Space Adventures--Carl Memling and More
Below are listed the stories in Charlton's Space Adventures that I attribute to Carl Memling from the writing style. While looking over the run, I came across some other items of interest.
"The Uncharted Planet" in #6 (May/53) is lifted from A. E. Van Vogt's story "Enchanted Village" in the magazine Other Worlds (July/50). It had already been lifted in Atlas/Marvel's Journey into Unknown Worlds 9 (Feb/52) as "The Four Walls" and would be legitimately adapted in Marvel's Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction 4 (July/75). The Charlton version is drawn by Art Cappello while the Marvel adaptation's art is by Dick Giordano. (The latter's script is by Don and Maggie Thompson.)“The Enchanted Village,” A. E. van Vogt, 1950
Posted on May 13, 2012 by jennre
“The Enchanted Village,” A. E. van Vogt, 1950 – (Alternate title: “The Sands of Mars”) The lone survivor of a ship crashed on Mars encounters a living city that tries to please him but is unsuited to his needs. The music is oppressive and clamorous, the shower delivers an acid bath.The provided makes the survivor ill. With each drop of water it provides, a bit of the city disintegrates. The man tries to commit suicide, reasoning that his fate is sealed and there is no need for the city to destroy itself. During the night, it seems the city adjusts. The man wakes up to a delicious meal, violin music, and a proper bed temperature. He waddles off happily, unperturbed by his new snout and four-foot tail.The changed him to suite itself,by transform into a martian,who lizard creatures crawling on fours.
Comments: Twist ending. Read in Hot and Cold Running Cities.
Author: Wikipedia: “Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the ‘Golden Age‘ of the genre.”
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Comments: Twist ending. Read in Hot and Cold Running Cities.
Author: Wikipedia: “Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the ‘Golden Age‘ of the genre.”
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Without the ECs before me but going by memory, I'm going to venture that "Transformation" (art by a younger Dick Giordano) in SA 7 (July/53) lifts one of their stories. From a list of their titles, I'd figure the original for "There'll Be Some Changes Made!" in Weird Science 14 (July-Aug/52). I don't want to ruin the endings; maybe someone with access to both can say yea or nay.
And I can ID one other story's writer in this period. "Jealousy on Kano" in #16 (May/55) is by Ken Fitch ("Aaiiiyyy!"). He wrote some stories for Charlton, and had some published by them out of inventory bought from other publishers; with the art on this one by Bernie Krigstein, I'm going to guess it was done for someone else.
Carl Memling Scripts in
Space Adventures
July/53 7 The Doomed Civilization
Sep/ 8 All for Love
Win/54 9 Speed-Up
A Fistful of Doom
The Good Old Days
The Day Fido Sang
Spr/ 10 Canterbury's Camera
Back to Earth
Aug/ 12 Too Much to Swallow
The Morning After
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Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction Vol 1 #4
July, 1975
Information-silkEditor-in-Chief Marv Wolfman
Information-silkCover Artists Frank Brunner
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"Prologue: An Official Inquiry"
Information-silkWriters Tony Isabella
Information-silkPencilers Don Heck
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"The Enchanted Village"
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"A Vision Of Venus"
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"Good News From The Vatican"
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"Kick The Can"
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