Old-fashioned Comics: June 2023

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Thriller Comics Library.- #059 The Talisman #060 The Prairie #061 The Black Swan (IPC 1953 Series)

Thriller Comics Library

Publisher: IPC

Publication Dates: November 1953 - 5 February 1957

Number of Issues Published: 122 (#41 - #162)

Color: Colour cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: Digest

Binding: Squarebound

Publishing Format: was ongoing

Publication Type: magazine

68 pages - Indicia Frequency: The First Thursday in Each Month

Numbering continues from Thriller Comics (IPC, 1951 series) #40

Numbering continues with Thriller Picture Library (IPC, 1957 series) #163

The Talisman

IPC, 1953 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : Sep E. Scott (painting)

Script:

Sir Walter Scott’ (original story); ? (adaptation)

Pencils & Inks: Stephen Chapman

Sir Walter Scott’s superb story of the great Crusade led by

King Richard the Lionheart in his attempt to free the Holy Land

from the grip of the Saracen invaders.

An action-packed tale of courage and daring unfolded against

a rich background of Eastern splendour and knightly chivalry..

The Prairie

IPC, 1953 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : ? (painted)

Script:

James Fenimore Cooper (credited) (original); ? (adaptation)

Pencils & Inks: John McNamara

J. Fenimore Cooper's exciting sequel to

The Last of the Mohicans.

Across the hot, parched prairie of the American South-West

come the thunder of galloping hooves and the whooping of war-

cries as Sioux battles with Pawnee. Into the midst of this fierce

Indian war stumbles a small band of travellers, fleeing from a gang

of desperate outlaws. But the famous scout, Hawkeye the Hunter,

steps in to take a hand in the game.

The Black Swan

IPC, 1953 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : ? (painted)

Script:

James Fenimore Cooper (credited) (original); ? (adaptation)

Pencils & Inks: John McNamara

A thrilling tale of the Spanish Main by the Prince of Story-

tellers, Rafael Sabatini. A young French sea-captain pits his

brains against Tom Leach, the Last of the Buccaneers, and

the result isa duel to the death.

Sunday, 25 June 2023

Space Adventures v5 #09-#13 (1978-1979 ) Complete Series [Charlton Comics Collection]

1978 Serie

Publisher: Charlton
Publication Dates: May 1978 – March 1979
Number of Issues Published: 5 (#09-#13)
Color: full color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Publication Type: magazine

Pages: 36 Indicia Frequency: bi-monthly

The series returned for five reprint issues, #09-#13 (May 1978 – March 1979),

the first four of which were all-Ditko reprints of, primarily, Captain Atom stories.

The final issue reprinted Charlton’s Outer Space vol. 2, #1 (Nov. 1968),

featuring Ditko and other artists.

Authors:

Script: Joe Gill ,

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Pat Boyette; Steve Ditko; Charles Nicholas (illustrations)

Inks :

Steve Ditko,

Pat Boyette; Steve Ditko; Vince Alascia (illustrations)

Letters:

Jon D'Agostino, Ray Burzon,

Space Adventures (sometimes cover-titled Science Fiction Space Adventures, Space Adventures Presents Rocky Jones and other variations for particular issues) was an American science-fiction anthology comic book series published sporadically by Charlton Comics from 1952 to 1979. Its initial iteration included some of the earliest work of industry notables Steve Ditko, Dick Giordano, and Tony Tallarico, and at least one story by EC Comics mainstay Bernard Krigstein.

In 1960, a second iteration introduced the superhero Captain Atom by writer Joe Gill and artist Ditko, shortly prior to Ditko’s co-creation of Spider-Man for Marvel Comics.

