Loose lips sink ships.
Solicitation[]
Bart must recover from his heart-wrenching betrayal quickly, or the future may just go up in smoke! More consequences of the Simms family's activities in the forties! And something BIG may be coming to Earth, and it ain't Orson Welles! A tribute to the work of Alex Toth by Bob Layton, Kevin Kobasic, and the legendary Dick Giordano!
Trials With Tribulations![]
Appearances[]
Featured Characters:
- Doctor Tomorrow / Bart Simms (also James T. Kirk)
Supporting Characters:
- Chester "Cappy" Thorton (Dies)
- Doris Martin-Simms (Bart's wife)
- Unborn daughter (Mentioned only)
- Orson Welles (also the doctor in disguise)
- Russell Simms (Father)
Villains:
- Committee on Un-American Activities / House Un-American Activities Committee
- Elyesa Bazna (Cicero) (now an ambassador)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- KGB (Mentioned only)
- Russians / Soviets / Communists (Mentioned only)
- Joseph Stalin (Mentioned only)
- Third Reich (Mentioned only)
Other Characters:
- A homosexual socialist movie director (Mentioned only)
- Alamogordo town folks
- Bubba
- Earl Scoggins
- Moms
- Mr. Wilkes
- Sam / Samuel (WWII veteran and town banker)
- Sonny
- Waitress
- Albert Einstein (Mentioned only)
- "Christians Against Communism" (Mentioned only)
- Councilor
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Jane Russell (Mentioned only)
- Reverend Cross (Mentioned only)
- United States Government
Locations:
- Cold War
- Earth (Mentioned only)
- North America (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- California
- Los Angeles
- Sunnyvale Convalescence Home
- Malibu
- A movie director's posh estate
- Los Angeles
- New Mexico
- Alamogordo
- Mom's Diner
- Waylon (a one-tank town)
- Alamogordo
- New York
- Long Island
- Huntington
- Simms-Forestall Aviation (shut down)
- World of Tomorrow (destroyed)
- Simms-Forestall Aviation (shut down)
- Huntington
- Long Island
- Washington, D.C.
- Pentagon (Mentioned only)
- United States Capitol
- Senate Chambers
- White House (Mentioned only)
- California
- World War II
Items:
- Asteroid 271
- Atomic bomb
- Citizen Kane (1941 mystery drama film) (Mentioned only)
- Hydrogen bomb (Mentioned only)
- Plastic explosive
- Time capsule (Mentioned only)
Vehicles:
Credits[]
- Writers: Bob Layton
- Pencilers: Kevin Kobasic
- Inkers: Dick Giordano
- Colorists: Atomic Paintbrush
- Letterers: Comicraft, Dave Lanphear, Siobhan Hanna
- Cover Artists: Dick Giordano, Atomic Paintbrush
- Editors: Jeff Gomez, Alex Glass (assistant), Peter Sanderson (essay)
- Editor-in-Chief: Fabian Nicieza
- Dedicated to Alex Toth
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Notes[]
- Cover layout, logo, and letters page design by Comicraft.
- Contains an afterword by assistant editor Alex Glass and an essay about Alex Toth written by Peter Sanderson.
- According to Alex Glass' afterword, the "Asteroid A-271 scare is a historical fact from the fifties," however, there doesn't seem to be a record of the A-271 being an actual threat during the 1950s, or at any time.
- The phrase "loose lips sink ships" is an American English idiom meaning "beware of unguarded talk" that originated on propaganda posters during World War II.
Quotes[]
- Loose lips sink ships.
- Sonny -- I'd kiss Joseph Stalin's butt if'n he could blow that there meteor up.
- -- Moms from Mom's Diner in Alamogordo
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