Atomic Kommie Comics: Gene Fawcette

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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Space Hero Saturdays WITCHCRAFT "Hero of the Venus Flyer!"

Being a Space Hero Can Be as Easy as Being in the Right Place at the Right Time...

...and as difficult as being willing to die to save others!

Illustrated by Gene Fawcette and scriped by an unknown writer, this tale appeared twice within a year, first in Avon's WitchCraft #6 (1953), then in Avon's Strange Worlds #18 (1954), where, due to a miscalculation in pagination, the last page of the story ended up on the inside back cover, in black-and-white!

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

FLYING SAUCERS Cover Gallery

Here's the cover art by Gene Fawcette...

...to the story we've been running the past few Wednesdays.

Oddly, when the issue was reprinted a couple of years later, the art was altered...

...and I've never heard an explanation as to why!

For the record, I like the original cover better!

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Reading Room EERIE "Dracula" Part 4

We Have Already Seen...

Dracula has made Lucy Seward a vampire!

Dr Van Helsing arrives, too late to save the poor girl, but not too late to send her tormented soul to the afterlife by staking her thru the heart.

Now, his attention turns to her master...Count Dracula!

Though there were a number of Frankenstein tales in the Golden Age, including Dick Briefer's horror series, there were only a couple of appearances by our favorite vampire (usually a cameo) before this story in 1953!
The trend continued until the late 1960s when Dracula became a supporting character in the b/w Vampirella magazine.
In 1972, when the Comics Code was revised to allow vampires and other "traditional" monsters, the Count reappeared not only in short stories, but a long-running series from Marvel highlighted by moody art by Gene Colan.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Reading Room EERIE "Dracula" Part 3

When Last We Left the Lord of Vampires...

Dracula traveled to England, where he made Lucy Seward, his newest victim.

Meanwhile, Lucy's best friend, Mina Murray received news that fiance Jonathan Harker had been hospitalized.

Rushing to Budapest, she discovers he is speedily recovering...and the two are married that day!

To be concluded on THURSDAY!

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Reading Room EERIE "Dracula!" Part 2

When Last We Left the Lord of Vampires...

Real estate agent Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to arrange the purchase of a London townhouse by a rich, reclusive nobleman...Count Dracula.

When he is molested by the count's wives, Harker discovers that they (and Dracula) are vampires, and that he is helpless to stop them!

Meanwhile, in England, Harker's fiance, Mina, worries...

But, will they have a honeymoon...or a funeral?

Be here Tuesday to find out!

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Reading Room EERIE "Dracula!" Part 1

Did you know that Classics Illustrated did Frankenstein, but not Dracula?

However, there was an adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel, published several years after the Classic Comics version of Mary Shelley's tale in the mid-1940s

It appeared in Avon Comics' Eerie #12 (1953), and was the only book-length story to appear in the title!

To the best of our knowledge, the story has never been reprinted, probably due to it's length.