Wednesday, March 21, 2018

SPACE BUSTERS "Empress of Belzar"

Ten-Hut!
Think Don the John was the first to consider militarizing "Space, the Final Frontier"?
SpaceBusters was a war comic set in the future.
Think of it as a less-sophisticated version of Starship Troopers, sorta "Sgt Fury or Sgt Rock in Space" with "spacebusters" being slang for front-line soldiers, much like "dogface" or "leatherneck"!
Interestingly, it featured a woman (albeit noncombatant) as part of the front-line team.
As to the plot...Belzar has invaded our Solar System, managing to conquer Mars, with Earth next in line.
However, Earth's military is about to launch a counter-attack...
The art for this tale from Ziff-Davis' Space Busters #1 (1952) was by Bernie Krigstein, who went on to do astounding work at EC Comics before leaving the business for commercial art and teaching at New York's High School of Art & Design.
We're re-presenting this entire never-reprinted series every Wednesday...including a couple of stories that ran in other titles after the book was cancelled!
Don't miss them!
Until next time...
Dis-missed!

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