Showing posts with label True Love Comics Tales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label True Love Comics Tales. 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, May 26, 2024

The 2024 RetroBlog "Time-Lost" Blogathons are Coming July 1st...

This summer's theme is never-reprinted tales from at least three decades ago!
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
True Love Comics Tales
It's Gonna be a Sizzling Summer!

Monday, August 28, 2023

Monday Madness: Neil Gaiman Spoofs Gothic Romances...AND Romance Comic Books!

Who else could do it...and do it so well?
NO ONE!
THAT'S WHO!
So, check out our annual summertime "beach read" Gothic romance...
at our "sister" RetroBlog...

Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics
Visit Amazon and Buy...
(An anthology of original Gothic horror prose tales by various authors where the short story the graphic novel is based on first appeared)
and/or
(Prose anthology of Gaiman's work featuring the short story the graphic novel is based on, along with background information)
and/or
(Graphic novel adaptation of the short story)

Sunday, June 25, 2023

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathons Return with TWO Themes...

First up is
The Summer of...The Shadow!
We're re-presenting not one, not two, but three never-reprinted decades-old series featuring He Who Knows...you know the rest!
The remainder of the never-reprinted non-Mike Kaluta-illustrated issues of the 1970s Shadow comic series (we already ran one HERE) written by Denny O'Neil and Michael Uslan, featuring art by Frank Robbins and ER Cruz in
Crime & Punishment!
 
The remainder of the never-reprinted, campy,1960s Shadow "costumed superhero" series written by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Paul Reinman. (and, yes, we already ran several of them HERE, HERE, and HERE) published by Archie Comics, in
And, because the response to our previous prose novel presentations was so positive, we're going to run the last original novel under the "Maxwell Grant" pseudonym (though it was really genre novelist Dennis Lynds, not Shadow creator Walter Gibson) through three RetroBlogs...
Hero Histories
Crime and Punishment

and here at
Atomic Kommie Comics!
Plus, we're returning to a blog we've inadvertently-neglected this past year with a festival featuring the greatest martial arts performer of all time...
at
Plus:
We've been doing "theme months" at
July will of the month of...
...with re-presentations of never-reprinted tales from both the 1960s Dell comic (above), and the 1980s Marvel/Star comic!
And, the final July post (after the Barbie movie opens on July 21st) will be about a 1960s comic created to tie-in with a competitor's line of fashion dolls!
If we weren't doing these re-presentations, we'd be the first in line to read them!
The Summer Fun begins
July 3rd!

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, August 14, 2022

A Long-Standing RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Tradition Continues...


...with the annual feature-length "beach read" Gothic Romance comic at
starting Monday
(Normally we post at TLCT on Wednesdays, but it's a four-part story, so we're starting early!)

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, September 5, 2021

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
A classic gothic romance/beach read at

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!

Sunday, June 20, 2021

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...
during the last week of July!
Then, get comfy with the latest in our annual gothic-themed Beach Reads in...
...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!

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!