It's the Final Week of the CountDown to Halloween 2024 Blogathon...

...and If You Haven't yet Joined In...

Art by the late, great, Dave Stevens!

There's Still Time to Get In On on the Fiendish Fun!!!

(In Alphabetical Order)

Hero Histories

Heroines!

Horror Comics of the 1950s

Medical Comics & Stories

True Love Comics Tales

Western Comics Adventures

RetroBlogs Participating in the CountDown to Halloween 2024 Blogathon ...

...Begin Posting This Week!

(In Alphabetical Order)

Commie-Crushing Kaiju in

Hero Histories

(Which, because it posts on Mondays, begins on October 7th!)

Supernatural Superwomen and/or Villainesses in

Heroines!

Seldom-Seen Sinister Stories from Long-Lost Publisher Comic Media in

Horror Comics of the 1950s

Hospital Horrors in

Medical Comics & Stories

Horrifying HeartBreak (Literally) at

True Love Comics Tales

Specters Amongst the SageBrush in

Western Comics Adventures

check out the rest of the Putrid participants of Countdown to Halloween 2024
here!

Halloween Will be a Month-Long Party at RetroBlogs Participating in CountDown to Halloween 2024!

Art by the late, great, Dave Stevens!

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)

Hero Histories

Heroines!

Horror Comics of the 1950s

Medical Comics & Stories

True Love Comics Tales

Western Comics Adventures

Wow!

We're Not Gonna Get Much Sleep in October, Are We?

It is Truly HORRIFYING!!!

If You Enjoyed Our Recent Dracula Presentation, Visit...

...Where You'll find every horror-themed Dick Briefer Frankenstein story from Monster of Frankenstein #18 thru #33!

A complete re-presentation of Dick Briefer's horrifying third version of the Monster of Frankenstein! originally-presented in 2018 to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the first publication of the Mary Shelley classic!

Re-imagined to capitalize on the horror comics craze of the 1950s, the series ran from 1952 through 1954, when the comics industry was almost destroyed by Dr Fredric Wertham and the Seduction of the Innocent witch-hunt.
It's an indirect sequel to the original novel, ignoring the previous Prize Comics series (World War II menace and post-war Munsters-style comedy) that Briefer wrote and illustrated.
So as long as you're willing to accept some revisionism to the original story, it's actually a pretty damned good follow-up.
(When you think about it, what adaptation/sequel to the book, in any media, hasn't made some changes?)

Here's a preview of the covers for the series...

Click HERE to Read!

Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics

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Monster of Frankenstein

(which reprints in b/w the stories we're re-presenting in color, but has a number of kool text pieces including one by Briefer's granddaughter!)

AND

Visit Our...

Monster of Frankenstein

Store!

The Horror! The Horror (Comics, that is)!

Monster Crime!

Now that's a title!
Yeah, they knew what budding juvenile delinquents wanted back in the 1950s!

As you might have guessed, the upcoming Halloween holiday has inspired the Atomic Kommie Comics™ crew to add like mad to our Horror Comics of the 1950s™ section.

And, what titles did we add to our kool kollectibles kollection?

Besides the aforementioned Monster Crime, there's Tales of Horror, Horror from the Tomb (see a trend?), Beware! (with a fantastic Frank Frazetta cover!), and The Clutching Hand!

We already had The Hand of Fate, Horrific!, Weird Adventures, Baffling, Challenge of the Unknown, Terror Tales, Haunted, The Beyond, Weird Terror, Weird Mysteries, Weird, Diary of Horror, WitchCraft, and Eerie!

Plus collectibles with our ghoulishly-graphic, viscerally-vintage Horror Comics of the 1950s™ logo!

BTW: the Tote Bags featuring these designs would make GREAT trick-or-treat bags!

Be the envy of all the kids on your block this All Hallows Eve!

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!

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

Heroines!

Then, witness tales of terror from the 1950s...

...that were redone, not reprinted in the 1960s-70s...

...in

Horror Comics of the 1950s

And, finally, never-reprinted gothic romance stories from...

...the short-lived, but fondly-remembered Haunted Love in

True Love Comics Tales!

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!

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...

MONDAY MADNESS

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???

Countdown to Halloween 2019 begins Tuesday!

We're pleased to be included in the...

...Countdown to Halloween 2019 Blogathon.

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!