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Weird Tales of the Future: Nightmare World
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alicemacher
Come on, be a good boy and you'll get an "I was brave in my
Yet more grotesque phantasmagoria from Basil Wolverton.
( 'How strange are the fancies of the inner mind!' )
alicemacherCome on, be a good boy and you'll get an "I was brave in my
Yet more grotesque phantasmagoria from Basil Wolverton.
( 'How strange are the fancies of the inner mind!' )
Weird Mysteries: Swamp Monster
Oct. 6th, 2020 01:03 amalicemacher
No, dude, you can't be Bane.
Another grisly tale from Basil Wolverton.
( 'I can do a much better job than a plastic surgeon!' )
Mister Mystery: The Brain Bats of Venus
Oct. 3rd, 2020 12:53 pmalicemacher
Well, since you asked so nicely...
It's lethal for human beings to visit the surface of Venus, due to its extremely high average temperature and air pressure. Plus, if this classic Wolverton-illustrated story is to be believed, you might encounter one of these creatures.
( 'I'll not willingly become a walking dead man!' )
Weird Mysteries: Robot Woman
Oct. 1st, 2020 10:42 pmalicemacher
There's no way this could ever go wrong...
This Hallowe'en season, I thought I'd spotlight one of my favourite Golden Age artists, Basil Wolverton. When this prolific fellow wasn't drawing humour features for Timely and Charlton, or gonky illustrations for MAD, he lent his distinctively grotesque vision to weird tales (horror, SF, or a combination thereof) for a variety of publishers. Fortunately, some of these publishers' titles are now in the public domain, so I can post them in full. Let's begin with the story of an inventor blessed with wealth and fame, but cursed with disfigurement and loneliness.
Warning for abuse.
( 'Look what you've done, Fozzmo!' )
tripodeca113
Stardust recruits an army, so he won't have to keep saving the United States of America. From Fantastic Comics #14.
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Quite Possibly Fletcher Hanks Magnum Opus
Feb. 3rd, 2019 08:07 pmtripodeca113
Possibly the most bizarre of all the Stardust comics.
The following story appeared in Big 3 #2, this was the only Golden Age appearance of Stardust outside of Fantastic Comics.
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Stardust Vs The Fifth Column
Feb. 2nd, 2019 06:45 pmtripodeca113
But that's enough current events, we can focus on this story from Fantastic Comics #13.
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The Golden Knight vs Bdula Khan
Dec. 3rd, 2018 08:26 pmtripodeca113So I was going through ComicBookPlus, trying to fin Stardust stories, when I came across this odd little story. From Fantastic Comics #6
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Stardust and The Super-Fiend
Dec. 1st, 2018 09:35 pmtripodeca113
The Stardust story from Fantastic Comics #10.
I think this has the most deaths in a Stardust comic (so far anyway).
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Fantomah saves New York
Nov. 22nd, 2018 06:15 pmalicemacher
In which the Mystery Woman of the Jungle faces off against the deranged anarcho-primitivist wannabe, Mark Lord (presumably no relation to Maxwell).
( 'You have reached the end of your mad career, you fiend!' )
