25% Off Calendars for New Year!

From now until Jan 2, 2013, all calendars are discounted from $19.99 to $14.99!

Here are the  
Atomic Kommie Comics™
2013 12-Month Calendars 
by genre

Mystery / Crime
Sherlock Holmes: the Greatest Sleuth of All!™ 
Basil Rathbone IS Sherlock Holmes!™
Mr District Attorney™

Horror
WereWolves & Vampires™
Horror Comics of the 1950s™
Vampires of Pulps & Comics™
Werewolves of the Comics & Pulps™
Zombies of Comics & Pulps™
(shown above)

Camp / Kitsch
3-D Movies™
3-D Comic Books™
Seduction of the Innocent!!™
Jungle Girls™
Good Girl / Bad Grrrl™

Romance
True Love Comics Tales™


Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Martians, Martians, Martians!™
Art of Barsoom™ 
Thrilling Science-Fiction Tales™ 
Bugs & Creepy Crawlies of Comics & Pulps™
Dinosaurs of the Comics & Pulps™ 

SuperHeroes
Captains of the Comics™
Heroines!™
Classic Phantom Lady™
Lost Heroes of the Silver Age of Comics™
Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™
Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics Team-Ups™
1st Appearance Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™
Flag-Waving Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™
Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics vs HITLER™
Classic Captain Future™
Classic Green Hornet
Classic Monster of Frankenstein 
Classic SuperSnipe™

Western
Western Comics Adventures™
Real-Life Western Comics™
The Cisco Kid and Pancho™


Military
Captain MidNight™
Aviators of the Golden Age of Comics™
WAR: Past, Present & Future™
Classic Korean War Comics™

NOT available in stores, only on-line! Order now...before time runs out! ;-)

RetroBlogs™ Updates...

A never-reprinted tale of the 1970s biker hero Hell-Rider...

...can be found in three parts; HERE, HERE, and HERE at Hero Histories™!

A retro-kool sci-fi love story is HERE...

at True Love Comics Tales™!

A rarely-seen Masked Western Hero returns HERE...

...at Western Comics Adventures™!

A never-reprinted crossover between two heroes can be found at...

Crime & Punishment™

and

Heroines™!

And, Gorgo (as rendered by Steve Ditko) cometh...

at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™!

Did You Miss the "Summer of RetroBlogs™" Marathons?

From July 4th thru Labor Day, each RetroBlog™ did a 1-week daily posting...

Here's the listings..

July 9th-13th

True Love Comics Tales™
presented a full-length Gothic romance, "Kiss of the Serpent" with evocative art by the late Tony DeZuniga.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Conclusion
Bonus: Gothic Romance Text Story!

July 16th-20th

War: Past, Present and Future™
returned to the future...

...with tales of Atomic War and World War III!
Operation: Satellite!
Devils of the Deep!
Ice-Box Invasion!
Jet-Jammers' Jamboree!
Slash by the Iron Greyhounds!

July 23rd-27th

Crime and Punishment™
chilled your blood on those record-hot summer nights...

...with the classic Sherlock Holmes novel (from Classics Illustrated, no less), The Hound of the Baskervilles!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Conclusion

July 30th-August 3rd

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™
went to sunny Italy for two sword and sandal sagas...

...with manly art by John Buscema
Part 1
Part 2
Conclusion
and

...with muscular renderings by Reed Crandall and George Evans!
Part 1
Part 2
Conclusion
August 6th-10th

Heroines™
presented the never-reprinted, full-length, Jet Dream one-shot comic!
Part 1
Conclusion

 PLUS, the startling saga of a tale told three times with the same art, but featuring three different heroines!
 Tell a Tale Three Times: LADY SATAN in "Wild Night at Wild Acres"
Tell a Tale Three Times: Part 2 "Phantom of Marcos' Villa"
Tell a Tale Three Times: Part 3 "Ghost of Castle Karloff"
August 13-17th
Hero Histories™
presented the complete, never-reprinted first issue of...

