Showing posts with label epidemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label epidemic. Show all posts

Sunday, May 17, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN "Higher Power!"

On the Christian sabbath we ask "when science fails, can faith find a way"?
Perhaps this short. from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #91 (1957) holds the answer!
Did writer/editor Richard E Hughes and artist Ogden Whitney base this tale on an oft-heard urban legend?
Oddly, when the story was reprinted in ACG's Unknown Worlds #18 (1962), it was retitled...

...and nobody can recall why!
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Saturday, May 16, 2020

Why Violate Shelter in Place Rules When You Can Stay Home...

...and read free comics of fictional epidemics/pandemics destroying America (or Earth) Mon-Fri here on this blog...
...and weekly / bi-weekly on our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...
...Medical Comics...
...plus...
...Horror Comics of the 1950s...
...Hero Histories...
...Heroines!...
...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...
...War: Past, Present and Future...
...Western Comics Adventures...
(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...
...Crime & Punishment...
...and the aptly-named
Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics CHAMBER OF DARKNESS "Day of the Red Death!"

Here's another "adaptation" of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of disease...
...which, for a change, freely admits the source material!
In fact, out of the mouth of Stan (the Man) Lee himself...
A rich, uncaring guy who has the power to destroy the entire world and wouldn't hesitate to allow a plague to do so...as long as he was safe!
Now who does that remind us of?
Writer Roy Thomas had been a teacher before turning to writing/editing comics, and he loved utilizing classic literature in his work!
Don Heck, whose Marvel work was usually inked by others, apparently relished the opportunity to do both penciling and inking, as he had done in his 1950s horror and war comics work!
In addition, John Romita Sr turned in a wonderfully-rendered cover which was somewhat obscured by the black tints used to create "mood".
Look at the original art to see the detail you might've missed on the printed version...
Kool, eh?
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Saturday, May 9, 2020

Take Your Mind Off How CoronaVirus is Destroying America as We Know It...

...with free comics of fictional epidemics/pandemics destroying America (or Earth) Mon-Fri here on this blog...
...and weekly / bi-weekly on our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...
...Medical Comics...
(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...
...Seduction of the Innocent...
...Heroines!...

...and the aptly-named
Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!
Don't Miss Them!

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics VAMPIRELLA MAGAZINE "Masque of the Red Death"

We've presented several versions of Edgar Allan Poe's tale of pandemic pandemonium HERE...
...and HERE...
...and HERE...
...in fact, its' one of the most re-told tales of classic horror that doesn't involve a classic "monster" like Frankenstein or Dracula!
Here's another rarely-seen (in fact, never-reprinted) version from Warren's Vampirella #110 (1984)...
Written by Rich Margopoulos, and illustrated by Rafael Auraleón, this is one of the moodier and graphically-gruesome versions, stopping just short of qualifying for our Not Safe for Work Comics Retroblog!
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