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

Hero Histories

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

Pop Art Martial Arts!

Plus:

We've been doing "theme months" at

True Love Comics Tales!

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!

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 Concluded...

...with a Re-Presentation of the Long-OOP Prose Novel from 1979...

...which spanned two blogs, Seduction of the Innocent and Medical Comics and Stories!

But, because we were posting to both blogs daily, instead of alternating between them with one-a-day posts, we had problems creating the correct hyperlinks to flow the reading experience from chapter to chapter smoothly!

Now, that was (dare we say it?), a
NIGHTMARE!

But, everything has been corrected due to cyber-sorcery and now you can read the entire novel starting HERE!
We've done other prose novels...

Captain America: the Great Gold Steal
and

Batman vs the 3 Villains of Doom

...but they were each posted to a single blog!

When we do more OOP prose novels in the future, that's the format we'll return to!

Hey, we're eccentric...but we're not insane!

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Goes MULTIVERSAL...

...with the biggest entry we've ever done!

A loooong (almost 45 years) Out Of Print novel by noted sci-fi fantasy author William Rotsler!

And it's so big it takes two RetroBlogs; Seduction of the Innocent and Medical Comics and Stories, to accommodate the multiverse-spanning saga!

DON’T DARE GO TO SLEEP

Unless you are prepared to confront an evil that is older than time itself—a haunting, inhuman horror!

Unless you are prepared to share the fate of the dark-eyed Evangelist, the power-hungry Prize-fighter, the cold-blooded Assassin, and the stunning love-starved Starlet!

Unless you are prepared to enter the terrifying realm of NIGHTMARE, dark overlord of the dream dimension, and master of other men’s minds!

Unless you are prepared to trust your future, and the future of your world to...

Doctor Strange

Master of the Mystic Arts

in

NIGHTMARE

A soul-chilling tale of terror . . . terror that could be YOURS!

Begin HERE...and don't falter!

The fate of the Multiverse may depend on YOU!

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

...with the annual feature-length "beach read" Gothic Romance comic at

True Love Comics Tales

starting Monday

(Normally we post at TLCT on Wednesdays, but it's a four-part story, so we're starting early!)

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Goes Western AND Sci-Fi With...

...the OOP 2006 graphic novel that served as the basis for the 2011 cross-genre flick starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde in...

Western Comics Adventures

and right here at

Atomic Kommie Comics

Note: it's really different from the movie!
Here's the Prologue...

Join us on Monday at
Western Comics Adventures...

There's NO Stopping the Summer RetroBlog Blogathons...

We hope you've been enjoying our Summer Crossover Blogathons including...

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

...is 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...

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

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

and

Pop Art Martial Arts

Next, on Monday, August 8th...

The OOP graphic novel that served as the basis for the recent cross-genre flick starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde in...
Western Comics Adventures
and right here at
Atomic Kommie Comics
Note: it's really different from the movie!

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!)

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

True Love Comics Tales

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

Heroines!

Be at both blogs on Wednesday, or face the wrath of Odin the All-Father!

SO IT IS WRITTEN!

SO IT SHALL BE!

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathons Are Coming...

Our theme this year is "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...

...is 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...

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

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

and

Pop Art Martial Arts

Plus...

The OOP graphic novel Cowboys and Aliens that served as the basis for a recent fun flick in
Western Comics Adventures
and right here at
Atomic Kommie Comics
And, finally...

The 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!)
The Fun Starts Right After July 4th!

The Summer of RetroBlog™ is Coming!

 From July 4th to Labor Day, there will be MUCH MORE MUST-READ stuff...

...on your favorite RetroBlogs™ this summer!

Most of the RetroBlogs™ will be going daily with a themed multi-day posting!
It could be an extra-long story broken into chapters!
It could be several different stories with a common element!
It could be a grab-bag of kool stuff!

Dare You Miss It?

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!

Who Knows What Reboots Lurk in the Minds of Writers?

With the most extensive revamp/reboot to the legendary character since the 1960s Radio Comics version...

...by James Patterson and Brian Sitts (now in bookstores and at Amazon)...

...we hereby present the updated (as of the Silver Age), but never-reprinted reboot origin of He Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men from Radio Comics The Shadow, as the "Grande Finale" to our annual Summer RetroBlogs Blogathon, beginning tomorrow at Hero Histories!
Click
HERE
Monday to enjoy!

Are You Reading the Literary Sensation of Summer 2021?

Specifically, the never-reprinted all-original novel from over five decades ago...

... which combines the best of both the Caped Crusader's Silver Age comics and the legendary 1960s TV show in peerless prose?

If not, what do we have to do to convince you?

Now if that doesn't send you hurling headlong to at least take a look by clicking...

HERE

...you're not truly a Bat-Fan!

HOLY CAMP CLASSICS!!! Are You Ready for the Next RetroBlog Blogathon Entry?

Go back 55 years when BatMANIA swept the country, and join us as we relive...

...a Batman adventure unlike any other!

Scripted by pulp/paperback/comic book writer William Woolfolk under the pen-name "Winston Lyons", it's a fascinating mash-up of the TV and comic versions of the Caped Crusader, Robin the Boy Wonder,  and a trio of arch-villains!

You might note that The Riddler (who was the TV Batman's premiere nemesis, isn't in the story.

That's because the book was written before the show aired, and the Prince of Puzzles had appeared in only three comics stories before 1966!
He wasn't considered a major nemesis by comics fans or creators until after the show began!
Start the adventure now by clicking HERE!

The Next Chapter of the RetroBlogs Blogathon Features...ROMANCE???

What's better than a sunny summer day at the beach?

Why, the latest in our annual gothic-themed, multi-chapter Beach Reads in...

True Love Comics Tales

...beginning Monday, of course!

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

This is it's first appearance in full color since 1971!
That's half a century!
Don't miss it!