Upcoming 2017 RetroBlogs Summer Mini-Blogathons

This summer, each RetroBlog will be presenting a different mini-Blogathon, with some crossing-over between blogs...

The biggest Blogathon will be the complete presentation of what many consider to be the first true graphic novel... the 132-page St John's digest-sized b/w one-shot It Rhymes with Lust by writers Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller and illustrator Matt Baker!

This is so cross-genre, it'll be appearing in Seduction of the Innocent, Crime & Punishment, True Love Comics Tales, Heroines, here in Atomic Kommie Comics, and in our newest RetroBlog; Not Safe for Work Comics!

PLUS...

Hero Histories will present two of the never-reprinted adventures of the Silver Age Plastic Man...his (sorta) origin

and his team-up with Daddy (the Golden Age Plas) and sidekick Woozy Winks!

(BTW, the gorilla doesn't appear anywhere in the issue!)

Western Comics Adventures will be spotlighting the never-reprinted adventures of a band of diverse wanderers united by tragedy known as The Bravados!

How the Comics Code altered reprints in sometimes ridiculous ways is the basis of the blogathon at Seduction of the Innocent!

Before the Comics Code...

After the Comics Code...

War: Past, Present and Future covers the short-lived series Lone Tiger...

..and its' companion strip Dollar Bill Ca$h!

 

And Secret Sanctum of Captain Video looks at the never-reprinted adventures of Captain Justice...based on the lost TV series Once a Hero...

...along with the secret Stan Lee connection that links the two!

 

The fun begins after the 4th of July, so come back here where we'll link to the various blogathons!

She'll Love Valentine's Day Gifts from LOVE DIARIES & LOVE LETTERS!

Art by John Buscema

Until the intro of texting, blogs, MySpace and FaceBook, the main way people kept track of their love lives was thru Love Diaries & Love Letters!
In fact, those contents of those small books with the easily-broken locks made up one of the most popular sub-categories of romance comics, with literally dozens of titillating titles!

Let our selection of the best of these these kitchy, campy (and very kool) classic comics covers help you express your true feelings on the Most Important of Days--Valentines Day on greeting cards, teddy bears, mugs, and even "naughty" undies!

And, if they can't assist your love-life, perhaps something from one of our other sections at True Love Comics Tales™ including...
All You Need is Love...
Beatrice Fairfax
Confessions
Lovers Lane
Mod Love
School of Love (or is that Love in School?)
Tender Love Stories
WarTime Love
Weddings
Western Love
will help get your point across on the Most Important of Days!

Don't Be Afraid!

It's the final week of RetroBlogs' contributions to the...

Countdown to Halloween

(2016 Edition)

Blogathon

...so catch the final offerings at..

stories of the skull-visaged Masked Marvel II and The Original Ghost Rider!

never-reprinted tales by the Simon & Kirby studio from Prize's Black Magic
and the already weekly...

will run stories of love from the dark recesses of haunted houses to the bright centers of supernovas in horror and sci-fi tales with a romantic bent!
Don't Miss Any of Them!

Reading Room SPACE ADVENTURES "Imitation People" Part 1

Do androids have souls?

Can they feel "real" (not programmed) emotions?

What does this Don (the Con) Trump wannabe have in mind?

This never-reprinted story from Charlton's Space Adventures V2N4 (1968) will be continued at our "sister" RetroBlog; True Love Comics Tales...

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Charlton Arrow #4

Are You Missing These Kool COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN Blog Posts?

Just a reminder, the RetroBlogs are proudly participating in the...

Countdown to Halloween

(2016 Edition)

Blogathon

with the following blogs returning to weekly publication for October..

presents the skull-visaged Masked Marvel II and The Original Ghost Rider!

features never-reprinted stories by the Simon & Kirby studio from Prize's Black Magic

and the already weekly...

is running tales of love from the dark recesses of haunted houses to the bright centers of supernovas in horror and sci-fi tales with a romantic bent!

Don't Miss Any of Them!

Countdown To Halloween 2016!

Once more, the RetroBlogs are proudly participating in the...

Countdown to Halloween

(2016 Edition)

Blogathon

with the following blogs returning to weekly publication for October..

presents the skull-visaged Masked Marvel II and The Original Ghost Rider!

features never-reprinted stories by the Simon & Kirby studio from Prize's Black Magic
and the already weekly...

will run tales of love from the dark recesses of haunted houses to the bright centers of supernovas in horror and sci-fi tales with a romantic bent!
Don't Miss Any of Them!

