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!

SALE: Icons of the Golden Age of Comics

As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Atomic Kommie Comics™ is both introducing a NEW line of Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ collectibles, Icons of the Golden Age of Comics, AND thanking our kool kustomers and blogwatchers for their unswerving support!

We're posting the links only here on this blog to special storefronts to enable those who click on it to buy items at discount from today until July 1st!

PLUS: Each week (on Monday), we'll be listing one or two MORE Icons ALSO at discount for a week before being offered to the general public at regular prices!
(We show the normal prices next to the item titles on these special pages)

First up, save up to 25% per item on a trio of terrific titans...
Black Terror Icon
DareDevil (& Claw) Icon
Miss Masque Icon
Perfect for streetwear, beachwear and / or conventionwear!

And don't forget to buy Alex Ross' Project SuperPowers, Death Defying 'Devil, Black Terror and Masquerade & Erik Larsen's Next Issue Project and Savage Dragon featuring NEW tales of these classic heroes! ;-)

Things to come...Icons of the Golden Age of Comics!

With the success of the Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ line, we're expanding into a somewhat more "mass-market" approach with a new line of Golden-Age related items.
Titled Icons of the Golden Age of Comics™ line, the idea of this series is to take a single defining image for each character, silhouette it, and put it, sans lettering (except for story title lettering as seen in the DareDevil vs Claw shirt above) on collectibles.
Even if a potential customer doesn't know who the Golden Age character is, the exciting imagery (like those shown above and below) should be enough to sell it as a kool kollectible!
The line will debut on July 1st, but we're giving you, our loyal fans, a preview a couple of the designs now.
PLUS: on June 22nd, we'll post a link ONLY HERE on this blog to the new line's storefront to enable those who click on it to buy ANYTHING on the Icon line at discount until July 1st!
(The Storefront WON'T be accessible or searchable to the general public until July 1st!)
It's Atomic Kommie Comics™ way of saying "Thank you" to our loyal fans!

Lotsa Logos (comic book logos, that is)

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ are big fans of logos.
You know, the distinctive title lettering for a book or character.
Visually, it's the main element that distinguishes one book from another, especially when they're "racked" in a traditional magazine rack so only the top 1/3rd is visible.
And nowhere were logos more distinctive than during The Golden Age of Comics.
So, it's with pardonable pride that we present a line of kool kollectibles featuring the best of classic comic book logos in our line of logowear!
We've included some of the niftiest lettering ever to grace t-shirts, messenger bags, mugs and other goodies including Amazing-Man Comics, The Black Terror, Captain Future, Cat-Man Comics, DareDevil, The Face, Fighting Yank, Green Lama, and The SkyMan!
We're also featuring our own retro-themed Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ logo in it's own line of logowear!
There'll be more to come, so check us out as often as you can!

Tomorrow is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!

Official WebSite with info on ALL the kool freebies
and a YouTube flick starring Hugh Jackman
(Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
talking about FCBD and how comics fight illiteracy!
PLUS:
Interview about FCBD 2009 with Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen

(The Golden Age DareDevil [as Dynamic DareDevil]
currently appears in the book!)

Don't miss it!
Visit your local comic book shop tomorrow!

MORE Dare Devil for your ducats!

A couple of months ago, we mentioned we would be expanding our selection of Classic Dare Devil collectibles in our Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ section.
Well, we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ kept our word...

Three more of DareDevil's koolest Golden Age cover appearances, digitally-restored and remastered, are now available for your perusal (and purchasing, of course) on mugs, shirts and other goodies!

Don't forget to buy Alex Ross' Project SuperPowers, Death-Defying 'Devil and Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon!
We wanna keep Bart Hill (and maybe even the Little Wise Guys) around for a while!


Note: for Free Comic Book Day 2009 on May 2nd, Image Comics is offering Savage Dragon #148, featuring Dare Devil (called "Dynamic DareDevil") for FREE!

DareDevil aka Death-Defying 'Devil aka Dynamic DareDevil

Silver Streak Comics was unique in two respects;
1) It wasn't named after it's lead character, like Flash Comics or Blue Bolt Comics.
(In fact, the hero known as The Silver Streak didn't even come along until issue #3, and then he was just a backup strip!)
2) The lead character was a villain!
And what a villain he was!
The Claw was the first great villain of the Golden Age!
He was a, literally, inhuman scientific genius with powers of size-changing, hypnotism, and numerous other abilities depending on the needs of the story! (In the Golden Age, these things tended to be a little, well, loose.)
In his first few appearances he was barely defeated by various international secret agents who would stumble upon his various operations, but The Claw himself would always escape to plot again!
While the foul fiend dominated the front of the book, several heroes made their debuts in backup features, among them a mute fellow in a weird half-yellow / half-blue costume who used a boomerang!

