Seduction of the Innocent: Basil Wolverton

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Flight into the Future"

"Jobs were scarce after the Great Atom Bomb War..."

They wrote that in 1952!
We haven't had an atomic war...yet.
But jobs are scarce in 2012!

The inimitable illustration style of Basil Wolverton just oozes from every panel of this tawdry tale from Key Publications' anthology Weird Tales of the Future #2 (1952).

And, the odds are he wrote the story as well.

Wotta guy!

Join us next week as we present another tale your grandparents didn't want your parents to see!

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

MARVEL TALES "Gateway to Horror"

You think Commies were the only things to fear in the 1950s?

This story reveals the awesome truth and has been suppressed ever since, as this never-reprinted story from Marvel Tales #104 (1951) shows!

Marvel Comics (known as this point as Atlas Comics) embraced horror comics as much as any other publisher during the 1950s, occasionally pushing the borders of "good taste" with work by Basil Wolverton, Russ Heath, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Steve Ditko, and others.

As we mentioned, this creepy-cool tale by the amazing Wolverton has never been reprinted since it's initial publication in 1951!

Wonder why? ;-)

Join us next week as we present another tale your grandparents didn't want your parents to see!

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