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Killraven’s War of the Worlds

Killraven’s War of the Worlds

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In 1973, the future was going to suck.
We had the science fiction to prove it!
Soylent Green told us we’d have too many people, and wouldn’t be able to feed them. Planet of the Apes — going on its fifth installment — said we wouldn’t have many people, but we’d have plenty of mutants and apes. In The Andromeda Strain, a virus from outer space would nearly destroy mankind; in The Omega Man, a biological plague would wipe out civilization, (but spare Charleton Heston). In Colossus: The Forbin Project, a malevolent supercomputer would lord it over a bleak totalitarian future. A Clockwork Orange and THX 1138 promised us stylish but grim days to come. In Westworld, our robot pleasure slaves would hunt us down for sport. Silent Running showed that we’d kill our planet with pollution, and Night of the Lepusaugured that mankind (and DeForest Kelly) would suffer if bunnies got really big and really, really mad.
giant bunny stampede from Night of the Lepus
Despite this science fiction close at hand, Marvel Comics creator Roy Thomas would reach back to the dawn of the 20th century for yet another dystopian vision of the future as the basis of a new science fiction series in 1973 — a series that would go on to provide a grimmer vision of man’s future than all those movies combined. The War of the Worlds in issues #18-39 ofAmazing Adventures was “based on concepts created in the novel” of the same name by H.G. Wells, about as tepid a line of marketing text as you’ll ever find on the cover of a comic book. Yet the roots of the book were more than faithful to that novel’s concepts — the 19th century Martian invasion occurred exactly as Wells described. It’s just that Wells told us only half the story, not living to see the follow-up Martian invasion of 2001 that flattened earth’s defenses and turned our planet into the private reserve of Martian overlords taking sadistic pleasure in the subjugation of the human race.
for the Martians of Amazing Adventures, subjection = sadism
As Thomas points out on the letters page of the first issue, his series concept harkens to Wells’ vision of life under Martian occupation, with scattered human remnants living in the ruins, and amoral human collaborators serving their Martian masters. But that’s about as much of Wells as you’re going to find in this series — the rest is all mutants, gladiators, monster-haunted landmarks, and deviant super-science. Our hero for this war of the worlds is the escaped pit fighter Killraven, who faces a catastrophic future with a sword, a raygun, and an equally catastrophic fashion sense in a desperate fight for freedom in one the funkiest funny books of the 1970s.
Wow, that’s a bad look.
Even Sean Connery couldn’t pull off that look (though he would give it a try, a year later, inZardoz).
The early 1970s were a grim time for science fiction, friends! Star Trek was off the air andStar Wars wasn’t yet a glimmer in George Lucas’ eye. Without a template for successful SF, though, creators felt free to try all sorts of crazy things, and many of the craziest ideas of the age would wind up in this comics series. Though conceived by Roy Thomas, he would never actually write an issue of the book, which would bounce around between creators like Neal Adams, Howard Chaykin, Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Herb Trimpe, Rich Buckler, and Gene Colan before settling on its signature team of Don McGregor and P. Craig Russell … at which point a fairly forgettable sword and science adventure pulp morphed into a unique, incomplete, and deeply weird minor classic.
The series is essentially an odyssey for the main character Killraven, eager to run down reports that his brother might be alive, and tormented by “clairsentient” visions indicating he might be more than a post-apocalyptic barbarian with a blaster and a blade.
The series employs the familiar post-holocaust trope of ruined landmarks, but Killraven’s landmarks have their own charm, whether it’s the monster-haunted ruins of Yankee Stadium, or slave market in the Lincoln Memorial. The tale moves through an America in ruins, not just from Martian invasion, but also from our own greeds and desires — the storytellers rarely miss a chance to skewer advertising, consumerism, fast food, amoral science, and pollution of the environment as human sins that indicate we didn’t know how good we had it before the monsters came, though stopping just short of suggesting mankind has gotten his just deserts.
No one deserves the terror brought to earth in this series. The villains of War of the Worldswere genuinely vile, bloodthirsty mutants and half-mad human collaborators eager to capture Killraven to dissect him in a lab, or stake him out to be eaten alive by rats as “mural phonics” broadcast his terror to a cringing human slave population wired to feel Killraven’s terror as their own. Especially odious is Atalon, the Fear Master, who lords it over Chicago’s palace of Death-Birth, where he forces human breeders like “Adam-3031″ to lick the mud from his boots, then fondles the pregnant belly of his enslaved cell-mate, “Eve-3031,” wherein gestates a child he intends to offer up on a Martian banquet table.
The supporting characters are a mixed bag — there’s the strong guy, the sidekick guy, the chip-on-his-shoulder guy — but over time they do develop personalities of their own, and become Killraven’s own band of merry men. Unusual for it’s era (for any era, I suppose), this run features psychologically complex female characters. The best developed is Carmilla Frost, a rogue scientist who joins Killraven’s “Freemen” in the company of her “Clonal Man” father, Grok. Carmilla is haunted by the scientific research she did for her former Martian masters, and charts her own path of rebellion, but admits she’d prefer the chance to live in a world that allowed her to be “soft” every now and then. She’s also notable for her interracial relationship with Killraven’s right-hand man, M’Shulla, possibly a first in mainstream superhero comics. Carmilla is pretty clearly the brains of Killraven’s outfit, letting Killraven think he’s leading the group, while she instead pulls the strings — just one of several powerful female characters in this series, such as the briefly-glimpsed Mint Julep, a leader of her own rebel band, or Volcana, a medical experiment with otherworldly fire powers, who seeks her lost sister in the Martian torture palaces, and lives for the moment in her aggressive amorous pursuit of Killraven.
Strong and assertive women form a recurrent theme in this series, for good or for ill. The first issues of the run introduce “Martian Sirens” — leggy supermodels like something out of Space Channel 5 who seduce men to their doom (yet mysteriously fail to have any effect on our hero). There’s also the recurring tension between our hero and Carmilla Frost, and wrapped around these themes are stories about masters, and slaves, and slaves who escape to become masters, delving into emotional and symbolic territory a bit richer than many books of the day.
