Haunted House Reading Room WORLD OF MYSTERY "Secret of the Haunted House"

With Halloween right around the corner, we're doing a series of themed stories until All Hallows Eve...

...based on haunted houses!

This Al Williamson-penciled and Ralph Mayo-inked tale from Atlas' World of Mystery #6 (1957) has only been reprinted once since (in b/w not color), and that was in 2008!

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Marvel Horror

The Magazine Collection

Scary Steve Ditko: Space Adventures #12 Cover

Even though it has nothing to do with any of the stories inside Charlton's Space Adventures #12 (1954), it's one of the most famous and most reprinted covers artist Steve Ditko ever did (excluding Amazing Spider-Man and Amazing Fantasy #15 covers, of course)!

Monday Madness KARLOFF! LORRE! CHANEY! TOGETHER!!!

Can you name the one time this Trio of Terror Titans appeared together?

And they played themselves...as well as three of their Manifestations of Malevolence!

Click HERE to learn the ominous answer!

Kool Halloween T-Shirts for Toddlers and Kids!

As we get back to actual trick-or-treating this year...

...you can wear kool monster-themed clothing as you spend Halloween with your family!
All of them are exclusive designs only available through us, plus they're G or PG-rated, and we also have baby-sized onesies/creepers for the perfect Halloween pic to send out os use as your background screen on your phone!
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Ghostly Garb!
...to see and order!

The PERFECT Halloween Trick-Or-Treat Bag Stuffer! MINI-BUTTONS!

These Halloween-themed 1"-diameter Mini Buttons are just the thing to use as trick-or-treat bag stuffers or Halloween party favors!

And they won't rot kids' teeth!

A "win-win" for parents!

Your house will become Halloween Central when everyone discovers you're giving away these unique items, which kids trade and collect and stick on everything from jackets to backpacks to sweatshirts to hats!

Five G or PG-rated designs to choose from!

You can mix-and-match with several different design 10-packs at $19.99 each or a 100-pack of a single design for only $79.99!
(That's less than 8 cents per button! Cheaper than most brand-name candy!)

Order now, to get them in time for Halloween!

Gruesome Graphic Invitations for Halloween!

If you're going to do a party on October 31st (It's on Monday this year!) or the weekend before, you'll want to create the right mood by sending out an appropriate invitation to your ghoulish get-together!

That's where we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ can help you set the right macabre mood!

Using classic comic book covers and movie posters, we've given you a plethora of perverse pictures to choose from with a dozen different, demonic, invitations as 8-packs of postcards and/or 10-packs of note cards and greeting cards ranging from G-rated to PG-13 to suit every need! (The one above is PG).

So have a look and order NOW!

The later you place your order, the greater the chance that your treat could turn into a missed-deadline trick!

SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS "Headless Horseman Rides Again" Cover

Here's the cover from the never-reprinted 1973 story we ran this week HERE and HERE...

...and here's the original art by penciler Gil Kane and inker Ernie Chua aka Ernie Chan!

Bonus: here's the Gil Kane layout that Chua/Chan lightboxed to produce the final art!

The creative process is an absolutely beautiful thing, eh?

Happy Halloween!

Friday Fun MADHOUSE "Going-Going-Real Gone!"

What if Casper the Friendly Ghost was a middle-aged specter...

 ...encountering live teen "hep cats"?

This tale takes the concept to a literally-surreal level!

BTW, see how many pop-culture references you can understand without Googling them!

The Iger Comics Studio produced this tale for Ajax-Farrell's MadHouse V1N4 (1954), showing teen/young adult hipsters/hepcats encountering ghosts (apparently of middle-aged/older people) who didn't realize their attempts at creating ugly art and terrifying music resulted in cutting-edge popular culture!

When MAD became a surprise hit in 1953 (after the early issues lost money!) other comics publishers were quick to jump onto the bandwagon, eventually bringing out more than a dozen imitations with titles like FLIP, WHACK!, NUTS, EH!, UNSANE!, MADHOUSE/BUGHOUSE, and GET LOST!

These copiers realized that Will Elder’s cluttered “chicken fat” layouts were a major part of MAD’s success, and their pages were also densely-packed with all sorts of outlandish and bizarre gags!

Trivia: While most companies (like Ajax/Farrell) published just a single MAD imitation title, Atlas (the predecessor to Marvel) dove head-first into the fad, with no less than four titles, Snafu, WILD, RIOT, and Crazy!

These “parody comics” are uniquely 1950s catching the popular culture zeitgeist through a dual lens: not only reflecting '50s culture through parody but also being typical examples of that culture...ironically, in a way that MAD wasn't!

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The Sincerest Form of Parody

The Best 1950s MAD-Inspired Satirical Comics

Reading Room SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS "Headless Horseman Rides Again!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Upstate New York crime lord "Bones" Bullinger murdered reporter Matt Carter to stop the newspaperman's investigations into the underworld.

But Carter's widow, Kim, and his best friend, private eye Duke Durbano, kept the investigation going.

So "Bones" hired NYC hitmen to kill the pair.

The assassins failed (though they don't know it) and "Bones" (in an elaborate disguise) is about to eliminate them...

Written by Gary Friedrich at the same time as he was co-creating the flaming-skulled motorcyclist known as Ghost Rider, this tale from Marvel's Supernatural Thrillers #6 (1973) was left open-ended with the possibility of the Horseman returning as a "Spirit of Vengeance" to deal with other criminals.

Note: 1973-75 featured the appearances of several avenging supernatural characters including Ghost Rider, Son of Satan, Man-Thing, Scarecrow (aka Straw Man), and the return of The Spectre in extremely-gruesome (for the Comics Code era) tales.

Illustrated by penciler George Tuska and inker Jack Abel, both of whom worked in comics during the horror comics era and were quite familiar with how to tell a terrifying tale!

Be Back on Halloween for a special Treat!

(No Trick, we promise!)

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Reading Room SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS "Headless Horseman Rides Again!" Part 1

We presented the Washington Irving version of The Headless Horseman HERE!

Marvel did a never-reprinted sequel set in the "present day" almost 50 years ago!

What do they see?

Could it be...?

Find out Thursday!

This book-length story from Marvel's Supernatural Thrillers #6 (1973) was the final one-shot tale from the short-lived comic before N'Kantu the Living Mummy took the book over for the remainder of its' sadly-short run.

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Atomic Kommie Comics™ Halloween Shop is Closed for the Season...

...but we have shipped or are shipping all orders  in time for Halloween!

Happy Halloween to EVERYONE!