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The Outliers of the Golden Age (A Listers Not Welcome!)
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12 hours ago, N e r V said:

Sticking with Planet comics it would be a shame if collectors of the series never cracked open up their copies because what’s inside often surpasses those amazing covers. Case in point would be the Lost World Series with Hunt Bowman. 

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Hunt Bowman lived on a future Earth that had been conquered by the Voltamen, fierce reptilian creatures that were initially depicted as short and orange, but later became tall with green skin. He is a giant of a man, massively strong, and highly skilled with a bow and arrow. He is discovered living on Earth by Lyssa, the Queen of Mars, when she leads an exploration party onto that planet. She takes him to Mars with her, then they return to Earth, where they gradually develop a resistance movementagainst the Voltaman. Among the people who join their resistance movement is Bruce, one of a set of triplets found by the Voltamen in suspended animation, who is in possession of the body of Guth, the Prince of the Voltamen. After Bruce was killed, his brother placed Bruce's brain into the Voltaman's body. While they develop their resistance movement, Hunt and Lyssa wander the future earth, defending the remaining people they find against the Voltamen.

By the beginning of their appearance in the first story in Planet Comics #21, the Voltamen have already conquered the Earth and enslaved its people. Hunt Bowman, one of the few surviving free humans, meets Lyssa, the Queen of Mars, and together they defeat the Voltamen who have captured them, and use their ship to return to Lyssa's homeworld. There, they form an invasion party to take back the Earth from the Voltamen.

Originally, the Voltamen were depicted as being short, somewhat hunchbacked, and orange-skinned beings, but eventually they became the tall thin green-skinned lizard men familiar to most of the Fiction House readers. The Voltamen wear grey uniforms with spiked pith helmets similar to those worn in World War I, and they have jet black eyes with red pupils.

 

From Planet Comics #21

 

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very cool thread!

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Despite being one of the earliest artists in DC’s history, Munson Paddock is almost never mentioned, and is arguably more obscure than his sci-fi artist contemporaries Fletcher Hanks and Basil Wolverton.

The Mars Mason stories he did for Speed Comics are probably the biggest highlight of his comic book career (Speed Comics #9-11, 1940):

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Some of Jack Alderman’s splash pages he drew for Temerson. I definitely feel he put in as much effort as he could for these, giving me the impression as if they were movie posters.

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Sources:
Captain Aero Comics #11 (September, 1943)
Cat-Man Comics #22 (December, 1943)
Suspense Comics #2 (February, 1944)
Cat-Man Comics #23 (March, 1944)
Suspense Comics #3 (April, 1944)

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On 1/25/2020 at 6:12 PM, Electricmastro said:

Despite being one of the earliest artists in DC’s history, Munson Paddock is almost never mentioned, and is arguably more obscure than his sci-fi artist contemporaries Fletcher Hanks and Basil Wolverton.

The Mars Mason stories he did for Speed Comics are probably the biggest highlight of his comic book career.

 


 

 

 

 

 

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Now this is the stuff.

Art Deco out the yin yang with regard to the spaceships and "cities".

Space creatures that seem to be an artist just "free associating" anything.

Plot holes? Mars is leaning out the window of his spaceship, and then later observes that he cannot breathe.

A detailed description of postal stamps and mucilage (look it up) and espionage related activities. In the far flung future.

Unobtanium? I give you Garanium.

This is a fabulous yarn and though I currently have zero Prize books I now really want some of these.

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5 hours ago, Duffman_Comics said:

Now this is the stuff.

Art Deco out the yin yang with regard to the spaceships and "cities".

Space creatures that seem to be an artist just "free associating" anything.

Plot holes? Mars is leaning out the window of his spaceship, and then later observes that he cannot breathe.

A detailed description of postal stamps and mucilage (look it up) and espionage related activities. In the far flung future.

Unobtanium? I give you Garanium.

This is a fabulous yarn and though I currently have zero Prize books I now really want some of these.

Paddock was about 54 by the time he drew those stories and it makes me wonder how he had come to understand sci-fi over time.

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Sam Gilman (Stars and Stripes Comics #6, December 1941):

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Allen Ulmer (Captain Aero Comics #2, February 1942):

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Rafael Astarita (Yankee Comics #4, March 1942):

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Charles Quinlan (Blue Beetle #23, July 1943):

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George Appel (Captain Aero Comics #17, October 1944):

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Sam Cooper (Red Band Comics #1, November 1944):

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DickRyan (Snap Comics #9, 1944):

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Sam Glankoff (True Comics #43, Spring 1945):

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John Giunta (Triple Threat Comics, Winter 1945):

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Ellis Chambers (Hi-Ho Comics #1, 1946):

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Jon Small (Cow Puncher Comics #1, January 1947):

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Howard Larsen (Jack Armstrong #4, February 1948):

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Mort Leav (Wanted Comics #13, May 1948):

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Boody Rogers (Big Shot #98, February 1949):

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Gustav Schrotter (Captain Science #2, February 1951):

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Charles Miller (Wanted Comics #40, August 1951):

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Vince Napoli (Dark Mysteries #3, October 1951):

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Harry Harrison (Captain Science #7, December 1951):

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Tex Blaisdell (U.S. Tank Commandos #2, August 1952):

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Ben Brown (Tales of Horror #3, November 1952):

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Roy Krenkel (Attack #4, November 1952):

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Tony Mortellaro (Weird Tales of the Future #4, November 1952):

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Ed Goldfarb (Nightmare #2, Fall 1952):

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Harry Anderson (Wanted Comics #52, February 1953):

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Gerald Altman (Beware #5, September 1953):

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Ellis Eringer (Mister Mystery #14, November 1953):

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Bill Savage (Mysterious Adventures #19, April 1954):

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Bill Discount (Weird Terror #11, May 1954):

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Mel Keefer (Tell It to the Marines #7, May 1954):

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Myron Fass (Dr. Anthony King, Hollywood Love Doctor #4, May 1954):

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