Killraven fights his share of female monsters, too.
No sooner has the book settled into its own narrative groove than it is gone, which should have come as no surprise. The series had too many fill-ins and reprints for a bimonthly book, and dire warnings and pleadings for sales were a staple of Amazing Adventures letter columns seemingly from the start of War of the Worlds. Divorced as it was from the superheroics of the Marvel Universe, the book must have been a tough sell (though a Bill Mantlo fill-in issue late in the run cheated in some Marvel superheroes, to poor effect). So, too, was the book a difficult read, with Don McGregor’s overwrought text sometimes making it seem he was paid by the word … but the team was also testing their limits, creatively, with mature themes and some groovy page layouts that still sparkle all these decades later.
Like a lot of the books I review here on Longbox Graveyard, the miracle isn’t that this book was cancelled, but that it ran as long as it did. It is a difficult series to appraise — it scarcely has a beginning, and it ends without warning or resolution, leaving us with a meandering and mysterious middle. It is telling that the book’s master plot held that our heroes were supposed to be traveling from Washington D.C. to Yellowstone Park, but that the series concludes … in a Florida swamp? There’s a lot of heavy lifting that’s never paid off — like the fate of Killraven’s brother, Carmilla’s true motivations, and the reason that Killraven experiences out-of-body visions through the eyes of his Martian enemies — and that’s a shame, but maybe tying up all the loose ends would have ruined the sometimes dream-like nature of the book when it is at its very best. If the book died before its time, neither did it live long enough to go into inevitable decline. McGregor and Russell would take another crack at the tale in a revisionary graphic novel, and later series under different creators would return to the tale, and attempt to finish it, or re-start it, or rationalize it in some way, but that’s all more commerce and trademark protection than art.
And art is what Killraven creators Don McGregor and P. Craig Russell set out to make with this book, which forgives many sins — the reprints and fill-ins, the dropped storylines, the fractured writing style and pointless side-trips, the abrupt and unsatisfying ending. The three-part “Death Birth” story, especially (Amazing Adventures #27-29), is an effective science fiction adventure pulp, with unspeakably evil villains, high stakes, and meaningful heroics. If Deathlokwas an ace concept that never found its footing as a series, Killraven might be considered it’s mirrored twin — a jumbled-up high concept that proved more than the sum of it’s parts, taking one step back for each step forward through it’s run, but definitely strengthening along the way.
It’s a shame this crazy War of the Worlds never found its orbit.
  • Title: Killraven’s War of the Worlds (Amazing Adventures)
  • Published By: Marvel Comics, 1973-1976
  • Issues Reviewed By The Longbox Graveyard: #18-39, May 1973-November 1976
  • LBG Letter Grade For This Run: C-plus
  • Read The Reprint: Essential Killraven
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  1. rabensam | August 1, 2012 at 4:10 pm
    How could I never have noticed the similarity between Killraven’s original outfit and Zed in Zardoz? Now that you’ve pointed it out, it’s so obvious — and yet presumably a total coincidence.
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    • Paul O'Connor | August 1, 2012 at 4:23 pm
      I blame the sartorial indiscretion of the entire decade.
      That hairy-chested Sir Sean could emerge from his role in a red diaper with his dignity and screen reputation intact speaks either to his bulletproof popularity or an alliance with dark forces.
      And how have we arrive in a new century without a Zardoz comic book adaptation? I should have expected Marvel to do a Super Special on release, and Malibu Comics to do a three-issue limited series in 1991.
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  2. Tom Mason | August 1, 2012 at 11:23 pm
    If you’d come to us with a pitch for a Zardoz comic, we’d’ve gone for the rights in a heartbeat.
    The Killraven stuff was one of my favorites of that era. I don’t think it always succeeded but it was just packed with interesting stuff – stuff that wasn’t going on in other comics – and I never missed an issue. Yeah, it was swords and guns and Martians, but it also felt like “grown-up stuff” was happening. A lot of the other Marvel writers were working the superhero mines and trying to find a new Spider-Man or Fantastic Four story, but Don McGregor (like Steve Gerber) seemed to be bursting with ideas in search of a vessel to lay them out. And like they did with Gerber and Defenders, it feels like Marvel just tossed Don Killraven (“Let’s give the fringe book to the new guy!”) and he took it and ran. Interracial relationships, interracial friendships, strong female characters, consumerism, politics, and other things all got an airing in its pages and Don still never forgot the Marvel mantra of having the characters fighting and killing stuff.
    Plus Russell’s art didn’t look like anyone else’s at Marvel and it looks visionary compared to other comics being published at the time, as if he somehow snuck in when Roy wasn’t looking. I think if you check the letters pages, you’ll find some fairly serious discourse from big name letter writers of that era. Comics historian Peter Sanderson, Eclipse Comics founder Dean Mullaney, Harris-and-Dark Horse Comics editor Meloney Crawford, Claypool Comics founder Ed Via and many others were fans.
    And, of course, looking back with the perfect vision of hindsight, it’s easy to see that Don wasn’t going to be long for corporate comics – he had stuff to say that went beyond Spider-Man misunderstanding Hulk and fighting him for 14 pages. He’d be one of the first, if not the first, to break out with his own creator-owned stuff like Sabre and Detectives, Inc.
    (I got to hang with Don, and his wife Marsha, on several occasions in the 1980s, and it was because of those encounters that I started forming my own ideas about creator-owned work and understanding why that was important.)
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  3. Paul O'Connor | August 2, 2012 at 12:04 pm
    Pitching a Zardoz comic to you guys would have required that I watch the movie all the way through (or maybe not). In any case I never got past the big floating head at the beginning. I did used to go over to a friend’s house in the 1990s to hang out and the only entertainment he had was a copy of Zardoz on Betamax, so I’ve seen scenes here and there. “The Penis Is Evil!”
