Showing posts with label blogathon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogathon. Show all posts

Sunday, June 28, 2020

The Summer Blogathons Return...

Yep, it's that time of year, when Atomic Kommie Comics present...
The RetroBlog Summer Blogathon!
...featuring batches of fascinating stuff from our vaults (almost all never-reprinted), in one or two-week blocks of daily entries, giving you a chance to sit back and enjoy complete stories that you haven't seen in years...or have only heard about, but never read, like...
Perry Mason...whose never-reprinted comic books will show you why the new HBO series is closer than you think to the early novels!
Check out Crime & Punishment for his hard-boiled adventures!
And to make it a Super-Summer Blogathon...
The book-length saga of Superman dying from "Virus X" was one of the classic (and often reprinted) Silver Age tales of the Man of Steel!
But. that's not what we're showing...since it's been reprinted numerous times over the years (and deservedly so)!
Did you know it was re-conceived as an expanded, multi-part, never-reprinted, story in Action Comics several years later?
That's what you'll see at Hero Histories in July!
Plus, we're presenting not one, but two Blogathons featuring the Man of Steel's cousin in stories unseen for 50 years!

Several of Supergirl's (somewhat kinky) romances in True Love Comics Tales!
And...

The Maiden of Might's weirdest, wildest adventures in Heroines!
There's even more, but you'll have to be back next Sunday to find out about them...

Sunday, June 21, 2020

He's NOT Your Father's Perry Mason...

...but he is your grandfather's!
...as these 1940s graphic adaptations of two of Erle Stanley Gardner's novels show!
Note: these are reformattings of the Perry Mason newspaper comic strip!
The new HBO series draws on several sources including the early novels, the newspaper comic strip, a six-film 1930s b-movie series adapting the books, and a long-running 1940s-50s radio show!
Trivia: the serialized radio show spawned a live daytime TV-show spinoff which Gardner disapproved of, so the character of Mason was replaced by Mike Karr and the show premiered as the soap-opera The Edge of Night (1956-1980)!
You can read both of the never-reprinted 1940s comics after the July 4th Weekend as part of our usual Summer Blogathon, spread out between this blog and "brother" RetroBlog Crime & Punishment!
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Saturday, October 5, 2019

Our Contributions to the CountDown to Halloween Blogathon...

...run Monday through Friday on FIVE different blogs!
This Week...
MONDAY
Secret Sanctum of Captain Video runs comic adaptations of AIP's 1960s "Edgar Allan Poe" films...currently presenting the Vincent Price/Boris Karloff/Peter Lorre/Jack Nicholson comedy The Raven!
TUESDAY
Seduction of the Innocent presents the premiere psychedelic adventure of Victorian monster fighter Sir Leo!
WEDNESDAY
True Love Comics Tales begins the Halloween Season with a Silver Age inter-comics company romance!
THURSDAY
Hero Histories premieres the introduction of the time-lost WereWolf Hunter!
FRIDAY
Horror Comics of the 1950s showcases the never-reprinted introduction of...Dr Neff!
(Believe me, it's better than it sounds!)
Add in our own thrice-weekly contributions...
The never-seen in the US Dracula one-page comedy shorts from DRACULA!
WEDNESDAY WORLDS OF WONDER
The never-reprinted apocalyptic adventures in the original, 1980s Walking Dead b/w comic!
FRIDAY FUN
Stan Lee's humorous look at classic horror/sci-fi movies and tv shows from the never-reprinted Monsters to Laugh With & Monsters Unlimited!
That's eight days of posts in only seven days!
How do we do it???

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

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

The final part of our Summer Mini-Blogathon is underway...
Already up are...
(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!
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by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers and others
And
by Robert Kanigher, Joe Kubert and others

Friday, July 5, 2019

The Mini-Blogathons Return...

Starting next week, our annual Mini-Blogathons will be back...
We had so much D-Day material available, that we've decided to use some of it for the blogathons, beginning with 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're giving equal time to Fury's counterpart, Sgt. Rock, presenting his never-reprinted D-Day adventure!
Both of these sagas will appear at (where else) War: Past, Present & Future!
It was really crowded at Normandy on June 6th, 1944 since Blackhawk and his team were also there, so it's only fair we present their never-reprinted D-Day adventure...which also doubles as their never-revealed origin...at Hero Histories!
Since we're phasing back in to regular blogging after the harrowing events of the past few months, we're limiting the Blogathons, which, while fun, tend to be exhausting to produce!
Starting Monday, we'll be back to daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, continuing the ongoing features where we left off!
In addition, True Love Comics Tales will return to weekly posting on Wednesday, beginning with our usual Summertime "beach read", a book-length Gothic novel!
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by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers and others
And
by Robert Kanigher, Joe Kubert and others

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

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!

..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!

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Reading Room IT RHYMES WITH LUST "Story Behind the Story"

...as told by the only surviving member of the creative team...co/writer Arnold Drake!
We hope you've enjoyed our presentation!
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which features this interview as well as a complete reprint of It Rhymes with Lust!

Monday, July 24, 2017

Reading Room IT RHYMES WITH LUST "Chapter 5: Counterplot"

...after waffling about whether to expose his ex-lover, Rust Masson, as the secret ruler of Copper City, Hal Weber finally realizes what he must do, and decides to go for broke!
The Power of the Press is awesome to behold...
...but so is the wrath of Rust Masson, as we shall see tomorrow, at...
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