may look like an EC Comic from the 1950s...

Art by Landon Chesney

...it's actually a one-shot underground comic from the 1970s.

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"Eando Binder" was the pen-name for the writing team of Earl and Otto ("EandO", get it?) Binder, whose tale from Startling Stories' July 1939 edition served as the basis for this adaptation by writer Bill Spicer and artist Landon Chesney.
Chesney was one of the major contributors to the just-developing comics fandom of the 1960s, contributing art to numerous short-run pamphlets and magazines, including the covers to Fantasy Illustrated 1 & 3, but not 2, where this story appeared.

He never turned pro, and passed away in 2001.
While this version (with some superb color work) appeared in Los Angeles Comic Book Company's underground one-shot Weird Fantasies #1 (1972),  it originally appeared in b/w form in the fan/prozine Fantasy Illustrated #2 (1964), published by Bill Spicer.

Reading Room I'LL BE DAMNED "Nest Egg"

Here's a sci-fi strip meant for Major Publications' Web of Horror #4...

...but, since that magazine ended with #3, it found a home in Mark Feldman's I'll be Damned #2, a year later!

Note the word balloon coming out of the big black hole in the title lettering where a photostat of "Webster" (the monstrous spider host of Web of Horror) would have been pasted-up.

Instead it's a word balloon coming out of a literal black hole!

Written by Alan Simons, penciled by Steve Hickman, inked by Robert L Kline (1-3) & Dan Adkins (4-6), this never-reprinted tale is an example of the high-quality material in fanzines of the late 1960s-early 1970s, much of which (sadly) has never been seen since the mags were limited to mail order and comics convention sales!

(There were no comics shops, and no such thing as the internet at that time...hard to conceive, I know!)

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Sense of Wonder

My Life in Comic Fandom

Monday Maternity Madness WIMMEN'S COMIX "TeenAge Abortion"

Odd how the situation in this story from 1972 is equally likely to happen in 2022!

Thank you, Repug Supreme Court justices!

Note: MAY be NSFW due to mature topics, but there is NO NUDITY in the tale!

Written and illustrated by Lora Fountain, this story from Last Gasp's Wimmen's Comix #1 (1972) shows what it was like in the dark pre-Roe V Wade days...and now, unfortunately, in the post-Roe V Wade days.

Reading Room STAR☀︎REACH CLASSICS "Origin of God!"

The writer-artist who created Thanos and re-defined "cosmic" presents...

...a simple, but effective visualization by Jim Starlin as shown in Eclipse's Star*Reach Classics #1 (1984).

The observant among you noted the copyright next to the title reads "1974", not "1984"!

That's because this one-pager first appeared in Star*Reach #4 (1974)...but it was in black and white!

I thought, for on-line re-presentation, the color version would be more effective!

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Star*Reach Companion

Reading Room BRAIN FANTASY "Drooms Day"

Most current comics fans think of 1960s-70s underground comics as just pornography and weird humor...

...when, due to the Comics Code, they (and b/w newstand magazines) presented some rather daring and sophisticated sf/fantasy storytelling!

Despite the "to be continued..." caption at the end, there were, sadly, no further chapters to this never-reprinted story from Last Gasp's Brain Fantasy #1 (1972).

Editor/Writer/Artist Rick Shubb, despite being comic book-influenced, did very few comic stories.

He did do concert posters for various bands in the 1960s-70s as seen HERE, but has gained fame as the as the inventor of the Shubb Capo, a very popular guitar/banjo accessory.

Shubb also invented the lever-operated banjo fifth string capo, the compensated banjo bridge, and holds several other U.S. and international patents on musical instrument accessories and improvements.

He's also a noted and influential 5-string banjo player and teacher.

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Underground Classics

Transformation of Comics into Comix