Digital Comic Museum - Weird Tales Of The Future 003


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Weird Tales of the Future 03 - Sept 1953 - c2c
Prime Basil Wolverton x3--along with a magnificent cover-- PLUS a blatant Ming The Merciless swipe and a Tony Mortellaro-drawn story where the characters increasingly look like macrocephalic bobble-head dolls (and no, that's not part of the narrative).

26-April-2014 3:14 am	\|
Username:	freddyfly
Comment:	lower-quality Canadian printing
26-April-2014 11:16 am	\|
Username:	SCOTT
Comment:	Never thought I would get to see an original copy of this one.....it's a relic but a very welcome relic, thanks SteveD!!
26-April-2014 3:44 pm	\|
Username:	SteveD
Comment:	And yet, FF, the absurdly misregistered printing overall adds to the overall surreality of even a pedestrian effort like "Slave Pits Of Uranus." On the one hand, the fact that a company like Morse's was (even if unconsciously, in their efforts to scrabble any available dollar from the funnybook reading public) publishing gems like "Nightmare World" and "Jumpin' Jupiter" makes them all the more notable, on the other hand, and nevertheless, the majority of the output from companies like Morse's are indicative of the overwhelming idea that most of these firms felt they were doing nothing more than printing poop on toilet paper, as down and dirty as the presses would permit. And still we sift, skimming gold from the dross...

Issue: #3
Published: September 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Synopsis:	In a cemetary at night, a large zombie bursts out of the ground behind a woman mourning at a grave.
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Monster on Mars
Synopsis:	After seven years of being stranded on Mars, Bob is asked by a giant hand from Venus for help against Mercurians (green humanoids with elongated arms and legs). After the Mercurians are defeated, the hand reveals its true form; Princess Teba. Teba is a shapeshifter who looks like a beautiful Earth woman and was being chased by the Mercurians who have invaded her homeworld. Bob agrees to return to Venus with her.
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Bob Burke Teba Koglok

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Slave Pits of Uranus
Synopsis:	The evil Lord Kazmar of Uranus has ships invulnerable to Earth's weapons and demands Earth send him slaves to work the dangerous Lectium mines on the planet. He does this because the slaves he has are near death. Earthmen come to Uranus and the slaves give them weapons to defeat Kazmar's ships. The slaves then grab Kazmar and drag him down into the Lectium mines to die with them.
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Kazmar Mike Banner Ellan

Comic Story (4 pages)
Featuring:	Jumpin' Jupiter
Synopsis:	Gzink thinks he is too handsome and needs to change to get a woman to stop chasing him so he asks Jumpin' Jupiter to make him uglier. The woman then falls for Jupiter.
Genre:	Humor Science Fiction
Characters:	Jumpin' Jupiter Gzink Bfnxpp Floyd (bird)

Text Article (2 pages)	Frontiers of Tomorrow
Synopsis:	An analysis of the problems of travelling to different planets.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Non-fiction

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Desert Castle
Synopsis:	In the year 1995, Professor Cowles has invented a serum that can turn unliving matter to living matter. He accidently spills some living cells he created onto an empty suit of armor in the castle his laboratory is set up in. The suit comes to life and tries to kill him and his assistant. They destroy the suit by dissolving it with acid, but they notice the suit had a skeleton. They realize they just murdered a living being.
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Cowles Carson

Comic Story (4 pages)	Nightmare World
Synopsis:	Herman uses a chemical to probe the world of the subconscious. When he enters the world everything seems serene until he encounters a grotesque monster that turns him into a monster. When he wakes up he finds that he has become the monster in the real world.
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Herman Lasher

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