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ORRGO…THE UNCONQUERABLE Sserpo! Amazing Adventures #6: When a frustrated scientist disposes of an experimental growth formula by tossing it into the ocean it is consumed by a tiny lizard-like creature living on the ocean floor.The missing ingredient for the growth formula was simply water so Sserpo begins to grow. Sserpo is caught by fishermen but by the time they reach port the lizard is large enough to sink theFRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the world INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.L.T. WOODWARD
Robert Silverberg is best known for writing science fiction and is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner.His first published novel, a children’s science fiction book called Revolt on Alpha C was published in 1955, and he won his first Hugo for “best new writer”. Over the next several years Silverberg estimates he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional AT&T | THE BELATED NERD Chip Martin College Reporter appeared in Boy’s Life from 1960 to at least 1967. The strip appeared in advertising space purchased by AT&T. The first several years of the strip were signed by artist Tom Scheuer.It appears that another artist took over the strip in lateryears.
ORRGO…THE UNCONQUERABLE Sserpo! Amazing Adventures #6: When a frustrated scientist disposes of an experimental growth formula by tossing it into the ocean it is consumed by a tiny lizard-like creature living on the ocean floor.The missing ingredient for the growth formula was simply water so Sserpo begins to grow. Sserpo is caught by fishermen but by the time they reach port the lizard is large enough to sink theFRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the world INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.L.T. WOODWARD
Robert Silverberg is best known for writing science fiction and is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner.His first published novel, a children’s science fiction book called Revolt on Alpha C was published in 1955, and he won his first Hugo for “best new writer”. Over the next several years Silverberg estimates he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips.AMAZING STORIES
The September 1961 cover of Analog Science Fact-Fiction would be the last that H. R. van Dongen would paint for John Campbell’s Astounding/Analog. van Dongen made his first pulp magazine sell to Super Science Stories in 1950, and except for a few paperback covers, all but disappeared after this issue of Analog was published.Little is known of van Dongen’s personal life and one suspects his INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum. ANIMATION | THE BELATED NERD This week marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Hanna-Barbera’s second prime time animated TV show, Top Cat.The previous year, the animation studio created The Flintstones for ABC and by the end of the year the network was begging for another half hour animated sit-com. If The Flintstones was a ripoff of The Honeymooners, then Top Cat was a ripoff of The Phil Silvers Show. SUPERMAN | THE BELATED NERD I can’t tell you how tempting it was to title this post “Who was Lois Lane Doing 50 years Ago?” This Curt Swan cover from Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #29 (Nov. 1961) depicting Lois being gang-kissed by the Justice League of America is perhaps one of the most disturbing images to come out of comicdom in 1961.The expressions of sexual urgency on the faces of Aquaman and Batman are GYRON | THE BELATED NERD Introduced at the 1961 Detroit Motor Show as a concept car, the Ford Gyron was a futuristic two-wheeled gyrocar. One wheel was at the front and the other at the rear like aFLYING SAUCERS
When I originally posted the photo on the left in a post about Disneyland’s forgotten ride, Flying Saucers I assumed that the Spaceman and Spacegirl were there only for the grand opening of the ride in 1961. I have since learned that the space couple were regular features in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland from the mid-Fifties to the late Sixties The couple performed the same function asBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961. IRON MAN | THE BELATED NERD When Fin Fang Foom first appeared on comic stands in the late summer of 1961, not even the most enthusiastic fan of the speedo-sporting space dragon had any expectation that the character had much of a future beyond his first appearance in Strange Tales #89.. In the cover story for that comic book, Fin Fang Foom was merely an ancient hibernating dragon who is deliberately awakened from his WALLY WOOD PARODIES WALT KELLY A little back story is necessary to really appreciate this 1961 MAD magazine parody by Wally Wood of Walt Kelly‘s Pogo comic strip. Kelly was drawing comic book adaptations of the Little Rascal films for Dell in the early 1940s when he came up with the idea for WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. AT&T | THE BELATED NERD Chip Martin College Reporter appeared in Boy’s Life from 1960 to at least 1967. The strip appeared in advertising space purchased by AT&T. The first several years of the strip were signed by artist Tom Scheuer.It appears that another artist took over the strip in lateryears.
INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the world ORRGO…THE UNCONQUERABLE Sserpo! Amazing Adventures #6: When a frustrated scientist disposes of an experimental growth formula by tossing it into the ocean it is consumed by a tiny lizard-like creature living on the ocean floor.The missing ingredient for the growth formula was simply water so Sserpo begins to grow. Sserpo is caught by fishermen but by the time they reach port the lizard is large enough to sink theBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961.L.T. WOODWARD
Robert Silverberg is best known for writing science fiction and is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner.His first published novel, a children’s science fiction book called Revolt on Alpha C was published in 1955, and he won his first Hugo for “best new writer”. Over the next several years Silverberg estimates he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. AT&T | THE BELATED NERD Chip Martin College Reporter appeared in Boy’s Life from 1960 to at least 1967. The strip appeared in advertising space purchased by AT&T. The first several years of the strip were signed by artist Tom Scheuer.It appears that another artist took over the strip in lateryears.
INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the world ORRGO…THE UNCONQUERABLE Sserpo! Amazing Adventures #6: When a frustrated scientist disposes of an experimental growth formula by tossing it into the ocean it is consumed by a tiny lizard-like creature living on the ocean floor.The missing ingredient for the growth formula was simply water so Sserpo begins to grow. Sserpo is caught by fishermen but by the time they reach port the lizard is large enough to sink theBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961.L.T. WOODWARD
Robert Silverberg is best known for writing science fiction and is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner.His first published novel, a children’s science fiction book called Revolt on Alpha C was published in 1955, and he won his first Hugo for “best new writer”. Over the next several years Silverberg estimates he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips.AMAZING STORIES
The September 1961 cover of Analog Science Fact-Fiction would be the last that H. R. van Dongen would paint for John Campbell’s Astounding/Analog. van Dongen made his first pulp magazine sell to Super Science Stories in 1950, and except for a few paperback covers, all but disappeared after this issue of Analog was published.Little is known of van Dongen’s personal life and one suspects his ANIMATION | THE BELATED NERD This week marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Hanna-Barbera’s second prime time animated TV show, Top Cat.The previous year, the animation studio created The Flintstones for ABC and by the end of the year the network was begging for another half hour animated sit-com. If The Flintstones was a ripoff of The Honeymooners, then Top Cat was a ripoff of The Phil Silvers Show. MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional SUPERMAN | THE BELATED NERD I can’t tell you how tempting it was to title this post “Who was Lois Lane Doing 50 years Ago?” This Curt Swan cover from Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #29 (Nov. 1961) depicting Lois being gang-kissed by the Justice League of America is perhaps one of the most disturbing images to come out of comicdom in 1961.The expressions of sexual urgency on the faces of Aquaman and Batman are GYRON | THE BELATED NERD Introduced at the 1961 Detroit Motor Show as a concept car, the Ford Gyron was a futuristic two-wheeled gyrocar. One wheel was at the front and the other at the rear like aJAPAN.MODELS
In the last few months I’ve written a couple posts on the world of plastic models in 1961 and one thing that struck me was how important it was for companies like Revell and Aurora to have impressive artwork on the boxes that contained the less than awe-inspiring unassembled and unpainted pieces of plastic inside. That’s when I discovered the artwork of Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001). IRON MAN | THE BELATED NERD When Fin Fang Foom first appeared on comic stands in the late summer of 1961, not even the most enthusiastic fan of the speedo-sporting space dragon had any expectation that the character had much of a future beyond his first appearance in Strange Tales #89.. In the cover story for that comic book, Fin Fang Foom was merely an ancient hibernating dragon who is deliberately awakened from his WALLY WOOD PARODIES WALT KELLY A little back story is necessary to really appreciate this 1961 MAD magazine parody by Wally Wood of Walt Kelly‘s Pogo comic strip. Kelly was drawing comic book adaptations of the Little Rascal films for Dell in the early 1940s when he came up with the idea forFLYING SAUCERS
When I originally posted the photo on the left in a post about Disneyland’s forgotten ride, Flying Saucers I assumed that the Spaceman and Spacegirl were there only for the grand opening of the ride in 1961. I have since learned that the space couple were regular features in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland from the mid-Fifties to the late Sixties The couple performed the same function as WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional AT&T | THE BELATED NERD Chip Martin College Reporter appeared in Boy’s Life from 1960 to at least 1967. The strip appeared in advertising space purchased by AT&T. The first several years of the strip were signed by artist Tom Scheuer.It appears that another artist took over the strip in lateryears.
LI'L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS Just for kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp's classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; Wally Wood and Will Elder. Wood's Li'l Abneh appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from The Worst from MAD #4 as his Blondie and Pogo parodies. Panels from Elder's Dopgatch Revisited are from Harvey Kurtzman's Warrenpublication Help!
FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the worldSPACE ANGEL
Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MASQUERADE | THE BELATED NERD This post is even more belated than usual since the 19th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Seacon, was held September 2-4, 1961. Held at the Hyatt House Hotel, Seattle was a fortunate site for a Science Fiction convention since a year later the city would host the future-themed Century 21 Exposition (better known as the Seattle World’s Fair.) REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional AT&T | THE BELATED NERD Chip Martin College Reporter appeared in Boy’s Life from 1960 to at least 1967. The strip appeared in advertising space purchased by AT&T. The first several years of the strip were signed by artist Tom Scheuer.It appears that another artist took over the strip in lateryears.
LI'L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS Just for kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp's classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; Wally Wood and Will Elder. Wood's Li'l Abneh appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from The Worst from MAD #4 as his Blondie and Pogo parodies. Panels from Elder's Dopgatch Revisited are from Harvey Kurtzman's Warrenpublication Help!
FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the worldSPACE ANGEL
Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MASQUERADE | THE BELATED NERD This post is even more belated than usual since the 19th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Seacon, was held September 2-4, 1961. Held at the Hyatt House Hotel, Seattle was a fortunate site for a Science Fiction convention since a year later the city would host the future-themed Century 21 Exposition (better known as the Seattle World’s Fair.) REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S AT&T | THE BELATED NERD Chip Martin College Reporter appeared in Boy’s Life from 1960 to at least 1967. The strip appeared in advertising space purchased by AT&T. The first several years of the strip were signed by artist Tom Scheuer.It appears that another artist took over the strip in lateryears.
