Number 2280: Goodbye to 2018, hello end of the world!

Saying goodbye and good riddance to the old year seems a way of shedding some problems, aggravation and depression over the way things have been for the past 12 months. Now we start afresh with a new year, where the problems are all still there, and then more will undoubtedly pile on.

Wow, I am full of New Year cheer, aren’t I? So much so I thought I would share this comic book adaptation of George Pal’s movie, When Worlds Collide, which is about the end of the world. I have not seen the movie, but I read the 1933 book of the same name by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer. Until I read it at age 12 my nightmares were about an atom bomb dropped on my city. I might survive that, I thought. But this was about Earth being destroyed by another planet! Wasn’t the threat of nuclear annihilation bad enough?

The comic book version of the movie adaptation is credited by the Grand Comics Database as written by Leo Dorfman, and drawn by George Evans, with a guess at inking by Al Williamson. The original Fawcett Comics edition was Motion Picture Comics #110 (1952). What I am presenting is the UK version, published the same year by L. Miller.

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