Friday Fun BASEBALL COMICS "Rube Rooky Climbs Up from the Pit...."

Will Eisner's saga of how a baseball superstar is created continues...

...as Rube leaves his family and girlfriend to pursue his dream...

Wow!

Big-screen TV in 1949?

Who knew?

Next Week: the exciting conclusion to Rube Rooky's amazing saga!
BTW, anybody here see a parallel between Rube and a real-life ballplayer who faced similar problems being accepted by his teammates because he was "different" just a year before writer/penciler Will Eisner and inker Tex Blaisdell created this tale?

Think about it...

Support Atomic Kommie Comics!

Visit Amazon and Buy...

Baseball Comics #2

(A follow-up published decades later)
Paid Link

Reading Room KANDI THE CAVE KID "Dinosaur"

Creationists believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old...

...so to them, this could be considered a chapter in a history book!

This never-reprinted story from Dell's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #15 (1943) was the final appearance of the Walt Kelly-created character.

Besides both print adaptations of theatrical cartoons and new tales of existing Warner Brothers characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Dell introduced a number of new characters to fill out the pages of the comic anthology, including Kandi and Pat, Patsy & Pete.

Kandi was one of the shorter-lived ones, with only a half-dozen short tales from #3 to #15.

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder STEPHEN COLBERT'S TEK JANSEN "Invasion of the Optiklons!!!" Part 1

Somewhere out in space, beautiful green women are in peril...

...and only one manly man can save them!

Continued, right now, at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

Written by John Layman & Tom Peyer and illustrated by Scott Chantler, the premiere comic adventure of the one and only Tek Jansen in Oni Press' Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen #1 (2007) jumps into the lunacy head-first and won't let up!

Support Atomic Kommie Comics

Visit Amazon and Buy...

Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen

Complete Mini-Series

Paid Link

Stephen Colbert IS Tek Jansen: Space Hero!

Did you know mild-mannered Late Show host Stephen Colbert is really...

...and that he had both a five-issue comic mini-series...

...and a number of animated cartoon episodes (with Colbert as the voice of Jansen)!

Sadly, the cartoons themselves are now lost to the cyber-winds, but the theme song survives HERE!
But hang tight, True Believers, 'cause we'll be posting some of the OOP (that's "out of print") adventures of everybody's (especially Stephen's) favorite space hero for the next couple of weeks on this blog at Wednesday Worlds of Wonder and Space Hero Saturdays plus, same day on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!
That's three chapters each week for the next two weeks!

Dare You Miss It???

Monday Mecha Madness TERMINATOR "Down to Earth" Part 1

Between the first Terminator  movie and Terminator 2: Judgment Day...

...a brand-new comics publisher secured the rights to do a sequel comic.

Note: the "three years since" reference is to 2028, the year The Terminator was sent into the past, not 1984, the year it arrived in the past.

To Be Concluded Next Monday!

Scripted by publisher Tony Caputo, penciled by Tony Akins, and inked by Jim Brozman, this never-reprinted adventure from NOW's Terminator #1 (1988) introduced the inhabitants of a moonbase untouched by SkyNet, who will prove vital to future storylines in comics, novels, roleplaying games, and the movies themselves.

BTW, it's not the premiere comics tale of the Terminator Multiverse!

That honor goes to a 5-page introduction in the back of NOW's Rust #12 (1988) which leads into this story.

Unfortunately, that book is extremely-expensive and I've never seen anybody else post scans of the Terminator back-up tale online!

Support Atomic Kommie Comics

Visit Amazon and Buy...

Terminator 6-Film Collection

Paid Link