    This 1973/4 period when Roy Thomas was EIC at Marvel (I think, could be off on the dates) does seem an especially “anything goes” era, with books like Killraven, McGregor’s Black Panther, Deathlok, and everything Gerber did seeming unlike anything Marvel did before or since. This, of course, was the time I first started reading comics, and it led me to expect that it would always be this way. You can imagine my reaction as comics from the Big Two have become increasingly tightened down and pre-chewed, their original vision too often limited to some “bold” reinterpretation of continuity minutia or costume redesign.
    I recall that McGregor’s creator-owned Sabre book spun out of some unrealized ideas for Killraven. Very cool that echoes of McGregor’s work carried forward into the founding principles of Malibu Comics.
    I should track down the graphic novel that McGregor and Russell did but I’m not anxious to wreck the dream-like nature of my affection for this run.
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    • rabensam | August 2, 2012 at 12:52 pm
      Clearly I’m the one who should have pitched a Zardoz comic rather than Paul, because I’ve watched it many times and even own the DVD. I’ve long argued that once you get past the 70s silliness, it’s actually one of the very few SF films that acknowledges the progress of prose SF beyond the 1930s and is pretty sophisticated in its social critique…though you wouldn’t know that from the wardrobe. If anyone out there is holding the rights, drop me a line!
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      • Paul O'Connor | August 2, 2012 at 1:24 pm
        I should connect you with my Betamax friend, who simarilry steadfast in asserting Zardoz’s hidden merits.
        Me, I just can’t get past the red diaper and the hairy chest!
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  4. Mars Will Send No More | August 2, 2012 at 1:38 pm
    You must have chosen only the most amazing pages from a series you rate at C+. Because, these pages look like a cavalcade of pure awesome!
    Mother to the dawning galaxies?! Mind = Blown. Licking mud from Martian boots?! These creeps seem even more perversely evil than the nasty aliens in Strikeforce Morituri.
    Russell’s artwork and McGregor’s prose really sing on these sample pages. Perhaps we should look past the silly costume and give this one a shot.
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    • Paul O'Connor | August 2, 2012 at 1:44 pm
      I think I did pick the best pages, Mars, but you should track these down, I think you’d like them. Prices were very reasonable at MyComicShop.com last time I checked (and affiliate linked here).
      I bet this book would be a solid B on the Mars Will Send No More scale. No dinosaurs but it does have tripods and octopod Martians!
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      • dizzy | August 7, 2012 at 4:57 pm
        I ❤ you guys! 😜 roflol
        I’m going to check out Zardoz upon my return from Planet Claire. Might I find it here, I wonder…?
        I’ve long suspected Connery of being allied with the dark forces, as well, P. 😉 lol
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        • Paul O'Connor | August 8, 2012 at 9:25 pm
          Good, bad, or indifferent, everyone should experience Zardoz once in a lifetime. I expect you can get all the best bits off of YouTube, though that will sabotage the context. Which might not be a bad thing.
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  5. charltonhero | December 22, 2012 at 7:57 pm
    To say that Killraven was loosely based on War of The Worlds is an understatement. Killraven for all intents an purposes had nothing to do with that book outside of some light back story. Killravens suit is hardcore too.
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    • Paul O'Connor | December 23, 2012 at 3:21 pm
      Yes, the series very quickly departs from its literary roots, but I doubt it would ever have been green lit without that pedigree. I recall being extremely confused when I picked my first (and only) issue off the rack, back in the summer of 1974. The experience was so disorienting I didn’t return to the series until I acquired the back issues in preparation for this article!
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  6. nate | January 21, 2014 at 3:30 pm
    Killraven, despite some of the advanced and downright sad and melancholy stuff going on, epitomizes the word “hoot”. Martian breeding pits? I’m a sucker for such devices.
    In Avengers Forever, we see a timeline where the last Avengers are fighting off the Martians, and Killraven is one of them, along with an old Black Panther and a battered Crimson Dynamo. The series is confusing, but this panel made me glad I picked it up.
    The 70’s were really the last high point for mainstream sci-fi comics. This, Gerber’s Guardians of the Galaxy, and Machine Man are all really good, and it is more than a shame that we don’t see more of these.
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  7. mavericlion | October 2, 2014 at 12:31 pm
    Zardoz-the movie where Sean Connery must have lost a bet with somebody.Other than inspiring Kr and my Toreus Rhann,Zardoz was way too weird.And for Killraven-the comic died by story two.
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  8. mavericlion | October 2, 2014 at 12:47 pm
    es, the series very quickly departs from its literary roots, but I doubt it would ever have been green lit without that pedigree.Departed-it violated Wells whole point.The Martians were at an evolutionary end.The invasion was a last attempt at survival.Nobody was back on Mars.So no second invasion and no surviving second Martian force.My blog Sometimes Comics Are Crap goes into this further.The Martians were superior in brains and technology-that why they used tripods to support a weak body-big heads,no legs-just tentacles.They could even hear well.And I think shitty eyesight.And food-those Grock like monkey things-all gone.That why they started drinking human blood.They big mistake.No Kr a hundred years later with his sci fi future.No grock.no eating babies.no skar.No 24 Hour Man.Just Jonathan Raven standing with his brother wonder what an exint Martian civilization looks like.Martian remains in jars.War Machines in musceums.Did Marvel even read the book?Wells wanted to show how a superior forces-Martians-the Brits came take the land,kill some locals,but die in the process of local germs.That was the point,not what would happen if somebody fought back.Germs Marvel-Germs fought back,as Martians drank flu body and shit their brains out,crashes Tripods into walls,streets and each other.
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TIME TUNNEL IN BIBLE?

