In this issue:
When the Mummy Walks
7 pages :: Jack Kirby/Dick Ayers
reprinted in Where Creatures Roam 8, Journey Into Mystery 19
It Fell From the Flying Saucer!
6 pages :: Jack Kirby/Dick Ayers
reprinted in Fantasy Masterpieces 5, Monsters on the Prowl 13, Weird Wonder Tales 9
:: Coming Soon ::
............. Philip Parodayco :: 17 February 2004
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'It Fell from the Flying Saucer” is one of the earliest Kirby fantasy stories I remember reading as a child, in the pages of Fantasy Masterpieces. Always wanted a pen like that! And doesn't the fellow look like Bing Crosby on page 2, panel 1?
............. nick caputo :: 07 December 2003
I've always thought that this issue's cover would have made a great movie poster!
I always found it interesting that mummies were the only “classic” monsters that were allowed to be used in the early post-comics code world - vampires, werewolves and zombies were strictly off limits.
Hey Nick, maybe Joe Sinnott inked that story. After all, I have read that he is a big Crosby fan.
............. Bill Cox :: 04 January 2004
The Comics Code forbade the depiction of the “living dead”. Mummies were a way around that, since they looked like living dead but could easily be shown to be aliens, robots, etc., under their wrappings.
............. Chris Jarocha-Ernst :: 06 January 2004
hI Bill,
Sinnott is a big Crosby fan, but the inking on this story is by Darlin' Dick Ayers.
............. nick Caputo :: 20 January 2004
The fans are singing! Join the choir, oh Jubilant One.
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