It's a HOT Time at the RetroBlog Summer Blogathons!

A New Blogathon Begins Tomorrow...

...as Nazi-Punching gets a week-long workout with Doc Savage taking on his Nazi counterpart raised by scientists using the same techniques Dr Clark Savage Sr used for Clark Jr...at the 1936 Olympics in a never-reprinted, extra-long, almost half-century-old tale!

Guest-Starring: a host of historical figures including Jesse Owens and Adolf (you know who)!

Tomorrow at Hero Histories!

Meanwhile...

Jet Dream & Her Stunt-Girl Counterspies continue daily on both Heroines! and Crime & Punishment (With a Stopover at True Love Comics Tales)!

If You've Missed Their Already-Posted, Never-Reprinted, Silver-Age Adventures, Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE!

And Now...

We've Completed the Massive Re-Presentation of the Time-Lost, Never-Reprinted, First Prose Novel Starring the #FantasticFour , Doomsday, written by Marv Wolfman!

And for Those Silly Enough to Have Missed Any of It...

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RetroBlogs: We're Working Hard While You're on Vacation!

Errol Flynn's Captain Blood...by the creator of Flash Gordon!

How many of you have seen this classic movie poster...

...and knew it was the work of Alex Raymond, of Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, and Secret Agent X-9 fame?

Yep!

Since Captain Blood and Arabella Bishop do not look like Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, it's a reasonable bet that this was done as an advance promo piece before casting, but it was so good, the studio still used it as their half-sheet poster for both the initial release and re-releases!

If you look at the original Flash Gordon strip, you'll see Raymond incorporated a lot of pirate/swashbuckler costume, weapon, and design motifs into Flash's adventures on other worlds!

Santa's Workshop is a SWEATSHOP???

DC's More Fun Comics #39 (1939)
Art by Craig (The Sandman) Flessel
Did You Finish Your Christmas Shopping?

Holiday Reading Room RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER "The Reindeer Who Saved Christmas!"

It's Almost Christmas and Santa is Desperate...

...that's as concise a synopsis as you'll ever read, so on to the story with all requisite speed...

The copy we're using doesn't have a final page.

So we'll use the original hand-drawn layout!

 

Written by Robert L May and illustrated by Denver Gillen, this beloved tale was actually an advertising promotion designed to lure customers into doing Christmas shopping!
We hope you've enjoyed this bit of holiday history, and keep checking us out for more Christmastime fun!

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

75th-Anniversary Edition

(a replica of the original 1939 book we're re-presenting on this blog!)

Holiday Reading Room RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER "The Plot (and the Fog) Thickens!"

When Last We Left Santa Claus and Rudolph...

...Rudolph lived a sad existence, shunned by his peers because he was "different".

But, on Christmas Eve, when Santa Claus, hindered by severe fog, making him hours behind schedule, delivers gifts to Rudolph's home, he literally sees the solution to his problem...

Thursday:

The Reindeer Who Saved Christmas...

Written by Robert L May and illustrated by Denver Gillen, this beloved tale was actually an advertising promotion designed to lure customers into doing Christmas shopping!

Support Atomic Kommie Comics this Christmas!

Visit Amazon and Order...

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

75th-Anniversary Edition

(a replica of the original 1939 book we're re-presenting on this blog!)

Holiday Reading Room RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER "Who He Is and How He Came to Be!"

Much as Disney's versions of classic fairy tales have become the "accepted" ones...

...the 1964 stop-motion animated TV special of Rudolph is the one everyone knows.

But, this is the real story...

Next Tuesday:

The Plot (and the Fog) Thickens...

Written by Robert L May and illustrated by Denver Gillen, this beloved tale was actually an advertising promotion designed to lure customers into doing Christmas shopping!

True!
You can read about it HERE!

Support Atomic Kommie Comics this Christmas!

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Deluxe 50th-Anniversary Edition

(of the stop-motion animated TV special, which is considerably-different from this tale!)

Design of the Week...REDUX! SANTA'S WORKSHOP IS A SWEATSHOP???

Normally, each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

In this case, the response has been so overwhelming, we're going to keep the design up until Christmas!

(BTW, you'll note that the cover is dated January, 1939.

But it was actually on sale in November, 1938! 

Publishers used to cover-date comics and pulps two to three months ahead of the actual on-sale date to keep the books on the stands for as long as possible!)

Pick up this kool design on mugs, greeting cards, and other Yuletide collectibles NOW!

Christmas will be here before you know it!

Design of the Week! SANTA'S WORKSHOP IS A SWEATSHOP???

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This week...go back 85 years ago, to November 1938 and see...when elves were part of the 99%!

(You'll note that the cover is dated January, 1939.

But it was actually on sale in November, 1938! 

Publishers used to cover-date comics and pulps two to three months ahead of the actual on-sale date to keep the books on the stands for as long as possible!)

And it looks like the elves aren't going to settle for sweatshop wages and conditions at the North Pole anymore!

Pick up this kool design on mugs, greeting cards, and other Yuletide collectibles NOW!

Christmas will be here before you know it!

Space Hero Saturdays FANTASTIC COMICS "Space Smith and the Headless Men of the Gold Comet"

Newspaper comics had Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Brick Bradford...

...but comic books had the even wilder exploits of adventurers like Space Smith!

Wow!

Dianna's no mere helpless female sidekick, as this tale from Fox's Fantastic Comics #4 (1940) proves!

Fletcher Hanks was no stranger to visualizing assertive women.

His Fantomah strip in Fiction House's Jungle Comics presented a jungle heroine with super-powers on a par with Wonder Woman (whom she pre-dated by a year)!

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I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!

by

Fletcher Hanks