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peur_evol (peur_evol) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-11 17:07:00

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publisher: charlton

MONSTER PLANET

From Charles Nicholas and Sal Trapani comes this offbeat little sci-fi tale that all but screams "filler material" at you. Obviously done without too much forethought, it's still amusing in it's own quirky way.

from SPACE ADVENTURES #34, June 1960

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	(Anonymous) 2009-05-11 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	What, no twist? I was expecting the invisible planets to be worse. (Reply to this)

	perletwo 2009-05-11 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	OM NOM GAIA CAN HAZ MUNCHIES! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	RE: munchies peur_evol 2009-05-11 06:25 pm UTC (link)
	YUM! I CAN HAS INVISIBLE ~~CHEEZBURGER~~ PLANET (Reply to this) (Parent)

icon_uk
2009-05-11 06:26 pm UTC (link)

Cycnical little me was expecting either

A) "You foolish humans, those living planets were all that contained our outrageously massive battlefleet, which we shall use to invade your world"

B) "Well, Captain, we've destroyed all those living planets, and are heading home to Earth... Gasp NO!!! Earth was a living planet all along too! And the death of it's cousins has woken it up, and it's ANGRY!"

As opposed to "Thanks for saving us" "No problem, we're pissing off now because of course, on sixteen planets there's nothing we could possibly use to power us."

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	nagaoka 2009-05-11 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, same here. At the very least have some sort of consequence for murder. I mean. C'mon. Living planet. Study it for crying out loud! It's like the twist ending was that there wasn't a twist at all... So the story went "Oh look it's a living planet. Let's kill it." "Hey guys can you kill the other ones for us?" "Sure, no problem" "Thanks" "Don't mention it. Hmmm.... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-05-11 06:31 pm UTC (link)
	Captain: "Cannibal planets! We ought to destroy them all, but we might cause an imbalance in the universe if we did!" Invisible Stranger: "Destroy them anyway!" Captain: "Sure! The universal balance can get fucked for all I care." (Reply to this) (Thread)

besamim
2009-05-11 07:05 pm UTC (link)

Y'know, before I got to the part where Invisible Stranger asks for help, I was thinking, "Huh, typical explorer logic in cheesy SF stories: 'Whoa, an organism we've never seen before and don't understand. We'd better kill it!'"

Actually, I almost didn't get that far because I couldn't stop laughing over "We can now speed [sic] 10 times the speed of light which, as you all know, is 186,000 miles per second." (Gee, thanks, Captain! Not like any of us seasoned astronauts ever took a single astronomy or physics course.)

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	lawrence_live 2009-05-12 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	No sic-ing needed, speed is also a verb. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	besamim 2009-05-14 09:36 am UTC (link)
	It's a verb, but misused here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lawrence_live 2009-05-14 02:19 pm UTC (link)
	Don't pick on the foreigner :( Also, that's what I get for drinking and reading scans at the same time. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nagaoka 2009-05-11 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	You know I don't think those living planets have eyes. Kinda useless to go invisible against it. Also I want to see a sequel to this in which Mogo comes to avenge his cousins. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-05-11 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	Mogo, Ego, the Death Star AND Unicron... That'll teach em! :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	demonomicon 2009-05-11 09:00 pm UTC (link)
	And what of Ghroth, for Cthulhu Mythos aficionados? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bariman1987 2009-05-11 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	I'm pretty sure there's porn of that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Mod Note parsimonia 2009-05-11 09:06 pm UTC (link)
	You've posted a complete story here. As our posting guidelines state, posts must be limited to one third of a work or less. (Reply to this) (Thread)

Re: Mod Note (Posting Guidelines)

peur_evol
2009-05-11 09:37 pm UTC (link)

"4. No more than one third the length of any single work should be posted on this community. That's 7 pages of a standard American comic, by the by. In regards to anthologies, graphic novels, manga and pamphlets with backup stories, do not exceed 1/3 of the total page count. Exceptions will by made at the discretion of the moderators."

This issue of SPACE ADVENTURES(#34) had three comic stories and a two page text story, this is less than one-third of this particular issue.
Not sure what's going down right now, but others beside myself have posted whole stories from anthologies also, and I feel like I'm being singled out here.

evoleye@yahoo.com
(aka Peur F. Evol)

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	Re: Mod Note (Posting Guidelines) parsimonia 2009-05-11 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	We define a single work as an issue or a story within an issue. In regards to anthologies, graphic novels, manga and pamphlets with backup stories, do not exceed 1/3 of the total page count. That means that no complete story may be posted, even if the story is within a larger book. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Mod Note (Posting Guidelines)

peur_evol
2009-05-11 11:40 pm UTC (link)

This is all from the link you referenced for me:
SCHMEVIL: "We're leaning towards allowing a lot more from older works."
" The flexibility with regard to older material has more to do with the likelihood of it sparking a challenge."
"If you go over a third on a never-reprinted issue we won't freak out. :)"

Anyhoo... I read thru the whole topic, and I'm still not sure what I did wrong.
Charlton is a now-defunct publisher with many, many stories now legally classified as orphaned works.
I posted this and many other stories from bankrupted publishers of the past in an attempt to encourage younger readers to explore the history of American comics and discuss the nuances of golden-age and silver-age writing styles.
I meant no harm, and I still feel that I'm being singled out unfairly, as I can scroll down the current front page of S_D and find three complete short stories, only one of which was posted by me.

Long story short: We need clarity on this topic once and for all.
Thank you for your time and consideration.

evoleye@yahoo.com
Peur F. Evol

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Re: Mod Note (Posting Guidelines)

parsimonia
2009-05-12 12:26 am UTC (link)

The mods have been discussing the posting guidelines, and it has now been clarified to say:

No more than one third the length of any single work should be posted on this community. In layman's terms, work refers to a story or chapter within a single issue or book. That's 7 pages of a standard American comic, by the by. In regards to anthologies, graphic novels, manga and pamphlets with backup stories, do not exceed 1/3 of the total page count of individual stories. Exceptions will by made at the discretion of the moderators.

I will get back to you on the rest of the matter. Thanks for your patience.

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	Re: Mod Note (Posting Guidelines) peur_evol 2009-05-12 12:32 am UTC (link)
	"I will get back to you on the rest of the matter." So... should I delete this post or wait?????? Thanx!!! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	*PS: I Forgot (D'OHH!) peur_evol** 2009-05-12 12:38 am UTC (link)
	I was going to ask where S_D stands on legitimately public domain works. Are we saying *ABSOLUTELY* no complete works, or is public domain still cool? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Mod Note (Posting Guidelines) parsimonia 2009-05-12 04:13 pm UTC (link)
	Please see the most post here. (Reply to this) (Parent)