Created in Silver Streak #6 by writer / artist Jack Binder, brother of noted pulp sci-fi writers Otto & Earl Binder, this DareDevil was Bart Hill, rendered speechless as a boy when he witnessed the murder of his father!
The silent lad learned how to use a boomerang, and, when he became an adult, adopted a costume in order to avenge himself against evil in it's various forms. Not a bad origin tale, overall.

Jack Cole, who later would create Plastic Man, took over the strip in the next issue, tossing out everything except the boomerang and the name Bart Hill, creating the first comic book retcon!
He also modified the costume, making the yellow sections bright red.
Cole then decided that his revamped hero would make the perfect ongoing counterpoint to The Claw, so as of Silver Streak #7, he pitted the two against each other in an ongoing battle that lasted five issues, which ended with The Claw finally being captured!
At that point, DareDevil was given his own title, DareDevil Comics, with the greatest real-life villain of all as his first opponent--Adolf Hitler! With the aid of other heroes, including The Silver Streak, DD managed to stalemate Der Fuehrer.

Cole went on to other projects, and writer / artist Charles Biro took over the strip.
Biro gave Bart an entirely new origin, having the orphaned kid raised by Australian Aborigines and trained by them to use boomerangs!
Bart Hill settled down to a typical life of an acrobatic superhero whose new secret identity of a policeman enabled him to serve the law by day, and justice by night...until the Little Wise Guys came along in #13!
Jocko, Peewee, Scarecrow, and Meatball were a kid gang whom Officer Hill encountered while on patrol. Sensing they were inherently good kids gone wrong, he took them under his wing, guiding them into more socially-acceptible activities, like spying on saboteurs.
It was like having a whole team of Robins or Buckys (sans costumes) to help in his ongoing war against evil!
During one of their adventures against a rival gang, Meatball was killed.
A rival gang member, Curly, feeing guilty about Meatball's demise (though he didn't cause it) reformed, and joined the Little Wise Guys.

The kids gradually took over the book as DareDevil went from lead hero to mentor / advisor to occasional guest-star, disappearing altogether as of #80.
DareDevil Comics continued until #134 in September 1954. Ironically, it was the same month Showcase #4, featuring The Flash started the Silver Age of Comics!
Talk about "missed it by that much!"

Though the character missed the Silver Age, his influence was felt throughout it.
Marvel's Matt Murdock became an acrobatic hero with the same name.
Charlton's acrobatic ThunderBolt wore a very similar costume in tribute to the Golden Age character.

And now, the original hero has returned in not one, but two different incarnations:
The Death-Defying 'Devil in Alex Ross' ongoing Project SuperPowers series and his own self-titled mini-series which restores the original mute aspect of his character.
and
Dynamic DareDevil, guest-starring in Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon series

PLUS: we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ have digitally-restored and remastered several of DareDevil's koolest Golden Age covers , including his very first cover appearance, on an assortment of pop-culture collectibles in our Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ line!
And, we'll be adding several more in the next month or so!

Don't forget to buy Project SuperPowers, Death-Defying 'Devil and Savage Dragon!
We wanna keep Bart Hill (and maybe even the Little Wise Guys) around for a while!

DareDevil vs The Claw...the ORIGINAL Versions!

Just in time for Free Comic Book Day 2008, we at Atomic Kommie Comics present the two fantastic Golden Age covers by Jack Cole (Plastic Man) that inspired Alex Ross' startling NEW cover for the FREE edition of Project SuperPowers featuring the Death-Defying 'Devil vs The Claw! (top)
We've digitally-restored and re-mastered Silver Streak Comics #7 & #8 on a plethora of goodies ranging from shirts to blank sketchbooks to mugs to...well, just go to Classic DareDevil vs Claw (#7) or Classic Claw vs DareDevil (#8) to see the complete range of products.

Of course, the complete line of Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics collectibles based on the classic Fox Features, Nedor/Better/Standard, Ace, Prize, and Centaur characters like Black Terror, Green Lama, Fighting Yank, The Flame, and Samson (among many others) are still available here.
BUY Project SuperPowers! It's FANTASTIC!
And DON'T miss FCBD at your local comic shop on May 3rd, 2008!