Saturday, April 25, 2020

Disinfect Your Mind with an Injection of CORONAVIRUS COMICS...

...as we present tales of fictional epidemics/pandemics daily here on this blog...
...and our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...
...plus...
(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...
...Heroines!...
...and the aptly-named
Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!
Don't Miss Them!

Friday, April 24, 2020

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics How Medicine has Changed Under Trump

Sometimes the jokes write themselves, thanks to Don da Con...
Rick McKee ©2020 Cagle Cartoons
vs
Norman Rockwell
Medicine in Eisenhower's America (1958)
This is Progress?

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Thursday, April 23, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics REAL HEROES "Plague Vanquished"

Not all comics heroes wear capes...
..as this tale of Edward Jenner, the doctor who saved us from smallpox, proves!
Who says comics ain't educational?
Not me, kiddo!
This never-reprinted story from Parent Magazines' Real Heroes #15 (1946) was one of several graphic dramatizations of Jenner's achievement which has saved countless lives since its' introduction!
Depending on how long the Covid-19 lockdown continues, we may have time to run all of them!
Sadly, both writer and illustrator(s) are unknown!
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Rabbit and Cat's CoronaVirus Jokes for Such a Time as This
Volume One

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics SPACE ADVENTURES "U.F.O.: Healers from Nowhere"

Here's a two-issue tale of disease and death from...elsewhere...that features a round-robin of artists...
...including one of the greatest of all time and a couple who are almost on his level!
Sooner than you think, Mr Mann...like next Wednesday!
This rather low-key story from Charlton's Space Adventures #60 (1967) was the first chapter of a three-part book-length tale that gets wilder as it goes on.
Not that unusual for comics of the Silver Age...except for three things:
1) It was a full-length story in an anthology title.
Anthology books usually had two or more stand-alone stories.
2) The story produced a three-part sequel, which was published a year later!
3) Most importantly, each chapter of this tale was illustrated by a different artist!
This premiere was rendered by "Melonius Thonk" (a play on then-popular jazz musician Thelonius Monk) a pen-name used to cover an apparent artist jam since every page has different stylistic elements.
As you'll see, the remaining two chapters were rendered by extremely distinctive artists who penciled and inked their own work!
BTW, the entire story from the final issue of this book's first run was written by future Batman and Green Lantern/Green Arrow scribe Denny O'Neil using his "Sergius O'Shaughnessy" pseudonom.
Note that the printing on this story is pretty bad.
Unlike other comics publishers who used outside printers, Charlton was famous for pinching pennies by printing their own books using presses that were designed to handle cardboard boxes and other pretty hard materials, not fragile newsprint!
Because the paper was heavier and slicker for covers, the printing on them was cleaner than the insides, but hardly perfect.
But the printing inside Charlton's books could be pretty spotty, as in this case...
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(which shares a number of plot elements with this story)

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

CoronaVirusComics FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Alien Germs"

By the late 1950s, we were so confident in advances in medicine...
...that the only way we'd face a catastrophic pandemic was if it was of alien (that's extraterrestrial, not illegal) origin!
Wow!
Is there nothing science (with assistance from alien tech) can't solve?
According to this story from ACG's Forbidden Worlds #71 (1958) by writer/editor Richard Hughes and artist John Rosenberger the answer was clearly "NO"!
Interestingly, when the story was reprinted in ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #166 (1966), only two things were altered...both on the title page...
See the diifferences?
The title has been altered and the extremely-optimistic opening blurb about mankind's almost-miraculous medical acumen was deleted!
Was it simply because, in the mid-1960s, we were no longer totally-trusting about our government and other authority figures?
Or was it...dare I say it...a conspiracy?
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Forbidden Worlds Archives
Volume 3

Monday, April 20, 2020

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics DRACULA COMICS "Invasion"

Covid-19 isn't the only virus afflicting mankind...
...as this rather bizarre feature demonstrates!
Kool, eh?
Written by Estaban Maroto (who's better-known as an illustrator) and depicted by Jose Bea, this tale from New English Library's Dracula Magazine V1N5 (1972) originally appeared, in Spanish, in Buru Lan's Drácula V1N5 (1971)!
It was then published in America by Warren Publications in a trade paperback collecting the first six issues of Dracula Magazine and as a standalone tale in color insert sections of the publisher's usually-all b/w magazines!
So older fans will probably remember it from several different places during the early 1970s!
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(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine!)

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Is THIS Our Future?

Is this our future...
...thanks to the ineptitude of President Don da Con?
Legendary artist Basil Wolverton did these illustrations for articles in a religious organization's magazine about the Book of Revelations.
They were later compiled, along with others, into a multi-volume version of the Bible by that same organization which covered from Genesis to Revelations!
Here's the final image in the series that was so shocking, the editors initially refused to publish it!
Is this our future???
The Choice is Up to YOU!!!
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