Showing posts with label Heroines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heroines. Show all posts

Sunday, June 9, 2024

There's MORE Tales to Tell in Our 2024 Summer "Time-Lost" RetroBlogs Blogathon!

We've decided we really don't need Vitamin D from sunshine when we can get it from pills, so...

If you liked our re-presentation on
Secret Sanctum of Captain Video
about "Pryde of the X-Men" (including the cartoon itself), we're re-presenting the limited-edition, never-reprinted comic that accompanied the video game Madness in MurderWorld!, which utilized the heroes and villains from that cartoon!

And, as a bonus, some of the kool stuff from the operations manual for the game, which tells you...
Wise advice, that!
In addition...


...we're also adding the never-reprinted Silver Age adventures of Charlton's Judomaster in
Plus...

...the saga of a woman alone upholding law and order in the West, written and illustrated by comics legend Bob Powell, unseen for over seventy-five years in a crossover between...
Heroines
and
Western Comics Adventures
That's in addition to...

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Shadow (the Movie)a re-presentation of the 2-issue adaptation of the film by the man who visually-defined He Who Knows What Evil Lurks for several generations of readers, Mike Kaluta (along with writer Joel Goss)...plus we're providing comparisons between the comic and the movie (with film clips) in...
We're doing an intra-blog crossover right here at Atomic Kommie Comics between Wednesday Worlds of Wonder and Space Heroine Saturdays with a graphic novel featuring the interstellar adventures of StarFawn by writer Byron Preiss and illustrator Stephen Fabian...unseen since 1976!
(That's almost half a century!)
Plus:
Travel back almost a full century (1936) to the origin of the first (radio/movie serial/Golden Age) Green Hornet and Kato in a time-lost tale from 1991!
Confused?
You won't be after you read it in

Crime and Punishment!

And, Of Course...
...There'll be a Book-Length Gothic "Beach Read" Novel from half a century ago in
It's Gonna be a Sizzling Summer!
(Not that we'll know, since we'll be sitting indoors with air conditioning!)

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Black Angel vs the KKK!

Can this African-American/Native-American Aviatrix Take On the Klan?
You Bet Your A$$ She CAN!
Check her out on Monday, at

And Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics and Heroines!
Visit Amazon and Buy...
There's no English-Language hardcover/trade paperback edition...as of now!
and/or, you can buy...
(in French)
Paid Links

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Who is...BLACK ANGEL aka BLACK SQUAW???

...and why is she called that???
She's the kool character you've likely never heard of...even though there are four graphic novels starring her!

Inspired by a TRUE story!
Discover her secret at
HEROINES on February 5th!

Sunday, November 5, 2023

November: the Month Betty Boop Returns...

Legendary cartoon character Betty Boop returns to pop culture prominence in a big way...

(Hey, it worked for Little Orphan Annie!)
Photo: Mark Seliger
Starring Broadway veteran Jasmine Amy Rogers as the embodiment of Betty,
the show looks like an absolute hoot!
With award-winning creatives handling writing, directing, and production
(including effects like transitioning the cast and sets from black and white to color on stage), the production should appeal to old (who remember the cartoons) and young, who will be introed to the pop art icon!
As for us, we're turning our "sister" RetroBlog, Heroines, over to Betty for November, beginning tomorrow with Betty's first comic strip...which wasn't really her strip!
(Don't worry, we'll explain tomorrow!)
The week of November 13th, you'll see the appropriately-entitled 1990 one-shot comic...
by comics pros (and major Betty-philes) Leslie Carbaga, Joshua Quaqmire, and Milton Knight!
Finally, starting the day after Boop! the Musical's November 19th premiere, you'll see the first couple of months of Betty's actual comic strip!
Check Out
Heroines!
starting tomorrow
and, if you're in the Chicago area over Thanksgiving, see
Boop! the Musical!

Sunday, September 4, 2022

We Hope You Enjoyed Our 2022 RetroBlog Summer Blogathons...

