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Slacks Ferret
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|  Posted: 2006-04-18 8:35 pm
Wrong Dimension Boy pointed this out to me:
Thanks Howard!
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tikibars
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| Posted: 2006-04-18 9:02 pm
Excerpts from this comic and a half-dozen others from the same era are featured in my book Big Stone Head.
Legendary illustrator Jack Kirby was really into the moai imagery, and used it quite a lot.
You wouldn't believe how much I had to pay for this comic last summer to scan it!
Several publishers are looking at BSH, as you read this.
Stay tuned...
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Sweet Daddy Tiki
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| Posted: 2006-04-18 9:56 pm
Do you know what year that comic is from? I guess it's a little to much to ask that comic book writers do some research, but it's odd they didn't know that the moai have bodies (well, torsos anyway).
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woofmutt
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From: Seattilite Telstar
| Posted: 2006-04-19 03:12 am
I had this comic when I was 6 or 7 in the early 70s. (I think I may have posted about in in Ye Old Yahoo in the early 00s). Because of it I called Moai "The Things on Easter Island" for years. Back then the story genuinely freaked me out especially as it ends (so I recall ) with the Earthling safe and off to sleep in his own bed, convinced that it was all a dream, not knowing that the Things had found him and were watching through his second story bedroom window. But they are convinced he believes it was a dream and wade back to Easter Island, waiting for their moment to take over the Earth!
"I guess it's a little to much to ask that comic book writers do some research, but it's odd they didn't know that the moai have bodies (well, torsos anyway)." -Sweet Daddy Tiki-
It was from Tales To Astonish!, and astonishing the reader was the point, not historical/scientific fact. (Like those reality based yawnfests Weird Tales, Tales From The Crypt, Spiderman...) C'mon...When you saw the above cover, weren't you astonished?
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tikijackalope
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| Posted: 2006-04-19 04:54 am
Hmmm...now we know what the parents of that kid on "The Critic" looked like.
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woofmutt
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From: Seattilite Telstar
| Posted: 2006-04-19 06:24 am
The Critic's Kid From Easter Island
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wrongdimensionboy
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| Posted: 2006-04-19 08:36 am
The comic was JUST REPRINTED in the Tales To Astonish Marvel Masterworks collection, available on Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785118896/103-1432712-7502248
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tikibars
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| Posted: 2006-04-19 10:11 am
Jack Kirby began doing Moai/Easter Island stories just after Thor Heyerdahl published Aku Aku.
Interestingly, Kirby sent the character THOR to Easter Island at least once...!
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MrBaliHai
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Posts: 689 | Posted: 2006-04-19 5:26 pm
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Do you know what year that comic is from?
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It was printed in 1959. Here's the link to it at Mile High Comics. It's on sale...only $130! Marked down from $186. I'll take a dozen!
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Sneakytiki
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From: Boise, Idaho
| Posted: 2006-04-20 03:11 am
Now I see where the imagery in the tiki tones SUBURBAN SAVAGE CD sleeve came from; the walking stone Moai that is. Thx for the nice pix.
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wrongdimensionboy
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| Posted: 2006-05-15 11:37 am
This came out about a month ago. You can probably go into most comic shops and pick one up for cover price.
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wrongdimensionboy
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| Posted: 2006-05-15 11:41 am
Here's an article published in the comic magazine Alter Ego #58 (Just came out last week) about various times the Moai heads have been used in cheesy horror stories:
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wrongdimensionboy
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| Posted: 2006-05-15 11:52 am
ARCHIE #242 from 1962:
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wrongdimensionboy
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| Posted: 2006-05-15 11:56 am
STRANGE ADVENTURES #16
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wrongdimensionboy
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| Posted: 2006-05-15 11:59 am
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #85 from April 1959
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