Came the Dawn

            When I checked out Came the Dawn, I thought it was something completely different, and by different I mean contemporary. This book was like stumbling upon a time machine taking me back to 1950 through a collection of short stories with classic crime, mystery and drama plots that by today’s standard would be considered cliché. The cast of characters for each story was as follows: 1 chisel-chinned white guy equipped with smoking implement, 1 supplemental, less heroic white guy, maybe he has a moustache, 1 monster or villainous character, 1 blonde chick, unless she’s a villain/seductress, in which case brunette. Needless to say I didn’t get too into this whole universe. But all anachronism aside, the black & white illustrations were actually quite good; very professionally done. In the introduction, Wallace Wood goes over his process; how he and Harry Harrison would pass their pages back and forth and churn out comic stories.