Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson
It is not secret when attaching the composing abilities to reading. Reading Beyond Mars, By Jack Williamson will certainly make you obtain even more resources as well as resources. It is a way that can enhance just how you ignore as well as comprehend the life. By reading this Beyond Mars, By Jack Williamson, you could more than just what you get from other book Beyond Mars, By Jack Williamson This is a widely known book that is published from well-known publisher. Seen type the writer, it can be trusted that this book Beyond Mars, By Jack Williamson will certainly offer several motivations, concerning the life and encounter and every little thing within.
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson
Download Ebook Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson
- Written by renowned science fiction author Jack Williamson and superbly drawn by Lee Elias, Beyond Mars is one of the rarest Sunday strips — it only appeared in a single newspaper, The New York Sunday News. This oversized book presents the complete series — all 161 strips from 1952 to 1955 — in their original color!
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson - Amazon Sales Rank: #393348 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 12.10" h x .80" w x 9.60" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 160 pages
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson About the Author Jack Williamson published his first short story in 1928, and he's been producing entertaining, thought-provoking science fiction ever since. He is the author of "Terraforming" "Earth". The second person named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America--the first was Robert A. Heinlein--Williamson has always been in the forefront of the field, being the first to write fiction about genetic engineering (he invented the term), anti-matter, and other cutting-edge science. A renaissance man, Williamson is a master of fantasy and horror as well as science fiction. He lives in Portales, New Mexico.
Where to Download Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson
Most helpful customer reviews
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Stunning strip reprint! Thanks LOAC! By Diego Cordoba Please bear in mind that this review concerns the recently published (since October 2015), full-color reprint of this strip by the Library Of American Comics, and not the long out-of-print two-volume black and white edition that Blackthorne published in the late 1980s, and that the other reviewers refer to here. I hope Amazon will correct that.OK, once that matter cleared, I will be reviewing this absolutely beautiful book of a long-forgotten strip published between the years 1952-1955 in only one newspaper: the New York Sunday News. If you missed it the first time around, you missed a sci-fi series that was a load of fun, and illustrated in the style of a Caniff strip by one of my favorite artists: Lee Elias.The series was written by sci-fi author Jack Williamson (The Humanoids), and the story tells that he got the gig based on a negative review he got for one of his books. Seems a smart-aleck critic said in the aforementioned review, that his book read like a comic-book (meaning to put down the writer’s work). At the time the newspaper with the world’s largest circulation, the NY Sunday News, like every other paper in America, published a Sunday supplement with comic strips. But the competition was stiff (TV in the foyers among others), so the paper decided to create a series of new strips that would only appear in their Sunday supplement. One of the new strips would have a sci-fi theme, and since Williamson’s work “read like a comic book”, maybe he could create something for them. Williamson came up with the idea of something he called “paragravity”, which “enabled Earth’s spacemen to breathe and live on asteroids”—just beyond Mars (quote taken from the captions of the first couple of weeks by the title). Ultimately, the sci-fi series was the only new original series done for the Sunday News.The artwork was handled by a British expatriate by the name of Lee Elias. Elias had experience in the comic book field, having drawn, among others, Black Cat for Harvey, before they switched over to publishing horror material following the bandwagon led by EC Comics. Dissatisfied with the comic book industry, Elias looked for work elsewhere, and that’s how he got the gig to illustrate Beyond Mars, the new sci-fi strip created for the Sunday News.Elias, like many artists of his generation, drew in a style inspired by Milton Caniff. Actually, Elias was one of the best Caniff imitators. Though his artwork never had the dynamism of Caniff’s, in my opinion he was a better inker. Elias’ inking is sharp and slick, as opposed to Caniff’s that tended to get sloppy with the years.I always liked Elias’ work, though I discovered him for the first time in the Marvel series about Luke Cage, later known as Power Man, and in the Warren magazines, where he drew The Rook in a more photo-realistic style than his previous Caniff-derivative style, adding gray washtones to enhance the realistic quality of his work. He also did the artwork for one of the last attempts by Warren to start a new series and magazine, the short-lived The Goblin, which lasted only 3 issues, probably owed to the dubious language and racist aspect of their main series (but gloriously illustrated by Elias). To my knowledge (meaning I’m pulling this out of the back of my head), Elias’ last work to see print was an unpublished Warren story that saw print many years later in the Marvel magazine Epic Illustrated. I don’t remember the name of the story, but it took place inside a concentration camp during the Second World War, and it featured a father killing his wife and children in there. Naturally, how can you forget something like that? I