Tales Best-Read Indoors on a Cold Winter Day...

With Winter Hitting the US Full-Force...

... we invite you to re-visit the kool winter-themed posts on this blog

STRANGE TALES/WEIRD WONDER TALES "When a Planet Dies"

UNUSUAL TALES "Night of Red Snow"

TALES TO ASTONISH "I Found the Abominable Snowman"

Part 1 / Conclusion

STRANGE WORLDS "I Captured the Abominable Snowman"

WORLD OF FANTASY "It Stands in the Snow"

STRANGE TALES "I Am the Abominable Snowman!"

WILD! "Frozen North"

PLANET COMICS "Life on Other Worlds: Pluto"

WEIRD THRILLERS "Graveyard in the Antarctic"

Plus, almost every RetroBlog has featured at least one post with a winter/Arctic/extreme cold theme!

Here's the best of them (with links)...

Crime & Punishment

NORTHWEST MOUNTIES

"Mountie Guns Break the Snow Siren's Secret!"

Hero Histories

DOC SAVAGE

"Polar Treasure"

Heroines

NELVANA OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS

"Attack from Etheria"

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

WINKY DINK

"at the Arctic"

Seduction of the Innocent

Adventures into Darkness

"Frozen Death"

True Love Comics Tales

Lovelorn

"World's Most Dangerous Game"

Western Comics Adventures

Original Ghost Rider

"Coffin of Snow"

Medical Comics and Stories
The Vitals: True EMS Stories
Story One: In Good Hands

We suggest you read them in front of a roaring fire (hopefully in a fireplace) with a mug of hot chocolate!

Reading Room D-DAY with BLACKHAWK, SGT FURY, and SGT ROCK!

It was damned crowded 80 years ago today at Normandy Beach!

Blackhawk and his team were there, battling (what else?) giant Nazi war machines and revealing their secret origin!

Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos were there (although the cover was a "cheat", since they swam in using SCUBA gear a couple of nights before, knocked out Nazi defenses and communications, then proceeded to the invasion site from inside France)!

And Sgt Rock was there, leading Easy Company into the thick of it!

Click on the links and enjoy!

Is "Tomorrow's War" Almost Here?

Nuclear war with the Russkies!

In 1953, we thought it might occur around 1972...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Youthful's Atomic Attack #5 (1953) shows!

Read it HERE, at our "brother" RetroBlog War: Past, Present & Future...before it's too late!!

Does Imperialist Running Dog Putin Realize World War III Already Happened?

Nuclear Armageddon occurred in 1960...

...not once, but twice!

At least, that was the basis for two different series from the same publisher running simultaneously in 1952; Atomic War! and World War III!

Oddly, the premiere issue of World War III presented a similar series of events to the first issue of Atomic War, but in a slightly-different time-frame, and a different order!
There were no cross-overs and certain events and available technology were very different in the two titles, indicating the two series were alternate universe / multiverse versions of each other!
BTW, Atomic War! came first, in November, 1952, with a second issue following in December, then going bi-monthly in February and April, 1953.
World War III ran in March and May of 1953, the months Atomic War! wasn't published, giving kids of the era a monthly fix of future fun!

Noted comics, pulp, and paperback author Robert Turner wrote both issues of World War III, but the writer(s) of Atomic War! are unknown.

With Russia threatening us with nuclear annihilation (again), we thought we'd call your attention to our re-presentation of these kool examples of Cold War paranoia at our "brother" RetroBlog ™, War: Past, Present & Future™.

Visit the Atomic PX...

 ...for all your radiation-proof 

uniform and equipment needs!

Monday Madness: Does Putin Realize World War III Already Happened?

Nuclear Armageddon came to America in 1960...

...not once, but twice!

At least, that was the basis for two different series from the same publisher running simultaneously in 1952; Atomic War! and World War III!

Oddly, the premiere issue of World War III presented a similar series of events to the first issue of Atomic War, but in a slightly-different time-frame, and a different order!
There were no cross-overs and certain events and available technology were very different in the two titles, indicating the two series were alternate universe / multiverse versions of each other!
BTW, Atomic War! came first, in November, 1952, with a second issue following in December, then going bi-monthly in February and April, 1953.
World War III ran in March and May of 1953, the months Atomic War! wasn't published, giving kids of the era a monthly fix of future fun!

