Showing posts with label april fools day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label april fools day. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2022

Friday Fun UNCANNY TALES "Day to Remember"

This never-reprinted story from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #40 (1956) takes place on April 1st.

Why is that important?
Read and see!
Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by John Severin, it's an all-but-forgotten piece of comics lore that we enjoyed hunting for, finding and presenting to you!
It's sorta our "thing"!
Happy April Fools Day!

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Mars Attacks: the Musical! People FINALLY Catching on!

...there is NO Mars Attacks Broadway show in the works!
Bleeding Cool has posted an article HERE, restating the points we mentioned HERE!
Having worked on Broadway (Patrick Stewart's A Christmas CarolKreskin, and several others) and on Mars Attacks, both the 1990s comic and the movie), I had a gut feeling that this was just a joke.
A little bit of research (without even having to call anybody at Topps or Broadway producers I had worked with) confirmed what I thought.
The fact that most of the comics "journalists" (such as Comic Book Resources HERE) fell for such an obvious prank, reporting it as actual news, is a sad commentary on the intelligence of those so-called "reporters".

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Mars Attacks: the Musical...NOT!

As we point out at The Beat...
If it’s real, why isn’t a legit theatre producer’s name connected to it?
Why is it nobody outside of the comics/card trade press mentions it?
And one more giveaway…“Ever since I saw The Sound of Music as a youngster living in New York I have dreamed of a career on Broadway…” said Layman.
Layman was born in 1969.
The Sound of Music was staged on Broadway twice…in 1959-63 (before he was born) and 1998-99 (when he was 30, hardly a “youngster”)
Yet, Comic Book Resources, Geeks of Doom, and others act like it's real...

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