Captain's Library & Theatre BEN CASEY FILM STORIES "Operation Tycoon" Conclusion

 We Have Already Seen...

(on our "brother" RetroBlog, Medical Comics and Stories)

...abrasive Type-A business tycoon Walter Tyson, ordered to the hospital for emergency surgery runs up against abrasive medical genius (and rule breaker) Doctor Ben Casey.

"When Titans Clash" doesn't begin to describe the telenovella-level goings-on in this fumetti-style adaptation of the TV episode "An Expensive Glass of Water" as the rich man's scheming shrew of a wife enters the picture...

The adaptation by comics scripter Paul S Newman tones down the surprisingly-adult original story...which you can see right here...

Enjoy!
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Captain's Theatre SPACEBALLS: THE ANIMATED SERIES

You Think Disney+ Went Nuts with Prequels, Sequels, and Spinoffs Based on Licensed Properties?

Mel Brooks Beat Them To It in 2009 with Spaceballs: the Animated Series!

We linked you up with the two-episode pilot which re-imagined the movie and made a couple of changes to set up the TV series HERE!

Now witness the 13th (and final) episode of the series...spoofing Spider-Man!

EARTH DAY SPECIAL Captain's Ecological Theatre GODZILLA VS THE SMOG MONSTER

50 years ago, the greatest kaiju of all battled pollution...literally!

Godzilla vs the Smog Monster (Gojira vs Hedorah) was a fascinating response to to the public's growing awareness to man-made ecological problems!

Though derided as part of the deterioration of Gojira near the end of the Showa Era, it's actually, an attempt to get back to the darker, earlier films, particularly the first one!

(Thousands of people die in this film!)

 See the Japanese version...if you can...and let me know what you think!

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Captain's Library & Theatre SUSPENSE "Graveyard Ghouls!"

The Mysterious Traveller Wasn't the Only Radio or TV Series Matt Baker Adapted to Comic Books...

...as this graphic version of the CBS Suspense radio anthology series episode "Body Snatchers" demonstrates!

Adapted from an episode written by noted mystery writer John Dickson Carr and broadcast on November 24, 1942, this tale was adapted by an unknown writer, penciled by Matt Baker and inked by Frank Giusto appeared in Timely's Suspense #1 (1949).
The first two issues of Suspense adapted stories from the radio/TV series, but as of the third issue, it became a typical horror comic of the era, running for another twenty-seven issues until it was cancelled at the height of the anti-comic "Seduction of the Innocent" mania in 1953.
On a lighter note, and as a kool bonus, we're offering the radio show episode the comic is based on for you to listen to by clicking HERE!
You'll hear that the basic story is intact, and much of the dialogue is the same, but the structure of the radio tale is different!
It was re-arranged to suit the needs of visual storytelling when it was illustrated seven years later.

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