Showing posts with label Ken Landau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ken Landau. Show all posts

Friday, April 28, 2017

Trump Reading Room COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB "Payoff Battle!"

...I'm sure I saw this plot reused on Voyage to the Botom of the Sea in the 1960s!
Written by Richard Hughes and illustrated by Ken Landau, this never-reprinted tale from ACG's Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub #5 (1955) was the second and last issue of the new anti-communist direction the series took.
The series continued for two more issues, which changed direction yet again, as the Atomic Sub battled flying saucers!
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Trump Reading Room COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB "Behind the Bamboo Curtain"

...we'll check out the rest of the team as the story goes...
Tomorrow:
Written by Richard Hughes and illustrated by Ken Landau, this never-reprinted tale from ACG's Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub #5 (1955) was the second issue of the new anti-communist direction the series took.
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Trump Reading Room COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB "ChiCom Deception"

The Atomic Sub series veered from straight science fiction...
...into an amalgam of science fiction and espionage as the Atomic Commandos began to battle various Communists!
Tomorrow:
Behind the Bamboo Curtain!
Written by Richard Hughes and illustrated by Ken Landau, this never-reprinted tale from ACG's Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub #5 (1955) was the second issue of the new anti-communist direction the series took.
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Reading Room: FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Mysteries of the Unknown: Interplanetary Episode"

Here's a tale filled with irony...
...about a special man who held the fate of the world in his hands.
Note: there are some "politically-incorrect" references to mental illness, so it might be NSFW.
Appearing in ACG's Forbidden Worlds #86 (1960), this Richard Hughes-scripted and Ken Landau-illustrated tale was an oddly-modified re-presentation of a story originally-published in a pre-Comics Code issue of Adventures into the Unknown!
For one thing, most of the artwork changes restore the original Ken Landau artwork that was modified by Ogden Whitney in the AitU tale!
(The exception is the splash page which is changed from the original version (which had Landau's signature.)
Plus, an entire plot point, involving the dead dog, which was redrawn in the original story into a "mistaken identity" plotline by Whitney, is restored!
Check out our "brother" blog, Seduction of the Innocent™, tomorrow (Wednesday) for the first version of this tale that the Comics Code disapproved of!