Comments on: Showcase Presents Strange Adventures

By: Martin Skidmore

Martin Skidmore — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:10:10 +0000

Extra note: there is a story later in the volume where a man travels through time to find a world where gorillas in uniforms a little like those in the POTA movies dominate humans, who they treat as slaves. This story was published in 1956.

By: Martin Skidmore

Martin Skidmore — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:51:19 +0000

Yes, it was published in 1955. There are plenty more gorillas in the volume too, all clever. Carmine Infantino’s great Flash villain Gorilla Grodd would predate 1963 too.

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:28:07 +0000

I am assuming this would have had a seperate, basic, colourist – but whoever did it I am sure was thinking of bananas for the rocket ships. When was this story printed, does it pre-date “La Planète des singes” (1963)?

By: Martin Skidmore

Martin Skidmore — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:21:35 +0000

Yeah, Gil Kane was sometimes a bit slipshod in some small ways – a terrifically dynamic artist, but he couldn’t always be bothered doing a proper job in some respects – there’s a very poor dog by him in a story in here (I have started reading it since – worth the money for the handful of stories where Carmine Infantino inks himself. The most beautiful work I’ve ever seen by him, and I was already a fan).

By: lonepilgrim

lonepilgrim — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:24:08 +0000

their rockets look like bananas to me – and they look more like chimps – are they confused? I am

By: Dan M.

Dan M. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:39:52 +0000

By the way, I first thought that this cover was supposed to accompany the article below, about Gaza in network news coverage. It made for an interesting, inexplicable, but obviously satiric illustration…

By: Dan M.

Dan M. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:37:20 +0000

That’s a beauty. And how prescient! Well… er… actually, not really prescient in any way at all, is it? But a beauty! Thanks for sharing, Martin.

By: Dan M.

Dan M. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:37:20 +0000

That’s a beauty. And how prescient! Well… er… actually, not really prescient in any way at all, is it? But a beauty! Thanks for sharing, Martin.