Alternate World Comics

* For scans from comics *Comics so odd they seem like they are from an alternate universe * Or just plain weird / funny / interesting / inexplicable images from comics

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arthurian comics covers: Knights of the Round Table (1963)

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FLASHMAN (1967)

Flashman will return in Avengers: Doomsday (2026).

In the meantime, you can catch his original adventure here:

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Marvel Super Special: Jaws 2, from 1979.

Cover by Bob Larkin, interior art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer

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Also, in every other Marvel Comic published in July of 1976.

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Marvel Comics on Sale in July, 1976

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Cannon was a CBS detective television series that aired from 1971 to 1976. In it, William Conrad played private detective Frank Cannon.

It being about a past middle-aged character its chances of getting a comic book adaption was at best slim.

In America at least… seems there were some produced overseas.

All that and a Yusuf Islam colour PIN-UP!

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The team-up absolutely no one asked for.

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DC Comics on Sale in July, 1976

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Free 20-page comic given out by Sinclair Oil in 1950 promoting their gasoline additive called RD-119 that they used throughout the 1950s

RD-119 was a 1950s Sinclair Oil anti-rust fuel additive. The exact chemical composition of RD-119 was not publicly known at the time and remains a secret today…… Lead? Aluminum filings… Mercury… Low-grade spent uranium?

Somehow, they are able to continue breathing and are not eaten alive by the acidic gasoline.

Also, as luck would have it, even though it's 1950, they manage to go more than 10 minutes without lighting up a cigarette and getting blown to kingdom come.

Ahh, judging by what happened to pops here, the secret ingredient in RD-119 was concentrated psilocybin mushrooms… and lead.

So, why did y'all take it out starting in the 1960s?

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From The Robert Alphonso Taft Story: "it's on the record!"

18-page Anti-Taft giveaway sponsored by the United Labor League of Ohio and their candidate, Joe Ferguson. The pro-union promo was intended to discredit Senator Taft in his 1950 Ohio re-election bid. It failed, and Taft was re-elected but died in office in 1953.

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No doubt about it, Natasha can work with anyone.

For the record, here she is working not with Iron Man, but the Crimson Dynamo.

Two-year team-up, everyone seems to have forgotten.

And then, of course, there are the Champions and the Avengers.

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Okay, I get the chief made the wedding dress with `super science’ so it grows with her… but the gold bling?

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Hell, if glasses work for Superman, then I guess The Phantom's got nothing to worry about with that fedora.

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Sebastian O, 1993

by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell

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Honey West & Kolchak: High Heels & Hedonism #1

Moonstone, 2013

By Janet L. Hetherington and Ronn Sutton. Cover by Sutton.

Based on the Honey West novels by G. G. Fickling and the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

Hetherington's name is misspelled on the cover.

25.01

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Lash LaRue Western, published by Fawcett, # 38, 1953

One of the last comics published by Fawcett. LaRue was a B-Movie actor who, it was said, got the job because he kind of sort of looked like Humphrey Bogart. couldn't act like him, but looked a little like him, and that was enough for the B's.

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J'onn J'onzz Rogues Gallery, drawn by artist Dave Bardin