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Now added to the blog: the complete art from the 1954 RCA 78 rpm "official album" of the film "20,000 LEAGUES", plus the covers of both the 1963 and 1971 LP reissues. This is the "kiddie-fied" version of the story.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/05/jules-verne-part-12.html

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Now added to the blog: one of the COOLEST things I've ever seen,
the 1954 View Master version of "20,000 LEAGUES"!!! 
The images are the work of fellow fan Todd Popp,
as originally presented at the Selling Tourist Infosite blog.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/05/jules-verne-part-14.html

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My research on this project continues. 2 different websites contained what I needed for the Dan Spiegle comics. "Voyages Extraordinaire"-- a Verne-related site-- gave a brief history on the series, but was MISSING some info. It also contained a link to the "Nemo Nautilus" blog, which was set up by a guy who does model-kits of the Disney Nautilus-- and, oddly enough, posted scans of the ENTIRE Spiegle series, but with no info connected to it whatsoever. Isn't that strange?

By the time I'm done, my blog will have EVERYTHING related to this, and more. For example, I found, at the GCD, by using a database search, that after "Walt Disney's WORLD OF ADVENTURE" was cancelled after only 3 issues, the 4th episode of "The Adventures of Captain Nemo" appeared in a TV-movie tie-in book called "The Horse Without A Head". NO, REALLY. (This was something the guy at "Voyages Extraordinaire" was apparently unaware of.) A few years later, "Walt Disney's COMIC DIGEST" reprinted the first 4 episodes in random issues, out of sequence... THEN, printed the previously-UNPUBLISHED 5th episode, 6 years after it was done. I mean-- WTF???

These scans are REALLY dark, but I've dealt with that sort of thing before...

Dan Spiegle became a favorite of mine when he did "BLACKHAWK" in the early 80s with Mark Evanier. To me, these comics deserve better than they've gotten.

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I've just finished cleaning up the 1st episode of "The Adventures Of Captain Nemo" from WALT DISNEY'S WORLD OF ADVENTURE #1 (April 1963), with art by DAN SPIEGLE!  The scans I found online were SO dark, I'm actually astonished I was able to get them to look as good as they do now.  Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/06/jules-verne-part-16.html

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Just finished coloring an entire book for Andre Campbell. Here's the cover & first 10 pages of AMERICAN SENTINELS #4, available soon!

http://professorhszodiaccomics.blogspot.com/2014/06/american-sentinels-part-3.html

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JUST signed into the board again with my NEW ("rebuilt") computer.  The Windows Registry got screwed up on the old (8 years old) one), and while it's still working, so much is wrong with it, I've been kinda forced to now have to deal with WINDOWS 7... and so far, am HATING every single thing about it.

I'll probably KEEP using the old computer, if only for MICROSOFT WORD, as that program just makes sense to me, as does the FILING SYSTEM on the older Windows system. Any way I look at it, this is gonna be a B****.

Ah well,,, back to the coloring, THEN more CAPTAIN NEMO, I hope.

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Taking a break between 2 other projects, I got back on cleaning up the 2nd episode of "THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN NEMO", from WALT DISNEY'S WORLD OF ADVENTURE #2 (July 1963), with art by DAN SPIEGLE! Although the raw scans I grabbed from another website were not of the highest quality, I did what i could to make this look at nice-- and as readable-- as possible. Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/06/jules-verne-part-17.html

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 I've just finished cleaning up the 3rd episode of "The Adventures Of Captain Nemo" from WALT DISNEY'S WORLD OF ADVENTURE #3 (October 1963), with art by DAN SPIEGLE! Apparently, WORLD OF ADVENTURE didn't sell too well, as it ended with only 3 issues. I can't help but wonder if it might have sold better if the covers had placed more emphasis on CAPTAIN NEMO and less on just about everything else. Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/06/jules-verne-part-18.html

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I've just finished cleaning up the 4th episode of "The Adventures Of Captain Nemo", which appeared in-- of all places-- "Walt Disney's THE HORSE WITHOUT A HEAD" (January 1964), with art by DAN SPIEGLE! There was 1 more episode done by Dan Spiegle, but it wouldn't turn up for another 6 years. Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/06/jules-verne-part-19.html

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GOOD news!  Thanks to a Google search, I just found a blog containing-- at least-- the first 6 episodes (12 pages in all) of the UK revival of "THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN NEMO", that appeared in DONALD AND MICKY magazine in early 1972.