...with the theme of "crossover", featuring posts of long-out of print (OOP) tales with multi-genre appeal!
First up...
...was a double-feature of the conclusion of Thor and Jane Foster's long-running soap opera-style Silver Age romance in
...along with Jane Foster's first time wielding Thor's hammer in
Then...
Then the OOP Street Fighter the Movie (1995) comic adaptation in both
and
Pop Art Martial Arts
Plus...
Plus the OOP graphic novel that served as the basis for a recent flick starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in...
Western Comics Adventures
and right here at
Atomic Kommie Comics
And, finally...
The multiversal (and OOP) first Doctor Strange prose novel, Nightmare (1979) by William Rotsler in both
Medical Comics and Stories
and
PLUS: A standalone OOP "beach read" Gothic Romance in
True Love Comics Tales
(Hey, it's a long-standing tradition!)
Come Back Next Summer for More RetroBlogs Fun!

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Verily, the RetroBlogs Summer Blogathons Cometh...

...this Wednesday, as, tying into the new Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunder...
...we simultaneously present two (sorta) related comics about the God of Thunder...


...a double-feature of the conclusion of Thor and Jane Foster's long-running soap opera-style Silver Age romance in

...along with Jane Foster's first time wielding Thor's hammer in
Be at both blogs on Wednesday, or face the wrath of Odin the All-Father!
SO IT IS WRITTEN!
SO IT SHALL BE!

Sunday, May 23, 2021

Asians and Asian-Americans in Comics...the Saga Continues

Even more from our ongoing examination of how American comics portray Asians and Asian-Americans...
Start with the only Golden Age Desi jungle girl in (where else?)
The Lone Ranger rides to the rescue of oppressed Chinese settlers in the old West, first in a never-reprinted comic tale in...
...then listen to the dramatic radio show the comic was adapted from at...
and finally, witness the villainy of the character who personified the racist concept of "Yellow Peril" for over a century in...

There's lots more coming!
Don't miss it!

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Asians and Asian-Americans in Comics...Continued

More from our ongoing examination of how American comics portray Asians and Asian-Americans...
Meet the only costumed Golden Age Asian super-heroine in (where else?)
The Blackhawks' Chinese teammate "Chop-Chop" gets not just one, but two different stories of how he joined the already-established aviator team!
His Silver Age origin at
...plus his politically-incorrect (and somewhat racist) Golden Age Origin at
Meet the immortal "World's Greatest Lover" who seduces (among others) Pacific Islanders in...
Discover secrets about the 1970s Charlie Chan cartoon (and other media versions) that you never dreamed of in...
and finally, meet the villain who's personified the racist concept of "Yellow Peril" for over a century in...

There's lots more coming!
Don't miss it!

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Welcome to the Countdown to Halloween 2020 Blogathon...

...as RetroBlogs joins in the annual Countdown to Halloween Blogathon with four blogs participating!
True Love Comics Tales
...telling never-reprinted stories from the long-lost 1970s gothic romance series Haunted Love!
Click HERE

Heroines!
...featuring the never-reprinted Silver Age gothic and horror stories of...Supergirl???
Click HERE.

Medical Comics and Stories
...with sci-fi/fantasy stories involving doctors and nurses!
Click HERE.

Horror Comics of the 1950s
featuring tales that weren't reprinted...but were redone in the late 1960s and 1970s!
Click HERE.
Don't Miss Any of Them!

Saturday, September 12, 2020

The Annual Countdown to Halloween Blogathon is coming...

...and, as usual we're enthusiastically-participating, starting with...
...never reprinted Silver/Bronze Age gothic and horror stories featuring The CW's favorite heroine in
Then, witness tales of terror from the 1950s...
...that were redone, not reprinted in the 1960s-70s...
...in
And, finally, never-reprinted gothic romance stories from...
...the short-lived, but fondly-remembered Haunted Love in
All begin the first week in October and run weekly though the macabre month!
Plus, every RetroBlog will have at one or more horror-themed posts!
BookMark and Don't Miss Them!