...but about the halftime show starring Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake!
How did we get from the pic above to the pic below?
You'll have to go to
to see the sordid, unblurred/unpixelated truth!
(And you know you want to!)
Showing posts with label Super Bowl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Bowl. Show all posts
Sunday, February 11, 2024
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Monday, February 6, 2023
Monday Madness OZARK IKE
As SuperBowl Sunday approaches...
...lets see how rurals, including hillbillies, outside the big cities, play football...in the comics, of course!
The rest of the issue deals with the multi-talented Ike playing baseball, so we'll run it during baseball season.
Yes, the King Features strip was created in the mid-1940s as a competitor to Al Capp's wildly-successful Li'l Abner series!
No, it was nowhere near as successful.
The only known licensed spin-offs were this one-shot reprint collection in Dell's Four Color Comics #180 (1948), a subsequent short-lived 1950s comic series for Standard/Better/Nedor. and a couple of 1980s reprint paperbacks from Blackthorne Publishing.
Writer/artist Ray Gotto, though not a familiar name to comics fans today, achieved sports immortality for designing one of the iconic graphics in baseball history...still in use 61 years later:
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Sunday, February 13, 2022
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Now THIS is a SUPER Bowl!
Today, we PARTY, with our own Super-HERO Bowl!
A marathon of comic book-based DVDs and BluRays from around the world (including the Japanese Spider-Man live-action series with the giant Spider-Robot!).
Thank the tech gods for multi-region players!
Thank the tech gods for multi-region players!
See you tomorrow with more exciting tales!
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Football + SuperHeroes = SuperPro!
30 years ago, Marvel and the NFL teamed up to produce...
...a football-themed superhero!
...who, despite meeting a couple of Marvel's best-known heroes...
...lasted only 13 issues, then disappeared into obscurity!
Due to licensing restrictions, NFL SuperPro will never be reprinted or offered as an e-book!
However, when you can find copies, they're usually pretty cheap, like the one below...
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Sunday, February 2, 2020
San Francisco 49er by Jack Kirby!
As we settle in to enjoy the spectacle that is the Super Bowl...
...we wanted to show you a suggested uniform design for the San Francisco 49ers penciled, inked, and colored by the late, great Jack (King) Kirby from the October 21, 1973 issue of the NFL's PRO Magazine, which was sold (with a customized game-day insert) only at NFL stadiums!
Though the Kansas City Chiefs were not among the teams represented, other designs included the New York Giants, Cleveland Browns, and Green Bay Packers!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have chili, sliders, wings, and desserts to prepare for this evening...
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Reading Room CALVIN "Deadman's Hill"
Winter's already becoming a fading memory....
...so let's have a winter-themed tale to remind us of what we missed this year!
What makes the strip somewhat more fascinating is the identity of the little-known writer-artist behind it.
"Kevin Banks" was not a pseudonym, but the name of a staffer at Marvel in the early 1970s!
Even the ever-amazing comics researcher Nick Caputo could find little about the mysterious Mr Banks, as seen HERE.
What Banks did after working at Marvel is unknown.
Did he work in advertising?
Become an art instructor?
Switch careers and become an accountant or fireman?
We may never know the answer...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Reading Room CALVIN "Fat Fillmore's Football Follies"
With Black History Month beginning today, and Super Bowl Sunday this weekend...
...we looked for something that would combine both Black History and football and found this never-reprinted 1970s atrip!
Written and penciled by Kevin Banks and inked by "NT", this cover-featured tale from Marvel's Li'l Kids
#12 (1973) ended a brief, 3-issue run of stories that seemed recycled from vaudeville routines and 1940s-50s
animated cartoons.
What makes the strip somewhat more fascinating is the identity of the little-known writer-artist behind it.
"Kevin Banks" was not a pseudonym, but the name of a staffer at Marvel in the early 1970s!
Even the ever-amazing comics researcher Nick Caputo could find little about the mysterious Mr Banks, as seen HERE.
What Banks did after working at Marvel is unknown.
Did he work in advertising?
Become an art instructor?
Switch careers and become an accountant or fireman?
We may never know the answer...
What makes the strip somewhat more fascinating is the identity of the little-known writer-artist behind it.
"Kevin Banks" was not a pseudonym, but the name of a staffer at Marvel in the early 1970s!
Even the ever-amazing comics researcher Nick Caputo could find little about the mysterious Mr Banks, as seen HERE.
What Banks did after working at Marvel is unknown.
Did he work in advertising?
Become an art instructor?
Switch careers and become an accountant or fireman?
We may never know the answer...
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics
Visit Amazon and Order...
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