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Fossilized Funnies, Issue 28.
Hi guys!
Wild variation on the "Thing" theme, Jim! I've never seen this one before. What prompted you? Was it for a special occasion or just a spontaneous artistic urge? Anyway, your flurry-obscured monstrosities seem the welcoming sort! "Come on in, everybody! We're so very happy to eat... uh... meet you!"
So... are Treebeard and his cohorts haunting your Michigan homestead or protecting it? With guards like this, who needs ghosts! No need to worry about Saruman taking over while you're away! They have it in for that particular gent!
Some nerve, parading a Glyptodon past us and pretending it's a Diplodocus! I know my antique beasties, pal!
Boy, I really do appreciate Basil Wolverton's artwork, even on a macroscopic level! The stuff he did on black velvet is particularly nice:
Funnies # 14, "Island of the Monsters", is rather short and the narrative will be presented in its entirety. It's the only tale in a comic that was supposed to have been longer, but that project got abandoned after the first entry was done. This kind of thing happened more than once and I'm not sure why... possibly I got more interested in another storyline and couldn't bear to wait until the current one was finished. Whatever the excuse, there's a whole lotta unused pages in this volume. Happily, you won't have to sit through those.
"Island of the Monsters" is yet another dinosaur story. This time, prehistoric wildlife faces off against the US military, a concept inspired by DC's "War That Time Forgot" comics. Except for the splashing plesiosaur... that probably came from Universal's 1957 movie, "The Land Unknown":
Next week... Amateur Epics: "Extreme Toys - Snowboarding & Freeski Playmobil Adventure".
