The Flying Fool (1947) by Kirby and Simon

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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

Land of The Living Dead by Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel

Forbidden Worlds #5 (March-April, 1951), © American Comics Group.

The Grand Comic-Book Database lists this story as being penciled by Al Williamson and inked by Roy Krenkel, but I’ll bet that Roy drew most of the architecture in the backgrounds as well. This would have been one of the earliest published pieces for both artists.

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The All-Seeing Eye by Jack Kirby Explained By Modern Physics

"T-rays" will make X-rays obsolete!

THz or T-rays, are the most under-developed and under-used part of the electromagnetic spectrum. They lie between microwave radiation and infrared (heat) radiation and can penetrate through opaque dry materials. They are harmless and can be used to scan humans.

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By varying temperature and the magnetic field, scientists can tune the pulses and observe the behavior of the waves.

"The highlight of our results is observations of interference of magnetoplasmons. By tiny changes in the applied magnetic field or temperature, we can make plasma waves amplify or cancel each other. This makes the whole sample either completely opaque or transparent to the incident THz radiation."

"Using THz cameras, we could detect weapons or drugs concealed on a human body, or look inside envelopes and boxes," he says. There are many other applications for THz radiation, including material studies, chemistry, biology and medicine." link

Ref.: Interference-induced terahertz transparency in a semiconductor magneto-plasma. 2009. X. Wang, et al. Nature Physics.

Abstract: Maximum modulation of light transmission occurs when an opaque medium is suddenly made transparent. This phenomenon occurs in atomic and molecular gases through different mechanisms, whereas much room remains for further studies in solids. A plasma is an illustrative system showing opacity for low-frequency light, and light–plasma interaction theory provides a universal framework to describe diverse phenomena including radiation in space plasmas, diagnostics of laboratory plasmas and collective excitations in condensed matter. However, induced transparency in plasmas remains relatively unexplored. Here, we use coherent terahertz magneto-spectroscopy to reveal a thermally and magnetically induced transparency in a semiconductor plasma. A sudden appearance and disappearance of transmission through electron-doped InSb is observed over narrow temperature and magnetic field ranges, owing to coherent interference between left- and right-circularly polarized terahertz eigenmodes. Excellent agreement with theory reveals long-lived coherence of magneto-plasmons and demonstrates the importance of coherent interference in the terahertz regime.

Tales of the Unexpected #12 (April, 1957), © DC Comics
Art by Jack Kirby