First series

Space Adventures, a science-fiction anthology comic book from the Derby, Connecticut-based Charlton Comics, was initially published for 21 issue (cover-dated July 1952 – Aug. 1956). Issues #9-12 (Winter 1954 – Aug. 1954) were cover-titled Science Fiction Space Adventures. The following two issues were cover-billed Space Adventures Presents The Blue Beetle, and featured reprints of the defunct publisher Fox Comics’ superhero, from 1939. Issues 15-18 (March-Sept. 1955) carried the rubric Space Adventures Presents Rocky Jones, and featured that children’s television character in licensed TV spin-off stories. These were primarily illustrated by penciler Ted Galindo and inked by, variously, Dick Giordano, Ray Osrin, or Galindo himself. Giordano penciled at least one “Rocky Jones” story, “Gravity-Plus”, inked by Jon D’Agostino, in issue 18. Issues 19 and 21 reverted to Space Adventures, interspersed with another licensed tie-in, Space Adventures Presents First Trip to the Moon — a retitled reprint of writer Otto Binder, penciler Dick Rockwell and inker Sam Burlockoff’s adaptation of the movie Destination Moon, from Fawcett Comics’ 1950 one-shot of that name.

Space Adventures #10-11 (Spring-June 1954) contained two of Steve Ditko’s first half-dozen comic-book covers. Issue 16 (May 1955) features a six-page story, “Jealousy on Kano”, by artist Bernard Krigstein, one of EC Comics’ acclaimed creators in one of his small handful of non-EC stories during that publisher’s 1954-55 heyday.

Second series

The numbering for Space Adventures was taken over by the Charlton war comics series War at Sea, which ran from #22-42 (cover-dated Nov. 1957 – June 1961). Space Adventures began again with issue 23, skipping the number 22, after taking over the numbering of the Charlton version of the former Fawcett series Nyoka the Jungle Girl.

This second series ran 37 issues (#23-59, May 1958 – Nov. 1964). The first issue only was cover-titled Space Adventures Presents Space Trip to the Moon and contained a second reprinting of Fawcett’s 1950s movie adaptation Destination Moon, this time with the first page deleted. Subsequent issues showcased much work by artist Steve Ditko, and at least one story by EC Comics veteran John Severin, as well as by such Charlton Comics regulars as Vince Alascia, Rocke Mastroserio, Charles Nicholas, and Sal Trapani.

Writer Joe Gill and artist Ditko introduced the space-age superhero Captain Atom in a nine-page story in issue 33 (March 1960). The character starred through issue #42 (Oct. 1961), except for skipping #41, with all stories drawn by Ditko except for two of the three in that final issue. The character would return later in the decade, and eventually be sold to DC Comics after Charlton’s 1980s bankruptcy; a version continues as a DC superhero as of 2010.

Space Adventures, which had continued all through the superhero’s run to include anthological science-fiction stories, reverted to all-anthology for issues 43-59 (Dec. 1961 – Nov. 1964) — all without Ditko, who by now freelanced exclusively for at Marvel Comics, where from 1956 he had become an established presence on that company’s science fiction/fantasy comics, and would, in 1963, co-create the popular superhero Spider-Man.

One-shot publication

The title returned as a one-shot science-fiction anthology that continued the old series numbering and was published as Space Adventures Presents U.F.O. issue 60 (Oct. 1967). This featured early work by such later notables as writer Denny O’Neil (using the pseudonym Sergius O’Shaughnessy), and artists Jim Aparo and Pat Boyette.

Third series

The next version began again with an issue #2, with Charlton considering the previous one-shot as the first issue of a relaunch. Space Adventures vol. 2, #2-8 (July 1968 – July 1969) featured work by writer O’Neil (again as O’Shaughnessy), and artists Alascia, Aparo, Boyette, Mastroserio, Nicholas, and a returning Steve Ditko who by now had left Marvel Comics and was concurrently freelancing for both Charlton and DC Comics. Artists Sanho Kim and Sam Glanzman each contributed at least one story.

The series returned for five reprint issues, #9-13 (May 1978 – March 1979), the first four of which were all-Ditko reprints of, primarily, Captain Atom stories. The final issue reprinted Charlton’s Outer Space vol. 2, #1 (Nov. 1968), featuring Ditko and other artists.

