Sonday Matinee

Let's follow up yesterday afternoon's odd parody matinee with more doppelcomix from the same era.

We've got a double feature at the matinee today. Get your superhero fix with a 'classic' 70s GL/GA tale, but first - ever wonder how it would have gone for Sgt. Rock in Vietnam?

NOTE: Most pages of Green Lampburn/Green Airhole contain nudity
and our 2nd story has been moved to our back room for adult content.
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive
of the original post to view the artwork. 

Sgt. Jock by Scott Judge for Dopin' Dan #1, GL/GA by Jim Pinoski for Spaced #1 (1973, 1974)

Adam Stranger

I'm feeling like a Saturday Matinee - how about you?
 Sci-Fi heroes like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers have been a matinee staple since before most of us were born, and their comic descendants aren't too hard to find.

Though sometimes, what we find might not be quite what we were seeking. Go looking for an Adam Strange, and one might instead find a strange Addam ...

A strange Addam indeed. It's hard to define it as a parody when played so straight.

As you might guess from that final blurb, this tale comes to us from Magic Carpet - their 2nd issue released 40 years back in '78 by Comics & Comix. Located in Berkley*, CA, C&C was another very local operation, primarily a comic shop and briefly a small publisher. But they did better than many others on the distribution front. Though their print catalog was quite small, it included some excellent material including the first six issues of Jack Katz's classic The First Kingdom. Though at least a cover was prepared, there was no 3rd issue. Magic Carpet #2 was the final comic book published by Comics & Comix.

We'll see more from them before long. For now, you'd probably like the cover of this issue, eh?

Alien Confrontation written & drawn by Jim Pinkoski for Magic Carpet #2 (1978)

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*(...and San Francisco, Sacramento, Palo Alto, and Citrus Heights)