Will a potential future become our present...
...thanks to the incompetence of Don da Con and RFK Jr?
Showing posts with label plague. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plague. Show all posts
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Monday, September 18, 2023
Monday Medical Madness TWILIGHT ZONE "Plague"
Submitted for your approval...
...a tale so frightening, it couldn't be told on TV...but it did appear in comic books...in The Twilight Zone!
There wasn't a sequel to this never-reprinted story by writer Leo Dorfman and illustrator Joe Orlando (with an assist from Mike Sekowsky) from Gold Key's Twilight Zone #20 (1967)!
Perhaps it's best we never know,,,
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and the sequel
Monday, July 24, 2023
Monday Madness MARVEL TALES "Last Man Alive!"
This lovely cover by Bill Everett is sorta true...
...but it's also sorta deceiving!
Read about Freddie Kruger (yep, that's his name)...
...but it's also sorta deceiving!
Read about Freddie Kruger (yep, that's his name)...
So he wasn't the last man alive...nor was he even on Earth!
Why the disconnect between the cover for Atlas' Marvel Tales #153 (1956) by Bill Everett and the story illustrated by Ed Winiarski?
Two possibilities!
1) the cover was conceived and drawn before the story was written, and the tale, done later on, was modified from the basic premise!
2) Editor Stan Lee (who probably didn't write the story) failed to convey the concept of the already-done story properly to the cover artist, and it was too late in the production process to correct it!
Trivia: It's not unusual for a one-shot character's name to became famous for another reason later on!
This character has no relation to the villain of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise!
Conversely, when Raymond Burr's character in the first Godzilla film, reporter "Steve Martin" was resurrected 29 years later in Godzilla 1985, a certain comedian by the same name had become extremely famous!
Despite that, Burr's character retained the name in the sequel...
BTW, the story's author is unknown and neither the cover nor the tale has ever been reprinted.
This is its' first appearance in 67 years!
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Sunday, June 12, 2022
You Believed CoronaVirus was OVER?
As the Medical Menace makes an unwelcome comeback...
...Medical Comics and Stories...
...why not Shelter-in-Place and read COMIC BOOKS about imaginary (hopefully) epidemic/pandemics devastating America (or Earth) in the past, present, and future...here on this blog, and on our other RetroBlogs, including...
...plus...
...Heroines!...
...Seduction of the Innocent...
...Hero Histories...
...War: Past, Present and Future...
...the aptly-named
...True Love Comics Tales
...Western Comics Adventures!
...Not Safe For Work Comics...
(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...
...Horror Comics of the 1950s...
...Crime & Punishment...
...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...
There will also be new CoronaVirus-oriented posts from time to time, but we're getting back on track with, among other things, our traditional Summer Blogathons!
Be here next Saturday for details!
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Can SURGEON X Save the World From the Pandemic?
Is This Our Tomorrow?
Find Out This Thursday at our fellow RetroBlog Medical Comics and Stories!
In the meantime, go to the website below for some kool background about the "World That's Almost Here"...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
CoronaVirus Comics EERIE "Masque of the Red Death!"
Wow!
It's scary how many adaptations there are of Edgar Allen Poe's classic story...
...including this one from Warren's Eerie Magazine #12 (1967)!
Adapted by writer/editor Archie Goodwin and illustrated by Tom Sutton, this tale is one of the looser versions we've run.
But, at the same time, it's one of the more effective ones at evoking the mood and visceral terror the story requires!
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(reprinting this tale, plus everything else in issues 11-15)
Saturday, June 20, 2020
As the Usual Summer Inferno Reaches the Continental USA...
...beat the heat by staying indoors in air-conditioned comfort and enjoying...COMIC BOOKS!
...plus...
...True Love Comics Tales
...Western Comics Adventures...
...Seduction of the Innocent...
...Hero Histories...
...Heroines!...
...War: Past, Present and Future!
(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...
...Horror Comics of the 1950s...
...Crime & Punishment...
...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...
...the aptly-named
...Not Safe For Work Comics...
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!
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