Sci-Fi heroes like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers have been a matinee staple since before most of us were born, and their comic descendants aren't too hard to find.
Though sometimes, what we find might not be quite what we were seeking. Go looking for an Adam Strange, and one might instead find a strange Addam ...
A strange Addam indeed. It's hard to define it as a parody when played so straight.
As you might guess from that final blurb, this tale comes to us from Magic Carpet - their 2nd issue released 40 years back in '78 by Comics & Comix. Located in Berkley*, CA, C&C was another very local operation, primarily a comic shop and briefly a small publisher. But they did better than many others on the distribution front. Though their print catalog was quite small, it included some excellent material including the first six issues of Jack Katz's classic The First Kingdom. Though at least a cover was prepared, there was no 3rd issue. Magic Carpet #2 was the final comic book published by Comics & Comix.
We'll see more from them before long. For now, you'd probably like the cover of this issue, eh?
Alien Confrontation written & drawn by Jim Pinkoski for Magic Carpet #2 (1978)
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*(...and San Francisco, Sacramento, Palo Alto, and Citrus Heights)
