SPACE DETECTIVE ""Metal Murderers of Mars"

When Last We Left Our Galactic Gumshoes...

Art by Joe Orlando & Wally Wood

Note: this was at our "brother" blog, Atomic Kommie Comics™, so faithful readers of this blog haven't missed anything!
Now, on with Part 2...

The story concludes tomorrow back at  
Atomic Kommie Comics™

Nobody's been able to identify the writer or artist(s) of this middle of a kool 3-part tale from Avon's Space Detective #2 (1951).
Personally, I see elements of Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, and Joe Kubert in the art, but nothing definitive.

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SPACE DETECTIVE "Opium Smugglers of Venus"

Art by Joe Orlando and Wally Wood

When Man finally reaches deep space, it's a sure bet that criminal activity will follow.

That's the premise of this 1950s series that combined gumshoes and ray guns.

You can read a background dossier about the character HERE and see the first part of this three-part story HERE.

One you've done that, continue with the second part (originally titled "Ballet of the Living Dead") entitled...

The series opener from Avon's Space Detective #1 (1951) was written by Walter Gibson, the primary writer of The Shadow pulp novel series under the name "Maxwell Grant", and illustrated by Joe Orlando and Wally Wood.

The Space Detective story concludes tomorrow at our "brother" blog, Atomic Kommie Comics™.

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WOMEN TO LOVE Part 1

Here's a book-length cross-genre tale based on a popular 1930s novel...

 ...encompassing both crime and romance in equal measure with an adult-oriented plotline and lots of violence!

You won't have to wait a week for the next chapter!

It'll be posted tomorrow in our sister blog True Love Comics Tales™, the chapter after that on Thursday in Seduction of the Innocent™, then, the conclusion in Atomic Kommie Comics™ on Friday!

Novel by Sinclair Drago (aka Harry Sinclair Drago, who also wrote Westerns under the pseudonym "Bliss Lomax".)
Illustrated by Myron Fass. 
The comic's scripter/adapter is unknown.
This tale has been reprinted several times in the '40s and '50s, but not since then...until now!

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