Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Monday, December 4, 2023

Monday Madness BIZARRE ADVENTURES "Slay Bells!"

This never-reprinted tale is rendered in black and white...and red!

Lots of red!
No, there never was a "Weird Easter" issue.
In fact, this issue (#34 [1983]), was the final one of Bizarre Adventures!
Apparently, "Slay Bells!" writer/artist Mike Carlin, and the rest of the contributors decided to let it all hang out in this "Hate the Holidays" issue!
After all, the book was being cancelled...what was anybody going to do about it?

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Sunday, December 3, 2023

Design of the Week "BAH, HUMBUG!"

For the Christmas season, we've brought back one of our most popular features: posting a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...
Express your true feelings about the holiday season!
None of this "Happy Holidays!" or "Good will towards men!" BS!
Say what you feel!
"Bah, Humbug!"
Say it on hot cocoa mugs, ornaments, sweatshirts, hoodies (both light AND dark!), and MANY other goodies!
Give the gift that keeps on giving, even if you, personally, don't!
And "Bah, Humbug!" to all this Holiday Season!

Friday, December 1, 2023

Friday Holiday Fun LITTLEST SNOWMAN RESCUES CHRISTMAS Part 1

No, he ain't Frosty the Snowman...
But this little guy was almost as popular in the 1950s, though, sadly, largely forgotten today!
To Be Continued...
Next Friday!
Written by the character's creator Charles Tazewell and illustrated by Mel Crawford, this never-reprinted tale from Dell's Four Color Comics #864 (1957) is an original tale, not an adaptation of a previously-published prose tale!
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Thursday, November 30, 2023

Holiday Reading Room YOUNG DOCTORS "Dr Tom Brent: Christmas Comes in August!"

You have no idea how few medical-themed Yuletide comic stories there are...

...until you try to find one...and end up with a tale that's the victim of terrible printing!
This never-reprinted tale from Charlton's Young Doctors #6 (1963) unfortunately shows off the terrible printing Charlton Comics was famous for!
The publisher didn't utilize the printing companies literally every other comics publisher used.
Instead, to save money, they printed on old, second-hand printing presses.
But those presses had been constructed to handle cardboard and plastic packaging, not the much-thinner newsprint paper used for comics!
As a result, their comics had an amazing amount of smearing and off-register color, as you can see from the first page.
It's a shame, because the art by penciler Joe Sinnott and inker Vince Colletta deserves a better presentation!
BTW, Young Doctors was an anthology title featuring tales of all the MDs who had their own Charlton books at the time, including, of course, Dr Tom Brent, Young Intern!
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

The Woman Who (Believe It or Not) LOVED Scrooge!

When you think of Ebenezer Scrooge, "lovable" is probably the last word you'd associate with him.
Yet, one woman gave her heart to him...was engaged to him...and had her heart broken by him!
Her name was Belle!
She appears twice in A Christmas Carol, during Scrooge's journey with the Ghost of Christmas Past.

First, we see how the young Scrooge choose between his love of money and love of her.
Second, we see how, after their breakup, she married a good man and together they raised a loving family, giving Scrooge a look at what "might have been" had he chosen to remain with her!

Almost every dramatic adaptation (radio/tv/movie) shows the first incident, but omits the second scene (usually due to time constraints), thus many people have never known how Belle's life turned out after Scrooge left her!
(You'd be surprised how many people never actually read the story, only seen or heard the tv, film and audio versions!)

Most of the illustrators of the many editions that have been printed over the decades have also bypassed the conclusion of Belle's plotline.
But not legendary illustrator Arthur Rackham!
He did not one, but two color illustrations in the 1915 edition just for the short conclusion to Belle's story in Stave Two!
And we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ just had to include both of them in our A Christmas Carol collection!
One, Belle & Children shows Scrooge's once-love playing with her kids.
The other, Belle's Family portrays the children crowding around their father (whom Scrooge could have been, had he chosen differently) as he comes home, laden with presents!

They're absolutely beautiful pieces, some of the best work Rackham ever produced!
Enjoy!

Monday, November 27, 2023

Monday Madness COMICO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL "Too Many Santas"

Until Christmas, we're going to do some really weird sh!t on Mondays...
...like this multiversal Yuletide tale from the Comico Christmas Special one-shot from 1998!
(Don't say we didn't warn you!)
Writer Doug Wheeler later took over scripting DC's Swamp Thing after Alan Moore left the book.
Artist Bernie Mireault illustrates one-shots and limited series for both DC and Dark Horse.

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Friday, November 17, 2023

Friday Fun SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "Santa in Wonderland" Conclusion

When Last We Left Santa Claus and Alice...

The night before Christmas Eve, Santa was disturbed when a little girl named Alice appeared at his door at the North Pole and pleaded for him to "bring Christmas to Wonderland".
The blonde girl lead Santa to the rabbit hole/entrance and showed him mushrooms that reduced both of them in size.
Once in Wonderland, Santa encountered inhabitants including the Mock Turtle and the White Rabbit, who shrank while using a white fan which Claus inadvertently also uses...
This story originally appeared in Dell's Santa Claus Funnies #2 (1943), but was not the cover feature!
It was reprinted in a stand-alone giveaway, Dell's Alice in Wonderland Meets Santa (1951), to capitalize on the release of the Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland, based on the Lewis Carroll stories Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass!
The reprint's new cover art (as shown at the top of the post) by an unknown artist, shows Alice rendered with the same hairstyle and blue dress as the movie version, rather than the hairstyle and violet dress shown in the comic story.
The other characters on the cover resemble their Disney versions, as well!
Since Dell was then currently-publishing licensed Disney comics (including the comic adaptation of the animated Alice in Wonderland)...
...it's likely the similarity on the cover was permitted!

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