Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Black and White Wednesday: "An Ugly Mirror on Weirdworld"

Doug Moench and Mike Ploog's classic Weirdworld made its debut in, of all places, Marvel Super-Action #1 (October 1975). Actually used as filler when it was decided to drop the ads from MSA #1, the Tolkien-esque fantasy slowly took on a life of its own. It popped up in the color comic, Marvel Premiere #38 (July 1977), which you can read right here on Mighty Joe Bloke's Grantbridge Street blog. In 1978, Moench teamed with John Buscema, Rudy Nebres, and Peter Ledger to produce a three-part epic, "Warriors of the Shadow Realm" that was scheduled for Marvel Preview but finally appeared in Marvel Comics Super Special issues 11-13 (Spring-Fall 1979). Weirdworld also appeared in a few issues of Epic Illustrated (issues 9, 11-13) and Marvel Fanfare (issues 24-26) during the 1980s. Moench and his artistic cohorts always did a fine job with their tales of Tyndall and his friends, and it all started right here...
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  1. pete doreeApril 15, 2009 at 3:07 AM

    Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful art from The Ploogmeister. This and the Marvel Premiere are perfect little gems. I think maybe Moench overreached the concept when he spun it out to the Warriors Of The Shadow Realm & Epic serials ( which as I said on my blog are flatulent nonsense. ) I was mildly into it up until that point.

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  2. cartoonjunkieNovember 15, 2012 at 10:36 AM

    My Gosh! What a work of art that was. Beautiful stuff, just to think that was just a little story hidden in some forgotten old comic book. That's why the world needs people like you Groove to remind us of them..... Thanks

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