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Strange Worlds was the name of two American, science-fiction anthology comic book series of the 1950s, the first published by Avon Comics, the second by a Marvel Comics predecessor, Atlas Comics. Each featured work by such major comics artists as Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Joe Kubert, and Wally Wood.
The first comic-book series to be titled Strange Worlds ran 15 issues published in two sequences by Avon Comics. Issues #1-10 ran cover-dated November 1950 to November 1952. No issues #11-17 were released, and the series began publication again with #18, having taken over the numbering of the defunct Avon comic Eerie. This second sequence ran through issue #22 (Oct./Nov. 1954 - Sept./Oct. 1955). One ongoing feature in the otherwise anthological title was "Kenton of the Star Patrol".
While Avon was a minor comics publisher in relation to such contemporaneous industry leaders as Atlas Comics, DC Comics, and EC Comics, the series featured artwork by such top talents as Wally Wood, who would soon go on to become an industry star at EC; Joe Kubert, later a signature artist of DC's Hawkman and Sgt. Rock; portrait painter Everett Raymond Kinstler and Western-art painter Charles Sultan, early in their careers; and seminal African-American comics artist Alvin C. Hollingsworth a.k.a. Alvin Holly.
The second Strange Worlds was a short-lived series from Marvel Comics' 1950s predecessor company, Atlas Comics. Running five issues (Dec. 1958 - Aug. 1959), the title nonetheless showcased artwork by industry legend Jack Kirby, who penciled all but one cover and supplied a story each in issues #1 and #3, and future Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, who drew the cover of #2 and a story in each issue.
The premiere issue's cover and its seven-page story "I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers" marked Kirby's return to Marvel, which he had left in 1941[1]; three years later, he and writer-editor Stan Lee would create the industry-changing superhero series The Fantastic Four.
Other well-known comics artists who drew for the Atlas anthology included EC Comics greats Joe Orlando and Al Williamson; and future Marvel mainstays Dick Ayers, John Buscema, Don Heck and Joe Sinnott; and Human Torch creator Carl Burgos and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle artist Bob Powell, both veterans of the 1930s-1940s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books.
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Strange Worlds was a science-fiction anthology, that was first published by Avon Comics, in November 1950. The run continued until issue #10 in November 1952, when the series was then shelved.
Strange Worlds reappeared two years later in October 1954 with issue #18. The reason for the jump in sequence number is that the second run of Strange Worlds inherited the sequence of Avon's Eerie title which had been dropped.
This second run lasted only 5 issues ending with issue #22 in October 1955. 'Kenton of the Star Patrol' was the only regular feature in what was otherwise a science-fiction anthology.
During its life the series featured artwork by such names as Wally Wood, Joe Kubert, Everett Raymond Kinstler Charles Sultan and one of the first African-American comic book artists Alvin C. Hollingsworth, known was Alvin Holly.
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MARVEL'S STRANGE WORLD'S
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Strange Worlds
The past few years have been very good to us fan of the Monster Era at Atlas.
We’ve been able to witness the greatness of pre-hero Kirby and Ditko in a
variety of places. One title that has been overlooked to date is the short-lived
Strange Worlds. This series is very tough to find, and commands hefty prices in
the back issue market. Marvel would be doing us all (or me, at least) if it
could just put together a nice, slim volume of this 5-issue series. This is a
Kirby/Ditko extravaganza, but you’re also treated to work by the likes of Bob
Powell, Al Williamson and Don Heck. I’d snap this one up in seconds.
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Oddly enough, the Russians had a hand in launching pre-hero Marvel, and so did DC. The Ruskies heated up the space race with the Sputnik-satellite they shot into orbit in 1957. One result of this was another wave of popularity for the science-fiction genre. And DC, in 1957, published Jack Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown to an enthusiastic audience. So when Kirby showed up at the door of the all-but-dormant and maybe-moribund Atlas, telling Stan Lee that it could be done again, he knew whereof he spoke. The post-Code marketplace may have been a smaller pie, but if you could cut yourself a big enough piece...
The herald of the new Marvel-to-be was Strange Worlds #1, cover-dated December 1958, and the deluge began in 1959 with Tales Of Suspense and Tales to Astonish joining World of Fantasy and the revived Journey Into Mystery and Strange Tales.
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