The Greensboro Cultural Arts Center in North Carolina recently honored one of their hometown heroes, late great comic book illustrator, Murphy Anderson, with a plaque installation --read about it HERE! We also honored this special occasion with a post over at THOIA HERE! So as promised, it's now time to do the continuation of honorary commemorations here at AEET as well, with a couple of great DC one-pagers via The Unexpected #116 and #119, as well as this wonderfully, witchy-weird, gorgeously illustrated sci-fi classic from the Ziff-Davis, 1950 debut issue of Amazing Adventures #1.
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What part of the story gave the reader any reason to think Vince had any kind of "loving gentle" self? It's a cheat!
Almost as much a cheat as the police being willing to shoot Vince down, killing him instead of letting the asteroid witch kill him...or, for that matter, letting Kitty, er, Kit-E, through on her rescue mission.
Oh nice! A space version of the Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. At page four I was already wondering why they'd killed off Gerda on the first page, so I was both surprised and validated by the ending.
Thanks for giving us more Murphy Anderson (no relation). I love early sci-fi futurism like this--all the flowing space clothes and leather helmets, ships designed like fish. Somehow Anderson pulled this off without looking a bit like the Fleagles. Sometimes it smacks of Reed Crandall a little, though.
That last one-pager was straange. I kinda get where that guy's coming from. I've always wanted to design my own grave marker too (and maybe the box). And what a great gotcha twist: "No, he lived a few more hours! Sucker!" Must have been a Friday.
The Asteroid Witch, Good girl art on almost every page, Vince was and is a jerk, he deserved to be destroyed by the asteroid witch. Kit-E deserves better.
Mad To Order could have been turned into a one man play, with the actor slipping into the jacket behind a screen revealing the strait jacket in the end.
Rest in Pieces, I wonder if Tim will come back to haunt the careless carver for ruining his masterpiece.
I'd agree that Asteroid Witch's story is a bit of a cheat, but the art is great and I love all the old style Buck Rogers inspired space clothes, and I got a good chuckle out of Rocketini!
Lots of good girl art, and I love how the story specifically works around only mentioning her face, while we know what the artist was trying to sell. I like that they didn't go with the obvious -- that it's an illusion and she's some giant space kraken. Nope, just a gorgeous soul-sucking witch, who flies around space in sandals and an evening dress and gets zapped to another dimension (why not just kill her, all you have done is doom the men in another dimension!)
Mad to Order is fun but man, the ending in Rest in Pieces is so depressing -- the entire guys life and then at the very end the exact one thing he didn't want and he never really did anything wrong!
Just leave the wrong date, yeesh!
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