Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts

Monday, November 21, 2022

Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Tale of Chip-Chop and His Christmas Good Deed"

Besides shoehorning existing fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters into holiday-themes tales...

...Walt (Pogo) Kelly occasionally did stories featuring totally-new characters and situations!
Sadly, this never-reprinted story from Dell's Four Color Comics: Christmas with Mother Goose #201 (1948) is Chip-Chop's only appearance anywhere!

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Holiday Reading Room SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "Christmas Carols"

The very first Santa Claus Funnies featured these cool illustrated Christmas carols...
...combining both religious chants...
...traditional folk tunes...
...and contemporary songs!

The artist(s) of these never-reprinted shorts from Dell's Santa Claus Funnies #1 (1942) are unknown.
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Thursday, October 20, 2022

Haunted House Reading Room UNCANNY TALES "I was Locked in a...Haunted House!"

Here's a tale that was so kool...
...Stan Lee and the artists at Atlas/Marvel told it three times...with variations, of course!
Written by Stan Lee, illustrated by Joe Maneely, this story from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #7 (1953) featured comic book fanboys as the protaganists.
(Note they only read Atlas titles like MysticMarvel Tales, and Uncanny Tales!
None of that EC crud for these guys!)
Be here Tuesday when Stan Lee and another Silver Age great re-tell this tale!
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Sunday, October 16, 2022

Halloween's the Time for HORROR! (Horror COMICS, that is!)


Before videogames came along, comics (and tv...and movies) were said to be the contributing factors to...gasp...
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY!
I say...CELEBRATE the stuff your grandparents said would warp your parents' minds!
After all, they turned out OK, didn't they?
Didn't they?
Oh, well...

What could be more appropriate for Halloween than the frightening images of Horror Comics of the 1950s on t-shirt, hoodies, mugs, and other kool kollectibles?

Are you ready to be scared? Click Now...if you dare!

Monday, September 5, 2022

Holiday Reading Room EVERY DAY'S A HOLLY DAY "Labor Day"

With at least two available jobs for every applicant who wants to work...
...the power of the worker has never been stronger!
Why is this 1955 comic entitled "Every Day's a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day's a Holiday"?
Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!
Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day" in 1962), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!
We'll be presenting the other chapters on the dates they fall upon.
Watch for them!
(BTW, Monday Madness will return next week...)
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Friday, July 1, 2022

Friday Fun NOT BRAND ECHH! "Original Origin of Charlie America!"

It's almost the 4th of July, so we thought we'd kick back and enjoy...
...this spoof of one of the most-retold origins of all ('cause we're really nice guys)!
Admittedly, this ain't exactly how they portrayed his origin in Captain America: the First Avenger.
But hey, this classic from Marvel's Not Brand Echh #3 (1967) is a lotta fun anyway!
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Holiday Reading Room EVERY DAY'S A HOLLY DAY "Thrilling Story Behind Old Glory: Flag Day"

In a patriotic fever while waiting for the 4th of July?
Learn About...
...and try to forget it's also (ironically) the 76th birthday of disgraced, twice-impeached, ex-President Don (the Con) Trump!
Coloring goof: the Union soldiers in panel 5 are wearing Confederate gray!
Why is this 1955 comic entitled "Every Day's a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day's a Holiday"?
Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!
Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day" in 1962), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!
Note: We're gearing up for our traditional multi-blog Summer Blogathons which we'll announce the week before the 4th of July weekend and begin the week after!
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Sunday, May 29, 2022

Tomorrow is Memorial Day

...but we have a kool Monday Madness post I didn't want to wait on!
So pay tribute to our defenders (active and retired) today and tomorrow!
BTW, this is a World War II-era flag!
That's why it has only 48 stars!
Alaska and Hawaii didn't become states until 1959!

Friday, December 3, 2021

Friday Holiday Fun CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Christmas Alphabet"

Nobody did Christmas-themed comics better than the legendary Walt (Pogo) Kelly...
...as this never-reprinted piece from Dell's Four Color Comics #201 (1948), one of the annual Christmas with Mother Goose anthologies, proves!
Yeah, it is difficult to find something Yuletide-related that begins with "Z"...any suggestions?
Christmas with Mother Goose was an ongoing annual from 1945 through 49.
It apparently ended when Walt Kelly left Dell to work full-time on his new Pogo newspaper strip.
But Dell continued to do Yuletide annuals with a Frosty the Snowman series from 1951 to 1961 as well as continuing an already-ongoing line of Kris Kringle-themed Santa Claus Funnies running from 1944 through 1961!
(In early 1962 Dell Comics broke up into two companies, the already-established Dell, which had really just handled distribution, and Gold Key Comics, which had handled the editorial and art production chores, but not newsstand distribution.
This left Dell, which had to build a comics editorial division from scratch, without the resources to continue the Christmas-themed annuals.)

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Friday, November 26, 2021

Friday Fun BATMAN "Bat-Climb featuring Santa Claus"

Let's kick off Friday Fun's Yuletide season with the ultimate team-up: Kris Kringle...

...and the legendary Dynamic Duo, Batman and Robin!

One of the hallmarks of 1960s Batman series was the "Bat-Climb", where the Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder would encounter celebrities or characters from other shows as they scaled the wall of a building with their Bat-Rope (using a set turned sideways so the actors were merely pretending to be climbing.)


In this second-season episode ("The Duo is Slumming", featuring the one-shot villain Puzzler), airing right before Christmas in 1966, the Dynamic Duo meet Kris Kringle, played by an uncredited Andy Devine.
(After all, the producers didn't want kids to think Santa wasn't real...)
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Come Join in the RetroBlog SECRET Christmas Blogathon!

It's so secret, we didn't even know we did it!
We're the "lynchpin" for an entire group of RetroBlogs, each covering a different genre, and this year, all of them (except Not Safe for Work Comics) posted holiday themed-entries, creating (inadvertently) a holiday blogathon!
Besides the stories here at Atomic Kommie Comics, you can find...
...a Hallmark Channel movie-style Yuletide romance never-seen in America at
...a classic story of Christmas terror at
...a Korean War holiday tale at
...two Yultide stories of superheroines at
Heroines!
and
You can read about both a sinister and a superheroic Santa at
...then there's a Kung-Fu Kris Kringle at...
...spend Christmas on the prairie in
...then peruse through two holiday tales at
Hero Histories!
...a Hannukah story starring
...and snowball-hurling fun with a plethora of 
finest!
...Kris Kringle goes from elf to avenging angel in,,,
Witness a long-unseen Christmas saga featuring the longest-running sci-fi TV character of all in...
And last, but certainly not least...
...another doctor celebrating Christmas...several months early in
Medical Comics and Stories!
Read them all before the New Year!