Showing posts with label Colleges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colleges. Show all posts

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Yes, But How's Their Football Team?

It's nice to know that, in the not-too-distant future, there will still be great educational opportunities for you great great great-grandchildren:

Space Academy: University Of The Planets?

That sounds keen, but tell us more about the hands-on training:

Yes, but do you use advanced and modern educational techniques?

Well, models and textbooks!

But surely that's not enough!
Exact copies of control decks?!?

Well, I'm sold! I'll sign up, as soon as my refund check from Trump University comes in...

From Tom Corbett, Space Cadet #8-#11 (1954)

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

There's One At Every University!

You may have thought that it was just Vincent Von Doom.

But nope, every college has their dabblers in the forbidden:




Yup, they don't tell you this in the recruitment brochures, but every college has at least one maverick mad scientist (plus an ineffective Dean who doesn't expel the dude until after things blow up).

So, younger readers, before you sign on the dotted line for the higher education institute of your choice, you might want to research first, and see if they've had a major science/magic related accident the recently. If not, they're due...and you don't want to be caught in the backwash!!

[SPOILER ALERT: That wasn't Stugg's corpse in the explosion. He lured a gangster there and killed him to fake his own death, so he could go on to use his new radiation powers to become the "king of crime." Oh, academia...]

From Smash Comics #75 (1948)