I previously likened the "bridge building project" as being designed to span a two-mile wide chasm but in practicality, requiring a bridge linking San Francisco and Hawaii. Now I'm considering the gulf to be more "interplanetary" so any "fellowship" will have to be conducted (metaphorically speaking) via radio or rocketship. If our two planets exist in separate solar systems in different parts of the galaxy, then we'll require fictional assistance in the form of "sub-space radio", "warp drive", or a transpacial wormhole.

Point being, this bridge building job just got a whole lot harder.

While structure remains a problem, Dr. Kinzer says the following is of vital importance:
It seems clear from the Apostolic Writings that one of the crucial functions of this ritual is to be an expression and instrument of unity (1 Corinthians 10:16-17; 11:17-32). It is also clear that the Apostles viewed the partaking of food at the same table (in contexts which likely included a eucharistic dimension) as a primary sign of the reconciliation of Jew and Gentile in one community (Galatians 2:11-14). Thus, any adequate structural and communal embodiment of bilateral ecclesiology will need to provide contexts where members of the Jewish and Gentile wings of the one ekklesia can gather together to celebrate HaZikkaron as one two-fold body.
Ovadia suggested a practical application based on my Boychiks in the Hood metaphor:
Messianic Jews and Gentile Christians can be "ekklesia" together without necessarily being part of the same congregations. We should worship jointly, feast for Yeshua's sake jointly, participate in tikkun olam jointly, study jointly. But jointly. Not as an blob of amorphous Jew-Gentile, but as Jews and Gentiles, each confident in their own God-given identity, together. In your metaphor, the two neighborhoods should come together regularly to throw block parties, and keep those friendships.
That requires some working out of community standards for food at the very least and perhaps a mutually agreed upon worship structure (siddurim, hymnals, or both?) as well. 

