''Strange Worlds'' is an American

science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel univers ...

anthology comic-book series published by

Avon Comics Avon Publications is one of the leading publishers of romance fiction. At Avon's initial stages, it was an American paperback book and comic book publisher. The shift in content occurred in the early 1970s with multiple Avon romance titles reach ...

over 15 issues between November 1950 and September/October 1955. The series ran in two sequences. Issues #1-10 ran cover-dated November 1950 to November 1952. No issues #11-17 were released, and the series began publication again with #18, having taken over the numbering of the defunct Avon comic ''

Eerie ''Eerie'' was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing. Like '' Mad'', it was a black-and-white magazine intended for newsstand distribution and did not submit its stories to the comic book industry's voluntar ...

''. This second sequence ran through issue #22 (Oct./Nov. 1954 – Sept./Oct. 1955). While Avon was a minor comics publisher in relation to such contemporaneous industry leaders as Atlas Comics,

DC Comics DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...

, and

EC Comics Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books, which specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction, dark fantasy, and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-195 ...

, ''Strange Worlds'' featured artwork by such top talents as

Wally Wood Wallace Allan Wood (June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, widely known for his work on EC Comics's titles such as ''Weird Science (comic), Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy'', an ...

, who would soon go on to become an industry star at EC;

Joe Kubert Joseph Kubert (; September 18, 1926 – August 12, 2012) was a Poland, Polish-born Americans, American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkm ...

, later a signature artist of DC's

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and

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; portrait painter

Everett Raymond Kinstler Everett Raymond Kinstler (August 5, 1926 – May 26, 2019) was an American artist, whose official portraits include Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.Western Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that id ...

-art painter

Charles Sultan Charles Solomon Sultan (November 16, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York — February 28, 1984 in Camarillo, California)

, early in their careers; and seminal

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comics artist Alvin C. Hollingsworth a.k.a. Alvin Holly.

Stories

One ongoing feature in the otherwise anthological title was "Kenton of the Star Patrol". Reprinted stories include: * #3: "The Alien Raiders" (Kenton of the Star Patrol), by artist Wally Wood ::reprinted ''Golden-Age Greats'' Volume 12 (Paragon Publications /

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, 1998) * #8: "Death on the Earth-Mars Run", by artist Everett Raymond Kinstler ::reprinted '' The Heap'' #1 (

Skywald Publications Skywald Publications was an American publisher of black-and-white comics magazines, primarily the horror anthologies ''Nightmare'', ''Psycho'', and ''Scream''. It also published a small line of comic books and other genre magazines. Skywald's or ...

, Sept. 1971) * #8: "The Thing on the Broken Balcony", by artist Alvin C. Hollingsworth ::reprinted ''The Heap'' #1 (Skywald Publications, Sept. 1971; retitled "Curse of the Broken Balcony")

References

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