The Human Flying Saucer!

Here is a comics story that renders my poll on the right there irrelevant. It turns out that flying saucers are not from outer space, not from another dimension, not from the inner earth. Flying saucers are fat guys! Now we know, thanks to Otto Binder and CC Beck! Thanks guys!

Hopefully you realize you can click the pics to enlarge them to super-large reading size.
I had read about Fatman for years, that it was an attempt to revive the Captain Marvel magic but it failed miserably and only lasted 3 issues. However, I've read the entire (short) run and found them very amusing. CC Beck certainly hadn't lost anything as an artist and Binder got to mix his Captain Marvel writing style with his love of UFOs. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the stories, and I hope you enjoy this one.
Scans courtesy http://www.goldenagecomics.co.uk/

Mystery of the Flying Saucer!

This issue of Captain Marvel Adventures (#116, cover dated January 1951)
features not one but TWO stories about visitors from space. I might run that second one here as well in the future sometime. I used to have a copy of this issue but no longer. These scans are courtesy of http://www.goldenagecomics.co.uk

Next time it turns out to be REAL aliens!

Invasion from Outer Space!

The late Otto Binder, who wrote many of the best-remembered Marvel Family comic book stories of the 1940s and 1950s, later went on to write UFO books. I've been curious just how far back his interest in flying saucers went, so I started searching the Grand Comics Database to find the oldest flying saucer stories he wrote. This one is so old, the aliens don't even arrive in a saucer, they arrive in a rocket! Much of the action seems inspired by the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, but those cyclops aliens were clearly stolen from the Simpsons!

Yes, I know Kang is from about 40 years later but perhaps Binder or artist CC Beck had access to alien time-travelling technology! Which allowed them to travel forward in time and watch the Simpsons! And then they murdered a bunch of bigfoot! You can see it in the photographs! (That's a cryptozoology in-joke, sorry.)

Here from Captain Marvel Adventures #65, cover-dated September 1946, comes The Invasion from Outer Space! written by Otto Binder and drawn by CC Beck!

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Gee, I never would have guessed Sivana would be behind it.

NEXT: Back to "reality!"