Of course, Dr. Kinzer is talking about establishing and maintaining relationships primarily with people who are affiliated with a traditional Christian church, not those of us who are part of what Derek Leman calls Judaically-informed Christian congregations (AKA One Law groups). To be fair, Derek is suggesting a third alternative for Gentiles in "the movement" who would not be entirely welcome in a traditional Messianic Jewish venue (that is, a traditional synagogue service for Messianic Jews) nor be comfortable returning to a traditional church setting. His viewpoint is controversial as he readily acknowledges, but he is trying to see to the needs of people like me, who are not accounted for in Kinzer's model.

If we accept as a given that Jews in the Messianic movement require a traditional Jewish worship setting that allows them to maintain an observant lifestyle, has a strong affiliation to the covenant and Israel, and provides potential linkage to a larger Judaism, then assuming that the linkage also travels in the direction of the Christian world by virtue of a common worship of the Jewish Messiah, we need to start working on the currently non-existent "practical structure of a bilateral ekklesia".

I used to be a pretty big science fiction fan and as a kid in the 1960s, I watched a lot of hokey TV shows. One of them was the Irwin Allen "classic" (I say that tongue-in-cheek)The Time Tunnel. This was a secret Government project designed to create a point-to-point link between the present and any other moment in time. Of course, it got broken, sending two American scientists across the time-line and stranding them in one cornball version of a historical event after another on a weekly basis. Nostalgia makes the show for me a fond memory and in the current context, it becomes a persistent image.

Like my former reference to a wormhole (which is at least theoretically possible), maybe given the distance between us, we don't need a bridge so much as a conduit that creates a virtual "tunnel" between our two worlds. Like many inventions suggested by science fiction and then realized in the world of technology (1966 Star Trek communicators and 2010 cell phones, for instance), maybe what seems impossible now is just waiting for the right moment to become possible.

Or are we waiting for the finger of God to start writing on our world...or in our hearts?
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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Project;Time-Stalkers,Inc.First Contact

Project;Time-Stalkers,Inc.First Contact

a story based very loosely on H.G.WELLS FIRST MEN IN THE MOON

In 1899,  Professor Anthony Elijah Vincent Senior -a young father figure pragmatic,authoritative and his fiancée  Professor Alice Katherine Clayburn – known as Kate -young motherly type – along Professor Virgil Joseph Worthington Allen -impulsive,gruff,devil may care type ,Doctor Victoria Wells;Temporal Field Medic and Marshall William Lambert II-son of William Lambert,Senior-a brash,rebellious ,short tempered type ,  plans to use the newly refitted Time-Sphere to travel to the Alpha Tellarushia. Allen has already built a spherical spaceship for this purpose, taking the other members of the team with him.long venture into the uncharted realms of the temporal space.The sphere,small,compact,but with enough room to comfortably suite a crew of five.
Professor Zachery Victor Wells;who is more authoritive,less impulsive type;;Temporal Warp Physist imforms the team,that trying to test jump this close to a near by object like the moon has it’s risks.The Time Bridge thresshold still has too many risks within the Shadow Complex.Five years exploring deep space,by way of interstellar time probes,is not what Anthony Vincent had in mind,when he wanted to rebuild this alien complex,hidden within Mount Kronus.Still,using 9th Century technology,to juryrig a steampunkish setup,with this new Genisis Bunker is not exactly what the Time-Core Corporation,Inc.wanted,but had to do because of the restraints put on by Sarkhon Enterprises,Inc.and Fate Enterprises,Inc.
The time sphere is launched into the Well of Worlds,from above and set shot through a temporal linear accellorator into an openning Temporal Wormhole.Picking too much speed,the sphere is assellorated too fast into the time vortex.Tony Vincent and Virgil Allen cannot control the ships speed as it hurles violently onward toward an unknown region,only recently explored by time-stalkers,inc.time probes.
 The time-sphere overshoots its destination and is helplessly thrown into the time-vortex toward an unknown location.The sphere lands upon a barren world,only marked as Alpha Tellarus 3,as relayed back to them by Project;Time-Stalkers,Inc.personnel stellar cartagraphy surveyors.

Whilst exploring the Alpha Tellarushian, Vincent and Allen fall down a vertical shaft and discover to their amazement an insectoid population, the Alpha Tellarushians., living beneath the surface of the uninhabitated world.

