Summer Fun is Reading the "Time-Lost" RetroBlog Blogathons...

...as the never-reprinted adaptation of the 1994 Shadow movie concludes this week at...

Crime and Punishment

And

Martial Arts Mayhem Ensues with the Never-Reprinted Origin of Rip Jagger: JudoMaster at...

Pop Art Martial Arts!

The Heat is ON for Evildoers!

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

Pop Art Martial Arts

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...

Crime and Punishment!
Next:

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

True Love Comics Tales

It's Gonna be a Sizzling Summer!

(Not that we'll know, since we'll be sitting indoors with air conditioning!)

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

HERO HISTORIES!

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:

Also on Monday, a never-reprinted tale of

BRUCE LEE

...in a world where he lived to the present-day, at...

POP ART MARTIAL ARTS!

Now is this a Summer Blogathon, or what???

RetroBlogs' Summer Blogathon Welcomes...the Memory of Bruce Lee!

With the 50th Anniversary of Bruce Lee's passing last week...

...we began a re-presentation of an almost half-century old graphic novel about his life!

And that story continues, tomorrow, at...

POP ART MARTIAL ARTS!

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

HERO HISTORIES

...followed by another never-reprinted tale of the Bronze Age stories of the classic Pulp/radio version at

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

There's no summer break for our RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon!

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...

Tying in to the new Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunder...

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

True Love Comics Tales

...along with Jane Foster's first time wielding Thor's hammer in

Heroines!

Then...

Then the OOP Street Fighter the Movie (1995) comic adaptation in both

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

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

Seduction of the Innocent

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!

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Kicks Serious Butt...

...with the OOP Street Fighter: the Battle for Shadaloo (1995) comic adaptation beginning on Sunday at...
Secret Sanctum of Captain Video
...and continuing Monday at...
Pop Art Martial Arts

Don't Miss It
or M Bison will be really pissed at you!
(And you don't want that!)

Did You Join the Annual Summer RetroBlog Blogathons?

If you didn't, you missed...

...the only never-reprinted Shang-Chi comic story ever, unseen for 40 years at

Pop Art Martial Arts!

A classic gothic romance/beach read at

True Love Comics Tales!

Plus: these three too-kool for school, never-reprinted, prose super-hero tales...all unseen since the 1960s at
Hero Histories!

The rebooted Silver Age origin of He Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men!
The Shadow!

The first novel featuring the Star Spangled Avenger!
Captain America: the Great Gold Steal!

And last, but certainly not least, the premiere novel featuring the Caped Crusaders and a trio of evildoers!
Batman vs 3 Villains of Doom!
Lucky for you, it's not too late!
Sit down now and start reading!

You Think You Know All About the Newest Marvel Cinematic Universe Hero?

With the new Marvel movie...

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

opening September 3rd, we thought we'd show you the never-reprinted first "revamping" of the character who was created during the Kung-Fu craze of the 1970s.
While it's not as extreme as what the movie's doing, it was considered surprising and controversial at the time!

Begin the adventure unseen for over 40 years on Monday at...

Pop Art Martial Arts

MORE Blogathon MADNESS!

You know about the comic-based novels we're presenting in our Summer Blogathon, but what about actual comics?

Don't worry.

We have that covered...starting with a never-reprinted, over 40-year old extra-long adventure of Marvel's Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu in...where else...

Pop Art Martial Arts

during the last week of July!

Then, get comfy with the latest in our annual gothic-themed Beach Reads in...

True Love Comics Tales

...during the first week of August!

Note: this 50-year old tale was reprinted a decade ago...but in black and white!

This is it's first appearance in full color since 1971!

Finally, to wind up the Blogathon in the last week of August, we present...

...the never-reprinted, serialized, Origin of The Shadow from the never-reprinted 1960s Radio/Archie comics in
Hero Histories

And here's the kicker...they're text features...from the comics!

Yep, we start the Blogathon with...

...this novel beginning (appropriately enough)  on July 4th, and running a chapter a day at...
Hero Histories
...then continuing with the earlier-mentioned kung-fu and romance entries at
Pop Art Martial Arts
and
True Love Comics Tales

The Caped Crusader appears the second week of August, also running a chapter a day at
Hero Histories!
And winding it all up will be the (text) Radio Comics adventures of He Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men, also at
Hero Histories
...where you'll find several of his 1960s comic adventures already there and ready to read!

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Presented a Most Excellent Conclusion...

....running both the never-reprinted comic adaptation of Bill & Ted's first movie...

....plus the only never-reprinted issue of their Marvel Comics run at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

Then, we presented a long-lost, not-quite team-up featuring all of Marvel's top martial artists vs Fu Manchu in an epic story on Pop Art Martial Arts!

(You'll understand when you read it!)

Then, we wound up the sexy and psychedelic adventures of Agar-Agar in True Love Comics Tales!

We hope you enjoyed it, and will keep all our RetroBlogs bookmarked!

(And the Summer Blogathon WILL Return Next Summer!)

Can Your Heart Take the Conclusion of the Greatest Superman Story...that Nobody Remembers?

It's coming this week...

...as Superman faces death by disease, while Earth's superheroes face a world (in pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity) without a Superman to protect it!

Meanwhile, Supergirl faces the only super-villain worse than Lex Luthor...his niece...

...and shows Brainiac that payback is a super-bitch when he screws with her love-life!

Kung-Fu Fighter makes his debut...at DC after first appearing at Marvel!

(Weird, huh?)

Finally, in the pandemic-ridden near future, Surgeon X decides who lives and who die, via a multi-media presentation that'll blow your mind!

Plus, This Week...

The Return of Hard-Boiled Lawyer (Yes, it's a thing!) Perry Mason in Another Never-Reprinted Comic Adaption of an early Erle Stanley Gardner Novel!

POP ART MARTIAL ARTS Presents "Coming of a Dragon" in KUNG-FU FIGHTER...

This Week at Pop Art Martial Arts...

See the introduction of the DC Comics character...

...who premiered in a Marvel magazine!

(No Lie!)

The Blogathons are Under Way!

Fans of HBO's Perry Mason can check out his hard-boiled early stories HERE...

...and martial arts fans can see a never-reprinted series from 1975 HERE!

Keep your eyes peeled!

There's much more coming!