COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB are returning...

While preparing files for our 3-D Week series a couple of years ago, I came across this title in my archives...

..which doesn't use 3-D, but a pseudo-3-D process called...

BTW, only the first issue used the TrueVision gimmick.

The 1954 seven-issue series, Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub from American Comics Group, had a lot in common with the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea tv series and the Voyage to the Deep comic series, emphasizing wild science fiction storylines with the occasional spy/anti-Commie tale.

Be here tomorrow when we re-present the never-reprinted #1, which features the origin of the sub, the assembling of the crew and their first mission!

Best of Reading Room: 3-D: ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN "Nightmare"

You won't need red/blue 3-D glasses to read today's 3-D comic story, thanks to...

All the benefits!

None of the headaches (except for the artist who had to illustrate it)!

And now, on with today's story, the cover feature from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #51 (1953)...

The extensive use of Craftint for backgrounds, background objects, and shading is a clever idea, but I can see how it would become visually-irritating on an ongoing basis.
Art by Harry Lazarus, one of a trio of siblings (including Sid and Leon) who all ended up writing and/or illustrating comic books during the 1940s-1960s.
(They are not related to Mell Lazarus, writer/artist of the comic strips Miss Peach and Momma, who also worked in comic books in the 1950s.
Small world, ain't it?)
BTW, for another TrueVision tale, pop over to our "sister" blog True Love Comics Tales™!

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COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB are coming...

While preparing files for the 3-D Week series, I came across this title in my archives...

..which doesn't use 3-D, but a pseudo-3-D process called...

BTW, only the first issue used the TrueVision gimmick.

The 1954 seven-issue series from American Comics Group featuring art by Ogden Whitney, Sheldon Moldoff, and Ken Hughes has a lot in common with the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea tv series and the Voyage to the Deep comic series, emphasizing wild science fiction storylines with the occasional spy/anti-Commie tale.

Be here tomorrow when we present the never-reprinted #1, which features the origin of the sub, the assembling of the crew and their first mission!

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3-D BONUS: Blinkeys!

The 1960 William Castle movie 13 Ghosts used red/blue 3-D style glasses, but not for 3-D!

While most of the movie was black and white, certain sequences had red and blue tinting.
To see the ghosts, you looked thru the red "lens".
To not see the specters, you looked thru the blue "lens".
But, years earlier, in 1953, Harvey Comics' 3-D comic books offered a similar idea in a series of one-page fillers most of which have never been reprinted...
(Yes, you need those 3-D glasses to read them properly!)

Adventures in 3-D #1. Art by Howard Nostrand

Adventures in 3-D #2. Art by Bob Powell

True 3-D #1. Art by Bob Powell

True 3-D #2. Art by Bob Powell

Hope you enjoyed 3-D Week (and didn't develop eyestrain)!

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3-D: WHACK! "3-D-t's" Part 2

We began 3-D Week with the 3-D-t's and we end the week with them...

...but only two months after WHACK! #1 came out, things for the 3-D comic industry have not gone well at all!

How close was this story to the truth about the collapse of the 3-D comics phemonenon?

Read this page on 3-D comics expert Ray Zone's site, then decide for yourself.

Remember, in the comic story, the names have been changed to protect the guilty!

Reversing roles from the previous 3-D-t's story, Joe Kubert penciled and Norman Maurer inked this story.

Who wrote it is unknown, but it could be either or both of them.

They also satirized those impressionable youngsters who wanted to do 3-D comics...

Wonder how many kids actually sent in a dollar...

We hope you've enjoyed 3-D Week.
Check out our brother and sister RetroBlogs™ (shown on the list at left), all of whom have 3-D stories and features this week!

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3-D: ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN "Nightmare"

You won't need red/blue 3-D glasses to read today's 3-D comic story, thanks to...

All the benefits!

None of the headaches (except for the artist)!

And now, on with today's story, the cover feature from Adventures into the Unknown #51 (1953)...

The extensive use of Craftint for backgrounds, background objects, and shading is a clever idea, but I can see how it would become visually-irritating on an ongoing basis.
Art by Harry Lazarus, one of a trio of siblings (including Sid and Leon) who all ended up writing and/or illustrating comic books during the 1940s-1960s.
(They are not related to Mell Lazarus, writer/artist of the comic strips Miss Peach and Momma, who also worked in comic books in the 1950s.
Small world, ain't it?)
BTW, for another TrueVision tale, pop over to our "sister" blog True Love Comics Tales™!

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3-D: WHACK! "3-D-t's"

What did people in the comics industry think of the 1950s 3-D fad?

I'd say this 1953 tale from the all-3-D first issue of WHACK! (St John's MAD comic clone) explains it pretty well.

(And, yes, you need those 3-D glasses!)

Penciled by Norman Maurer, inked by Joe Kubert, the writer is unknown, though it could be Maurer.

Next issue, there was a non-3-D sequel story about the collapse of the 3-D comic trend.

Talk about your short-lived fads!

We'll be presenting that story on Friday!

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3-D Week Begins Tomorrow!

To celebrate the release of Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace in 3-D...

...(although I'm waiting for the Original Trilogy!),
all the RetroBlogs™ are running 3-D tales this week!

Monday: Western Comics Adventures™
Tuesday: Crime & Punishment™
Wednesday: True Love Comics Tales™
Thursday: Seduction of the Innocent™
Friday: War: Past, Present and Future™

PLUS: 
Hero & Heroine Histories™

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™
and
Femmes Fantastique™
will all do 3-D tales during the week.
Don't Miss Them!
 (and don't forget your 3-D glasses...)

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3-D Sweeps thru RetroBlogs Next Week!

With Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace being released in 3-D next Friday, Feb. 10th...

We're going 3-D mad at RetroBlogs™!

Romance!

War!

Horror!

SuperHeroes!

So dig out those red/blue-lensed glasses, and join in the fun beginning Feb 6th!