also spoiled the ending to anyone who hasn’t read that story before.Anyway, that said, Beyond Mars is a fun sci-fi series, not to be taken very seriously. It takes place in the future (22nd century?) where men wear baggy spacesuits, and women still dress in the 1950s fashion, mothers wear aprons and spend their days cooking in the kitchen, and rocket ships are cigar-shaped. It’s also a world were the hero’s best friend is a lisping alien that eats metal and whose body is metallic and looks like a giant earthworm with arms. We also get to meet a boy who travels through space riding on a meteorite, a giant lobster that crawls out of the ocean and is already red, as if it had just gotten out from boiling water and—well, you get the idea. Certainly not to be taken seriously.On the other hand, it’s much fun, and the retro-50s art by Lee Elias is simply gorgeous.A note to lovers and publishers of old newspaper strip reprints: THIS IS THE BEST REPRINT BOOK OF AN OLD NEWSPAPER STRIP I’VE EVER SEEN!!! The restoration by Lorraine Turner is outstanding! The colors are gorgeous, the art is sharp and crisp, and the quality of the book is top notch! Bruce Canwell’s intro is informative and to the point. I’m afraid it can’t get any better than this, friends.The only question is, why is the first page of the strip/series missing?All in all, I can’t stress enough the quality of this book. It’s really stunning, and though I usually grumble when it comes to the restorations of old newspaper strips, this is the best ever! Highly recommended, and a sure winner!PS: Though I know it isn’t the case for this reprint, on the few times I wrote Dean Mullaney, the editor, I asked him to please reprint this strip. He never replied, so I thought I’d never see this book. Now that I have it in my hands, all I can say is thank you, Dean and the rest of the team at LOAC! I love you guys! You made one of my dreams come true!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great Comic Strip Adventures from the golden age of future space travel! By ANDY FISH With the exception of the Sam character who "cleverly" talks with a lisp this is a great collection of stories featuring that amazing era when space travel seemed right around the corner. Equal parts Hardy Boys (with only one boy) and Flash Gordon. Be warned, Sam is the Jar Jar Binks of the 1950s.The main reason to buy this is the art by Lee Elias, a true master who seldom got the respect he deserved.Best of all, if you're like me and you find reading comic strip collections difficult because they are so repetitive and the pacing slow, these are collected Sunday strips, so each one is a full page of stunning art and the story moves along at a relatively brisk pace, you'd think you're reading a graphic novel rather than a comic strip collection.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A Huge Disapointment! By Rory Coker A huge disappointment, to the extent that I had to force myself to keep reading. What went wrong? Everything. This is one of the rarest of all newspaper comic strips with a science fiction theme, since it appeared in the Sunday Comics section of a single newspaper. I have always wanted to read the complete series, and here it is, beautifully reproduced in full color. No fault is to be found with the reproduction, which is superb.Now for the problems: When hired to write this strip, Jack Williamson, who had grown up in one of the most isolated spots in the US, had never seen a newspaper comic strip of any kind. He was a highly respected science fiction writer, and continued to write excellent novels up to nearly the end of his long life. But in doing this strip, he had two crippling burdens. One was an aggressively meddling editor, who vetoed most of the story lines proposed by Williamson, and at one point actually fired Williamson as scripter and took over the scripting himself, using Williamson only to suggest storylines. When the editor died, Williamson was able to take over scripting again, but not much changed. The other burden was the artist, Lee Elias. Elias is an excellent illustrator, but his 1950s style is a dead-on imitation of 1940s Milton Caniff. So all females are dressed in late 1940s clothing, although the strip is supposed to take place centuries in the future. Male characters dress in what look similar to World War II flight suits. In the very good introduction to this volume, we are told that Elias also vetoed a number of futuristic story lines, claiming that he wouldn't be able to draw the required things!What we are left with are very unimaginative and tedious "adventures" in which the personalityless hero and his caterpillar-like alien sidekick get to do little or nothing. In every storyline the hero is locked up, knocked out, thrown into space in a disabled space suit, etc. Same old same old. The villains are forgettable except for one, a Dragon-Lady-like character , leader of a gang of space pirates, who is revealed to be a female Frankenstein monster made by a mad scientist from the corpse of his wife and various robot parts! Everything about her is interesting, but she is only used once.The final story line treats the total destruction of futuristic New York City by a mad scientist as almost a joke, and ends abruptly with nothing really resolved, as the series was cancelled.I can't say much more about this strip than that it is an unbroken series of tragically missed opportunities.
See all 10 customer reviews...
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson PDF
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson iBooks
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson ePub
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson rtf
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson AZW
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson Kindle
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson
Beyond Mars, by Jack Williamson
