Showing posts with label Great Exploits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Exploits. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

SPACE BUSTERS "Battle for Alana"

Ten-Hut!
No, recruit, your eyes do not deceive you...
...This Space Busters #1.5 tale is in 3-D!
Put your 3-D glasses on (blue lens on right eye!) and enjoy!
One of the changes made for the second issue of Space Busters was to expand the war against Belzar as the aliens lost their hold on Mars and "Earthian" forces pushed outward!
Human traitor Senstral commands these attempts to "hold the line", after having failed to do so on Mars!
When Ziff-Davis dropped their comics line (except for G.I. Joe), several publishers bought up both the unpublished material, with St John picking up the bulk of it!
This never-published Space Busters story by Bernie Krigstein was converted to 3-D to fill out the St John one-shot Daring Adventures 3-D (1953)!
Until next time...
Dis-missed!

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

SPACE BUSTERS "Frog Men Against Belzar"

Ten-Hut!
After the stories for Ziff-Davis' Space Busters #2 were written and drawn...
...most of them were shelved, as a new artist, Murphy Anderson, was brought on board to revamp the series' look!
However, the Bernie Krigstein and Martin Stein-illustrated stories that didn't make it into Space Busters #2 did find new homes!
This particular tale is the most-reprinted Space Busters story of all, appearing in St John's Daring Adventures #6 (1954), Decker's Great Exploits #1 (1958) and IW's Strange Planets #18 (1964)..under a new Ross Andru/Mike Esposito cover as shown above!
Oddly enough, though the aliens invading Mars remained "Belzarians" and the Terrans were referred to as "Earthians", the individual heroes went through a name-change.
Blond/blue-eyed Captain Brett Crockett received a new name, becoming "Captain Andall", while his balding and mustached sergeant, Bolo, became "Sgt Bala".
And the nickname "SpaceBusters", used incessantly in the two issues of the series, is nowhere in sight...
We proudly present the lead story of Space Busters #1.5, which is also the final story of the Mars Campaign...
Until next time...
Dis-missed!