catman76 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I love crazy DC scifi stuff. How could anyone not love stuff like this?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I enjoyed reading these as a kid, back in the 70s, when I bought the reprint titles. It wasn't until 1981 that I discovered EC science-fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 I love crazy DC scifi stuff. How could anyone not love stuff like this?... #CallingOakman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan Boy Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 I enjoyed reading these as a kid, back in the 70s, when I bought the reprint titles. It wasn't until 1981 that I discovered EC science-fiction. Same with me, I found several old DC sci fiction comics. They were beaters but I read the stories. I like the zany themes. I later discovered Charlon comics with same theme and I thought they were bit better. But... until I found the EC reprints in early 80s. That stories blew my mind I to space! I thought the writers/artists were geniuses to think up such stories. Still, I do like DC books for the fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquareChaos Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Yea, most DC Sci Fi undervalued. I keep all I get. Great covers and stories DC had Marvel beat hands down in the sci fi dept. well thats a superhero book not a sci fi book also its mostly just photos I still stand by my statement. What is the distinction? None of them were 'hard sci fi', they all probably fit better into the same category as Star Wars - FF included - over generic sci-fi. +1 Science heroes, using advanced technology in their adventures. Reed Richards, Hank Pym, Tony Stark, as good examples. Not all the books had Adam Strange. In fact overall, few did. And when he was in a book there were 2 other stories. They were all hard science fiction short stories. No heroes besides the occasional Atomic Knights. For an example the first book I posted, 'The sky High Man' was about a space traveller who returns to Earth after a long voyage and discovers the part of the universe he was in was expanding faster than the part where Earth was so when he returned he was too big! This is hard sci fi. This is typical of 90% of the DC sci fi stories and there is no science hero involved. I have a different view of what makes something hard science fiction. Your example story isn't hard science fiction, it's mumbo jumbo when measured against everything we think we know about the observable universe. It's a Twilight Zone episode. Or akin to Reed Richards and the Ultimate Nullifier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze_rules Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 A kind of aside, but I've been watching a Twilight Zone marathon recently, and I'm amazed at how prescient many of the themes are with respect to today's era: examples include: AI jobs being replaced by AI genetic engineering and vanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquareChaos Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 A kind of aside, but I've been watching a Twilight Zone marathon recently, and I'm amazed at how prescient many of the themes are with respect to today's era: examples include: AI jobs being replaced by AI genetic engineering and vanity The original, and even some episodes from later, were really interesting... even if they weren't all well made, they were very watchable and at times thought provoking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 I am going to an auction Saturday that has one of those Mystery in Space issues in pretty nice condition! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Yea, most DC Sci Fi undervalued. I keep all I get. Great covers and stories DC had Marvel beat hands down in the sci fi dept. well thats a superhero book not a sci fi book also its mostly just photos I still stand by my statement. What is the distinction? None of them were 'hard sci fi', they all probably fit better into the same category as Star Wars - FF included - over generic sci-fi. +1 Science heroes, using advanced technology in their adventures. Reed Richards, Hank Pym, Tony Stark, as good examples. Not all the books had Adam Strange. In fact overall, few did. And when he was in a book there were 2 other stories. They were all hard science fiction short stories. No heroes besides the occasional Atomic Knights. For an example the first book I posted, 'The sky High Man' was about a space traveller who returns to Earth after a long voyage and discovers the part of the universe he was in was expanding faster than the part where Earth was so when he returned he was too big! This is hard sci fi. This is typical of 90% of the DC sci fi stories and there is no science hero involved. I have a different view of what makes something hard science fiction. Your example story isn't hard science fiction, it's mumbo jumbo when measured against everything we think we know about the observable universe. It's a Twilight Zone episode. Or akin to Reed Richards and the Ultimate Nullifier. These were comic books. You're not gonna find the Foundation Trilogy or anything here. For comic book stories these are hard sci fi and vastly superior to anything Marvel did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 (edited) Kav...please...what are you doing? Almost everyone had forgotten about these books and prices have been low. I'm not done getting all the ones i want yet. Stop turning newbies on to these gems... Edited January 20, 2017 by tricolorbrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhymenoceros Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Being the anything "of space" is always badass... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted January 20, 2017 Author Share Posted January 20, 2017 dang I blew it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickycollector Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Up there with Ape covers when it comes to DC sci-fi. There are many of them. Here are a few examples: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted January 20, 2017 Author Share Posted January 20, 2017 From what i read DC polled kids and apes were top of the list thus the many DC ape covers. Jimmy Olsen books really went ape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 dang I blew it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 I've been reading a lot of Adam Strange stories-he should throw his ray gun away-it never has any effect whatsoever on any menace he ever faces. Maybe get something more effective like a pea-shooter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90sChild Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Awesome thread, i made a similar one for alien covers you would enjoy browsing. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=406408&Number=9291087#Post9291087 kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 WOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjpb Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I feel like there should be a Strange Adventures cover with Apes in spaceships using some gimmick to pull earth out of it's orbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