AMAZING STORIES
The September 1961 cover of Analog Science Fact-Fiction would be the last that H. R. van Dongen would paint for John Campbell’s Astounding/Analog. van Dongen made his first pulp magazine sell to Super Science Stories in 1950, and except for a few paperback covers, all but disappeared after this issue of Analog was published.Little is known of van Dongen’s personal life and one suspects his SUPERMAN | THE BELATED NERD I can’t tell you how tempting it was to title this post “Who was Lois Lane Doing 50 years Ago?” This Curt Swan cover from Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #29 (Nov. 1961) depicting Lois being gang-kissed by the Justice League of America is perhaps one of the most disturbing images to come out of comicdom in 1961.The expressions of sexual urgency on the faces of Aquaman and Batman areJAPAN.MODELS
In the last few months I’ve written a couple posts on the world of plastic models in 1961 and one thing that struck me was how important it was for companies like Revell and Aurora to have impressive artwork on the boxes that contained the less than awe-inspiring unassembled and unpainted pieces of plastic inside. That’s when I discovered the artwork of Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001). JACK KIRBY | THE BELATED NERD Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961.FLYING SAUCERS
When I originally posted the photo on the left in a post about Disneyland’s forgotten ride, Flying Saucers I assumed that the Spaceman and Spacegirl were there only for the grand opening of the ride in 1961. I have since learned that the space couple were regular features in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland from the mid-Fifties to the late Sixties The couple performed the same function asL.T. WOODWARD
Robert Silverberg is best known for writing science fiction and is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner.His first published novel, a children’s science fiction book called Revolt on Alpha C was published in 1955, and he won his first Hugo for “best new writer”. Over the next several years Silverberg estimates he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. TOP CAT | THE BELATED NERD This week marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Hanna-Barbera’s second prime time animated TV show, Top Cat.The previous year, the animation studio created The Flintstones for ABC and by the end of the year the network was begging for another half hour animated sit-com. If The Flintstones was a ripoff of The Honeymooners, then Top Cat was a ripoff of The Phil Silvers Show. WALLY WOOD PARODIES WALT KELLY A little back story is necessary to really appreciate this 1961 MAD magazine parody by Wally Wood of Walt Kelly‘s Pogo comic strip. Kelly was drawing comic book adaptations of the Little Rascal films for Dell in the early 1940s when he came up with the idea for WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional WORLDCON | THE BELATED NERD This post is even more belated than usual since the 19th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Seacon, was held September 2-4, 1961. Held at the Hyatt House Hotel, Seattle was a fortunate site for a Science Fiction convention since a year later the city would host the future-themed Century 21 Exposition (better known as the Seattle World’s Fair.) LI'L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS Just for kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp's classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; Wally Wood and Will Elder. Wood's Li'l Abneh appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from The Worst from MAD #4 as his Blondie and Pogo parodies. Panels from Elder's Dopgatch Revisited are from Harvey Kurtzman's Warrenpublication Help!
INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the worldBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional WORLDCON | THE BELATED NERD This post is even more belated than usual since the 19th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Seacon, was held September 2-4, 1961. Held at the Hyatt House Hotel, Seattle was a fortunate site for a Science Fiction convention since a year later the city would host the future-themed Century 21 Exposition (better known as the Seattle World’s Fair.) LI'L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS Just for kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp's classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; Wally Wood and Will Elder. Wood's Li'l Abneh appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from The Worst from MAD #4 as his Blondie and Pogo parodies. Panels from Elder's Dopgatch Revisited are from Harvey Kurtzman's Warrenpublication Help!
INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the worldBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS AT&T | THE BELATED NERD Chip Martin College Reporter appeared in Boy’s Life from 1960 to at least 1967. The strip appeared in advertising space purchased by AT&T. The first several years of the strip were signed by artist Tom Scheuer.It appears that another artist took over the strip in lateryears.
