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Date | Number: 110 | Lang: English (en)
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Motion Picture Comics #110 May 1952, 36 pgs. c2c. The art on "When Worlds Collide" was drawn by George Evans and inked by Al Williamson, (two of my favorite artists by the way) who by the way actually drew themselves into the art of the story. See if you can find them in it. Comic adaption of the classic sci-fi film -Geo scans
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Fawcett really did a super job with all of their science-fiction one-shots - Destination Moon, The Man From Planet X, and Vic Torry and his Flying Saucer. Makes me wonder why they never tried an ongoing SF title -- either an anthology series of short stories, or a SF-hero series. This wasn't the first time that Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie's WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE had been adapted to comics, however. Earlier, it had been a newspaper strip, with the hero's name changed to the title character of SPEED SPAULDING. I guess it's only fair that the adaptation made the hero's name sound Flash Gordon-ish, since Flash's origin story was directly inspired by Balmer & Wylie's novel (with planet Mongo replacing planet Zyra). The newspaper strip later made its way into comic books in FAMOUS FUNNIES No. 72 (July 1940) and ran until issue 88. Check it out at /?dlid=31720 beginning on Page 18.
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I used to own the VHS of this movie from the early 1950s, so was interested to see what the comic adaptation was like. Always difficult to adapt a whole movie in a 32-page comic. So many character names were thrown in at the beginning, that I had a bit of trouble keeping track of them. The story-telling is a bit pedestrian, but the overall story is okay. Lots of completely far-fetched aspects. Apparently if you can fly planes and helicopters, you can fly a rocket ship with no training. Also, when sending the remnants of humankind and some animals to a new planet, it's not important to check the atmosphere first. Just step out of the ship and hope for the best. The romance was also a bit contrived. But it's an interesting example from the times. The art is good. Sci-fi fans probably would have loved this one. I would have loved to see comic book adaptations of 'Forbidden Planet' and 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'.
  
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NameMotion Picture Comics 110 When Worlds Collide | Published
PublicationPrice: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: bimonthly
 
Cover1 page
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IllustrationNo Title (1 page)
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Notesinside front cover; 2 black and white photographs from movie
 
CreditsNo Title (1 page)
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PencilsGeorge Evans
InksGeorge Evans Al Williamson
NotesMovie credits with background illustration
 
Comic StoryWhen Worlds Collide (31 pages) (original screenplay)
GenreScience Fiction (original novel)
Script (adaptation) (original novel)
PencilsGeorge Evans
InksGeorge Evans Al Williamson
NotesCredit from Jerry Bails's Who's Who.
Adaptation of the 1951 motion picture "When Worlds Collide", which was based on the 1933 novel of the same name.
 
IllustrationNo Title (1 page)
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Notesinside back cover; 2 black and white photographs from the movie
 
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Notesback cover; photograph of 3 lead actors from movie
 
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