SPACE BUSTERS "Battle for Alana"

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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When Ziff-Davis dropped their comics line (except for G.I. Joe), several publishers bought up both the unpublished material, with St John picking up the bulk of it!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...

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SPACE BUSTERS "Frog Men Against Belzar"

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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...

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SPACE BUSTERS "Death Rite of the Dwarfs"

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In space no one can hear you die...

...as we present the third chapter of the Mars Campaign from Ziff-Davis SpaceBusters #1 (1952)

This Bernie Krigstein-rendered story concludes the Space Busters tales from issue #1!

But we're not proceeding to #2 next week!

There was a major artistic shift between issues, resulting in much of the already-completed work for #2 by Krigstein being "written-off" and later published by other companies who acquired the comic division's assets after Ziff-Davis dropped the line (except for G.I. Joe) in 1953!

The second issue contains a artistically-rebooted series with a new "look" created by illustrator, Murphy Anderson, fresh off a run on the Buck Rogers newspaper strip!

You'll see that version next month!

Beginning next week, we'll be presenting those tales in the correct order (Space Busters #1.5, as it were!)

Until next time...

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ATOMIC WAR! "Arctic Assault"

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We return to a potential near future (the 1960s as seen in 1952)...

 ...where the Cold War became hot when Russia launched a sneak attack on the US and NATO with nuclear weapons!

Could Draft-dodger and current National Security Advisor candidate John Bolton have been inspired by this never-reprinted tale of aerial atomic action in the Arctic from Ace's Atomic War #4 (1953)?

Bolton would've been 5 or older when he read this issue at home or at the local barber shop, or in his friends' collections (presuming he had any friends)

The writer is unknown, but the illustrator was Ken Rice who rendered the bulk of the stories in both Atomic War! and World War III!

See you soon...

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Visit the Atomic PX...

 ...for all your radiation-proof 
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SPACE BUSTERS "Charge of the Battle Women"

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Space is the place for battle...

It's a fascinating look at male-female relationships as shown in comic books of the 1950s, proving those Lois Lane comics and their attitudes towards women weren't an aberration.

BTW, you'll notice the Amazons on the comic's cover (shown above) are wearing considerably less...armor! ;-)

Until next time...

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