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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Wolverton Bible

(which takes the HTF 1970s limited-distribution multi-volume series and reprints it in a single hardcover book!)

America: Post-CoronaVirus?

As promised, the final, unused image...

...from the mini-series, illustrated by comics legend Basil Wolverton, about the Bible's Book of Revelations, which seems to depict Don da Con's term in office with frightening accuracy!

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Wolverton Bible

(which takes the illustrations from the HTF 1970s multi-volume series and reprints them in a single hardcover book!)

Compiled and edited by Wolverton's son, Monte, the 304-page Bible Stories includes all of Wolverton's artwork for the Worldwide Church of God project.

Recording artist and noted EC Comics authority Grant Geissman (Tales of Terror: The E.C. Companion and Foul Play!: The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics!) provides an insightful foreword, while Monte Wolverton delivers commentary and background in the introduction and in each section.

This volume is authorized and commissioned by the Worldwide Church of God and endorsed by the Wolverton family.

BTW, Many of the illustrations (some never previously-published) are regarded as Basil Wolverton's finest work.

America: Post-CoronaVirus?

Is this our future...

...thanks to the ineptitude of 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!

Be here Tuesday as we reveal the final image in the series that was so shocking, the editors initially refused to publish it!

Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!

Visit Amazon and Order...

Wolverton Bible

(which takes the HTF 1970s multi-volume series and reprints it in a single hardcover book!)

Compiled and edited by Wolverton's son, Monte, the 304-page Bible Stories includes all of Wolverton's artwork for the Worldwide Church of God project.

Recording artist and noted EC Comics authority Grant Geissman (Tales of Terror: The E.C. Companion and Foul Play!: The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics!) provides an insightful foreword, while Monte Wolverton delivers commentary and background in the introduction and in each section.

This volume is authorized and commissioned by the Worldwide Church of God and endorsed by the Wolverton family.

BTW, Many of the illustrations (some never previously-published) are regarded as Basil Wolverton's finest work.

America...Post-Coronavirus? (Concluded)

Is this our future...

...thanks to the incompetence of Don da Con?

America...Post-Coronavirus? (Continued)

Is this our future...

...thanks to the incompetence of Don da Con?

America...Post-Coronavirus?

Is this our future...

thanks to the incompetence of Don da Con?

Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Escape to Death!"

Yeah, you read that correctly.

"To Death", not "From Death".

Don't worry, this s-o-b deserves what he gets in the end...

It's a kool story with superb Basil Wolverton story and art.

But, there's one problem...the coloring.

Basil went to the trouble of doing a number of different alien races, but they're all colored the same shade of green!

(There is one panel with the various aliens colored differently, but even there, the coloring is not consistent.

Members of the same species are colored several different ways!)

Was this tale from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #2 recolored to play up the various species' differences when it was reprinted in Eclipse's Mr Monster's Super-Duper Special #8 in 1987?
When I get ahold of a copy, I'll let you know!

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Brain Bats of Venus

Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton

Volume Two

1942-1952

Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Flight to the Future"

"Jobs were scarce after the Great Atom Bomb War..."

They wrote that in 1952!
We haven't had an atomic war...yet.
But good jobs are still scarce in 2019, despite claims of "full employment by Don da Con!

The inimitable illustration style of Basil Wolverton just oozes from every panel of this tawdry tale from Key Publications' anthology Weird Tales of the Future #2 (1952).

And, the odds are he wrote the story as well.

Wotta guy!

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Brain Bats of Venus

Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton

Volume Two

1942-1952

Reading Room: SPACEHAWK "Moon Justice"

Basil Wolverton really enjoyed doing SpaceHawk...

...and even took a crack at writing a short text story starring the character, as seen in this tale from Target Comics #15 (1941)

The same issue this prose piece appeared, the SpaceHawk strip's format was changed in a direction Wolverton was not happy about; moving the hero from outer space to Earth to use his advanced technology to battle threats from thinly-disguised surrogates of the Axis powers.

(This was pre-Pearl Harbor, and we weren't at war at the time, so the stories were still set in the future!)

Once America entered the war, SpaceHawk was actually transported thru time to the "present day" (1942) to fight the real Hitler, Hirohito, Mussolini, and their minions.

So you might consider this text story to be Wolverton's last try to convince the editor to keep the strip in deep space.

It didn't work.

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Reading Room SPACEHAWK "Pirates of Uranus" in 3-D!

Get those 3-D glasses out kiddies (red lens on the left, blue lens on the right)...

...as we look in on one more version of what many believe to be the prototypical SpaceHawk tale...

Ray Zone did a magnificent job converting Wolverton's art to 3-D in 3-D Zone #18 (1989).

We hope you enjoyed this Halloween treat, and follow us for the rest of the week as we present more goodies during this most sacred of holidays.

Reading Room SPACEHAWK "Pirates of Uranus"

If there was ever a space adventurer who experienced Halloween ever day of his career, it was...

...with aliens and monsters that even today's special effects would be hard-pressed to match!

If this story from Novelty's Target Comics #10 (1940) looks a little odd, there's a good reason for it.

Archival Press released a SpaceHawk trade paperback in 1978.

Though the book itself featured b/w line art interiors and a color cover, Archival made a deal with Marvel to provide Epic Illustrated a SpaceHawk story in color to accompany an article by Ron Goulart about Basil Wolvertont.

Unfortunately, Epic only gave them 8 pages, so the 10-page story had to be edited to fit the page count.

Be here Monday to see the original longer version of the story.

BTW, the hand-coloring, which was photographically-color separated (they didn't have scanners then), was done by Rick Veitch.
It has a wonderful "organic" feel computer coloring just can't match.

Basil Wolverton's SpaceHawk

Proving the adage that most "Golden Age" science fiction was just Westerns with ray guns instead of revolvers and spaceships instead of horses, the comic series SpaceHawk featured a lone gunslinger wandering the universe righting wrongs and defending the weak in areas where (ray) gun law ruled.

Though the stories were pedestrian rewrites of Old West potboilers, they were brought to dynamic life by legendary illustrator Basil Wolverton.
Best known for his work on MAD and PLOP, Wolverton had a truly unique art style especially-suited to science fiction / fantasy, not for his "heroic" characters (who were pretty standard), but the amazing monsters and alien environments he illustrated.

SpaceHawk never had his own title in the Golden Age, but inhabited the back pages of Target Comics from V1#7 thru V3#10, appearing on the cover only once during the entire run.
(Nonetheless, he consistently drew more mail than any other single strip in the book!)

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ have included SpaceHawk in our Solo Heroes section of Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ line, where characters with only one cover available hang out awaiting your shopping pleasure.
Stop by and visit SpaceHawk. He's the new kid on the block. Make him feel welcome! ;-)