 After escaping from theAlpha Tellarushians. back to the surface, they discover that their ship, still containing Kate (who stayed behind because Allen had brought only two spacesuits), has been dragged into their underground city.
The two, following the drag trail, find and enter the city. The city holds a breathable atmosphere, so (unwisely) they remove and leave their spacesuit helmets. Upon finding the living quarters, they are attacked by a giant caterpillar-like "Alpha Tellarus 3. bull" which pursues them until the Alpha Tellarushians. find out and are able to zap it to death with their electric-possessing stun pikes. Allen and Vincent see the city's power station, powered by sunlight. In the end they reach their ship underground. The Alpha Tellarushians. quickly learn English and interrogate Allen, who believes they wish to exchange scientific knowledge; this also leads up to Allen having a speech with the "Grand Alpha Tellarushian.", the lead Alpha Tellarushian. Vincent, however, realizes that the Alpha Tellarushians. have no intention of letting them leave, and during a struggle with Allen, accidentally fires a gun at the Grand Alpha Tellarushian.. Running for their lives, Vincent and the Stalkers manage to find the sphere and escape,  on the Alpha Tellarushia.
Vincent, along with Kate (who only leaves the ship once, to help repair the damage caused by the Alpha Tellarushians.), flies the ship up a vertical shaft, shattering the window cover at the top, and back to Earth.The ultimate fate of the Alpha-Tellurushians remains unknown.
Back in the present day, Vincent, the UN party and newspaper reporters watch on television the latest events on the Alpha Tellarushian, where the Time-Stalkers astronauts have broken into the Selenite city and find it deserted and decaying. Moments later, the ruined city starts to crumble and collapse, forcing the landing crew to retreat hastily, and seconds later the city is completely destroyed. Vincent realizes that the Alpha Tellarushians. must have been killed off by Allen's common cold viruses to which they had no immunity.

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First Men in the Moon (1964 film)

In 1899, Arnold Bedford and his fiancée Katherine Callender – known as Kate – meet an inventor, Joseph Cavor, who has invented Cavorite, a substance that will let anything it is applied to or made of deflect the force of gravity and which he plans to use to travel to the Moon. Cavor has already built a spherical spaceship for this purpose, taking Arnold and (accidentally) Kate with him. Whilst exploring the Moon, Bedford and Cavor fall down a vertical shaft and discover to their amazement an insectoid population, the Selenites, living beneath the surface. (Cavor coins this name for the creatures after the Greek goddess of the moon, Selene). After escaping from the Selenites back to the surface, they discover that their ship, still containing Kate (who stayed behind because Cavor had brought only two spacesuits), has been dragged into their underground city.

The two, following the drag trail, find and enter the city. The city holds a breathable atmosphere, so (unwisely) they remove and leave their spacesuit helmets. Upon finding the living quarters, they are attacked by a giant caterpillar-like "moon bull" which pursues them until the Selenites find out and are able to zap it to death with their electric-possessing stun ray gun. Cavor and Bedford see the city's power station, powered by sunlight. In the end they reach their ship underground. The Selenites quickly learn English and interrogate Cavor, who believes they wish to exchange scientific knowledge; this also leads up to Cavor having a speech with the "Grand Lunar", the lead Selenite. Bedford, however, realizes that the Selenites have no intention of letting them leave, and during a struggle with Cavor, accidentally fires a gun at the Grand Lunar. Running for their lives, Bedford manage to find the sphere and escape, but Cavor stays voluntarily on the Moon.

Bedford, along with Kate (who only leaves the ship once, to help repair the damage caused by the Selenites), flies the ship up a vertical shaft, shattering the window cover at the top, and back to Earth. The aged Bedford concludes his story by mentioning that the ship came down in the sea off Zanzibar, and sank, but he and Kate managed to swim ashore. There is no later radio message from Cavor, and his ultimate fate remains unknown.

Back in the present day, Bedford, the UN party and newspaper reporters watch on television the latest events on the Moon, where the US astronauts have broken into the Selenite city and find it deserted and decaying. Moments later, the ruined city starts to crumble and collapse, forcing the landing crew to retreat hastily, and seconds later the city is completely destroyed. Bedford realizes that the Selenites must have been killed off by Cavor's common cold viruses to which they had no immunity.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Operation or Project Tic Toc

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==Operation or Project Tic Toc ==
Operation Tic Toc is a fictional project that the United States of Americas first venchure into time travel.It is never stated,but hintered that the project has something to do with the 20th Century cold war.

==Time Tunnel==

The Time Tunnel is the setting,for the main operations for the scientist,who maintain Americas top secret time machine.

