With characters as rich and fun as those found in the audio broadcasts, it was only natural that Acker and Blacker’s creations would find their way to the comics page, and they did in a Dark Horse comics collection a little while back.
Features like Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars, Amelia Earhart Fearless Flier, and Jefferson Reid, Ace American were all affectionate parodies of the serials I used to enjoy. I still love listening to these old-school epics whenever I can, so when I made the discovery that writer/producers Ben Acker and Ben Blacker had created a comedic series of serials in the style of old-time radio under the banner of The Thrilling Adventure Hour, I was hooked. It was the intermediary step in the development of popular entertainments from literature to the feature film. Radio dramas (and the audio productions we enjoy today) relied heavily on the audience to paint the picture based on dialogue, music, and narration. The fare was eclectic to say the least: from pulp heroes like the Green Hornet to crime dramas like Dragnet to creepy anthology shows like the Black Museum, I ate it up. When I was a kid in the before time of the long long ago that was Nova Scotia in the 1980s, I made the discovery that one of my local radio stations used to play old-time radio dramas, under the banner of Theatre of the Mind. Variant Cover Artists: Natacha Bustos, The Little Friends of Printmaking, Sean ‘Cheeks’ Galloway
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