...the "NOW" biker hero co-created by Gary Friedrich (who also co-created the 1970s Ghost Rider for Marvel!)
Introducing the Hell-Rider
Introducing the Hell-Rider (Continued)
ButterFly Part 1
ButterFly Part 2
Introducing the Wild Bunch
Final Chapter
How...Why...Hell-Rider!
August 20th-24th

Seduction of the Innocent™
freaked you out with pre-Code horror, most of it never-reprinted!
"Dinosaur in Grandfather's Barn"
"Slasher"
"Absent-Minded Professor"
"Meet Me in the Tomb"
 "Gravestone for Gratis"
and finally...
August 27th-31st

Western Comics Adventures™
featured a week of Masked Heroes, including a few we've never presented before!
BLACK BULL "Bullets at Salt Lick" (First Appearance)
PRESTO KID "Floating Renegade" (Final Appearance)
MASKED MARSHAL "Introducing the Masked Marshal" (First [and only] Appearance)
MASKED RANGER "Valley of Dead Men" (First Appearance)
ORIGINAL GHOST RIDER "He Who Laughs" (Final Appearance)
We hope you've enjoyed these tales as much as we enjoyed posting them!
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RetroBlogs™ Marathons: Week 3!

Crime and Punishment™ will chill your blood on those hot summer nights...

...with the classic Sherlock Holmes novel (from Classics Illustrated, no less), The Hound of the Baskervilles, beginning tomorrow...


And have a look back at our previous one-week marathons:

True Love Comics Tales™ presented a full-length Gothic romance...

...with evocative art by the late Tony DeZuniga.
Then...

War: Past, Present and Future™ returned to the future...

...with tales of Atomic War and World War III!

RetroBlog Marathons: True Love Comics Tales and War: Past, Present & Future!

We hope you're enjoying our RetroBlog™ summer marathons...

This Week

True Love Comics Tales™ presented a full-length Gothic romance, "Kiss of the Serpent"...

...with evocative art by the late Tony DeZuniga.
Plus a bonus gothic romance prose tale!

Next Week

War: Past, Present and Future™ returns to the future...

...with five tales of Atomic War and World War III!
Now that's entertainment!

Design of the Week Redux--Love at the Beach

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week, due to great sales, we repeat our popular sumertime design...with the beginning of the season of fun at the beach, here's a kool retro romance comic design on everything from beach blankets to t-shirts, to tote bags!
Summer's gonna be hot, Hot, HOT!

Design of the Week--Love at the Beach

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...with the beginning of the season of fun at the beach, here's a kool retro romance comic design on everything from beach blankets to t-shirts, to tote bags!
Summer's gonna be hot, Hot, HOT!

Reading Room: "Women to Love" Conclusion

A sordid story of love, lust, and larceny...

...that was so multi-genre, we ran it in four different blogs!

Part 1 was at Crime & Punishment™

Part 2 was at True Love Comics Tales™

Part 3 was at Seduction of the Innocent™

So go and read those posts (if you haven't already), then continue here...

Don't ya just love a happy ending?

The comic book version appeared in Avon's Complete Romance #1 (1949)

...the one-shot Avon Realistic Reprint Women to Love (1953)...

...and IW/Super Comics' Realistic Romances #9 (1958)...with a totally-unrelated cover.

Why did Avon Comics do this particular book?

Because their parent company, Avon Books had the rights to the novel!

(The book's cover is at the top of this post.)

Illustrator Myron Fass became something of a legend in the comics industry...but not as an illustrator.

After the near-death of the comics industry in the mid-1950s, he talked William Harris (inventor of the web printing press) into financing a line of magazines including girlie, news tabloid, and one of the first b/w monster magazines, Shock Tales.

In the 1960s, Harris' son Stanley became Myron's partner, and the magazine line continued, adding a short-lived line of comic books, MF Publications, in the mid-1960s which included the second Captain Marvel and more horror magazines under the imprint Eerie Publications.

After Stanley Harris and Fass had a falling-out in the aerly 1970s, Harris founded Harris Publications, which bought out Warren Publications and continued their line of b/w horror titles as both magazines and color comics!

Meanwhile, Fass continued publishing literally anything that could make a buck including one-shot magazines about history, disasters, scandals, the paranormal, celebrities, etc, at one point publishing almost 1/4 of the total number of newsstand magazines available in the USA!

