Atomic Kommie Comics: Barbie and Ken

Sunday, June 25, 2023

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathons Return with TWO Themes...

First up is

The Summer of...The Shadow!

We're re-presenting not one, not two, but three never-reprinted decades-old series featuring He Who Knows...you know the rest!

The remainder of the never-reprinted non-Mike Kaluta-illustrated issues of the 1970s Shadow comic series (we already ran one HERE) written by Denny O'Neil and Michael Uslan, featuring art by Frank Robbins and ER Cruz in
Crime & Punishment!

The remainder of the never-reprinted, campy,1960s Shadow "costumed superhero" series written by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Paul Reinman. (and, yes, we already ran several of them HERE, HERE, and HERE) published by Archie Comics, in

Hero Histories

And, because the response to our previous prose novel presentations was so positive, we're going to run the last original novel under the "Maxwell Grant" pseudonym (though it was really genre novelist Dennis Lynds, not Shadow creator Walter Gibson) through three RetroBlogs...
Hero Histories
Crime and Punishment
and here at
Atomic Kommie Comics!
Plus, we're returning to a blog we've inadvertently-neglected this past year with a festival featuring the greatest martial arts performer of all time...

Pop Art Martial Arts!

Plus:

We've been doing "theme months" at

True Love Comics Tales!

July will of the month of...

...with re-presentations of never-reprinted tales from both the 1960s Dell comic (above), and the 1980s Marvel/Star comic!

And, the final July post (after the Barbie movie opens on July 21st) will be about a 1960s comic created to tie-in with a competitor's line of fashion dolls!

If we weren't doing these re-presentations, we'd be the first in line to read them!
The Summer Fun begins
July 3rd!