AMAZING STORIES
The September 1961 cover of Analog Science Fact-Fiction would be the last that H. R. van Dongen would paint for John Campbell’s Astounding/Analog. van Dongen made his first pulp magazine sell to Super Science Stories in 1950, and except for a few paperback covers, all but disappeared after this issue of Analog was published.Little is known of van Dongen’s personal life and one suspects his SUPERMAN | THE BELATED NERD I can’t tell you how tempting it was to title this post “Who was Lois Lane Doing 50 years Ago?” This Curt Swan cover from Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #29 (Nov. 1961) depicting Lois being gang-kissed by the Justice League of America is perhaps one of the most disturbing images to come out of comicdom in 1961.The expressions of sexual urgency on the faces of Aquaman and Batman areL.T. WOODWARD
Robert Silverberg is best known for writing science fiction and is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner.His first published novel, a children’s science fiction book called Revolt on Alpha C was published in 1955, and he won his first Hugo for “best new writer”. Over the next several years Silverberg estimates he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. JACK KIRBY | THE BELATED NERD Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961.JAPAN.MODELS
In the last few months I’ve written a couple posts on the world of plastic models in 1961 and one thing that struck me was how important it was for companies like Revell and Aurora to have impressive artwork on the boxes that contained the less than awe-inspiring unassembled and unpainted pieces of plastic inside. That’s when I discovered the artwork of Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001).FLYING SAUCERS
When I originally posted the photo on the left in a post about Disneyland’s forgotten ride, Flying Saucers I assumed that the Spaceman and Spacegirl were there only for the grand opening of the ride in 1961. I have since learned that the space couple were regular features in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland from the mid-Fifties to the late Sixties The couple performed the same function as WALLY WOOD PARODIES WALT KELLY A little back story is necessary to really appreciate this 1961 MAD magazine parody by Wally Wood of Walt Kelly‘s Pogo comic strip. Kelly was drawing comic book adaptations of the Little Rascal films for Dell in the early 1940s when he came up with the idea forSPACE ANGEL
Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. TOP CAT | THE BELATED NERD This week marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Hanna-Barbera’s second prime time animated TV show, Top Cat.The previous year, the animation studio created The Flintstones for ABC and by the end of the year the network was begging for another half hour animated sit-com. If The Flintstones was a ripoff of The Honeymooners, then Top Cat was a ripoff of The Phil Silvers Show. WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional WORLDCON | THE BELATED NERD This post is even more belated than usual since the 19th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Seacon, was held September 2-4, 1961. Held at the Hyatt House Hotel, Seattle was a fortunate site for a Science Fiction convention since a year later the city would host the future-themed Century 21 Exposition (better known as the Seattle World’s Fair.) LI'L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS Just for kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp's classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; Wally Wood and Will Elder. Wood's Li'l Abneh appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from The Worst from MAD #4 as his Blondie and Pogo parodies. Panels from Elder's Dopgatch Revisited are from Harvey Kurtzman's Warrenpublication Help!
INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the worldBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional WORLDCON | THE BELATED NERD This post is even more belated than usual since the 19th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Seacon, was held September 2-4, 1961. Held at the Hyatt House Hotel, Seattle was a fortunate site for a Science Fiction convention since a year later the city would host the future-themed Century 21 Exposition (better known as the Seattle World’s Fair.) LI'L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS Just for kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp's classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; Wally Wood and Will Elder. Wood's Li'l Abneh appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from The Worst from MAD #4 as his Blondie and Pogo parodies. Panels from Elder's Dopgatch Revisited are from Harvey Kurtzman's Warrenpublication Help!
INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the worldBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS AT&T | THE BELATED NERD Chip Martin College Reporter appeared in Boy’s Life from 1960 to at least 1967. The strip appeared in advertising space purchased by AT&T. The first several years of the strip were signed by artist Tom Scheuer.It appears that another artist took over the strip in lateryears.
AMAZING STORIES
The September 1961 cover of Analog Science Fact-Fiction would be the last that H. R. van Dongen would paint for John Campbell’s Astounding/Analog. van Dongen made his first pulp magazine sell to Super Science Stories in 1950, and except for a few paperback covers, all but disappeared after this issue of Analog was published.Little is known of van Dongen’s personal life and one suspects his SUPERMAN | THE BELATED NERD I can’t tell you how tempting it was to title this post “Who was Lois Lane Doing 50 years Ago?” This Curt Swan cover from Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #29 (Nov. 1961) depicting Lois being gang-kissed by the Justice League of America is perhaps one of the most disturbing images to come out of comicdom in 1961.The expressions of sexual urgency on the faces of Aquaman and Batman areL.T. WOODWARD
Robert Silverberg is best known for writing science fiction and is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner.His first published novel, a children’s science fiction book called Revolt on Alpha C was published in 1955, and he won his first Hugo for “best new writer”. Over the next several years Silverberg estimates he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. JACK KIRBY | THE BELATED NERD Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961.JAPAN.MODELS
In the last few months I’ve written a couple posts on the world of plastic models in 1961 and one thing that struck me was how important it was for companies like Revell and Aurora to have impressive artwork on the boxes that contained the less than awe-inspiring unassembled and unpainted pieces of plastic inside. That’s when I discovered the artwork of Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001).FLYING SAUCERS
When I originally posted the photo on the left in a post about Disneyland’s forgotten ride, Flying Saucers I assumed that the Spaceman and Spacegirl were there only for the grand opening of the ride in 1961. I have since learned that the space couple were regular features in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland from the mid-Fifties to the late Sixties The couple performed the same function as WALLY WOOD PARODIES WALT KELLY A little back story is necessary to really appreciate this 1961 MAD magazine parody by Wally Wood of Walt Kelly‘s Pogo comic strip. Kelly was drawing comic book adaptations of the Little Rascal films for Dell in the early 1940s when he came up with the idea forSPACE ANGEL
Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. TOP CAT | THE BELATED NERD This week marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Hanna-Barbera’s second prime time animated TV show, Top Cat.The previous year, the animation studio created The Flintstones for ABC and by the end of the year the network was begging for another half hour animated sit-com. If The Flintstones was a ripoff of The Honeymooners, then Top Cat was a ripoff of The Phil Silvers Show. WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional WORLDCON | THE BELATED NERD This post is even more belated than usual since the 19th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Seacon, was held September 2-4, 1961. Held at the Hyatt House Hotel, Seattle was a fortunate site for a Science Fiction convention since a year later the city would host the future-themed Century 21 Exposition (better known as the Seattle World’s Fair.) LI'L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS Just for kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp's classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; Wally Wood and Will Elder. Wood's Li'l Abneh appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from The Worst from MAD #4 as his Blondie and Pogo parodies. Panels from Elder's Dopgatch Revisited are from Harvey Kurtzman's Warrenpublication Help!
INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the worldBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional WORLDCON | THE BELATED NERD This post is even more belated than usual since the 19th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Seacon, was held September 2-4, 1961. Held at the Hyatt House Hotel, Seattle was a fortunate site for a Science Fiction convention since a year later the city would host the future-themed Century 21 Exposition (better known as the Seattle World’s Fair.) LI'L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS Just for kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp's classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; Wally Wood and Will Elder. Wood's Li'l Abneh appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from The Worst from MAD #4 as his Blondie and Pogo parodies. Panels from Elder's Dopgatch Revisited are from Harvey Kurtzman's Warrenpublication Help!
INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the worldBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS AT&T | THE BELATED NERD Chip Martin College Reporter appeared in Boy’s Life from 1960 to at least 1967. The strip appeared in advertising space purchased by AT&T. The first several years of the strip were signed by artist Tom Scheuer.It appears that another artist took over the strip in lateryears.
AMAZING STORIES
The September 1961 cover of Analog Science Fact-Fiction would be the last that H. R. van Dongen would paint for John Campbell’s Astounding/Analog. van Dongen made his first pulp magazine sell to Super Science Stories in 1950, and except for a few paperback covers, all but disappeared after this issue of Analog was published.Little is known of van Dongen’s personal life and one suspects his SUPERMAN | THE BELATED NERD I can’t tell you how tempting it was to title this post “Who was Lois Lane Doing 50 years Ago?” This Curt Swan cover from Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #29 (Nov. 1961) depicting Lois being gang-kissed by the Justice League of America is perhaps one of the most disturbing images to come out of comicdom in 1961.The expressions of sexual urgency on the faces of Aquaman and Batman areL.T. WOODWARD
Robert Silverberg is best known for writing science fiction and is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner.His first published novel, a children’s science fiction book called Revolt on Alpha C was published in 1955, and he won his first Hugo for “best new writer”. Over the next several years Silverberg estimates he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. JACK KIRBY | THE BELATED NERD Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961.JAPAN.MODELS
In the last few months I’ve written a couple posts on the world of plastic models in 1961 and one thing that struck me was how important it was for companies like Revell and Aurora to have impressive artwork on the boxes that contained the less than awe-inspiring unassembled and unpainted pieces of plastic inside. That’s when I discovered the artwork of Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001).FLYING SAUCERS
When I originally posted the photo on the left in a post about Disneyland’s forgotten ride, Flying Saucers I assumed that the Spaceman and Spacegirl were there only for the grand opening of the ride in 1961. I have since learned that the space couple were regular features in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland from the mid-Fifties to the late Sixties The couple performed the same function as WALLY WOOD PARODIES WALT KELLY A little back story is necessary to really appreciate this 1961 MAD magazine parody by Wally Wood of Walt Kelly‘s Pogo comic strip. Kelly was drawing comic book adaptations of the Little Rascal films for Dell in the early 1940s when he came up with the idea forSPACE ANGEL
Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. TOP CAT | THE BELATED NERD This week marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Hanna-Barbera’s second prime time animated TV show, Top Cat.The previous year, the animation studio created The Flintstones for ABC and by the end of the year the network was begging for another half hour animated sit-com. If The Flintstones was a ripoff of The Honeymooners, then Top Cat was a ripoff of The Phil Silvers Show. WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional WORLDCON | THE BELATED NERD This post is even more belated than usual since the 19th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Seacon, was held September 2-4, 1961. Held at the Hyatt House Hotel, Seattle was a fortunate site for a Science Fiction convention since a year later the city would host the future-themed Century 21 Exposition (better known as the Seattle World’s Fair.) LI'L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS Just for kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp's classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; Wally Wood and Will Elder. Wood's Li'l Abneh appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from The Worst from MAD #4 as his Blondie and Pogo parodies. Panels from Elder's Dopgatch Revisited are from Harvey Kurtzman's Warrenpublication Help!
INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the worldBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS WELCOME TO BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. THE IN BOX | THE BELATED NERD The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named “Gemini.” (NASA Photo S CARTOONS | THE BELATED NERD Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. MONSTERS | THE BELATED NERD The Jack Kirby cover of Tales of Suspense #23 depicts a scene from a Stan Lee/Steve Ditko backup story called The Creature from the Black Bog.Ordinarily, the cover of ToS would show a scene from the Kirby drawn first story in the book.The lead story that month (“I Entered the Dimension of Doom”) contained a number of features that would have made for an exciting cover; a two-dimensional WORLDCON | THE BELATED NERD This post is even more belated than usual since the 19th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Seacon, was held September 2-4, 1961. Held at the Hyatt House Hotel, Seattle was a fortunate site for a Science Fiction convention since a year later the city would host the future-themed Century 21 Exposition (better known as the Seattle World’s Fair.) LI'L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS Just for kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp's classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; Wally Wood and Will Elder. Wood's Li'l Abneh appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from The Worst from MAD #4 as his Blondie and Pogo parodies. Panels from Elder's Dopgatch Revisited are from Harvey Kurtzman's Warrenpublication Help!
