Wednesday, September 24, 2014

ON GUARD! THEY'RE HERE! GOLD KEY COMICS' THE INVADERS! IN COLOR!

 
My favorite Quinn (The Fugitive) Martin Production was The Invaders! Gold Key continued the TV show with original stories in their four issue comic book series. 

The Invaders opening!

"The Invaders! In Color! 

Beings from a dying planet!



The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world.

David Vincent has seen them.

For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. 

It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. 

Now David Vincent knows that The Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun."

Roy Thinnes, the actor portraying David Vincent, even played a reoccurring role on the X-Files and gives a great story of how it came to be in one of the personal introductions on each episode on the DVD set. 


Invaders #1 
On Guard! They're Here! Aliens from a Dying Planet Plotting Our Destruction!

"The Vanishing Mountain!"
The Invaders want to destroy a U.S. base that is building a satellite that can detect their ships! All four issues illustrated by Dan (Space Family Robinson) Spiegle.  
Issues #1-#3 include interior & back cover pin-up photos of architect David Vincent.

The Invaders #2!

Invaders #2  U.S. Astronauts Become Pawns of the Invaders in The Orbit of Doom! 
"The Orbit of Doom!"
David Vincent battles astronauts taken over by the aliens!
Issues #2-#4 written by Paul S. Newman.

The Invaders #3!

Invaders #3  They're Here! They're Attacking! They're Shout the Alarm! The Moon Tilters!
"The Moon Tilters!"

David Vincent battles an alien plot to make the waters rise, drowning the Earth!


The Invaders #4!

Invaders #4 The Doomsday Window!

Invaders #4  The Fate of the Earth is in David Vincent's Hands! The Doomsday Window!
"The Doomsday Window!"
David Vincent finds a mysterious alien tool!
"Rendezvous at Grizzly Mesa!"
Vincent finds help among the alien invaders!
Millionaire industrialist Edgar Scoville is an important character in the TV series, and now in this issue's stories! 
Includes Edgar Scoville, important character from the TV series!
Concluded below!
 
  There was also a three paperback series from Pyramid Books.
The Invaders The Discovery by Keith Laumer 
A one man war against aliens from outer space! Three short stories that detail the invasion of Earth by The Invaders as David Vincent discovers them in a different manner than the TV series. Published in the U.K. as The Meteor Men by Anthony Labaron.\


The Invaders 2 Enemies from Beyond by Keith Laumer 
The boiling sea. The swarming rats. The buildings on the moon. Mysteries--disasters--eerie phenomena--baffling both the man in the street and world-famed scientists. Four short stories show how one man--David Vincent--knew what they were...the work of THE INVADERS!


The Invaders 3 Army of the Undead by Rafe Bernard.
Could David Vincent discover The Invaders' ghastly secret. Printed in the U.K. as The Halo Highway.

Printed in the U.K., Peter Leslie, of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. fame, wrote two other The Invaders novels, The Autumn Accelerator & Night of the Trilodites.  



A Whitman hardcover book "Dam of Death" by Jack Pearl.




A Whitman Big Little Book, hardcover edition, "Alien Missile Threat" by Paul S. Newman.
An unusual news broadcast sends David Vincent on a new adventure in his search for the Invaders! 

Man, sure wish I still had this model! Keep hoping for a reissue!

I've even included a picture of the scale model out there of the alien spacecraft. 

Be sure to watch the intros to each episode!
  I'm thoroughly enjoying the two seasons on DVD. The introductions by Roy Thinnes are priceless!

Thank You!

Live Large My Friends!

Invaders weapon of choice!



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