MORE Alarming 1950's Kirby Sci-Fi Comics: The Last Enemy

Because YOU demanded it!

(Okay, it was only Martin who demanded it,
but I assume the rest of you out there feel the same way)
...MORE freaky rarely-seen Jack Kirby
science-fiction comics from the fifties!

Like the previous Kirby story posted a little while back,
this story is from Alarming Tales #1, September 1957

Published by Western Tales, Inc. and Harvey Features Syndicate.
This story is one of five tales in this all-Kirby comic book bonanza.
If you get a chance to lay yer mitts on this comic book, get it!
It's a winner through and through!

As usual, CLICK on any one of the pages below
to see a large-size kooky Kirby komics page.

As usual, CLICK on any one of the pages below
to see a large-size kooky Kirby komics page.

As usual, CLICK on any one of the pages
to see a large-size kooky Kirby komics page.

As usual, CLICK on any one of the pages
to see a large-size kooky Kirby komics page.

As usual, CLICK on any one of the pages
to see a large-size kooky Kirby komics page.

As usual, CLICK on any one of the pages
to see a large-size kooky Kirby komics page.

If you missed the zany Jack Kirby story I posted before, check it out here:

Jack Kirby Takes you to the Fourth Dimension

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...and take a look at this very cool Jack Kirby Blog called the Kirby Museum. Lots of Kirby artwork to swim in!
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UPDATE: There's LOTS more comic book scans
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Wally Wood Sure Knew How to Draw Sci-Fi Comics

Nobody knew how to draw bug-eyed monsters
better than Wally Wood.

These wonderful pages are from the 1950 Ziff-Davis
comic book, Amazing Adventures #1

"Winged Death on Venus" was drawn by Wallace Wood during his peak years as a science-fiction comic book artist. But unlike his more famous stories for EC Comics, this tale is much more of an old-fashioned-style space opera, complete with the full assortment of monsters, aliens, beautiful women, rocket ships and ray-guns. The winged men in particular are a love poem to Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon of the late 1930's.

Alas, the resolution on the large-sized versions of these pages isn't as good as I would like, but they were the best scans I came across. As usual, CLICK on the images below to see the larger sized pages. Enjoy the Woodwork!

Would you like to see more comic book scans like these?
Please cast your vote below by leaving a comment.
Thanks a lot...Sherm

UPDATE: There's LOTS more comic book scans

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Freaky Obscure Jack Kirby Comics from 1957

Well, this story was a pleasant discovery...some really top-notch freaky pre-Marvel sci-fi/horror comic book pages from the King of comics, Jack Kirby.



This is from Alarming Tales #1, September 1957

Published by Western Tales, Inc. and Harvey Features Syndicate.
This comic book story is one of five tales in this all-Kirby extravaganza. If you get a chance to lay your paws on this comic book, get it! It's a winner through and through!

As usual, CLICK on any one of the pages below to see a large-size kooky Kirby comics page.




It looks like Kirby spent some time inside Steve Ditko's fevered imagination before drawing this story! Clearly, Jack Kirby knew how to draw those kind of extra-dimensional landscapes many years before Steve Ditko drew them in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales with Dr. Strange.



This 1957 comic book story was drawn just a few years after Richard Matheson wrote the short story "Little Girl Lost," but it was five more years before this imagery showed up on the Twilight Zone when "Little Girl Lost" was adapted for TV in 1962. I wonder if "doorways to another dimension" was a popular pulp-fiction theme at the time.



As usual, CLICK on any one of these pages to see a large-size comic book page.





Whew! That was a close one!

Would you like to see more stories from this comic? Leave a comment below and let me know what you think! Thanks...--Sherm

UPDATE #1: I just posted another story from this issue: The Last Enemy
...or you might just call it: Kirby Goes to the Dogs!

UPDATE #2: There's LOTS more comic book scans to look at and download! Click HERE

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Solar Plexus - Interplanetary Messenger from WEIRD Comics #2

"Solar Plexus - Interplanetary Messenger" from WEIRD Comics #2 - Fox Publications, May 1939

Click on picture above to see a nice BIG comic page !

This "story" is so weird and inexplicable I just had to share it. I don't know who wrote or drew this (other than "by Jupiter"), and I don't know if there were more than two episodes with this character.

Click on picture below to see a nice BIG comic page !

All I know is that this 2-page bit of weirdness was the only thing that jumped out at me from this whole comic, and got me asking all kinds of questions like: Did this book have an editor? It's just so much fun and loose and insane...it reads like phone doodles!

Nice cover, though!

PS...I found an earlier episode of Solar Plexus - Interplanetary Messenger in WEIRD Comics #1, and I include it below just to satisfy your curiosity. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with the haiku-like hallucination above, and I found it entirely unremarkable...except that it wallows in the pool of utter nonsense as well.

Click on any picture to see a nice BIG comic page !

If anybody out there has any more info on who might've done this, please let me know. In the meantime, enjoy the ride!

For more info on Fox Publications and WEIRD comics, see THIS article at Toonopedia.

Thanks to the mad draftsman for the original scans!

UPDATE: There's LOTS more comic book scans to look at and download! Click HERE

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