Today's main feature for our 3 Day Matinee is...
That there is pure distilled essence of comic book, is it not?
Of course, first up we have our ongoing serial -
Twin Earths, by
Oskar Lebeck and
Alden McWilliams.
Previously on Twin Earths:
Terra is an advanced human inhabited world existing in an opposite orbital position from Earth, each perpetually hidden by our sun from the other.
Vana, a defector from Terra, is now believed dead by her home world, thanks to the efforts of her
Earth allies in the
FBI. As she and agent
Garry Verth finally relax after ending the threat on her life, they begin to discover a clash of cultures along with their budding romance -
Twin Earths - Chapter 9:
Since last we saw the
Boy King, he had his
Giant tow the population of
Swisslakia to the
United States of America.
(Fortunately, the ocean between Europe and North America is never greater than thigh deep to the giant) They capture a
Nazi ship along the way as a peace offering to their new homeland while the giant puts the make on Lady Liberty's statue.
In the USA,
David encounters a master Nazi spy named
The Crane for his mechanical extending arms. I suspect we'll come back later and see the incredibly clever ruse by which he manages to seize control of the giant, forcing the Boy King to earn his right to control the automaton. But today, we have their most epic confrontation -
Nostradamus's Giant Robot vs. Nazi Giant Robot Dinosaur!
This time the art is solely
Dan Barry.
(Al Mandel took over art on
Nightmare & Sleepy, which had previously been drawn by both)
Some might argue this is the very reason comics exist. Therefore, we present the two-part 30-page tale in its entirety -
pages from Twin Earths (1952) and Clue Comics #s 4 & 5 (1943)
