More TV Fun!

OK - first up, I had to pull the "Dear Lonely Hearts" post as the file seems to be corrupted. I'll repost it later in the week - my apologies to all who downloaded it.
Now that we've got that out of the way, let's have some more TV comic fun!
As a kid, I grew up with three types of comics, American, British and Australian (and not too many of those - hah!). For those of you unfamiliar with the U.K. weekly comics, here's two consecutive issues of TV Tornado featuring a bevy of 1960's boob-tube characters plus Magnus Robot Fighter!


TV Tornado 22


TV Tornado 23

PS. Longtime datajunkie fan P-E Fronning has posed us a puzzler -

"I need help identifying a superhero. I recently found out that there was a comic fan and amateur (in every sense) sculptor here in Sweden who has, during the last 50 years, created a sculpture park with all types of comic characters. I've only seen a couple of photos from there and one of those shows a sculpture of a superhero character that I've never seen before. On the base of the sculpture reads "Atom Mannen" which would in English be "The Atom Man".

However he doesn't look anything like any of the atom men I've seen. Of course sometimes names aren't translated directly so he might be called something completely different. Now, it must be said that it's not certain he is American, perhaps he's even Swedish but it's not likely. I would appreciate if you'd have quick a look 'cause if someone would know it would be you. Cheers!"

Well I have NO clue as to who this geezer is... anyone out there know?

TV Time!

I know there's some great pun or fabulous observation or some kind of "Days of Future Past (or Passed)" thing lurking in here, but it's been a long day and i'm just too pooped to see it.
Suffice it to say that these are two really good comics, with great art and interesting stories. Korg has story and art by the under-rated Pat Boyette, while Nicola Cuti and John Byrne do a swell job with the Gerry Anderson adaption.
Many people seem to have a low opinion of Charlton Comics, but these two books are pretty darn enjoyable (in my humble opinion). Read 'em and see!


Korg-70,000BC #9


Space:1999 #4

Gold Key "Virtual" Spinner Rack

Once again, a "virtual" spinner rack with links to downloadable pdfs of the books.
I tried to select according to taste, for variety and interest, subject to availability.


City Surgeon - Probably THE weirdest one-shot i've ever seen from Gold Key. We love that unbelievable cover, but the interiors are by Jack Sparling - not our favourite artist. Was this written by Gold Key's version of Joe Gill, the prolific Paul S. Newman?
City Surgeon


Man from U.N.C.L.E. #22 - Who does the art in this? I'm pretty sure he worked on the later issues of M.A.R.S. Patrol as well. And who does the writing for this stuff? Newman again? The story is a pretty off-the-wall tale involving space aliens in league with THRUSH.... all this and a Jet Dream back-up strip!
Man from U.N.C.L.E. #22


Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea #22 - Reprint of an earlier issue, solid art by Albert Giolitti. I must confess that he's one of my favorite Gold Key artists, and I grew up enjoying his work in this title as well as Star Trek, Turok, Twilight Zone, Boris Karloff and his adaption of King Kong.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea #22


Mighty Samson #22 - (Reprints #5) Great stuff from Otto (Bizarro) Binder and Frank (Red Sonja) Thorne....
Hmmm, now that's an idea, Bizarro Red Sonja....
On second thoughts, strike that.
Mighty Samson #22


John Steele - Another wacky 60's Gold Key one-shot (well, technically, there is that "Freedom Agent" one-shot with the giant chicken cover that features John Steele, but it's also Number 1). Personally, I think they should have called him Rod Steele (or Mark Thrust for that matter), they would have sold more copies.......... but that's just my opinion.
John Steele


Twilight Zone #13 - Oh man... for a while there in the early and mid-sixties, you'd NEVER know who would turn up doing art in Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe It Or Not or Boris Karloff. This issue features a "Mars Is Heaven" knock-off "Way Out West - On Mars" by Reed Crandall. While the story is so-so (except maybe the last panel), the art is SUPERB.
Twilight Zone #13


Dr. Solar #11 - Probably one of the stranger issues of Dr. Solar, as he suffers from a string of bizarre side effects (giantism, amnesia) brought on yet again by his "powers". Goofy fun.
Dr Solar #11


Thriller #2 - Solid stuff by old hands George Evans, Mike Sekowsky, plus probably the best Albert Giolitti art i've ever seen. After the TV show "Thriller" was cancelled, the title morphed into the long-running "Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery" (see a previous post for more of these).
Thriller #2

On The Floor -

Phantom #13 - I'll be honest here... I feel that the Gold Key incarnation of The Phantom's 1960's 4-color adventures to be the most lack-luster of the bunch - Gimme the Charlton issues by Jim Aparo any day (see below).
Phantom #13



Dr. Spektor #11 - More weirdness from the under-rated Don Glut with the lush brush stylings of Jesse Santos (Dagar, Tragg).
Dr. Spektor #11


Turok #57 - Reprints. GOOD reprints. Honk!
Turok #57


UFO #1 - 64 pages of pre-X Files saucer-noia, Lotsa different artists in this one.
UFO #1


PS. While I want to fill these requests i've been getting, some of you guys NEED TO READ THE SMALL PRINT! To quickly re-cap for those who came in late: lots of files stored online. File storage service changed to social networking site. Files lost. I'll do what I can, but I also have a life. I do this for ME, not for you. Don't be so needy. You guys should see some of the comments I dont approve... I really wonder how many people on the planet would fail a Voight-Kampff test (if you don't know what that is see link below), and don't whine, it's unattractive!
I've said it before, and i'll say it again - Don't make me throw you down the stairs!

PPS. My NEW favorite blog has GOTTA be Total Dickhead,

but Plan 9 comes a close second... and remember kids - "The best way to ask for beer is to sing out for Ubik. Made from select hops, choice water, slow aged for perfect flavor, Ubik is the nation's number one choice in beer. Made only in Cleveland."

4) Movie and TV adaptions!

Back before we had DVDs (or VHS tapes even), movie and TV adaptions in comics or novel form were the only way to relive a particularily choice story. The movie and TV adaption comic book is now a pale shadow of itself (now usually referred to as a "franchise property", as though we were gonna open a KFC outlet fer heavens' sakes), but back in the day.....*sigh*.....
Anyhow, here's a little number i'm sure we all remember....CAPTAIN SINDBAD with Guy Williams. Man, the Russ Manning art in this book just blew me away!
CAPTAIN SINDBAD

Now that I think of Russ Manning, here's another cool adaption by him, this time the TV show "77 Sunset Strip".

Kookie, Kookie.... LEND ME YOUR COMB!
77 Sunset Strip #2