Recapping the RetroBlog Summer Mini-Marathons...

While you were vactioning this summer, every RetroBlog had at least one mini-marathon...

Seduction of the Innocent!! took a look at the never-reprinted Devilina b/w magazine from 1975 with two tales about the title character and two horror mini-classics!
"Merchants of Evil", "Lost Tomb of Nefertiri", Devilina is Coming..., "Devilina: Satan's Domain", and "Devilina Fights Corrupta...in Curse of the Ra Scarb"

At Secret Sanctum of Captain Video, we presented no less than three different, never-reprinted comic versions of this legendary Ray Harryhausen film, including one of them featuring art by the late, great, John Buscema!
Dell's 1950s adaptation Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Marvel's 1970s adaptation Part 1, Part 2
Legend Horror Classics' 1970s British adaptation 

In cross-overs between War: Past, Present, and Future and Hero Histories, we had never-reprinted tales of two World War I aviator-heroes from the 1960s!
After all, it's the 100th Anniversary of World War I and these tales were published during the 50th Anniversary!

G-8 and His Battle Aces Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Conclusion
Phantom Eagle Part 1, Conclusion

Hero Histories featured the final, never-reprinted tale of the campy Silver Age version of The Shadow. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

War: Past, Present and Future also presented another never-reprinted story published in the 1960s, Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos in...ready for it?...KOREA!
Part 1, Conclusion 

What's summer without a good "beach read"?

And there's nothing better than a never-reprinted Gothic Romance at True Love Comics Tales!
You can read every chapter...Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 

Justice didn't take a holiday during the summer, as the 1950s hard-boiled saga of private eye Johnny Dynamite received a re-telling at Crime & Punishment!
"I'll Find That Killer",  "Eye for an Eye!", and "Wire Trap"

Western Comics Adventures presented the never-reprinted 1950s adventures of Davy Crockett by Jack (King) Kirby!
Introduction, "Devil Rapids", "Missing Bullet Hole", "Running Fight", and "King Ram"

Heroines! took a slightly different approach with Phantom Lady's Twice-Told Tales, featuring stories that re-used either scripts or art from earlier tales!
Spitfire Sanders "The Whip" & Phantom Lady "Satan's Seal, "World's Meanest Crook" & "Meanest Men in the World", "Killer Clown" & "Success is No Accident!", "Television Spies" 1.0 & 2.0, and "Soda Mint Killer" & What Price Protection?"

Sadly, due to Google revamping and screwing up their Photos app, where we store all our pix for these blogs, we did not get to...

...the first, never-reprinted, story of the Silver Age Plastic Man by Gil Kane in Hero Histories!
But, it and the remaining, never published in America, stories of Estaban Maroto's Wolff will see re-presentation this autumn!

Last Week on RetroBlogs...

The blue-and-green costumed 1960s version of The Shadow...

...ends his series by running a gauntlet of villains! in Hero Histories!

True Love Comics Tales presents the perfect "beach read"...

...a complete gothic romance in graphic novel form!

And Phantom Lady's most notorious tale gets a kinder, gentler redo...

...in the final Phantom Lady's Twice-Told Tales installment at Heroines!

What's Coming Up?

Check in next week to find out!

Summer Fun on RetroBlogs!

Every summer we run mini-marathons on the various RetroBlogs...

At Secret Sanctum of Captain Video, we'll present no less than three different, never-reprinted comic versions of this legendary Ray Harryhausen film, one of them featuring art by the late, great, John Buscema!

(but we're not going to tell you which one!)

In a cross-over between War: Past, Present, and Future and Hero Histories, there will be never-reprinted tales of two World War I aviator-heroes from the 1960s!

Hero Histories will also feature the final, never-reprinted tale of the campy Silver Age version of The Shadow...

...and the first (also never-reprinted) story of the Silver Age Plastic Man by Gil Kane!

War: Past, Present and Future will also present another never-reprinted story published in the 1960s, Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos in...ready for it?...KOREA!

What's summer without a good "beach read"?

And there's nothing better than a never-reprinted Gothic Romance at True Love Comics Tales!

Justice doesn't take a holiday during the summer, as the 1950s hard-boiled saga of private eye Johnny Dynamite receives a re-telling at Crime & Punishment!

Don't think we've forgotten

Western Comics Adventures

Heroines!

Seduction of the Innocent!!

We just haven't finalized the plans for them...yet!