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Showing posts with label Hero Histories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hero Histories. Show all posts
Sunday, October 27, 2024
It's the Final Week of the CountDown to Halloween 2024 Blogathon...
Sunday, September 29, 2024
RetroBlogs Participating in the CountDown to Halloween 2024 Blogathon ...
...Begin Posting This Week!
(In Alphabetical Order)
Commie-Crushing Kaiju in
(Which, because it posts on Mondays, begins on October 7th!)
Heroines!
Seldom-Seen Sinister Stories from Long-Lost Publisher Comic Media in
Horror Comics of the 1950s
Hospital Horrors in
True Love Comics Tales
Specters Amongst the SageBrush in
check out the rest of the Putrid participants of Countdown to Halloween 2024
here!
here!
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Halloween Will be a Month-Long Party at RetroBlogs Participating in CountDown to Halloween 2024!
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RetroBlogs Participating in CountDown to Halloween 2024 Will Post New Halloween/Horror Material Weekly During October!!
Don't Miss Out on the Fiendish Fun!!!
(In Alphabetical Order)
Wow!
We're Not Gonna Get Much Sleep in October, Are We?
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Bob Newhart (1929-2024)
Everybody knows the late, great, Bob Newhart's...
...two long-running TV series, The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart.
But, how many remember his final series, Bob...which was set in the world of comic books and greeting cards?
(Silly side note, considering the progression of series titles from The Bob Newhart Show to Newhart to Bob, if he had done another series what was it going to be called..."The"?)
In the 1992-94 series Newhart played Bob McKay, a Silver Age creative now doing greeting cards, who created, wrote, and illustrated Mad-Dog, a super-hero with the abilities of...you guessed it...a dog!
(He also, somehow, retained the copyright to the character, a rarity for creatives before the 1990s!)
When a new publisher wants to revive the character, Bob agrees, provided he does the book.
But, that's not what the publisher has in mind...
Note: we don't call the 1990s "The Dark Age" for nothing!
As you can see, Marvel Comics published a never-reprinted six-issue tie-in comic in "flip-book" format, with one half being Bob McKay's Silver Age version, and the other half being Ace Comics' Dark Age version.
In tribute to this unjustly-forgotten project, which featured an episode guest-starring noted comics creatives Jack Kirby, Bob Kane, Sergio Aragones, Jim Lee, and Mark Silvestri; we're interrupting our "Time-Lost" Summer Blogathon to do the following...
In tribute to this unjustly-forgotten project, which featured an episode guest-starring noted comics creatives Jack Kirby, Bob Kane, Sergio Aragones, Jim Lee, and Mark Silvestri; we're interrupting our "Time-Lost" Summer Blogathon to do the following...
Presenting the pilot episode on
NOW!
Presenting the "Silver Age" Mad-Dog on Monday at
And presenting the "Dark Age" Mad-Dog on Monday right here at
Atomic Kommie Comics!
Miss them at your peril!
Sunday, June 30, 2024
See Psychedelic Sharks & The FIRST Aquatic Super-Hero...THE SHARK!
Before Shark Week Begins,
You gotta see this to believe it!
Read the whole tale, based on the TV series Adventures in Paradise, at our "brother" RetroBlog, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video, HERE, HERE, and HERE!
Plus...
Before Aquaman!
Before Prince Namor; the Sub-Mariner!
There Was...
The son of Neptune (who may or may not be the Roman god), The Shark once lived in an undersea kingdom, but set out to fight all crime committed at sea by anyone; human, sea-dweller, or extraterrestrial alien!
He's called "Shark" because sharks often accompany him...and eat his enemies!
The character is also a skilled scientist, who creates and uses technology far beyond then-current human science!
The character is also a skilled scientist, who creates and uses technology far beyond then-current human science!
- His super-powers include...
- The ability to breathe underwater
- Superhuman strength and near-invulnerability (which he loses on land unless he's in physical contact with a magic knife given him by his father)
- Mental control of sea life!
- Ability to create creatures made of water, which he can direct mentally!
With a strip appearing in both Amazing-Man Comics and Stars and Stripes Comics, The Shark lasted until Centaur Publishing (which also published pulp magazines) gave up comics.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Reading Room D-DAY with BLACKHAWK, SGT FURY, and SGT ROCK!
It was damned crowded 80 years ago today at Normandy Beach!
Blackhawk and his team were there, battling (what else?) giant Nazi war machines and revealing their secret origin!
Click on the links and enjoy!
Monday, October 9, 2023
Monday Monster Madness DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, and "WEREWOLF"...as SUPERHEROES???
we warned you...
Our "brother" RetroBlog, Hero Histories, has the complete runs of the swinging Sixties superhero incarnations of Frankenstein, Dracula, and WolfMan, (which was retitled "Werewolf" due to trademark conflicts).
Did you know writer/editor DJ Arneson and artist Tony Tallarico put Universal Monster SuperHero Universe references within the three series?
Was a crossover team-up or battle planned...but not published?
Was a crossover team-up or battle planned...but not published?
Click on the links...
