Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SONIC DISRUPTORS "Are You Ready to Rock?"

Welcome to seven years from now...as shown thirty-six years ago!

We're beginning a re-presentation of a never-reprinted tale of rebellion against a futuristic police state that most of you didn't even know existed!

To Be Continued

Next Wednesday!

Writer Mike Baron, penciler Barry Crain, and inker John Nyberg created this series for DC in 1986, when the company was encouraging creatives to present new, creator-owned, projects either as stand-alone graphic novels or mini-series.
We've presented several of them in Wednesday Worlds of Wonder, including Merchants of Venus, Space Clusters, and Medusa Chain.

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Taylor Illustrated History

Science Fiction Comics 

Double Your Summer Fun with Double The Shadows!

What's better than an adventure of The Shadow unseen for half a century?

How about TWO adventures?

First, the guy with the gadgets and blue/green spandex faces off against the evil descendants of both Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun on Monday at

HERO HISTORIES

...then, the "classic" 1940s pulp/radio version faces off against a bootlegger mob led by an an acrobatic, athletic mastermind in a fight to the death over Niagara Falls on Thursday in

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

The heat is on for crime this summer!

The RetroBlog Summer Blogathon Continues with TWICE the Shadows in ONE Week!

First, the campy costumed crusader from the Swinging Sixties..

...takes on a glowing goniff (that's Yidddish for "criminal") Monday thru Wednesday at

HERO HISTORIES!

Then, on Thursday and Friday...

...the cloaked crimebuster from the Film Noir Forties take on a family of homicidal lunatics at

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT!

Dare you miss such unbridled excitement???

The RetroBlog Summer Blogathon Begins with Tales of TWO Shadows!

When You Think of The Shadow...

...this is how you envision him, right?

Well, in the 1960s, Jerry (Superman) Siegel re-envisioned him for Archie Comics!

Oddly enough, this was a year before the campy Batman TV series debuted, so it wasn't done in response to the ensuing "Bat-Mania", as many today believe!

And, for heavens sake, who came up with the blue/purple and green color scheme?

Note: the first two issues of the comic...

...written by Robert Bernstein and illustrated by John Rosenberger, hewed much closer to the then-new Shadow paperback novels put out by Belmont Books which the guys who owned Archie Comics also owned (talk about "corporate synergy")...

...and put him squarely in the world of secret agents/spies popularized by James Bond books and movies!
But the book took an abrupt turnabout with the third issue, as Jerry Siegel and artist Paul Reinman took over the title for the remainder of the run!
Note: Siegel and Reinman also assumed creative duties on the entire Archie superhero line which included Adventures of the Fly/Fly-Man/Mighty Comics and Mighty Crusaders!
Join us tomorrow at...

Hero Histories

...as we begin our weekly re-presentation of these never-reprinted comic (and comical) curiosities!

But wait!

There's more!
Each week, the day after the conclusion of the 1960s Shadow story, go to...
Crime and Punishment
...to see never-reprinted tales from The Shadow's 1970s DC run!

Compare and contrast, True Believer!

Reading Room TIME WARP "Survivors"

Even in the future, there's one inviolable rule about volunteering...

...never, ever, do it!

I love switch-endings.

Writer Mike W Barr and illustrator Tom Sutton do a bang-up job worthy of the classic EC comics Weird Science and Weird Fantasy!

The late Tom Sutton was both extremely versatile and extremely under-rated!

He did everything from humor (Not Brand Echh!) to media tie-in sci-fi (Star Trek, Planet of the Apes) to romance (Haunted Love), to horror (Werewolf by Night) and did them all well.

There's a wonderful interview with him HERE that gives real insight into him and why he, sadly, never became a superstar.

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Mystery in Space

Best of DC Science Fiction

Celebrate D-Day...by Reading Comics/Graphic Novels!

It's the anniversary of D-Day, when the Allies, led by America, invaded Fortress Europa...

...and we at Atomic Kommie Comics had our "brother-in-arms" RetroBlog War: Past Present and Future post numerous graphic tales of that epic day, beginning with Marvel's Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos hitting the beach on D-Day!

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

We gave equal time to Fury's DC counterpart, Sgt. Rock, presenting his never-reprinted D-Day adventure...which was also the final story illustrated by his co-creator Joe Kubert!

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 previously-unrevealed origin...at Hero Histories!

The EC Comics crew, best known for sci-fi and horror, also did a story about D-Day...by three ex-military personnel as seen HERE!

And one of their crew, who served in the Merchant Marine before becoming a paratrooper, did this tale  about our paratroopers on D-Day...

We here at the "parent" RetroBlog joined in with both a brief three-pager...

...and a multi-part retelling courtesy of Gilberton, the publisher behind Classics Illustrated and World Around Us!

Enjoy, and if you have a friend or family member who's a D-Day veteran, tell him "Thank You" for us!

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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

Monday Madness REAL FACT COMICS "Rookie of the Year" & PICTURE NEWS "California Flash"

For the past few weeks, we presented a fictional tale about a ballplayer facing prejudice...

...today, it's the "real deal" with the guy who broke the racial barrier in Major League Baseball!

The story from DC's Real Fact Comics #14 (1948) presents the story in a straightforward, if slightly patronizing, manner.

The following tale from Parents Magazine's Picture News #4 (1946) by writer/artist Charles Wessel, predates his being called up to the majors.

Note it does contain a couple of racial stereotypes common to the era, and may be NSFW.

There was also an official Jackie Robinson comic book from major comics publisher Fawcett that lasted six issues (longer than most other comics based on real-life sports figures) from 1949-52.

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Buy the Cover of The Never-Reprinted Premiere Issue...

...of Jackie's Own Comic as a Collectible Poster or Print!

Digitally-restored and remastered from a scan of the actual original cover!