3-Day Weekend Matinee: Day The Third

I've got too many exclamations points laying around unused. Time to unload some!

Welcome back to our 3-Day Weekend Matinee!
Three Thrilling Tales!!!
Our 3rd chapter of Oskar Lebeck & Alden McWilliams' classic Twin Earths!
The return of Joe Kubert's Son Of Sinbad!!
The concluding chapter of Bob Powell's Vic Torry And His Flying Saucer!!!
Oh, the excitement! (Most of which comes from finally managing to connect and post this to the queue. Weather warming up again, and net connection failing. Oh, the joys of living outside the city!)

Okay... I think we used up a fair bit of our surplus - On With The Show!

Twin Earths - Chapter 3:

Previously on Twin Earths: Vana, an agent from Terra, has revealed the existence of her world to government agents of the United States. Occupying the opposite position on the same orbital path as Earth, Terra is scientifically more advanced than Earth, and poses a great potential danger - if she can convince the men in charge...

To Be Continued...

If you missed it, we recently took a quick look at Son Of Sinbad from Joe Kubert back in 1950. Here's another tale from that lone volume -

And, now - the exciting conclusion of Vic Torry And His Flying Saucer!

While looking for background information, i found that not only has Vic Torry's tale been reprinted in recent years, but Atlantis put out a 5" model of his flying saucer!

Nice to see some of those old lost strips being remembered. If you're interested in the model, here's their web page for it.

Twin Earths by Oskar Lebeck and Alden McWilliams for United Features,   Son Of Sinbad by Joe Kubert for Son Of Sinbad #1, Vic Torry by Roy  Ald and Bob Powell for Vic Torry And His Flying Saucer #1 (1947, 1950, 1952)

More Old Joe

The Universe, as you might have already noticed, has a wicked sense of humour. As i've noted before, all too often, we are the punchline. As i try to get some focus back on the blog and outside world, the net connection suddenly starts manifesting strange non-connection issues. (For example, the connection died multiple times while writing this, but i believe i can get it to post later on, before i give up for the day) Hopefully, they won't go supercritical.
Meanwhile...

When we think of Joe Kubert's artwork, it tends to be highly detailed and very individualized inks, almost instantly recognizable, such as this shot of one of his most well known tours of duty -

But, as we saw previously, that wasn't always the case. One of my favorite examples of this divide between his earlier and later works is his Son Of Sinbad -

Were it not for his signature, Kubert would have been pretty far down my list of guesses on the identity of the artist. But, back in 1950 (eight years after the Volton strips from last time) St. John put out a full book of Joe Kubert's Son Of Sinbad tales -

In addition to that first splash above, there were three more tales -

Of course, splash pages are nice teases, but tend to leave one wondering how the stories themselves played out. So, let's go back to those first images and see the debut tale of Son Of Sinbad -

pages by Joe Kubert for Son Of Sinbad #1 (1950)