==Operation Tic-Toc==

Operation Tic-Toc is a multi-billion dollar government project to build a time tunnel in 1968. Dr. Tony Newman (James Darren) and Dr. Doug Phillips (Robert Colbert) are the young scientists in charge.
 A senator from Washington shows up and threatens to cutoff funding for the project unless things start moving faster. In an effort to accomplish this Dr. Newman tries an unscheduled time travel and gets stuck in the past. Dr. Phillips jumps into the tunnel in a rescue attempt but he gets himself caught in time, next to his colleague.  This is the way the show goes, the two scientist jump from one historically important moment to the next trying as best they can to fix what ever calamity they find themselves in and also to try and get home to their own time.  Back at the control center Dr. Ann MacGregor (Lee Meriwether), General Kirk (Whit Bissell) and a host of technicians try to repair the tunnel and facilitate the two time travelers return to current time.  This was certainly an Irwin Allen show complete with all the high tech props, costuming and situations that you would expect from his tv series. The production was slick, well acted and very expensive. Even if the rummage sale NASA computers and consoles were used in almost all of his shows they were still impressive for the era.
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Projects Time-Stalkers,Inc.1960 Operation Counter Strike




Projects Time-Stalkers,Inc.1960 Operation Counter Strike


The Time-Strikers have returned once again to do battle with the Time-Stalkers, but this time they have an ace up their sleeve: Colonel Eldric Von Krodenn has devised a deadly new weapon- the Ackerhon Mind Shifter, a brainwashing device,that gives the Time Stalker false memories of previous events.The poor brain injured Professor Benjamin William Allenjamin William Allen,Junior is suspectible to hypnotic suggestion and believes he is now a fighting mad member of the Time-Strikers !

After the  Benjamin William Allenjamin  Allen,Junior single handedly betrays the other members of his former team,without killing each of them.Mark Vincent  Vincent he tricks while both are in the Shadow Complex Holo Training Room, Carilyn Stanford and Deputy Marshall Crystalla Wells

defeats each of his three former partners, knocking them all unconscious, each of them is placed in a restraint specifically created to negate his/her individual skill. The story has a great cliffhanger ending as well. Dr.Mark Vincentis helplessly trapped within the holo chamber and he must listen to the following chilling words from the Professor Benjamin William Allenjamin William Allen,Junior. "Shuddup, Mark Vincent ! I ain't listenin' to you anymore! I'm gonna change you now, hear? I'll do to you what you did to me! An' nothin' can stop me! Then, when you're finished, I'll get the rest of the Time-Stalkers... like I shoulda done a long time ago!"
With the already brainwashed Professor Benjamin  William Allen,Junior, the Time-Strikers capture and brainwash the Torch! They're on a mission to capture the entire Time-Stalkers team!
The battle between the Time-Stalkers and The Time-Strikers continues as the enemy Tauron Time Travellers findselves hidden deep within the Project Time Stalkers New Genisis Bunker,in one the bases auxiliary Time-Spheres.The mentally confuseds Professor Benjamin William Allenjamin William Allen,Junior- continues travel along one of the bases turbo transport tubes to the Time Striker location, with Marshall Ryan Williams pretending to be hypnotized, too, so he can infiltrate the Time-Strikers camp and find out just what's going on!
Then the Time-Strikers comes into contact with Professor Mark Vincent  Richard Vincent and Professor Carilyn Stanford, they try to brainwash them as well! Professor Mark Vincent  Richard Vincent performs surgery on Professor Benjamin William Allenjamin William Allen,Junior to get him out of his trance and the team must fight together to capture the Time-Strikers ! The only problem is one of them manages to escape…
Professor Mark Vincent  Richard Vincent must devise a way to bring Professor Benjamin William Allenjamin William Allen,Junior out of his evil, hypnotic trance, and has no choice but to attempt a dangerous operation of going into Professor Benjamin William Allenjamin William Allen,Junior's mind and clearing out the lies and distortions.He gasses  Benjamin William Allen Allen,Junior with Sleeping gas, and prepares his old friend for the risky test.
 His Mission: Destroy Time Stalkers!
| Synopsis1           = After visiting Alicia in the hospital, an old foe captures Dr. Sabatini and hypnotizes him to learn that he is a chemist that can reverse the effects of cosmic radiation. While Marshall Williams and Crystal enjoy a race, and Carilyn Stanford  shows off her new costume to Mark Vincent   and Benjamin William Allen, the villain disguises himself as Dr. Sabatini.

Being allowed a visit to the Mount Kronus, "Dr. Sabatini" tells Benjamin William Allen of his apparent cure, when Mark Vincent   helps set up the experiment, when the conduct the experiment it doesn't cure Benjamin William Allen, but turns him evil.


