Monday 13 April 2020

From a comic, 1953...



No doubt, by now you know my love of old sci-fi comics - especially from the 1950s and earlier. This is from Weird Science (1953), and I thought this panel strangely prophetic. The colouring is 21st century, but it's pretty close. Makes it more readable.
These comics are full of WW2 references. This was later categorised as a 'horror' comic. I use these in lectures at college, they still have a power ro horrify that strongly, modern comics don't unless they really goover the top. I'm guessing that the writers and artists that created these had seen first hand, callousness and brutality; and real injured and dead people - in a way that most modern artists have never.
This story, by the way is about a man that can't help himself shrinking. So small that he finds himself as a giant on a miniature solar system on an atom. Hence the picture. He continues shrinking and finds that even atoms have atoms and these are also small worlds, and so the story goes on...


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