(Above) A fantastic Wally Wood cover for this issue, and on the inside, a fun-tastic Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein masterpiece, illustrated by Joe Orlando… and one I would never forget! Read “Chewed Out!”
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Ha! What a wonderfully ridiculous dénouement! And that *gorgeous* cover! Its got everything! Cool flying saucers! Gloppy aliens! Robot suits! Kids! A PUPPY! Beautiful stuff, HRH Drexler. Thanks for opening up your magical storehouse of goodies to satiate the savage geek.
Great comic. And now I have Oingo Boingo running through my head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDe5Ckt4joQ
Called it as soon as I read about the acidic envioronment and the clear parallel they used with the “foliage” as the general orders Sauerkraut on his hot dog.
Fun stuff
I wonder if some bean counter insisted upon the Editors’ Note.
A funny idea, but eye dialect…ouch.
Apparently this [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smwd8b0ycBg]commercial[/url] by a Dutch insurance company wasn’t as original as it looked.
A quick description:
A space ships is shown approaching Earth and then an interior shows an alien army gearing up for war.
An exterior shots show the ship entering the atmosphere and then shot showing a trailer with some people outside and the text: time to the call Apeldoorn*.
Then an interior shot shows the aliens being thrown around inside their ship as the ship crashes in to something. An exterior shots show the ship stuck on a piece of flypaper firing the engiens to get loose. Followed by zoom out with the text: or not just yet.
* Apeldoorn is the city where the main office of this insurance company is located.
Delightfully silly
Love that cover though. So bright and colorful, and that flying saucer looks particularly cool.
These aliens end up in a hot dog, and in Douglas Adams’ Hitch-hiker trilogy a mighty attack fleet gets eaten by a little dog. There’s a grim lesson in these unfortunate situations to you spaceship designers, how extremely vital it is to pay attention to scale.
(Maybe that’s why they supersized the new Enterprise, just to be on the safe side?)
always loved the design of that ship..
Sure it was obvious from the get-go that they were on the hotdog… but it was suspenseful as WE knew what he was doing to them! Alfred Hitchcock’s advice to let the audience in on the coming horror before the characters know about it was used here to good effect.
Oh, Doug, baby… I have started a new blog devoted to Sci-Fi now… I have on on Trek, and one on Monsters, as you know… now beam over to Fantastic Flashbacks blog, which the website link above points to! Hope you enjoy it also.
Love that saucer ship with mini saucer shuttles!
That was a fun story. These guys had a great vision of aliens being very different from us, as seen in the cover and the story. I wonder how far away this little ship traveled in our two Earth years, seeing how the ship itself is so small.
Thanks for the enjoyable read this weekend, Doug!
Um. This is not the right thread, but I put my password in for the virtuality thread… nothing happens.
It’s not your password, it’s one Doug set. Not sure why though…
Man! What trip down memory lane! I’ve always loved these things!
Keep ‘em coming.
I didn’t know I was supposed to have a password.
Wow, that was quite the fun little twist at the end there! They really told some fantastic stories in these magazines!
Somehow I expected it to end like that… with such a title, it was either that, or Omnipotus.
Great stuff! The artwork reminded me of Berni Wrightson’s style.
This reminds me of another comic book story where a dog chewed up the space travelers. The Concept was also later used by Douglas Adams in he “HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy”. It’s still funny.