Logan's Run: The Movie & Beyond!

I loved Logan's Run, me. Loved the movie, loved the books, adored the TV series, and thrilled to the Official Marvel Comics adaptation. And as I said on the Kids From Rec Road site recently, loved the idea of the story continuing past the film, as it did for only one issue here.
This follows on a couple of hours after the end of the flick, and as you'd expect, now that the computers have stopped working, anarchy reigns and everything's up for grabs.
DAK & George Perez, who did the adaptation, have presumably moved onto bigger and better things, but we have the ace team of Tom Sutton & Klaus Janson here, along with John Warner on script, and I always wished this run had continued.
Warner was a solid, if unspectacular, writer who produced a Son Of Satan series I didn't like, and a Bloodstone one I did, and here he's in full Marvel writing mode. I often say that movie adaptations weren't 'Real' Marvel to me, but with Logan endlessly explaining and vocalising his every thought here, this couldn't be more classic Bronze Age Marvel if it tried. If only it had continued...

The Kids From Rec. Road In: To Swap Or Not To Swap

Still one more week before The Kids From Rec. Road return in all-new senses-stunning adventures, so this week we're presenting another blast from the past ie. the strip me & Sean ( Philbo ) Phillips did for the Thought Bubble con, that brought us Kids back into comicdom in the first place! Plus, over at:

We're talking Cons themeselves! Good experiences? Bad experiences? Are cons getting better or worse? Do you even still go to them? Tell all, at kidsfromrecroad.blogspot.com as always...!

Junk Carter, Warmonger Of Mars

Semi-prosaic reality intrudes on free-wheeling fantasy now, as Wally Wood goes back to his MAD roots, while giving his then apprentice Ralph Reese a chance to shine in Creepy.
Warmonger Of Mars really does feel like a lost MAD strip ( though without the layers of 'chicken fat' background gags Harvey Kurtzman & Will Elder would've snuck in there ), and while it's obvious that at least some panels were laid out by Woody, Reese's patented beautiful grotesqueries are really the stars.
And Kurtzman would've loved that ending.

Whatever Happened To... Rex The Wonder Dog & Detective Chimp?

Back to the back pages of DC Comics Presents now, for another Whatever Happened To...? and this time it's a double bill of semi-forgotten Silver Age characters, as we welcome back Rex The Wonder Dog & Detective Chimp!
And in case you all think I've gone mad, check it out:
Rex comes with a dynamite, you should excuse the phrase, pedigree having been occasionally written by Bob Haney and drawn by both Alex Toth and Gil Kane, and Bobo, the Detective Chimp? He's a chimp. Who's a detective. The defence rests.
Of course, Bobo has been re-updated, resurged and re-booted now, but I'm not sure Rex has had the same kinda luck, and certainly back in the Bronze Age, no one gave a stuff about our hirsute heroes.
Rex & Bobo shared a respectable 46 issue run in the '50s, with The Wonder Dog getting top billing, and getting up to all sorts, including facing off against dinosaurs:

Becoming a Red Indian chief:

And even teaming up with Bambi:

But both Rex & Bobo seemed to spend most of their time hanging round the local circus, as in these two tales starring each battling beastie:

But whatever happened to Rex The Wonder Dog & Detective Chimp? Well...