Horror Comics Cover Gallery

Since it's almost Halloween, here's a slew of classic horror comics covers, courtesy of your dear fiends at Atomic Kommie Comics™.
(And, did we mention they're all available from us on various collectibles?)

Golden Age DareDevil Cover Gallery

To plug both our line of Golden Age DareDevil collectibles and a hilarious blog called Comics Make NO Sense which is currently running a series of entries about the Golden Age DD, here's a Cover Gallery to intrigue and inspire you!

Our NEW Golden Age Comic Cover Gallery

We're re-presenting a whole line of long out-of-print comic book covers as affordable poster prints perfect for students' dorm or bed rooms, house stagers who need a way to personalize a home they're selling in a kitchy (but not tacky) way or pop-culture aficionados who don't want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for a display piece!

Besides the complete run of Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly (including covers to the undistributed #2, #3 & #4) we're currently offering a slew of 3-D comics covers, all digitally-restored and remastered, many never previously-reprinted!

Check out the Golden Age gallery!
Great value!
Kool graphics!
HTF classic comic book art!
What more could you want?

Tomorrow: Design of the Week--Giant Japanese Robot!
Saturday: Our final poster gallery!

Atomic Kommie Comics' NEW Poster/Print Galleries

A couple of days ago we told you about a new poster print of the ultra-rare Stan Lee at Carnegie Hall poster from 1972.
Now, we are unveiling even more ultra-rare material from our archives, now made available to you as collector's item prints in the Atomic Kommie Comics™ Art Gallery!
There are three sub-galleries...

Theatrical Posters 

 (which includes movie, tv, Broadway and genre convention material)

Golden Age 

(HTF comic book covers from the 1930s to 1950s)

 and Odds and Ends

(pop art / pop culture stuff that doesn't fit into either category)

Over the next few days, we'll be going into detail about each gallery.

These prints would make ideal dorm or bedroom decor for students or game-room decoration for pop-culture-oriented teens!

Keep in mind we're just getting started. There'll be a lot more images placed in the galleries over the next few weeks.

Tomorrow: Theatrical Posters!

Lost Heroes of the Silver Age of Comics™ Gallery

In an era where Sean Connery was James Bond 007, Adam West was Batman, and A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S. were all the R.A.G.E., a number of companies leaped into the fray to compete against Marvel and DC for entertainment dollars...

Here's a sample of the titles from that era in our NEW Lost Heroes of the Silver Age of Comics™ collection.

Tara: Queen of the Space Pirates Cover Gallery

Pirates are popular!
Seems obvious now, with the success of the Pirates of the Carribbean series, but from the 1970s until recently, pirates (like cowboys) seemed to have hit a cultural dead-end.
But, back in the 1940s-50s though, they were everywhere!
Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk (both played by Errol Flynn) and Jamie Waring  (Tyrone Power) in The Black Swan typlified the swashbuckling heroic image of pirates on film.
There were, of course, pirate pulp magazines and comic books, as well!
Sci-fi / fantasy in particular, adapted the pirate concept in numerous incarnations, including Star Pirate, Captain Harlock, and, most importantly to us, Tara: Queen of the Space Pirates!

Tara, her second in command / boyfriend Robin (an Errol Flynn lookalike in green), and their engineer Malo, operated out of a base in the swamps of Venus, fighting the tyrannical government of Earth.
(Exactly why they were doing this isn't known to me, as the complete run of Tara's Wonder Comics appearances [#15-20] in my possession are all slabbed!)

At any rate, it's typical fun pirate fare with electro-swords instead of cutlasses and spaceships in place of galleons, but with the added aspect of a strong woman in command!
And, yes, there's an "Avast, ye hearties" and "Keelhaul the space-dog" and other piratey-type phrases tossed in from time to time! (Some things never change!)

That's why we've incorporated Tara into our Heroines™ collection with her own section, featuring not one, not two, but three cool cover designs on an assortment of kool kollectibles!
Just the things to add to your own Fantastic Femme's wardrobe or accessories!

BTW, in case you're wondering, these covers were not inked line art with flat color separations like most comics covers, but airbrush over inked art!
The publisher wanted to stand out from the flood of titles on the newstands, and had his cover artist, Alex Schomburg (aka "Xela") try something different!
It gives them a nifty "storybook" look, eh?

FREE BONUSES:
1) From the amazing Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blog, Tara's second appearance from Wonder Comics #16!
One interesting aspect is that the cover for that particular issue (The one at the very top of this blog) has no relation to the story inside!
The cover for #17 (the middle one on this blog) goes with the story in #16! It's the villain and MacGuffin (the jewel she's holding) for that tale!
2) A Gallery of "Xela" airbrush art comic covers, which also has links to other Alex Schomburg-oriented sites!

Kato: Origins #3 Cover Sneak Peek

From cover artist Francesco Francavilla's blog.

Samson Classic Cover Gallery

Besides being one of the characters to be revived by both Erik Larsen (in Next Issue Project: Fantastic Comics #24) and Alex Ross (in Project SuperPowers), Samson was the FIRST demigod characters to receive his own comic, predating Marvel's Mighty Thor by several decades!
(And yes, I'm looking forward to Natalie Portman as Jane Foster in the new Mighty Thor movie!)

BTW, did we mention that ALL these covers (and six more) are available on our Classic Samson 2010 12-Month Calendar? ;-)