INSIDE A 50-YEAR-OLD ROBOT I knew little more about the depicted mechanical man than what was in the attached text. Thanks to CyberneticZoo.com I not only discovered more details about this 50-year-old robot but also learned that it is on display in an Austrian museum.FRANKENSTEIN
Like rival hobby company Revell, the mainstay of Aurora Plastics’ line of model kits in the Fifties was scale-model, unassembled replicas of military hardware, although Aurora’s were generally smaller and more affordable than Revell’s. Around 1955, Aurora expanded its line to include plastic figurines of medieval knights, clowns, and traditionally dressed people from around the worldBLACK MAGIC
Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961. REVELL SELLS SECRETS TO SOVIETS...FOR $2.98 Revell Sells Secrets to the Sovietsfor $2.98. July 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd. In the summer of 1961 the New York Times ran a front page story entitled: ADMIRAL RICKOVER SAYS REDS LEARNED SECRETS FROM TOY SUB. In that story the father of the US Navy’s nuclear submarine program claimed that the hobby company Revell’s model of the USS AT&T | THE BELATED NERD Chip Martin College Reporter appeared in Boy’s Life from 1960 to at least 1967. The strip appeared in advertising space purchased by AT&T. The first several years of the strip were signed by artist Tom Scheuer.It appears that another artist took over the strip in lateryears.
AMAZING STORIES
The September 1961 cover of Analog Science Fact-Fiction would be the last that H. R. van Dongen would paint for John Campbell’s Astounding/Analog. van Dongen made his first pulp magazine sell to Super Science Stories in 1950, and except for a few paperback covers, all but disappeared after this issue of Analog was published.Little is known of van Dongen’s personal life and one suspects his SUPERMAN | THE BELATED NERD I can’t tell you how tempting it was to title this post “Who was Lois Lane Doing 50 years Ago?” This Curt Swan cover from Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #29 (Nov. 1961) depicting Lois being gang-kissed by the Justice League of America is perhaps one of the most disturbing images to come out of comicdom in 1961.The expressions of sexual urgency on the faces of Aquaman and Batman areL.T. WOODWARD
Robert Silverberg is best known for writing science fiction and is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner.His first published novel, a children’s science fiction book called Revolt on Alpha C was published in 1955, and he won his first Hugo for “best new writer”. Over the next several years Silverberg estimates he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. JACK KIRBY | THE BELATED NERD Black Magic was a horror anthology comic book created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood imprint Prize Comics in 1950 The contents of the book were tame enough to endure little change when the Comics Code was imposed in 1954, although it’s quite surprising that the CCA didn’t demand a title change. A total of fifty issues were produced by the time the book ended in 1961.JAPAN.MODELS
In the last few months I’ve written a couple posts on the world of plastic models in 1961 and one thing that struck me was how important it was for companies like Revell and Aurora to have impressive artwork on the boxes that contained the less than awe-inspiring unassembled and unpainted pieces of plastic inside. That’s when I discovered the artwork of Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001).FLYING SAUCERS
When I originally posted the photo on the left in a post about Disneyland’s forgotten ride, Flying Saucers I assumed that the Spaceman and Spacegirl were there only for the grand opening of the ride in 1961. I have since learned that the space couple were regular features in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland from the mid-Fifties to the late Sixties The couple performed the same function as WALLY WOOD PARODIES WALT KELLY A little back story is necessary to really appreciate this 1961 MAD magazine parody by Wally Wood of Walt Kelly‘s Pogo comic strip. Kelly was drawing comic book adaptations of the Little Rascal films for Dell in the early 1940s when he came up with the idea forSPACE ANGEL
Space Angel, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary Alex Toth.The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the Clutch Cargo style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. TOP CAT | THE BELATED NERD This week marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Hanna-Barbera’s second prime time animated TV show, Top Cat.The previous year, the animation studio created The Flintstones for ABC and by the end of the year the network was begging for another half hour animated sit-com. If The Flintstones was a ripoff of The Honeymooners, then Top Cat was a ripoff of The Phil Silvers Show.Twitter RSS Feed
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SPACE ANGEL
February 6, 2012 by The Belated Nerd_ SPACE
ANGEL_, which debuted in syndication on February 6, 1962, was one of those bizarro productions that married the best and the worst of early Sixties television animation. The “best” is the wonderful panel art drawn by the legendary _ALEX TOTH_. The “worst” is the stagnant animation and the use of the _Clutch Cargo_ style Synchro-Vox method of animating the characters’ lips. Another cost-cutting move was to lift the music from Roger Corman’s _War of the Satellites_ for the theme music. Each story was serialized over five 5-minute episodes which were intended to be shown one a day through the week, climaxing on Friday.The show
featured the three-person crew of the spaceship Starduster: Captain Scott McCloud (“The Space Angel”), Electronics and Communications expert Crystal Mace, and Scottish born Engineer Taurus. You’re forgiven if you are compelled to think of these characters as precursors to Kirk, Uhura, and Scotty. The Starduster was part of an Interplanetary Space Force made up of squadrons detailed to the various planets of the solar system. The ISF’s primary foes were the “Athenians” whose dress and customs more closely resembled ancient Romans than Greeks. Another recurring threat was the Evil Queen of Space and her toadies The General and The Major. Although the Evil Queen sported an ancient Egyptian motif, she and her minions spoke with decidedly Eastern European accents.Although
Space Angel and his crew could usually thwart an enemy on their own, sometimes they would have to call on the rest of the ISF whose ships were identifiable by the astronomical symbols of the planets they wereresponsible for.
