Showing posts with label Countdown to Halloween 2019. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Countdown to Halloween 2019. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Reading Room PHANTOM WITCH DOCTOR "Out of the Deep!"

Avon's Phantom Witch Doctor (1952) was a unique one-shot...
...with a lead story featuring the title character and a trio of totally-unrelated tales backing it up.
Whether the creature is a Lovecraftian-type Elder-God, a stranded alien, or just a sentient life-force is never really explained.
Another unsolved puzzle is who the writer and artist(s) for this never-reprinted short story were.
But what's life without a few mysteries, eh?
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Saturday, October 5, 2019

Our Contributions to the CountDown to Halloween Blogathon...

...run Monday through Friday on FIVE different blogs!
This Week...
MONDAY
Secret Sanctum of Captain Video runs comic adaptations of AIP's 1960s "Edgar Allan Poe" films...currently presenting the Vincent Price/Boris Karloff/Peter Lorre/Jack Nicholson comedy The Raven!
TUESDAY
Seduction of the Innocent presents the premiere psychedelic adventure of Victorian monster fighter Sir Leo!
WEDNESDAY
True Love Comics Tales begins the Halloween Season with a Silver Age inter-comics company romance!
THURSDAY
Hero Histories premieres the introduction of the time-lost WereWolf Hunter!
FRIDAY
Horror Comics of the 1950s showcases the never-reprinted introduction of...Dr Neff!
(Believe me, it's better than it sounds!)
Add in our own thrice-weekly contributions...
The never-seen in the US Dracula one-page comedy shorts from DRACULA!
WEDNESDAY WORLDS OF WONDER
The never-reprinted apocalyptic adventures in the original, 1980s Walking Dead b/w comic!
FRIDAY FUN
Stan Lee's humorous look at classic horror/sci-fi movies and tv shows from the never-reprinted Monsters to Laugh With & Monsters Unlimited!
That's eight days of posts in only seven days!
How do we do it???

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WALKING DEAD "Presidential Address" Part 1

...a crippled alien starship crashes on Earth and it's cargo, a gas (created to revive dead aliens to continue fighting their centuries-old war) leaks into the atmosphere.
Due to differences between alien and human biology, it also revives dead humans...who are sentient, but maniacal!

To Be Continued...
Created by writer/artist Jim Somerville and published by Malibu/Aircel in 1989, it was vastly-different from the 2003-present graphic novel series created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore.
For collectors, there's good news and bad news...
Good news: There's only a four-issue mini series and a one-shot Special to collect!
Bad news: Because it didn't sell well (and has never been reprinted), it's HTF (hard to find) and expensive!
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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Countdown to Halloween 2019 begins Tuesday!

We're pleased to be included in the...
Starting October 1st, we'll be posting stuff once a week on five different RetroBlogs, so there'll be daily posts from us Monday thru Friday!
Monday
Secret Sanctum of Captain Video kicks off the week with adaptations of two of American International's 1960s "Edgar Allan Poe" flicks...
The Raven, starring Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and Jack Nicholson!
War-Gods of the Deep, which is actually an original sci-fi screenplay set in the early 1900s, making it a "steampunk before it was steampunk" flick!
Tuesday
Seduction of the Innocent continues the horror with the psychedelic adventures of the British Victorian-era monster-fighter Sir Leo...
...yeah, it's as weird and off-beat as it sounds!
BTW, there are several never-seen-in-the-US tales in this batch, so there's another good reason not to miss this one!
Wednesday
True Love Comics Tales offers our annual collection of sci-fi, fantasy and horror...
...all with romance as the central plot!
Thursday
Hero Histories covers the first few, never-reprinted appearances of plainclothes monster-fighter Werewolf Hunter...
...who had a surprisingly-long run in the back of Fiction House's military-oriented Rangers Comics!
Friday
We end the week with the comic book adventures of real-life magician and debunker Dr William (Bill) Neff in Horror Comics of the 1950s!
The series has links to the pulp-radio-comic character The Shadow, since creator Walter Gibson (aka Maxwell Grant) wrote all the stories and Bob Powell, who illustrated a number of The Shadow's pulp and comic book tales during the Golden Age also drew Neff's adventures!
Plus, here at Atomic Kommie Comics, our three ongoing features will be horror-themed!
Monday Madness posts will be the never-seen-in-America Dracula humor strips from the original Spanish-language Dracula comic from 1971!
Note: the 12-issue magazine series was translated and reprinted in England, then the first 6 issues were packaged as a trade paperback by Warren (Creepy/Eerie/Vampirella) Publications!
But neither English-language version ran these one-pagers despite the fact the strip is wordless!
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder will peek into the apocalyptic future of...The Walking Dead!
No, not that Walking Dead!
This one...
Yes, gang, we're returning to the never-reprinted original Walking Dead, from 30 years ago, over a decade before the one the TV show is based on!
And our Friday Fun posts will be covers and pages from the never-reprinted humor magazines Monsters to Laugh With / Monsters Unlimited and Monster Madness, featuring scripting/captioning by the late, great Stan Lee!

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Countdown to Halloween 2019 Blogathon is Coming!

We're pleased to be included in the...
Starting October 1st, we'll be posting stuff once a week on five different RetroBlogs, so there'll be daily posts from us Monday thru Friday!
In addition, our own Monday Madness posts will be the never-seen-in-America Dracula humor strips from the original Spanish-language Dracula comic from 1971!
Note: the 12-issue magazine series was translated and reprinted in England, then the first 6 issues were packaged as a trade paperback by Warren (Creepy/Eerie/Vampirella) Publications!
But neither English-language version ran these one-pagers despite the fact the strip is wordless!
And our Friday Fun posts will be covers and pages from the never-reprinted humor magazines Monsters to Laugh With and Monster Madness, featuring scripting by the late, great Stan Lee!
We'll have links to the other blogs along with the schedule and details about each one's features...
Next Saturday!