Vanguard Productions

02/11/2026

FIRST ACTUAL PHOTO!
Slipcase & deluxe 246-pg book w/16-pg Bonus Folio. THE collection of non-EC 1950s Wallace Wood Science-Fiction comics stories. Brought to you by The Wallace Wood Estate and www.VanguardPublishing.com

246 pgs total for the DLX slipcased edition. Nice back cover quotes include Bill Gaines, Frazetta, Orlando, Lucas, Eisner and Entertainment Weekly. The regular edition cover (no slipcase, no bonus 16 pages) is similar. Official release date is Feb 15 but Vanguard could have them as early as New Years.

To celebrate Hall of Fame artist-writer Wallace Wood's Centennial, we present this revised STRANGE WORLDS edition — THE greatest collection ever of non-EC 1950s Wood science-fiction comics, enhanced with new covers, superior paper, revised color, a new story and rare bonus plates including a few n**e and unpublished pieces.

Bubble-headed space jockeys and sultry vixens battle bug-eyed monsters in sensationalistic stories like, The Flying Saucers, An Earthman on Venus, Spawn of Terror, Winged Death on Venus, The Martian Slayers, Insidious Dr. Khartoum, Death in Deep Space, The O***m Smugglers of Venus,The Weapon Out of Time, Sirens of Space, Sky Masters of the Space Force... ALL of his Strange Worlds, ALL of his Space Detective, ALL of his Capt. Science, and more.
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“...artwork of Wally Wood and Joe Orlando helped form the images we all share of what spaceships, aliens, and the terrain of other planets look like. All that, plus curvy dames and lantern-jawed he-men. These pulp comics are the real thing.”
— ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Oct, 16, 1998 cover story, Sci-Fi’s Top 100
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“Wally, Jules Feiffer and I worked very welltogether. Remarkably, and to Wally’s credit, TheOuter Space Spirit appears very contemporary.Wally produced a sensational piece of work.”— WILL EISNER
Innovative comics, graphic novelist & creator of The Spirit
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“All-time great comics artists like Wallace Wood influenced American popular culture in remarkable ways.”
— GEORGE LUCAS
Star Wars creator & Legendary filmmaker
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“Wally Wood was the greatest sciencefictionartist that ever lived.”
— WILLIAM M. GAINES
Publisher of Tales From The Crypt, Weird Science, and MAD
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“Wally, and I were in the same cup of tea with comics & science fiction art. But, out of everyone there, Wood was the star at EC.”
— FRANK FRAZETTA
Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame artist of Conan, Tarzan, & Death Dealer
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“What Star Wars was to science fiction movies, Wally Wood was to science fiction comics.”
— JOE ORLANDO
Wood collaborator & DC Comics Vice President

02/11/2026

After a quarter century IN PRINT, some still want to call Frazetta's Came The Dawn "unpublished" — that's ridiculous.

31/10/2026

Continuing our HALLOWEEN FILM FEST: If you can’t get enough THE WICKER MAN (1973), or the related The Wicker Tree (2011), here is the 21st Century film for you, MIDSOMMAR (2019).

31/10/2026

Pam-ela Harrelson show on view during ART WALK EAST Saturday, Nov 7, 2026.
Art on Main Gallery Hours: Thurs - Sat, 10:30am to 5pm
Art on Main, 4428 Main Street, Suite 200, Dallas, Texas 75226
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29/10/2026

Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor who scaled the Shakespearean canon and added gravitas to a “Star Trek” franchise and the “X-Men” films, has died.

28/10/2026

with "Blacula" & PeeWee's "King of Cartoons" star William Marshall in "Scream Scream" (1973)

Grier wrote, “It’s difficult to define something when you’re in the center of it, so I really didn’t see what was happening while I was living it. But there were a lot of opinions about this genre, as it was being defined by the mainstream, the black leftists, the religious right conservatives, and the le***an community. To me, what really stood out in the genre was women of color acting like heroes rather than depicting nannies or maids. We were redefining heroes as school teachers, nurses, mothers, and street-smart women who were proud of who they were. They were far more aggressive and progressive than the Hollywood stereotypes. Despite the fact that many men and some women were not supportive of female equality like they are today, the roles all made sense to me. After all, these were the women with whom I grew up. I guess I was ahead of my time.”

28/10/2026

28/10/2026

Missing Bernie Wrightson

28/10/2026

THEATER OF BLOOD with &