The Thing From The Sea! by Wally Wood (1954)

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Art by Wally Wood
From Eerie #16 (1954), © Avon

Life on Other Worlds (1946) by Murphy Anderson

From Planet Comics #46 (1947);
Art by Ruth Atkinson(?). © Fiction House

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From Planet Comics #43 (1946);
Art by Murphy Anderson. © Fiction House

The Flying Fool (1947) by Kirby and Simon

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© the current copyright holders
Link Thorne, The Flying Fool by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon
from Airboy #11, 1947

Born This Day: Karel Capek

Doom Patrol © DC Comics

Karel Čapek (Jan. 9, 1890 – Dec. 25, 1938) was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1921.



The word robot comes from the word robota meaning literally serf labor, and, figuratively, "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech, Slovak and Polish. The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude" ("work" in contemporary Russian), which in turn comes from the Indo-European root *orbh-.

While it is frequently thought that Karel Čapek was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, Josef Čapek, as its actual inventor. From Wiki

Dinosaurs of Space

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Tales of the Unexpected #54, © DC Comics
Script by Arnold Drake; Art by Bob Brown

Life On Other Worlds: Venus by Murphy Anderson (1945)

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From Planet Comics #34 (1945);
Art by Murphy Anderson. © Fiction House

The Man Who Hated Christmas! (Superman, 1947)

Cover art: Wayne Boring & Stan Kaye

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE ATOMIC SURGEONS!


Superman © DC Comics


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Action Comics #105 (Feb. 1947) © DC Comics
Script: Jerry Siegel; Art: John Sikela