Showing posts with label catfight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catfight. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2022

Friday Fun MODELING WITH MILLIE "Millie the Marvel"

If you think Marvel and DC are rebooting their characters (and continuities) more frequently than ever...
...you've never followed the many incarnations of Millie the Model from 1945 to the present!
This particular story is from the early Silver Age "romance comic" phase of her career.
This never-reprinted story from Modeling with Millie #54 (1967); written by Gary Friedrich, penciled by Odgen Whitney, and inked (uncredited) by Frank Giacoia; was Millie the Marvel's only appearance.
It was also the final issue of this particular title.
Over at her ongoing "sister" title, Millie the Model, the character returned to her previous Archie Comics-influenced format, once more becoming a teen-humor title without ongoing storylines.
Trivia: From 1945 to 1973, there was always at least one Millie title from Atlas/Marvel, for a total of five different series, plus annuals, a couple of one-shots, an ongoing strip in Comedy Comics, and a spin-off series for her rival, Chili!
Her main title ran for 207 issues, and was, until Fantastic Four #207 came out in 1979, Marvel's longest-running character-named book!
(Books with longer runs like Mighty ThorIncredible Hulk, and Captain America had different names [Journey into MysteryTales to Astonish, and Tales of Suspense, respectively] before becoming "character" titles.
Millie's flagship title was always Millie the Model!)
Millie was rebooted several times going from a romance/humor hybrid to Archie-style humor to romance/soap opera and finally back to Archie-style humor with changes to the characters' ages, professions, and relationships at each stage.
Millie Collins, despite being shown as outside the Marvel Universe in this tale, has appeared as part of the mainstream Marvel universe in several titles, including the "Wedding of Reed and Sue" in Fantastic Four Annual #3 (and Marvels #2), Dazzler #34, Sensational She-Hulk #60, and the Models, Inc mini-series.
In the 1980s, a middle-aged Millie appeared in the Star Comics mini-series Misty, about the teen-age daughter of Millie's brother!
(The best thing about this Trina Robbins-produced mini-series was the retro look and use of readers' designs for the characters' clothes.)
Millie was scheduled to be rebooted in 2003 as a teen-age tennis player in a manga-style mini-series called 15-Love.
When the project was finally published in 2011 (yeah, eight years later), the lead character was Millie's teen-age niece (though Millie herself did appear briefly)!

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Wonder Woman vs Supergirl...50 Years Ago!

The current issue of Wonder Woman features a battle between...
...the Amazing Amazon and a possessed Maid of Might!
But it ain't the first time the two duked it out!
We thought this would be a good time to re-present their first battle royale, which has never been reprinted in color since its' initial publication in 1968 (50 years ago)!
Enjoy this chapter of Silver Age comics history!
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Showcase Presents
Wonder Woman
Volume 4
(which concludes with the story we're re-presenting...but in black and white!)

Monday, June 26, 2017

We're GLOWing this Summer...

With the success of GLOW on Netflix...
...we thought we'd look back at the original version, via their short-lived, (and very HTF) magazine from 1986-87!
(Try finding it on eBay or Amazon!)
Lord, was it 30 years ago?
I feel so old...
 The mag featured both in-character pieces and behind-the-scenes features as well as lots of pix!


BTW, Jackie Stallone is Sylvester's mother!
She played the manager of the "good" wrestlers!
We'll be doing a mini-marathon of the best of the magazine's features and photo spreads on our "sister" RetroBlog Heroines! (when fighting women in tights are the very reason for the blog's existence) during our annual RetroBlog Blogathon in July and August!
It'll be Hot...Hot...HOT!
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Note: this is a VHS, but unlike the DVD-R produced from it, the VHS is complete!

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Wonder Woman vs Supergirl!

With Wonder Woman headlining a new movie opening tomorrow...
...we thought this would be a good time to re-present their first battle royale, which has never been reprinted in color since its' initial publication in 1968 (49 years ago)!
You can read the tale, starting HERE at our "sister" RetroBlog Heroines!
It was also the penultimate appearance of the super-powered Wonder Woman in the Silver Age since a major change occurred in the next issue...
But that's a story my good friend Rip Jagger can tell you HERE...at his Dojo!
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics
Visit Amazon and Order...
Showcase Presents
Wonder Woman
Volume 4
(which concludes with the story we're re-presenting...but in black and white!)

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Design of the Week CRIMES BY WOMEN!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another.
This week: Vacation is over, time to get back to work or school!
So why not acknowledge the fact that the workplace and/or classroom can be a battlefield with this cool catfight comic cover from Fox's Crimes by Women #6 (1949)?
Available on adult t-shirts, mugs, e-reader, laptop, and phone cases, and many other goodies!

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Bad Grrrls, Bad Grrrls, What'cha Gonna Do...?

Western Comic Adventures™ has expanded the Women Outlaws section!
Twice as much female mayhem set in the Old West as before!
Twice as much gunplay!
And now...catfights!
(and there are those who say we're not subtle at Atomic Kommie Comics™!)

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Contemporary (relatively) Bad Grrrls, Bad Grrrls...


We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ know a winning concept when we see one!
You like Bad Girls (or is that "Bad Grrrls"?)
So we've taken the Women Outlaws idea and "updated" it in our Crime & Punishment section to the 1940s-50s with the Crimes by Women line of kool kollectibles.
10 different designs with lots of gun molls, a catfight, and women's prison action!
It's all PG-13 rated!
See the stuff your grandparents didn't want your parents to see! (They thought it would cause juvenile delinquency!)