Clean-up and re-posting to follow...!!

http://m-a-w-h-light.blogspot.com/2012/07/finding-captain-nemo-episode-1.html

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cool

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I've just finished cleaning up the 6th episode of "The Adventures Of Captain Nemo", which was done for "Walt Disney's COMIC DIGEST" #36 (August 1972), again with art by DAN SPIEGLE, whose style has by this point evolved into the more recognizable style I remember from "BLACKHAWK" and so many other later comics. Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/jules-verne-part-21.html

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Last night got really nuts.

I found out the GCD was missing the info for "Isle of the Lost"-- which was actually in COMIC DIGEST #36.  (I found that out at the Inducks site.)  Which means I'm still missing Episode 5, "Mr. Malison's Mansion".  However, another Google search revealed that another fan, Robert Day, had also posted the same 5 episodes at the ALL SCI-FI message board-- and had, only about a WEEK ago, gotten ahold of a copy of COMIC DIGEST #26.  I'm hoping to get in touch with him to see if I can get raw scans of the story.  (The images he actually posted were much smaller than the ones Jonathan Leslie had.)

I'm registered at the site, but am still waiting to get an e-mail from them to activate my account.  (I hope that place isn't run by the same people who are running Captain Comics into the ground... THEY "permanently banned" me from there!)

This meant some shuffling around of my blog pages-- fortunately, before I'd gone too far.

While I was at it, I also found (at the same board) scans of PANIC #11, Wally Wood's parody of the 1954 movie, apparently done some months before Jack Kirby's version of the same thing.  I didn't even know about it until last night.

The longer I work on this project, the more stuff keeps turning up!!

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"At first, I thought the later one might have been sitting around unpublished for several years, but on closer inspection of the art, I've come to the conclusion it was actually done NEW just for the digest.  Dan Spiegle's art, which I could barely recognize before, has noticeably evolved into the style I'm familiar with here, and, he's only using 4 panels per page, which to me, strongly indicates the story was created specifically for the smaller digest format."

I'd guess you're right as it looks like the original stories he drew for the Mystery Comics Digests around the same time.

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I've been updating ALL the "Jules Verne" pages at the blog to add links and make them more consistent.  Here's something I added to the overview (which I probably should find a place to also add in to the later pages)...

"The construction and opening of the "20,000 LEAGUES" ride in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, in 1972, apparently inspired a number of promotional tie-ins, beginning with a 2nd U.S. re-issue of the film."

Just as the 1963 reissue of the film inspired Gold Key to reprint the comic-book adaptation, and do the "prequel" spin-off (and for Disneyland Records to do what may have been a remake of the "story" LP), my guess is the small burst of film-related merchandise, including the reissue of the film itself, may have been tied in to the Florida attraction. I can just picture it... "You've seen the movie-- now, RIDE THE RIDE!"

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Just finished cleaning up the 1st of the ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN NEMO stories from IPC in England.  The art is by Jim Fair.  Apparently, there were only 2 of these stories done.  If anyone has the other one, please let me know!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/jules-verne-part-22.html

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I'm on a roll this week! JUST posted, Fleetway's
1975 "Look And Learn" adaptation of "20,000 LEAGUES"
with art by Bill Baker.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/jules-verne-part-24.html

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Totally out of left field...

From August 1979 comes "STAR", possibly one of the most OBSCURE stories ever done by the ever-delightful and bizarre STEVE DITKO. I scanned these pages in back in Dec'08, but it took me until TODAY to remember they were tying up space on my hard drive. Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/questar-4.html

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Just posted, from 1992, the longest and possibly most spectacular comics adaptation of "20,000 LEAGUES" to date, by Gary Gianni!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/jules-verne-part-26.html

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Just posted, from the November 1996 issue of BOYS' LIFE magazine, the Bank Street Classics adaptation of "20,00 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA", with fully-painted art by Ernie Colon!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/jules-verne-part-31.html

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And now, something to blow your mind! Just set up at my blog, an overview of Jules Verne's "JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH". As with "20,000 LEAGUES", this has been broken down into 2 pages, with the split being just about 1970. Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/jules-verne-part-34.html

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Just posted: the Seymour Reit & Ernie Colon version of "JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH", from the March 1995 issue of BOYS' LIFE.  Enjoy!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/08/jules-verne-part-36.html

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Just posted: an overview of "THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND" !!!

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/09/jules-verne-part-38.html

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First, it was SPACE CONQUERORS!  Then, STORIES FROM THE BIBLE.

Now, from BOYS' LIFE magazine...  OLD TIMER TALES OF KIT CARSON !  True-life stories of the old west, by writer Stanley Pashko & artist Lee Ames.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/09/old-timer-tales-of-kit-carson.html

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More senseless bloodshed & violence, from the official magazine of The Boy Scouts of America!

OLD TIMER TALES OF KIT CARSON, 1952

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/09/old-timer-tales-of-kit-carson-part-2.html