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Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Thriller Comics Library.- #053 Pride of the Ring #054 The Red Badge of Courage #055 Hopalong Cassidy Rides in (IPC 1953 Series)

Thriller Comics Library

Publisher: IPC

Publication Dates: November 1953 - 5 February 1957

Number of Issues Published: 122 (#41 - #162)

Color: Colour cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: Digest

Binding: Squarebound

Publishing Format: was ongoing

Publication Type: magazine

68 pages - Indicia Frequency: The First Thursday in Each Month

Numbering continues from Thriller Comics (IPC, 1951 series) #40

Numbering continues with Thriller Picture Library (IPC, 1957 series) #163

Pride of the Ring

IPC, 1953 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : Sep E. Scott (painting)

Script:

Ben Bolt (original story); ? (adaptation)

Pencils & Inks: Sep E. Scott (painting)

The story of Tom Cribb, the greatest fighter of all time.

Here is a tale of Regency England—when young bloods

rode hard, gambled hard and fought hard—all for the fun

of it! Against a backcloth of high adventure and low

cunning, unfolds one of the most exciting stories ever

featured in Thriller Comics Library.

The Red Badge of Courage

IPC, 1953 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : Sep E. Scott (painting)

Script:

Stephen Crane (original story); ? (adaptation)

Pencils & Inks: John McNamara; Patrick Nicolle (page 1)

Stephen Crane's exciting story of the American Civil War.

Thrilled by stirring tales of valour, a youth sets out to

seek glory on the battlefield. But once amid the shot and

shell, his courage crumbles. What follows makes one of

the world’s finest books.

Hopalong Cassidy Rides in

IPC, 1953 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : James E. McConnell (painting)

Script: ??

Pencils & Inks: Tom Peddie

The quick-trigger exploits of the fearless cowpuncher

whose lightning guns spell trouble for the badmen

of the West..

Sunday, 18 June 2023

Space Adventures v4 #02-#08 (1968-1969 ) Complete Series [Charlton Comics Collection]

1968 Serie
Publisher: Charlton
Publication Dates: July 1968 – July 1969
Number of Issues Published: 7 (#2 – #8)
Color: full color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Publication Type: magazine

Pages: 36 Indicia Frequency: bi-monthly

Numbering continues in Space Adventures (Charlton, 1978 series).

Notes:

The numbering of this series seems to count

Space Adventures Presents U.F.O. (Charlton, 1967 series) #60

as the first issue of this series.

Authors:

Script:

Denny O'Neil (credited as Sergius O'Shaughnessy), Denny O'Neil ?,

Joe Gill ?,

Pencils:

Jim Aparo (credited, signed), Pat Boyett, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio,Pat Boyette,

Charles Nicholas (signed as NICHOLAS), Steve Ditko; Sanho Kim,

Enio Leguizamón, Vince Colletta,

Sam Glanzman (signed as SJG), Mo Marcus,

Inks :

Jim Aparo (credited, signed), Pat Boyett, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio,Pat Boyette,

Vince Alascia (signed as ALASCIA), Enio Leguizamón,

Sam Glanzman (signed as SJG), Sanho Kim (signed),

Letters:

Jim Aparo, Jon D'Agostino, Pat Boyette, Ray Burzon,

Sanho Kim (signed),

Wednesday, 14 June 2023

2000 AD ##1601 - #1650. Rebellion

Publisher: Rebellion

Publication Dates: 10 October 2001 - present

Number of Issues Published: 1051 (#1263 - #2313)

Color: colour with some stories in black and white; colour cover.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; white interior pages
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Publication Type: magazine

Page: 32 Indicia Frequency: Every Wednesday

Notes

numbering continues from 2000 AD (Egmont Fleetway Ltd, 1996 series) #1204.

Under license from Rebellion.

Merged after #85 into 2000 AD and Starlord
Merged after #126 into 2000 AD and Tornado

Numbering continues with #178 from 2000 AD and Tornado

(IPC, 1979 series) #177

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Fleetway Publications, 1987 series)

#536 - #1013

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Egmont UK, 2000 series) #1014 - #1204

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Egmont UK, 2000 series) #1205

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Rebellion, 2001 series) #1263