{"id":5028,"date":"2025-04-02T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:27:29","slug":"notes-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5028","title":{"rendered":"NOTES – APRIL 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The adventures of Mars Mason, interplanetary mailman, are rife with amazing alien designs thanks to creator Munson Paddock, but the Tough-Tails of Planet Greentrees and their allies the top-hatted Spear-Men are possibly my favourite aliens that I’ve seen in a couple of years. (Speed Comics 009, 1940) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Speed Comics<\/i> 010 Mars Mason adventure again features some more top-notch alien designs, including both the Mercurian leader with his enormous ears and his subjects with their amazing hats. The Uranian Monster-Men are okay, but the real star of that second set of panels is Mars Mason’s amazing radiator suit that seems to help him weather both the cold of Uranus and the heat of Mercury with equal aplomb. <\/p>\n

Drawn Without Reference<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A nice fuzzy spider created to menace Shock Gibson. (Speed Comics 010, 1940) <\/p>\n

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It’s not really germane to the story, but I would like to highlight the emotional journey that this henchman goes through over the course of a scheme by upcoming Minor Super-Villain Comrade Ratski. midway through a scheme to release giant arthropods on an unsuspecting populace is a heckuva time to confront your dislike of bugs. (Speed Comics 010, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Ted Parrish, aka the mystery man known as the Man With 1000 Faces, wins the Academy Award for his performance in a film called Thundering Hoofs<\/i>. We must make some assumptions – that Thundering Hoofs <\/i>was completed and released in 1940, for example – but I think that Parrish might just have gotten his Oscar at the expense of Jimmy Stewart’s win for The Philadelphia Story<\/i>. (Speed Comics 010, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Mars Mason, Interplanetary Mailman, has his likeness on the Mercury Mail five-something stamp. (Speed Comics 011, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aliens: The adventures of Mars Mason, interplanetary mailman, are rife with amazing alien designs thanks to creator Munson Paddock, but the Tough-Tails of Planet Greentrees and their allies the top-hatted Spear-Men are possibly my favourite aliens that I’ve seen in a couple of years. (Speed Comics 009, 1940)  The Speed Comics 010 Mars Mason adventure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,71,1510,161,36,239,155,773,1491,152,236,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5","category-alien","category-comrade-ratski","category-drawn-without-reference","category-good-henchmen","category-harvey-comics","category-honours-minor-super-hero","category-man-with-1000-faces","category-mars-mason","category-notes","category-shock-gibson","category-spider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5030,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions\/5030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}