Sunday, November 17, 2013

What's in the West Wing?

Another Ken Landau tale from the June-July 1967 issue of Unknown Worlds #56 (see our last post HERE), and this one is a bit more typical of his detailed art style that most of us are more familiar with from his precode days. It's a fast paced, atmospheric, and predictable little 6-page mystery-- and for those of you who see the end coming from a mile away please reward yourself with a banana.

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8 comments:

  1. Mestiere11/17/2013

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  2. Mr. Cavin11/17/2013

    Man, what a beautiful splash page! ...aaand I'm really enjoying this banana. Do you think the strange black-and-stars panel on the last page was an editorial decision, or do you think Landau meant for it to look that way? It seems very out of place to me, but I can't quite imagine what else might have been there in the first place--something at once more natural to this page and this artist, but also at the same time risky enough to have been deemed inappropriate?

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  3. Tim Whitcher11/17/2013

    Harsh.

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  4. Mr. Karswell11/17/2013

    I was wondering about that panel too, possibly what he originally illustrated just gave too much away for the final panel "twist?"

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  5. Matthew St. Cyr11/17/2013

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  6. Brian Barnes11/18/2013

    The stars panel is indeed strange, it's like we suddenly morphed into a popeye cartoon.

    I enjoyed the spy scope ad, I wonder how many Man from UNCLE shows they had to watch until they stumbled upon a still that made it look like Robert Vaughn was peeping?

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  7. Grant11/29/2013

    I can't help liking the sort of "honor among thieves" idea of the monkeys trying to warn Caton. After all, they were supposed to be fortune hunters, but they're trying to rescue this newest one.

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