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Monsters from Another Planet: The Outer Limits Comic BooksJohn Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15830334036783163702noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535833613343533564.post-56163386301628505202018-05-06T23:47:44.094-07:002018-05-06T23:47:44.094-07:00Specimen Unknown they start out looking like...Specimen Unknown they start out looking like a big mushroom then grown ina some crazy killer flower they can grow on anything even a cars engine they can come right through car windows but when it rains the scream wiether up and die and leave no trace behindSpurwing Plovernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535833613343533564.post-31054096757452021582014-12-17T08:42:36.716-08:002014-12-17T08:42:36.716-08:00I remember when the 1st era of COMIC BOOK ARTIST m...I remember when the 1st era of COMIC BOOK ARTIST magazine (when each issue focused on a single topic to exhaustive length) did an issue about Gold Key. I never could quite grasp the details of the Dell / Gold Key / Western relationship, but my impression is that Dell was a publisher, Western a distributor, and somehow, when Dell & Western split, Western decided to create their own publishing imprint-- Gold Key. And Western held on to most of the good stuff, leaving Dell on their own.<br /><br />I still don't know why Dell split from Western, but it was the business equivalent of slow-motion suicide.<br /><br />I've never read a single issue of THE OUTER LIMITS comic, though I do have a small stack of Gold Key's BORIS KARLOFF TALES OF MYSTERY, a spin-off of THRILLER. Those have a certain low-key charm about them, horror aimed at "family audiences". THE OUTER LIMITS, from the description above, sounds like a spin-off of "The Special One" epsode! ("The Boy Who...")<br /><br />I always loved the painted covers. Both Dell & Gold Key went thru periods where they were replaced by regular line drawings, and then, at the end of any given series, reprints. OY.<br /><br />As it happens, I am closing in on finishing the Dell POE Movie Classics part of my POE comics adaptations blog project. There were 5 in all-- the last 4 Cormans (not counting the Lovecraft one), and the 1st non-Corman. "The Tomb of Ligeia" gets my vote as the best of them. The adaptation actually follows the movie closer and even includes actual dialogue from the film, and artists John Tartaglione & Vince Colletta may have done the best work of their careers on that issue. "War-Gods Of The Deep" had Dick Giordano replacing Colletta, giving it an even more "Disney" comics adaptation look, and is about on the same level of quality, except that the script for that film SUCKED. It seems every film that producer & part-time screenwriter Louis M. Heyward was involved in desperately needed at least one more re-write to get it where it should have been. <br /><br />My favorite example is "The Oblong Box". Had they included a very brief scene showing the plotters trying to rescue their friend only to find grave-robbers had gotten him FIRST, it would have given the events that followed actual LOGIC, as well as adding an element of hilarity to the proceedings. Instead, we're left with a growing number of murders that all happened for no damn good reason. As I said, sloppy writing.<br /><br />http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/12/poe-1965-pt-1.htmlHenry R. Kujawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01607373491331529952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535833613343533564.post-36474980295766879132011-03-13T10:05:22.958-07:002011-03-13T10:05:22.958-07:00I get to try to make "The Probe" go down...I get to try to make "The Probe" go down a little less painfully in the final episode Spotlight. Tall order. I needed to reference the Holcombs significantly to help get it done!<br /><br />Best of luck to you and your brother in every endeavor. I hope we can stay in touch.Ted Rypelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535833613343533564.post-39367277555203995012011-03-12T23:43:58.098-08:002011-03-12T23:43:58.098-08:00Thanks all. And Ted, good catch: I'm positivel...Thanks all. And Ted, good catch: I'm positively ripe with nostalgia. Probably why I'm uncomfortable with it.<br /><br />Cheers, and a (nearly) last nod of appreciation to John and Peter, DJS, everyone who read and commented here, and my brother and partner in all things OL, Mark. <br /><br />And to Japan - best wishes at a bad time. (The American Red Cross is accepting donations.)<br /><br />Okay: we're all getting Probed on Monday, right?David C. Holcombnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535833613343533564.post-56674368124309873572011-03-12T21:02:50.613-08:002011-03-12T21:02:50.613-08:00Ahh, David, whether or not you steel yourself agai...Ahh, David, whether or not you steel yourself against the creeping-atrophy interpretation of "nostalgia," you've opened the trapdoor and allowed me to drop in and wallow in a slough of it!<br /><br />I remember these comics well but was always skeptical of them and never picked them up, although I was still actively collecting comics at the time. All those Dell adaptations rang alarm bells for those in my collecting circle. We were simply opposed to anything that smacked of watered down versions of the films we loved---which included those AI Poe films.<br /><br />Someone might pick up an OL or Poe title, now and again (NEVER the Hanna-Barberas), just to share an informed sneer over the content with the rest of us. But seeing them now, bearing that logo, I'm feeling a tentative warmth toward their inclusion here. Would I read one? Probably not. But they certainly did their bit to help keep TOL alive on the fickle pop-culture landscape.<br /><br />And this is a welcome history of a piece of comic publishing that still pre-dated the mind-boggling welter of titles and characters and alternate worlds-within-alternate worlds that makes comics so off-putting today, in many ways. <br /><br />A nice consideration of a comic-run that does seem to follow the tragic history of the show. And it's pleasantly laced with your trademark evocative imagery: "the charm of playing under the streetlight on a summer night" is pure, wistful memory of the sort Bradbury might conjure. Like it or not---your nostalgia is showing!<br /><br />Another welcome piece in the mosaic of TOL lore. Thank you for this.Ted Rypelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535833613343533564.post-31179054737657238302011-03-12T17:19:52.912-08:002011-03-12T17:19:52.912-08:00Jesus, David, this is a classic alongside the OLC,...Jesus, David, this is a classic alongside the OLC, TOLAIR, and you & your brother's earlier TOL examination (now hosted on DJS' site).<br /><br />I'm embarrased to admit that I owned most of these comics in the later half of the 90's, but never got around to actually reading them, putting that task off to some future (ever-elusive) tranquil era in my life, while I focused on the zeal of collecting all things TOL in the here & now.<br /><br />In reading just the story teasers on the covers ("The Boy who did this . . .", "The Boy who did that . . . "), I kept being reminded of the (Nobel-prize-winning, bongo-playing, safe-cracking, raconteur / physicist) Richard Feynman biography "Genius" by Richard Gleick, and his recounting the tales of his precocious Wonder Years(tm) spent fixing old tube radios in the 1920's. Feynman concurrently wrote autobiographical stories of these exploits (no doubt to fulfill some English class assignments) under titles like "The Boy who could fix things by Thinking!" The common touchstone here is an appreciation of "The awe and mystery . . . ". The most important thing is that that fire gets lit and burns long before getting extinguished, not whether it gets lit by TOL' S1 vs. S2 vs. these red-headed-step-child comics or any of a million other ways, via art or real life.hockey24hrshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17665339445715581362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535833613343533564.post-53999444570338153692011-03-12T15:19:32.561-08:002011-03-12T15:19:32.561-08:00First!
A fabulous trip down memory lane, David. I...First!<br /><br />A fabulous trip down memory lane, David. I'm sure the visit is better than the destination. I really dig reading about a lot of these old comics but I'm sure I wouldn't be able to make it through one issue intact!<br /><br />Thanks for enlightening us!Peter Enfantinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317575598411394944noreply@blogger.com