In 1963, Alex Toth drew a Space Angel comic strip that was published in _Jack & Jill_ magazine.Tweet
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THE COMIC STRIP CHRISTMAS PARTY January 4, 2012 by The Belated Nerd Another fantastic _WALLY WOOD_ parody of the funny pages appeared in _MAD_ #68 (January, 1962). Click the image for a readable view.Tweet
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THE EDITORS AT DC OFFER THEIR…NO, YOUR…2 CENTS. December 31, 2011 by The Belated Nerd From the inside front cover of every DC comic book to hit the standsin December, 1961:
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LINDA CARTER, STUDENT NURSE November 18, 2011 by The Belated Nerd _LINDA CARTER, STUDENT NURSE_ debuted in 1961 and ran for nine issues until it was cancelled to make room for _The Amazing Spider-Man. _ The first issue (Sept. 1961) was clearly intended by creators _STAN LEE_ and _AL HARTLEY_ to be firmly in the genre camp of teenage humor, but by issue 2, the title was well on the way to becoming a more traditional Romance comic, a transition that was also made by the Hartley drawn _Patsy Walker_.Most
conflict in the series was sparked by a blonde student nurse named Gwen Glitter who envied how men (doctors, patients, college boys, anything with a Y chromosome) were constantly falling in love with Linda. Linda was blithely unaware of Gwen’s schemes to sabotage her love life since they all ultimately backfired. Other supporting characters included doctors Steve Stuart and Jackson Jangle, classmate Dolly Noonan, and the tough but motherly Nurse Barker. In addition to the stories, the title often contained fashion features such as cut-out paper dolls and reader polls suggesting new hair styles and uniforms for the characters. Linda Carter would return as _Night Nurse_ in 1972 but as a blonde with an entirely different cast of friends and co-workers.Tweet
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SHOWDOWN IN CENTURY CITY November 17, 2011 by The Belated Nerd Due to ruinous budget overruns by the makers of the Elizabeth Taylor / Richard Burton epic _Cleopatra_, 20th Century Fox was almost bankrupt and was forced to sell off most of its backlot to developers planning the new business community of Century City. In late 1961, the sets used to film hundreds of Fox westerns and other films were bulldozed to make room for high-rise office buildings and hotels. Where the likes of Tyrone Power and Gary Cooper once faced off on a dusty small town thoroughfare, two bulldozer operators reenact a familiar scene before getting to work ripping down a piece of movie history. Two years later, _Cleopatra_, initially budgeted at $2 million, was released in theaters and became the top grossing film of the year raking in $26 million at the box office. Unfortunately, by that time, Fox had spent $44 million on the film. Images from the LIFE photo archive hosted by GoogleTweet
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LI’L ABNER SERVED TWO WAYS November 16, 2011 by The Belated NerdJust for
kicks, here are two parodies from 1961 of Al Capp’s classic comic strip done by two different EC alumni; _WALLY WOOD_ and_ WILL ELDER_. Wood’s_ LI’L ABNEH_ appeared in the same Sunday Funnies pullout from _The Worst from MAD #4 _as his Blondieand Pogo
parodies. Panels from Elder’s _DOPGATCH REVISITED_ are from Harvey Kurtzman’s Warren publication _Help!_Tweet
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SO, WHAT WAS LOIS LANE UP TO 50 YEARS AGO? (#4) November 15, 2011 by The Belated Nerd From _Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane_ #30: “LOIS LANE, _Daily Planet_ reporter, has braved a thousand dangers without fear for her life! And why? Because she knows that, like a circus acrobat, she always has a ‘safety net’ under her that will prevent her from being killed! Lois’ ‘net’, of course, is SUPERMAN who usually keeps an eye on his reckless reporter girl friend! But one day, shockingly, Superman loses interest in saving the impetuous newshawk! It is then that the _Planet’s_ star reporter faces certain doom on the fateful day…WHEN SUPERMAN ABANDONED LOISLANE!”
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a busy day for Lois Lane. On her schedule: She must get a manicure before attending dinner with boss Perry White and his wife. Then she needs to acquire a window cleaner’s uniform so she can spy on mobster Phil the Wrecker (who she just happens to be scheduled to give evidence against at trial.) Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen warn her of how dangerous her plans are (the spying, not the dinner party) but Lois insists that she can always count on Superman to save her if things get dicey. As usual, things don’t go according to plan. Her magnificently manicured fingernails alert Wrecker’s gang that the person outside their window can’t be a a real window cleaner, but isin fact a _GIRL_!
