Secret Of The Altron Boy - Part The First

One reason this blog was started was rescuing old fan comics from the dark recesses of lost history. Today, let's take a look at the Altron Boy from Larry Ivie and his short-lived, but excellent, Monsters and Heroes zine - 

Already looking pretty zootie, eh?

Altron Boy's adventures debuted in 1967 and ran through all seven issues of M&H over the next 3 years, for a total of 54 pages spread over 9 or 10 chapters, depending on how one counts. 

We'll come back later (stop laughing) to look at Monsters and Heroes and some of the great material contained therein. But for today, let's get carried away and run the complete Altron Boy comics. (We'll look at the TV Pilot another time, okay?) To my knowledge, the series has never been collected or reprinted, and only the first chapter has ever appeared online. It's well past time to correct that.

Since we are looking at 60 pages (including covers), let's split this into two posts. Part I this morning, Part II this afternoon.

You don't need to wait too long. The second half is in 9 hours - 3:33pm, Pacific Hermit Time.

page art by Larry Ivie from Monsters and Heroes #s 1-3 (1967, 1968)

It All Started With This Purple Footed Ostrich Roller-Skating Down The Old Kent Road...

Whatdyaknow? I actually know what day it is today. So let's have some Sunday Morning Funnies. Since it's been a little while since they were monkeying around here, our stars today are The Monkees! (Yeah, i'm excited)

Most of today's funnies come from The Monkees' 1967 & 1969 UK Annuals, with one little bonus exception at the end...

Sometimes they liked to work with double page spreads for the stories. Those often had border art added to help fit the page format of the annuals. I've trimmed that to fit the page format of the blog. Well - sort of fit. They're big images, so they fits when you clicks...

See it, not saying it.

In one of the early posts on the boys, i ran a couple of panels from a story in which they added a robot to the band. Here's the full story from which those panels came: Volt's Concerto In DC Minor -

For our promised Bonus - more robot fun, this time from Steve Skeates and Jim Aparo -

Don't look so surprised. I did mention that Aparo did multiple Monkees comics last time i ran one. I know of at least one more...

page art from The Monkees Annual #s 1 & 3, and Teen Times #5 (1967, 1969)