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Epic Sci-Fi Resources

publication histories of Sci-Fi SHORT STORIES - http://www.isfdb.org/

Full PDFs of vintage magazines - https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/title_index.htm

Sci-Fi collections at Archive.org - https://archive.org/

FREE short fiction at TOR.COM - https://www.tor.com/category/all-fiction/

Digital Comic Museum - https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/

public domain comics and pulps - https://comicbookplus.com/

NEW sci-fi stories, in print AND audio formats. ALL FREE - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/

The Galactic Journey - an odd little sci-fi throwback blog - http://galacticjourney.org/

Public Domain Sci-Fi & Horror movies - http://publicdomainmovies.net/science_fiction_and_horror

An exhaustive database of EVERYTHING by every author - https://www.fantasticfiction.com/genres/?gp=S

Complete index of Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine - https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/bibliography/bibliography.htm

Retro Cartoons! https://www.b98.tv/ https://www.supercartoons.net/ https://www.topcartoons.tv/

Complete collections of full anime series (and more!) - https://www.wcostream.com/cartoon-list

TV Guide COMPLETE cover collection - https://www.tvguidemagazine.com/archive/suboffer/page/gallery/

Timely/Atlas Comics Library - http://morethanheroes.epizy.com/index.html

Twilight Zone comics complete cover gallery - https://comicvine.gamespot.com/twilight-zone/4050-2102/?sortBy=asc

Complete MAD Magazine, issues 1-100 - https://archive.org/details/mad-magazine-collection_202106

Vampirella & other Warren Magazines at archive.org - https://archive.org/details/warren-vampirella

Cover Browser - HUGE collection of comics covers https://www.coverbrowser.com/

Weird Fiction Review by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer https://weirdfictionreview.com/

Full Russian & Soviet animated films with subtitles https://www.animatsiya.net/

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Vintage Magazine - Blip Magazine #02 (Feb-Aug1983)

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Chris Foss would sometimes paint over his previous work. Here, he turns a western illustration into a sci-fi one.

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The same image directly inspired this droid design in Star Wars: A New Hope, too!

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Really? Wow.

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(1965)

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Kra, Volcano Man, Multi-Man and... Drabny...

#challengers of the unknown #DC comics #silver age

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Pat Olliffe and Al Williamson (1931–2010) Spider-Girl #8 Spider-Man and Mr. Nobody (1999) Source

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Spider-Girl was a good series! I remember liking it a lot!

#Spider-Girl #May Parker

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Daredevil #2, June 1964. Stan Lee cover script, Jack Kirby pencils, Vince Colletta inks, Stan Goldberg colors, Artie Simek letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database

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Rogue by Adam Hughes

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Happy new year! Here's the end of the 1953 EC Comics adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," first published in Weird Fantasy #17.

Via @cirnineball

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Today is August 5, 2026!

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(1954)

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The 1948 Columbia "Superman" serials, entirely based on the radio show version of the character, was the earliest visual media depiction of Superman's home world of Krypton, seen in a flashback.

Shown from space, Krypton was said in narration to have a "giant blue sun" and depicted as having nine moons. In comic continuity, Krypton possessed 5 moons, one of which was "M-Class" and inhabitable.

Krypton's cities were depicted in a matte painting, resembling Flash Gordon's planet Mongo. The depiction of Krypton as a crystalline architecture world locked in a permanent ice age came in with the 1978 film version, and I remember as a young Superman fan seeing the movie in theaters, I thought that was a too-weird, unwelcome change showing the influence of John Boorman....though it has since grown on me. It is worth noting that Krypton prior to the 1977 movie was based on Mongo, in that it has Alex Raymond-esque art deco cities but was a jungle covered hot world in the Mesozoic age, with dangerous dinosaurian megafauna.

Note the term "Kryptonian" is not used (and would not be for a while, initially, the first appearance of the word "Kryptonite" in Superman was in reference to a person from Krypton, rather like how early Star Trek called Spock a "Vulcanian"), rather, the inhabitants of Krypton in the 1948 serial refer to themselves as "supermen" or a "our race of supermen." Note that nearly all the supermen we see wear a cloak, implying that Superman wears a cloak because it is standard in his culture.

Originally, Superman had powers because he was a member of a race millions of years more advanced than earth people from a heavy gravity world, and that everyone on his world had powers. Over time, Superman became so invulnerable it became hard to imagine Krypton's destruction would harm anyone if everyone had his powers, so an explanation crept in that due to earth's sun and atmosphere as well as gravity, Kryptonians had powers on earth but were mortal on their homeworld.

It's worth noting that at this point, the term "Smallville, Kansas" was not used as Superman's adopted home. Superman was heavily implied to have grown up in suburban New Jersey, not Kansas. There were early hints Superman was raised in the rural northeast, like for example, Smallville having a ghost from the American Revolution, which wouldn't make sense in Kansas at all.

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Not so fast. Max Fleischer's 1941 cartoon series.