Noted comics, pulp, and paperback author Robert Turner wrote both issues of World War III, but the writer(s) of Atomic War! are unknown.

With Russia threatening us with nuclear annihilation (again), we thought we'd call your attention to our re-presentation of these kool examples of Cold War paranoia at our "brother" RetroBlog ™, War: Past, Present & Future™.

Visit the Atomic PX...

 ...for all your radiation-proof 
uniform and equipment needs!

Monday Military Madness D-DAY with Blackhawk, Sgt Fury and Sgt Rock!

It was damned crowded at Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944!

Blackhawk and his team were there, battling (what else?) giant Nazi war machines and revealing their secret origin!

Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos were there (although the cover was a "cheat", since they swam in using SCUBA gear a couple of nights before, knocked out Nazi defenses and communications, then proceeded to the invasion site)!

And Sgt Rock was there, leading Easy Company into the thick of it!

Click on the links to enjoy!

CoronaVirus Comics: On Memorial Day, See the Bio-Weapons Our Enemies Could Use Against Us...

...on Our "Brother" RetroBlog...

...as we explore past pandemic atrocities that could've happened...like these...

Bookmark it, because there's more to come!

CoronaVirus Comics...Because Somebody Has to Take Your Minds Off the Current Disaster...

...by presenting tales of fictional epidemics both on this blog...

...and our other RetroBlogs, including...

...True Love Comics Tales

(you'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories involve disease)...

...War: Past Present & Future...

...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...

...Hero Histories...

...Crime & Punishment...

...Heroines...

...Horror Comics of the 1950s...

...and, this week, the remainder of the RetroBlogs will have CoronaVirus-themed posts!

Plus, we're introducing a new RetroBlog...Medical Comics...dedicated to tales of doctors, nurses, technicians, even orderlies, all of whom we literally couldn't live without!

D-Day in the Comics...Plus Other Goodies!

The final part of our Summer Mini-Blogathon is underway...

as we present the D-Day exploits of the legendary Quality/DC Blackhawks!

Already up are...

Marvel's Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos hitting the beach on D-Day!

(Yes, it was reprinted in a Marvel Masterworks a decade ago, but those are extremely-expensive and didn't sell very well, so most of you have never seen this tale from 53 years ago!)

We gave equal time to Fury's DC counterpart, Sgt. Rock, presenting his never-reprinted D-Day adventure!
But that's not all, True Believer!

In addition, True Love Comics Tales returned to weekly posting, beginning with our usual Summertime "beach read" Blogathon entry, a book-length Gothic novel!

Enjoy!

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Essential Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos

by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers and others

And

Showcase Presents Sgt Rock

by Robert Kanigher, Joe Kubert and others

The Summer Mini-Blogathons are HERE!!!

The Annual "Beach Read" Blogathon...

...presents a never-reprinted, book-length graphic Gothic chiller from DC's Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #1 (1971)

And...

Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos storm the beach at Normandy in this seldom-seen saga...

...from Marvel's Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos Annual #2 (1966)!

Don't Miss Them!

The RetroBlogs Mini-Marathons of 2017!

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

The biggest Blogathon was 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 was so cross-genre, it'll be appeared 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!
You can start the inter-linked saga HERE!

PLUS...

Hero Histories presented 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 spotlighted the complete, never-reprinted adventures of a band of diverse wanderers united by tragedy known as The Bravados!

War: Past, Present and Future covered the short-lived, never-reprinted series Lone Tiger...

..and its' companion strip Dollar Bill Ca$h!
Plus: the final, never-published Lone Tiger tale, scanned from the original art!
 

And with the passing of Jerry Lewis, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video dropped it's look at the never-reprinted adventures of Captain Justice...based on the lost TV series Once a Hero...

...to present never-reprinted classic team-ups of DC heroines...

...and heroes with Jerry!

Still to come...Superman and the 1960s Batman & Robin!
BTW, Captain Justice will pop up before Christmas!
We don't want to miss the show's 30th Anniversary!

Sadly, due to the crush of work...and some serious vacation partying...we weren't able to do how the Comics Code altered reprints in sometimes ridiculous ways at Seduction of the Innocent!

Before the Comics Code...

After the Comics Code...

...so that one will be set for Halloween!