The Secret of the Ant-Man (Batman #156, 1963)

In an issue more famous for its cover (see tomorrow’s posting) comes this story from 1963 featuring DC’s own Ant-Man, debuting almost a year after Hank Pym assumed the same nom de plume over at Marvel.

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The Secret of the Ant-Man (Batman #156, June 1963) © DC Comics
Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; Inks: Charles Paris

Life on Other Worlds: Jupiter (1945) by Murphy Anderson

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Planet Comics #35 (March, 1945), © Fiction House
Art by Murphy Anderson

Kepler Discovers Harmonice Mundi

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On this day in 1618, Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonic law later published in his five-volume work Harmonice Mundi. Kepler explored analogies between the solar system and the ratios found in musical tones, an extension of what Pythagoras had described as the "harmony of the spheres". Link

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Dalek Comic Strip (1965): The Origin of The Daleks!

It’s 1965 and Beatlemania has swept the world. On TV, Gerry Anderson’s Stingray is chronicling the adventures of Aquanaut, Troy Tempest, and The Thunderbirds are awaiting their signal to ‘GO!’ On the newsstands the pseudo newspaper magazine, TV Century 21, launches, mixing stories of real science with comic strip-style stories of TV shows from both sides of the pond.

Presented here are the first 13 strips of The Daleks, scripted by David Whittaker, but credited to Terry Nation who created them for the Dr. Who TV show. For more info go HERE

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Haunted #1: 3 by Ditko

An all-Steve Ditko issue kicks of the new series, Haunted, from Charlton Publishing in 1971. Steve puts in a much better than average effort on all of these stories, showing a lot of the creative spark he had brought to his earlier Marvel and DC work.

THE ROOM OF MADNESS!

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REVENGE OF THE GHOST-SLAVE!











IT'S ABOUT TIME!









Haunted #1 (Sept., 1971) © Charlton Publishing
All art by Steve Ditko