Wrecker and his gang see their opportunity to rid themselves a witness in his upcoming trial and unclip Lois’ safety belt. Superman arrives in the nick of time before Lois and her fresh manicure make contact with the sidewalk below. Superman lets Lois know that he is fed up with her recklessness and that he might not always be able to come to her rescue. Knowing Lois has not been sufficiently chastised by his lecture, Superman knows it’s time to teach Lois another lesson.The
next day, Clark and Lois visit a local dog show where Lois spots a drug smuggler making a drop. She ignores Clark’s suggestion that they alert the police and let them handle it, and pursues the criminal herself. Spotted by the smuggler, Lois nonchalantly buys a chocolate pop from an ice cream vendor. Before she can take a bite, a large black dog snatches the pop from Lois’ hand and gobbles it down. The dog suddenly convulses and collapses, whereupon Clark announces that the dog is dead and that the ice cream must have been poisoned. _And_ Superman wasn’t there to help her if it had been her instead of the dog who swallowed the poisoned ice cream pop. We soon learn that the dog was Superman’s friend Krypto in disguise and that the whole thing was part of Clark/ Superman’s campaign to get Lois to stop thinking she can always count on Superman to come to the rescue.As
Superman and all the readers know, one lesson is never sufficient for Lois (three lessons are the accepted minimum). Just before scuba diving for a murder weapon, Lois is warned that the local waters are infested with killer octopi. Sure that Superman will save her if she gets in trouble Lois dives to the sea floor where she is almost immediately seized by the eight tentacles of a giant octopus. Once again, Superman does not come to her rescue. Only the timely distraction of another swimmer saves her from being eaten by the creature. It turns out that Superman called in a favor from Aquaman (the other swimmer) and his friend Topo the octopus.Lesson
number three occurs at a recently burglarized fur warehouse where Lois gets herself locked in cold storage. Clark waits outside monitoring Lois’ condition with his x-ray vision. Not until Lois has almost frozen to death does Clark (not Superman) free her from the deepfreeze.
Finally convinced that Superman has abandoned her, Lois notifies Perry White that she won’t accept any more dangerous assignments. Clark can barely suppress his pleasure with the success of his campaign but Jimmy Olsen is worried for Lois’ safety since she is due to testify against Wrecker and his gang the next day.Jimmy’s
fears are realized when Lois is met in her apartment that evening by Wrecker and his gang. Almost immediately, “Superman” appears and the crooks flee after their bullets bounce off of his chest. Lois is thrilled that Superman hasn’t abandoned her after all, and declares she will now return to taking whatever chances are necessary secure in the knowledge that Superman will always be there to protect her. No sooner does Lois rush downstairs to pursue her would be attackers, the real Superman arrives to confront his doppelgänger who turns out to be Jimmy Olsen wearing his Superman disguise and a bulletproof vest. Alas, all of Superman’s efforts to teach Lois a lesson have beenfor naught.
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THE EDUCATION OF JOHNNY STORM November 12, 2011 by The Belated NerdThis
is the third installment in a series highlighting each of the four superheroes who inaugurated the Marvel Universe in the Fall of 1961. We’ve already covered the Invisible Girland The
Thing . Today we take a look at the modern _HUMAN TORCH_ and his introduction in _FANTASTIC FOUR_#1 (November 1961).
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most striking thing about the debut of the MU’s first teenage superhero is how little control he has over his powers. In his first appearance, he spots the FF’s emergency flare signal from inside the hot rod he is working on; a passion he admits is only second to his calling as a hero. Instead of stepping out of the car before “flaming on” he flies through the roof leaving the vehicle a molten mess. No sooner does he take to the sky then a squadron of US Air Force jets converge on him to investigate the flaming object over Manhattan. So unused to the powers bequeathed to him by the cosmic rays he was recently exposed to, he can’t avoid melting the planes from around their surprised pilots. The pilotsparachute
to safety as the planes plummet toward the city below. It’s left to Mr. Fantastic to save his bacon when a guided missile is on his tail and again when Johnny is about to plummet to his death.Never
fear, by the end of issue #1, the new Human Torch is the one who ultimately fends off the menace from the cover (Giganto) and seals up the Mole Man’s monsters in their underground lair by melting the rock surrounding the passage to the surface. By issue #4, the Human Torch has such precise control over his powers that he can use them for a job as delicate as giving the Sub-Mariner a shave.Tweet
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THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES FROM THE 21ST CENTURY November 11, 2011 by The Belated Nerd Okay, it’s probably a typo (Wikipedia assures me that DC’s _LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES_ is from the 30th Century) but everything else about this extra from _Superman Annual_ #4 is very informative, especially for someone like me who grew up reading mostly Marvel books (where one might win a no-prize for correcting such a millennial flub).Tweet
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CHANNEL CHUCKLES
November 10, 2011 by The Belated Nerd In memory of _BIL KEANE_ who passed away on Tuesday, here are a few of his _CHANNEL CHUCKLES_ from 1961.Tweet
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