Saturday, November 29, 2014

Thanksgiving Turkey CONAN THE DESTROYER Part 2

Cover art by Bob Camp
Conan and his associates are hired by Queen Taramis to assist Princess Jehnna steal a key (which only she can touch) from the wizard Thoth-Anon.
However, Taramis has instructed Jehnna's bodyguard, Bombaata, to slay Conan and his entourage once their task is completed.
En route to Thoth-Amon's castle, the group comes across...
Be here next week when the group returns home...
Working from a screenplay by Stanley Mann based on a plot by Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, the adaptation is written by Michael Fleisher and this part of it is pencilled and inked by John Buscema!
It appeared in Marvel Super Special #35 (1984) and Conan the Destroyer #1 (1985), but has not been reprinted in the 41 years since.
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Friday, November 28, 2014

Thanksgiving Turkey CONAN THE DESTROYER Part 1

Is it a turkey when the movie is awful, but the comic is decent?
 Judge for yourself as we present the comic adaptation of the 1984 flick Conan the Destroyer...
Be here tomorrow when the so-called wench "has at" her tomentors...
Working from a screenplay by Stanley Mann based on a plot by Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, the adaptation is written by Michael Fleisher and this part of it is pencilled and inked by John Buscema!
It appeared in Marvel Super Special #35 (1984) and Conan the Destroyer #1 (1985), but has not been reprinted in the 41 years since.
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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Captain's Library MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. "Human Bottle Affair"

Here's something a little different...a prose story with illustrations...
...from the British weekly TV Tornado., which ran strips and stories based on other British and American tv series, as well as a couple of features not based on video shows!
TV Tornado ran U.N.C.L.E. text stories like this, but no strips, like The Saint feature we ran last week.
However, in the hardcover annuals that TV Tornado (like other weekly magazines produced), there were U.N.C.L.E. strips...and they were in color (or colour, as the British spell it)!

Friday, October 3, 2014

The Spies Who Love ME-Week 5

Here's some facts and trivia about the eps in Sunday's...
...group of shows...
"The Deadly Game Affair" has a mad scientist ready to revive Adolph Hitler is he can find someone with the right blood type.
Alexander Scourby, a popular tv/radio narrator who also played authority figures (both good and evil) on tv handles the Nazi scientist role with scenery-chewing relish.
Janine Gray, whose character, Angelique, was meant to be an ongoing villainess with a lust for Napoleon Solo, had appeared on numerous British shows like The Saint, Danger Man (aka Secret Agent), and The Avengers. She was also in the pilot for Get Smart.
"The Question" is one of the few foreign espionage episodes in the final season.
Defector Gary Lockwood is a familar face to genre fans, playing both the transformed Gary Mitchell in the Star Trek pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" as well as doomed astronaut Frank Poole in 2001: a Space Odyssey!
Lynda Day George, though listed in the credits, doesn't appear due to her pregnancy.
Elizabeth Ashley served as the IMF's femme fatale in her second time on the show. (Ironically, the first time, Ashley played a mobster's wife whom George's character, Casey, impersonated!)
Midnight (ET) Get Smart
"Maxwell Smart: Alias Jimmy Ballantine" features Tim Herbert as safecracker Jimmy Ballantine.
Herbert also played Killer Moth on the 1960s Batman tv series...in an episode the public never saw that was loosely-based on her first comic book appearance!
But you lucky ducks can see it HERE!

"Casablanca" gives Don Adams a chance to do his Humphrey Bogart imitation as well as featuring Gordon Jump as the Chief's aide, Hobson.
1am (ET) The Saint
"Island of Chance" shows a tuxedoed Roger Moore in an enviroment he'd become very familar with as James Bond, a high-stakes casino!
Be here on Sunday for a classic comic story based on one of these series!