tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-369688223742758322.post8801929827587970427..comments2024-01-11T23:34:21.746+11:00Comments on notes from the junkyard: Climax Adventure Comic: 'All Star Adventure Comic Vol. 1 Redux'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-369688223742758322.post-26990397581587491002007-02-08T10:09:00.000+11:002007-02-08T10:09:00.000+11:00Mark, I remember you mentioning Climax #6 in one o...Mark, I remember you mentioning Climax #6 in one of our many discussions, including the Nemesis feature. Thanks for me giving me an idea of some of the rest of the contents of this issue. Also, James has a cover scan up on his site.<br /><br />Your memory is probably right about Johnny Galaxy. JG features appear in Climax #'s 7-10, as well as later issues, so it's likely it was also in #6.<br /><br />The earliest Johnny Galaxy self-titled issue I have is #2 from around 1972. I haven't crosschecked the contents with Climax yet to see whether the contents are the same. But you're right, that is quite another KGM mystery altogether! <br /><br />"Mister Morgan's Monster" also appears in Super Giant #3, a few years after Climax #6. I expect to discover even more connections between Climax and Super Giant as I go through them.<br /><br />Cheers!spiros xenoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01162947951011029392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-369688223742758322.post-85102896703842296152007-02-08T09:23:00.000+11:002007-02-08T09:23:00.000+11:00Tried to post my first comment, and entered it und...Tried to post my first comment, and entered it under the wrong item! Let's see if I can get it right this time.....:--<br /><br />Fascinating stuff, Spiros! “Climax Adventure” ( I always feels compelled to call it that, as “Climax” sounds like some dodgy skin mag) is certainly one of KGMs strangest magazines for all the reasons that you cite; the weirdly varied contents, the reprinting and the odd publication schedule.<br /><br />I’m pretty certain that I had a copy of Climax Adventure #6 as a child; I remember buying an issue of CA during a family holiday on the NSW South Cost in 1967, and that would fit with the publication time for #6. <br /><br />I can certainly remember some stories from it; “Mr Morgan’s Monster”, an early 1960s Jack Kirby-drawn story from the Marvel Monster comics (which I saw reprinted by Marvel only a few months later in an issue of their “Fantasy Masterpieces” comic); a 1950s Atlas short about a young man who could fly (can’t remember the title, but I recognised the story when the splash page was reprinted a couple of years ago in an “Alter Ego” article on artist Werner Roth); and, I think, a “Johnny Galaxy” story. <br /><br />(Johnny Galaxy was, of course, a European SF series that had its own short-lived KGM title around the same time, but that’s a whole OTHER KGM mystery…)<br /><br />There were doubtless a number of other stories, but even that sample, combined with the ACG “Nemesis” story that was the issue’s cover feature (a story that would only have been a year or so old at that time, making it possibly the latest ACG material to be reprinted by KGM), demonstrates what a weird mix that “Climax Adventure” was!<br /><br />And yeah, if anybody has TWO spare copies of “Climax Adventure” #6, I’d love one too! It’s one of about a dozen KGMs I remember owning as a child that I’m still chasing.<br /><br />Mark Cannonmcannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14910600095739217044noreply@blogger.com