Amazing Adventures (vol. 2) (Inhumans) #5-8, #18

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UPDATED September 27:
Requested: Neal Adams' Amazing Adventures #18

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Oh! The Inhumanity! Marvel Comics' Amazing Adventures was a split title featuring the Inhumans (initially both written and drawn by Jack Kirby) and The Black Widow (initially by writer Gary Friedrich and penciler John Buscema) and then Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway and Neal Adams for issues #5-8. The Widow was dropped after vol. 2, #8, and full-length Inhumans stories ran for two issues before that feature, too, was dropped. Neal Adams' art is at its peak here and I think it's superior to that of his work on Green Lantern, which is saying quite a lot. I also have War of the Worlds in Amazing Adventures #18, which also sports Neal Adams art, but frankly I don't think it's very good. However, if you'd like to see it anyway then let me know and I'll upload it as quickly as I can.

Space: 1999 #1-7

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Special surprise bonus treat: Space: 1999 article in Starlog #2.

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When it comes to Science Fiction, I cut my eyeteeth on Robert A. Heinlein novels, Star Trek reruns (including the very underrated novelized adaptations by James Blish) and comic books. However, when Space: 1999 hit the airwaves back in the 1970s, I watched every episode I could with rapt attention. After all, I was planning on still being alive in 1999 so this could affect me, or so I dreamed. We should have had a pioneering base on the moon by 1999 and our space program is woefully behind what 2001: A Space Odyssey predicted, but that's another subject I will go into in a future posting. Space: 1999's second season would go on to be hated as they apparently decided to go with B-movie monster schlock instead of hard science, but one good season is better than none at all. I was far more impressed with Charlton Comics' treatment of Space: 1999 than I was with ITC Entertainment's of their second season, but being the comic book fanatic I was back then I was, of course, biased.

The art quality went up and down in the magazine as the first two issues were drawn by Joe Staton, but then we are treated to John Byrne's fantastic interpretations in issues #3-#6 while Pat Boyette book-ended the final issue in #7. The very talented Nicola Cuti, who won this year's Inkpot Award, wrote issues #1-#5, John Byrne wrote #6 and Mike Pellowski wrote #7. While I prefer Byrne's art for the most part, I must say that Joe Staton provided the best-looking cover with issue #1. But enough reminiscing, please feel free to download all seven issues using the links provided below for your personal enjoyment.

Star Trek #33: "The Choice"

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Where No Man Has Gone Before Dept. When I was a kid, I was able to pick up every single back issue of Gold Key Comics' interpretation of the Star Trek franchise through their large reprint volumes that they offered. Despite which, I managed to pick up some individual issues along the way, too. These old Star Trek comics lack sophistication to put it politely, but some of these date back to the late 1960s to early 1970s so I cut'em some serious slack. Still, issue #33 I found to be a jaw-dropping read as a kid and I still find the subject to be fascinating as hell. The Enterprise locates an area of space where the Big Bang took place, but they soon discover the universe will again shrink to the size of an atom, eventually explode again, and the process will repeat itself again and again and everyone leads the exact same life over and over for infinity.

Intrigued? Kirk has the opportunity to break this cycle of endless repetition, but I think you'll be surprised at how things wind up as this story truly surprised me. To top it all off, the art is especially good this issue.




























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Special surprise bonus downloads: Now who can forget Starlog? This was the premiere science fiction fan magazine in its day, but I preferred their sister magazine Future Life to this one. Starlog recently ceased publishing this magazine, but it still maintains its Internet presence at starlog.com. It's worth seeking out the early back issues, if you can find them. Feel free to download their first issue at the download link provided.