Saturday, May 30, 2020

Though the World May Be Collapsing Even as Covid-19 Restrictions are Lifted...

...if you're still stuck inside, relax and read free comics of fictional epidemics/pandemics destroying America (or Earth)..
...Mon-Fri here on this blog, and weekly / bi-weekly on our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...
...Medical Comics...
...plus...
...Seduction of the Innocent...
...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...
(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...
...Hero Histories...
...Heroines!...
...the aptly-named
...Horror Comics of the 1950s...
...War: Past, Present and Future...
...Western Comics Adventures...
...Crime & Punishment!
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, May 29, 2020

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics JUGHEAD "The Patient"

What happens when the best friend of America's Most Famous Comic Book TeenAger is taken ill?
Well, it seems the gang's true feelings about him come out...
Written by Dick Malmgren and illustrated by Saam Schwartz, this tale from Archie's Jughead #250 (1976) seems to show how little respect Forsythe Pendleton Jones III engenders in his associates...except for Archie!
I hope the current version of the characters has revised this concept...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics SPACE ADVENTURES "Tale About Time: There Shall Be an Ending!"

...reporter Paul Mann is plucked from 1967 by the Esroms, peaceful humans from the year 4000 AD who travel in time machine/spacecraft that are mistaken for "flying saucers".
Mann and the Esroms pursue the Honjnosians (evil humans also from 4000 AD) to the time before the Big Bang when Paul falls out of the ship into the ether of the pre-universe...
Remember, Bronsky's diagram was for a bioweapon, specifically an unstoppable plague!
You'll note the use of the "breaking the fourth wall" storytelling technique with Mann addressing the reader directly in several panels, (with one panel of other characters thinking Paul's a bit looney).
Denny O'Neil using his "Sergius O'Shaughnessy" pseudonym scripted this conclusion to the book-length tale from Space Adventures V2#2 (1968).
The art is by the highly-underrated Pat Boyette with what looks like minor redrawing by Jim Aparo in several panels featuring Paul Mann to maintain visual continuity.
Sadly, there were no further adventures of Mann and the men from 4000 AD...
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(which shares a number of plot elements with this story)

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics GIANT-SIZED DOC SAVAGE "The Man of Bronze" Conclusion

Art by John and Sal Buscema
Learning of his father's death due to a rare disease, adventurer/scientist Doc Savage returns to his headquarters in New York City, where he is greeted by his five associates, each an expert in a different science or discipline.
Suspecting foul play, they are about to read the elder Savage's personal papers to ascertain clues, when an assassination attempt is made on Doc.
The group (except for lawyer Ham, sent on another assignment) now goes in pursuit of the gunman...
To Be Continued...Tomorrow,
back where it began, at...
Hero Histories!
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Monday, May 25, 2020

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics PANDEMICA "Chapter One: Get Down with the Sickness" Conclusion

There's a conspiracy to use biological warfare to target specific genetic types...non-whites!
Dr Moses Katz has deduced the key to the plot, but needs help to gather evidence!
After a botched assassination attempt against him, the medical researcher begins recruiting a team of experts with extremely-special skills...
So the cover depicts where the issue ends, not a scene within the issue itself!
Combine speculation about Covid-19 with the X-Files and Mission: Impossible and you get this (prophetic?) series produced last year!
Where does it go from here?
This tale from IDW's almost-prescient Pandemica #1 (2019), by novelist Jonathan Mayberry and illustrator Alex Sanchez begins the set-up the rest of that first issue (of five) completes!
Luckily, they're publishing the entire mini in one trade paperback with kool extras...
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