Saturday Night Romance

As mentioned earlier, our main feature tonight is a romance tale - from the guys who invented the genre.
We haven't seen Jack Kirby since the King Kirby 100 celebration back in August. Seemed like we should give everyone else a chance before getting back to him.
 It's been long enough.

So tonight we've got The Man I Loved Was A Mama's Boy! from Jack, with inks from his old partner Joe Simon, from their Young Romance comic.
But, before that, we've got Jet Dream and her Stunt-Girl Counter-Spies (when did that get hyphenated?) encountering a jade tiger - Ting-A-Ling...

To wrap up, a little romance - Jet Dream style (without the hyphen) -

Jet Dream takes a break and we'll be visiting with more old friends for Sunday Morning Funnies. But Jet & the team will be back for the afternoon matinee.

Jet Dream pages by ?? and Joe Certa for The Man From UNCLE #s 10 & 13, Mama's Boy by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon for Young Romance #10 (1967, 1949)

Saturday Matinee - Jet & Joe

This weekend we're doing our semi-regular matinee feature, but we're doing so with old friends - comics we've visited before (and often are likely to visit again). Just because Jet Dream's stories are conveniently short 4 pagers, she'll and her team will be bracketing our main features.

This time out, it's Joe Guy: America's Foremost Hero. We've seen his two previous adventures and are (ever so slowly) leading up to the big confrontation/meeting with his father in the fifth and final episode. In today's tale, he faces Cardinal Synn: Archfiend Of The Universe.

For Jet Dream and her Stunt-Girl Counterspies, it's animal action this time - Tigers and Spiders - Eek!

Next time, the team gets a new tiger.

It's Saturday! Sounds like a good night for a romance feature, eh?
See you then.

Jet Dream's Spider by Dick Wood, Mike Sekowski, & Mike Peppe for The Man From UNCLE #8, Jet Dream's Tiger by ?? & Joe Certa for The Man From UNCLE #9, Joe Guy by Jim Stenstrum & Abel Laxamana for The Rook # 9 (1967, 1981)

'Mazing Solutions

Before we get to the mazes, a tip of the hat* to Top Cat James for correctly identified the odd Marvel magazine that sourced our puzzles this week - Pizzazz!

Yeah, i know there's no exclamation point in the printed title, but doesn't it seem like there should be one?

Okay, for anyone who's lost and needs a map to find their way out, here are the keys to yesterday's mazes:

As we saw yesterday, though Spider-Man adorns the cover at the top of this page, the cover of Pizzazz(!) wasn't limited to Marvel characters...

...or even characters from the same franchise...

...in fact, sometimes it could get a little crazy...

...or a little crazed...

Think that might be "Hydra" Cap?

Hell (Demonically presented), sometimes it even got ugly...

...it was a weird little magazine while it lasted.

But let me note, that while i used Ugly for that cover above, i do love Meatloaf and think that Paradise By The Dashboard Light is one of the all-time great rock songs. However, watching  him perform may be a thing of beauty, but it is not pretty. So i stand by the comment for the cover image, but with respect and adoration.

puzzles and covers from Pizzazz magazine (1977, 1978)

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*(Pork Pie? Boater? What type of hat did Top Cat wear?)

Star Trek Vs.

We'll resume out series on the Fly Girls after the weekend. In the meantime...

With the never-ending battles between Star Trek and Star Wars fans, folks tend to forget that there used to be another battle for SciFi Top Dog. It kinda-sorta went like this...

pages by Flash Kiernan and Buck Tallarico for Quasimodo's Monster Magazine v2 #8 (1976)

'Mazing Marvel

When gathering up games and puzzles for the blog, there's one type i generally tend to ignore - Mazes.
The reason is quite simple: they usually suck. We're talking sucking bubbly farts out of dead toad frogs suck.
So, it's pretty odd that we're going with mazes for today's edition of

There was one source for well done mazes designed with a bit of thought. It was a magazine from Marvel, which means we also get comic/superhero themes for many of them.

Here's easily the wicked-coolest of their maze offerings...

...and here's a Quick Quiz Question:
What Marvel magazine published these mazes?

For a hint, ponder this detail image from the final cover:

Gee. You don't suppose that killed the mag, do you?

mazes from ... find out tomorrow (then)