Design of the Week--Tender Love Stories

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...True Love, with all it's emotional angst, as filtered thru the fashions of the Swinging '70s!
Illustrated by legendary Marvel and DC good-girl illustrator Don Heck, this never-reprinted cover from a time-lost publisher is the perfect graphic for Spring Break (or summer) t-shirts (get them a size larger than normal to use as beachwear!), tote bags, iPhone covers, and other kool kollectibles!

3-D Week Begins Tomorrow!

To celebrate the release of Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace in 3-D...

...(although I'm waiting for the Original Trilogy!),
all the RetroBlogs™ are running 3-D tales this week!

Monday: Western Comics Adventures™
Tuesday: Crime & Punishment™
Wednesday: True Love Comics Tales™
Thursday: Seduction of the Innocent™
Friday: War: Past, Present and Future™

PLUS: 
Hero & Heroine Histories™

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™
and
Femmes Fantastique™
will all do 3-D tales during the week.
Don't Miss Them!
 (and don't forget your 3-D glasses...)

Support Small Business!

 Visit our

3-D Movies & Comics 

Collectibles Store
 (where you don't need 3-D glasses!)

Christmas Comics on RetroBlogs!

Over the past week, the RetroBlogs™ have presented a slew of classic Yuletide-themed tales...

Western Comics Adventures™

Crime & Punishment™

True Love Comics Tales™

War: Past, Present and Future™

Hero & Heroine Histories™

To wind-up the series, on Christmas Day, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™ will present a long-unseen, never-reprinted, Xmas story from the first comic book based on a TV series based on a line of toys!

Which one?

You'll have to visit it on Christmas Day to find out!

Look What's Coming....

 Atomic Kommie Comics™ has firmed up our RetroBlogs™ plans for the Christmas season...

...the week before Christmas, each blog will feature a Christmas-themed tale including...

Green Lama on Hero & Heroine Histories™

 and

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™

Note: some of these stories have never been reprinted since their original appearances from 40 to 60 years ago!

Bookmark us and enjoy!

A Dearth of Ditko!

The career of the co-creator of Spider-Man, Dr Strange, Captain Atom and The Question began here...

Click on art to enlarge and read

...with this sinister story, written by Bruce Hamilton, from Fantastic Fears #5 (1953) which was Steve Ditko's first assignment, but his second published work!

This week and next, RetroBlogs™ are featuring the early (pre-Marvel/DC) work of Steve Ditko!

Western Comics Adventures™ offers one of his Black Fury stories (He did several)

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™ presents the first of his many Mysterious Traveler tales.

Tomorrow, True Love Comics Tales™ has his second assignment (but first story published), one of the few romance comic jobs he did!

On Friday, War, Past, Present & Future™ has a rarely-seen Civil War story!

Next Tuesday, Crime & Punishment™ will relate Ditko's contribution to Radio Patrol!

Next Thursday, a startling reworking of the Cinderella story will appear in Seduction of the Innocent™.

And, sometime next week, we'll present a superhero surprise at Hero & Heroine Histories™!

Don't miss a single Ditko!

Check out

 Horror Comics of the 1950s

Comics Collectibles Store!

Design of the Week--Adventures in Romance

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...with the ending of the legendary soap opera All My Children this Friday, romance fans have one less thing to look forward to...
So we're offering some kool romance comic-themed collectibles to cushion the blow!
Shopping & tote bags, t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, mugs and other nifty stuff can be found HERE.

And for those who want an ongoing fix of romance, we have a weekly blog, True Love Comics Tales™, that offers the best of 1940s-1970s romance comics, Safe for Work/School and absolutely FREE!

Golden Age Comic NEGRO ROMANCE on PBS' "History Detectives"

Our "sister" blog, True Love Comics Tales™ is running a classic romance tale from the very HTF 1950s comic Negro Romance, which was recently featured on PBS' series History Detectives!
One of the few pre-1960s comics that didn't feature stereotyped Black characters, and there are links to the History Detectives website and the complete segment from the show.

Check out the

Negro Romance

Comic Collectible Store

featuring the cover art from all four issues
on kool kollectibles!