The operation an apparent success, Professor Benjamin William Allenjamin William Allen,Junior is recuperating when the Time-Strikers hidden within  Mount Kronus once more with the Marshall Ryan Williams in tow as their hostage! They want Professor Mark Vincent  Richard Vincent and Professor Carilyn Stanford to allow them to hypnotize their minds as well, or the Von Krodenn  will send  Ryan Williams's bound body into space on a huge anti-gravity disc. With Benjamin William Allen turned evil, he goes on a rampage through Temporal City with his comrades trailing behind him trying their best to stop him, leaving the bogus Dr. Sabatini -- dropping his disguise to reveal that he is really the Von Krodenn  -- full access to Mark Vincent  's laboratory. The Von Krodenn boasts that once Time Stalkers have been defeated, he will no longer be known as the Mad Von Krodenn, but instead will be recognized as the All-Powerful Von Krodenn.
While the Stalkers and the Temporal Guard try to stop Benjamin William Allen's rampage across the bunker, the real Dr. Sabatini awakens to find that he's being watched by a powerful Doomknight, and the Von Krodenn  finds Mark Vincent  's portal to the Time Vortex. Before the Colonel Von Krodenn can decide what to do with the portal, he reasons that if Mark Vincent  is still alive then he will figure out soon who was impersonating Dr. Sabatini, and thus he rushes back to his whereaboutsout to deal with the real Dr. Sabatini before the Time Trooper Military Police arrive. Just then, taking a break from fighting the Thing, Dr.Mark Vincent comes to the realization that this series of incidents could only have been orchestrated by the Von Krodenn  and asks the Time Trooper Military Police to help in sweeping the bunker to try and find the Von Krodenn's whereabouts out within the New Genisis Bunker underground city.
While elsewhere in the bunker, the rampaging Doomknight manages to slip past the authorities, dead set on ruining Mark Vincent   Vincent once and for all.
This story is continued next issue...


= "When Fall The Mighty"
| Synopsis1           =
Finding the Mad Von Krodenn's whereabouts out, Mark Vincent  , Marshall Williams and the Time Trooper Military Police must fight off few of the Mad Von Krodenn's Doomknight. While elsewhere in the bunker, the brainwashed Doomknight rampages his way towards the Mount Kronus to get "revenge" on Mark Vincent   Vincent. At the Mount Kronus itself, Crystal tries to console Susan who is worried about Mark Vincent  's safety.
Battling the Von Krodenn, Marshall Williams and Mark Vincent   beat him in hand-to-hand combat and turn him over to Time Trooper Military Police. Doomknight bursts through the wall and the two are forced to fight their friend once more. Grabbing a helicopter, Mark Vincent   uses it to pull himself and Doomknight to the Mount Kronus. While from his prison cell, the Von Krodenn  activates one of his Doomknights remotely within the lower depths of the Mount Kronus to attack Time Stalkers and destract them so he and his team can escape in their own shuttle.
 Exposing Benjamin William Allen to a jolt of electricity rending him unconscious it appears as thought they have killed their old friend, however before anyone can check, the Imperial Delkhon Doomknight bursts through the wall. With Benjamin William Allen believed dead, Mark Vincent   and Marshall Williams must defend Carilyn Stanford  from the Mad Imperial Delkhon killer Doomknight. However, they are easily knocked out by the creature. Using one of Mark Vincent  's weapons to defend herself, the beams from it revives Benjamin William Allen who has shaken off the influence of the Von Krodenn  and battles the Doomknight alone. Professor Mark Vincent  Richard Vincent stalls for time, and just in the nick of time, Professor Benjamin William Allenjamin William Allen,Junior awakens- his mind clear, with a raging mad-on for the Time-Strikers !
Benjamin William Allenjamin Allen departs,along with the other Time Strikers,aboard their own shuttle craft.All the Time-Strikers still believe Allen is one there side,are quickly are stun blasted by him,from behind.Members are defeated and are to be placed within the Shadow Complex Stasus Brig for Time Trooper US Military to interigate them at a later date.Benjamin William Allenjamin Allen exists the craft,being the Tauron Time Agents are safety locked away and return to the Time Stalkers Shadow Complex

When the Doomknight makes its way into the Time Stalkers Main Command Bridge,still following its primary destroy command to strike at the other Stalkers. Mark Vincents knocked down, Carilyn Stanford  uses an invisible force field to protect her boyfriend from the Imperial Delkhon Android. The strain causes her to pass out. Enraged, Benjamin William Allen uses a plasma rifle knocks the Doomknight backward. Meanwhile aboard the Time-Striker space shuttle,Colonel Von Krodenn  manages to deactivate the ships Brig and free his team members,so they can excape from Earth,by way of the Time-Tunnel wormhole transit way.Colonel Von Krodenn and Major Magus Sanderson prepare to retate their shuttle for departure into the Well.
When the Doomknight returns, Mark Vincent  Vincent and Marshall Williams have revived. All three men battle the Doomknight until Mark Vincent   can open the Well of Worlds portal to banish the Doomknight from the Shadow Complex.The android is suddenly thrown into the Time Vortex,seen helplessly plummeting across time and space back toward the Time Striker’s own jump point pad shuttle craft,as it leaps into the Time Vortex. Colonel Von Krodenn  and his fellow Time Strikers making their way into their own Shadow Complex,now find themselves confronted the destructive android where its destructive orders will wreck havoc with Tauron Time Troopers back home.
 Mark Vincent   rushes Carilyn Stanford  to a place where she can rest. After the others regroup, Mark Vincent   tells the team,that Shadow Complex must be onguard against the next threat from the Tauron Alliance.



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