From Fawcett's Mechanix Illustrated V49N8 (1953)...
Did it help inspire Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Werner Roth, and Vince Colletta in creating this sequence in Marvel's X-Men #14 (1965)?
You tell us!
Showing posts with label nuclear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuclear. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2024
Monday Mutant Madness MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED "How Nuclear Radiation can Change Our Race"
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Is "Tomorrow's War" Almost Here?
Nuclear war with the Russkies!
In 1953, we thought it might occur around 1972...
...as this never-reprinted tale from Youthful's Atomic Attack #5 (1953) shows!
Read it HERE, at our "brother" RetroBlog War: Past, Present & Future...before it's too late!!
Monday, March 21, 2022
Monday Madness TIME WARP "Righteous Ones"
As, thanks to Vlad the Puta, rumbles of nuclear war grow ever louder...
...we thought we'd take a look at a possible result of such a frightening future!
Oops!
Cue Twilight Zone theme...
Written by DC writer/editor George Kashdan (who co-created Tommy Tomorrow) and illustrated by the multi-talented Dick Giordano, this never-reprinted tale from DC's Time Warp #1 (1979) reads like it was scripted a decade earlier in the late 1960s, especially in the teen-agers' dialogue ("Like it was chain-reacted into doomsville!")!
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Reading Room ROCKET SHIP X "Our Atomic Future"
Remember when we thought the Day After Tomorrow would be...
...and all the world's woes could be solved with nuclear power?
If you're an older Baby Boomer, or one of the Greatest Generation, you might remember this tale from Fox's one-shot Rocket Ship X (1951) or something similar to it, since the unhindered (but safe) use of atomic power was being promoted as the ultimate solution to the world's oil/gasoline problems!
Oddly, when it was reprinted in Charlton's Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #5 (1956), only the first page was shown!
Sadly, no records exist to identify the writer and artist (or writer/artist) of this unfulfilled prophecy.
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Monday, March 14, 2022
Monday Madness AMAZING ADULT FANTASY "Ultimate Weapon"
Who, in 1962, could believe that we'd still be on the brink of nuclear war with the Russkies...in 1970?
Stan Lee and Steve Ditko thought so...and offered a potential solution...
Clever.
Would the solution proposed in Atlas' Amazing Adult Fantasy #13 (1962) work in reality, 60 years later?Russia and China both have the capability to reach geostationary orbit (22,236 miles)., but would they try to use it?
Think about it...
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Monday, February 28, 2022
Monday Madness: How Repugs Think We Can Fight Russkies in the Ukraine!
I'd say they read these comics as kids...
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| #2 (1953) Art by Jim McLaughlin |
...presuming they could actually read!
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| #3 (1953) Art by an unknown illustrator |
Click on the links to our "brother" RetroBlog War: Past, Present & Future...and read about...
&
...which were two different 1950s series with two different plotlines and histories of the same potential future (the 1960s) from the same publisher!
Saturday, February 26, 2022
DUCK & COVER: THE MOVIE!
WARNING!
This is NOT for the Faint of Heart!
Now see what misled millions of innocent young schoolchildren who thought they'd survive an atomic attack by simply ducking and covering...
Amazing what the government would lie about, eh?
Friday, February 25, 2022
Thursday, February 24, 2022
DUCK & COVER Part 1
As Putin's Russia attacks Ukraine, bringing the world closer to a potential nuclear conflict...
...it behooves us to look back at how the government thought we'd have to deal with a potential nuclear attack!
As you might have guessed, this was a comic booklet that was handed out to students in the 1950s-1960s who were shown the famous Duck and Cover movie in their classroom!
Be here tomorrow for the conclusion...but, in the meantime, here's a kool download from the Library of Congress about Duck and Cover and similar Civil Defense films!
Be here tomorrow for the conclusion...but, in the meantime, here's a kool download from the Library of Congress about Duck and Cover and similar Civil Defense films!
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Is THIS Our Future???
With North Korea threatening us with nuclear weapons (again)...
...maybe
we should look at how it was during the Cold War by looking at what
they thought (in the 1950s) would happen in the near-future (the 1960s
onward)!
Turns out it wasn't so great, as you'll see when you click on the links to our "brother" RetroBlog War: Past, Present & Future...and read about...
and
...which were two different series with two different plotlines and histories taking place at the same time in the near future...from the same publisher!
Monday, April 10, 2017
Reading Room BLAST-OFF "Danger! Atoms!"
Underrated writer/artist Howard Nostrand offers...
Here's the original art from the never-reprinted tale published in Harvey's 1965 one-shot anthology Blast Off!
What does it all mean?
Discuss among yourselves!
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Sunday, March 9, 2014
Reading Room WORLD WAR III "Unleashed" Conclusion
...in the Summer of 1960, the Soviet Union launched a devastating nuclear sneak attack on the United States...
Oddly, this series presented a similar series of events to the first issue of Atomic War, but in a slightly-different time-frame, and a different order!
There were no cross-overs and technology and certain events were very different in the two titles.
BTW, Atomic War! came first, in November, 1952, following in December, then going bi-monthly in February and April, 1953.
World War III ran in March and May of 1953, the months Atomic War! wasn't published, giving kids of the era a monthly fix of fissionable future fun!
In mid-1953 most of the Ace Publishing comic line, except for romance and war books (WWII & Korea, not future), and one horror title, were cancelled.
The remainder died when the publisher dropped comics altogether in 1956, concentrating on paperbacks (including the legendary Ace Doubles) until the company was purchased by Grosset & Dunlap in 1972, and is now a highly-successful division of Penguin Publishing Group.
Story by pulp and paperback novel author Robert Turner, who wrote all the tales in both issues of World War III.
Illustrated by Ken Rice.
There were no cross-overs and technology and certain events were very different in the two titles.
BTW, Atomic War! came first, in November, 1952, following in December, then going bi-monthly in February and April, 1953.
World War III ran in March and May of 1953, the months Atomic War! wasn't published, giving kids of the era a monthly fix of fissionable future fun!
In mid-1953 most of the Ace Publishing comic line, except for romance and war books (WWII & Korea, not future), and one horror title, were cancelled.
The remainder died when the publisher dropped comics altogether in 1956, concentrating on paperbacks (including the legendary Ace Doubles) until the company was purchased by Grosset & Dunlap in 1972, and is now a highly-successful division of Penguin Publishing Group.
Story by pulp and paperback novel author Robert Turner, who wrote all the tales in both issues of World War III.
Illustrated by Ken Rice.
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