Frankenstein
Dracula
WereWolf
It's Up to You to Decide if this is our Treat to you...or a Trick!!!
Frankenstein
Dracula
WereWolf
It's Up to You to Decide if this is our Treat to you...or a Trick!!!
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Read THE SHADOW: DESTINATION MOON
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by
Maxwell Grant
(Dennis Lynds)
Out of print for over a half-century!
Out of print for over a half-century!
Sunday, August 20, 2023
It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN...
...as The Master of Darkness faces off against CYPHER in final combat...
..in the final, never-reprinted "Maxwell Grant" novel!
Start the week with Chapter 13 on Monday at...
Start the week with Chapter 13 on Monday at...
...then follow the links at the end of each chapter!
Sunday, August 13, 2023
You're ENJOYING The Shadow: Destination Moon SO Much...
...that we're increasing the re-presentation of this never-reprinted final "Maxwell Grant" novel...
...from three entries per week to six, with two posts each on Hero Histories, Atomic Kommie Comics, and Crime and Punishment during the two remaining weeks before Labor Day!
Start the week on Monday with Chapter 7 at...
...then follow the links at the end of each chapter!
Monday, July 31, 2023
Monday Madness RIOT "The Shadower"
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"
Not this guy...
...as demonstrated in this never-reprinted tale from Atlas Comics' MAD clone, Riot #1 (1954)!
Though the writer of this satire of The Shadow radio show is unknown, odds are it was Stan Lee, who was writing almost everything at this point.
The illustrator is extremely well-known...Gene Colan!
This was not the first time The Shadow had been spoofed, since EC's MAD ran their own take on the character in #4 (1953) as shown HERE.
(It was even the cover feature!)
You'll note in this tale "The Shadower" doesn't have the usual cloak, slouch hat, and aquiline nose we associate with the character...
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In fact, he looks a lot like the Archie Comics version from a decade later...1964...
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| Art by John Rosenberger |
...who, at least initially, was primarily-based on the radio show, but updated to the spy-oriented Sixties!
BTW, if you want more The Shadow stuff, have a look at our current Summer RetroBlog Blogathon participants...
...where we're re-presenting the Dark Avenger's never-reprinted 1970s-created, but 1940s-set adventures featuring art by Frank Robbins and E R Cruz.
AND
...where we began the re-presentation of the never-reprinted, final "Maxwell Grant" Shadow novel from the Swinging Sixties!
Sunday, July 30, 2023
What is the Startling, Sinister Secret of THE SHADOW: DESTINATION MOON?
Only You Know Who Knows!
Here's a tantalizing taste of what's to come...
Begin the never-reprinted Swinging (and spy-filled) Sixties Adventure...
TODAY
at
And
Witness the final, never-reprinted chapter of The Shadow's 1970s adventures by Golden/Silver/Bronze Age great Frank Robbins on Monday at...
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT!
Plus:
Witness the final, never-reprinted chapter of The Shadow's 1970s adventures by Golden/Silver/Bronze Age great Frank Robbins on Monday at...
Plus:
Also on Monday, a never-reprinted tale of
BRUCE LEE
...in a world where he lived to the present-day, at...
Now is this a Summer Blogathon, or what???
Sunday, July 23, 2023
RetroBlogs' Summer Blogathon Welcomes...the Memory of Bruce Lee!
With the 50th Anniversary of Bruce Lee's passing last week...
And that story continues, tomorrow, at...
Meanwhile, the never-reprinted Silver Age tales of The Shadow continue with our last contribution to the re-presentation of his blue/green spandex adventures at
...followed by another never-reprinted tale of the Bronze Age stories of the classic Pulp/radio version at
There's no summer break for our RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon!
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Double Your Summer Fun with Double The Shadows!
What's better than an adventure of The Shadow unseen for half a century?
How about TWO adventures?
First, the guy with the gadgets and blue/green spandex faces off against the evil descendants of both Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun on Monday at
...then, the "classic" 1940s pulp/radio version faces off against a bootlegger mob led by an an acrobatic, athletic mastermind in a fight to the death over Niagara Falls on Thursday in
The heat is on for crime this summer!
Friday, July 14, 2023
Friday Fun RICHIE RICH "Military Mix-Up"
The Dreaded Deadline Doom caught us this week...
...so enjoy this carry-over from our brother RetroBlog, Hero Histories, featuring The Poor Little Rich Boy kicking Russkie butt in this tale from Harvey's Richie Rich #51 (1966)!
Whatta guy!
And he didn't even have to become Super-Richie/Rippy...
...to do it!
(If you think there's a lot of Spider-Man or Batman titles out now...and there are quite a few...it's nothing compared to Richie Rich at his peak, when there were...take a deep breath...
32 simultaneous monthly, bi-monthly and quarterly Richie Rich Universe titles!
And that's not including Casper, Sad Sack, and all the other non-Richie Rich Harvey titles!
And that's not including Casper, Sad Sack, and all the other non-Richie Rich Harvey titles!
You read that right, True Believer!
By the way, they were all selling better than almost everything Marvel and DC has out there now!
By the way, they were all selling better than almost everything Marvel and DC has out there now!
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