It's August, But the RetroBlogs' Summer Blogathon AIN'T on Vacation!

The Fantastic Four Were Trapped in Latveria by Doctor Doom...

...but they busted out, and are now heading back to NYC to stop Doom from invading the Baxter Building and gaining access to the Negative Zone!

Chapters:

15 & 16, 17 & 18, 19, 20, 21

Will They Stop Doom in Time?

Check Out Seduction of the Innocent on Monday!

PLUS...

Our re-presentation of the 1994 never-reprinted Modesty Blaise graphic novel was such a hit that we've decided to re-present another never-reprinted female super-spy's adventures, this one from the Swinging '60s!

And she's brought an entire multi-national team with her!

Their first adventure is HERE!

And, like Modesty, will continue daily on both Heroines! and Crime & Punishment!

Don't miss them!

It May Be Hot, But the RetroBlog Summer Blogathons are HOTTER!

You're Reading The Fantastic Four's Premiere Prose Adventure from 1979...

Part 10

Part 11

Part 12

Part 13

Part 14

...with Parts 15 & 16 combined, on Monday, at...

Seduction of the Innocent!

Speaking of "Seducing the Innocent", it's time for our annual Gothic Romance Beach Read, starting Monday at...

True Love Comics Tales!

RetroBlogs are SIZZLING!

The RetroBlogs Keep On Marching Along...

Modesty Blase Has Competed Her Assignment!

The never-reprinted 1994 graphic novel based on Peter O'Donnell's first Modesty Blaise book, which provided about as much a basis for the 1966 movie as Ian Fleming's Casino Royale did for the 1967 flick based on that novel began running last week!!

If you've missed any of the action (written by O'Donnell himself and illustrated by Dan Spiegle and Dick Giordano), here's the links at

Heroines & Crime and Punishment!
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Conclusion

We also finished re-presenting the tale of a superhero who travels from comic books to the real world in a short-lived and long-forgotten (almost 40 years ago) TV series finally gets the attention it deserves at 

Hero Histories & Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!
Part 1, Part 1.5, Part 2, Conclusion

With the movie Fantastic Four: First Flight finally incorporating the characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we're presenting this long-OOP (almost a half-century) premiere prose novel (as compared to graphic novel) featuring both the protagonists and one of the antagonists of the flick by long-time comics scribe Marv Wolfman right here at

Atomic Kommie Comics & Seduction of the Innocent!

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

Continue the Fantastic Saga on Monday, at Seduction of the Innocent!

And There's More to Come Next Week!

The RetroBlog Summer Blogathons are HERE...

Things are hitting fever pitch...

...as Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin rip apart Gabriel's criminal organization from within at Crime and Punishment and Heroines! in a tale that winds up this week!

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four began their prose novel career in a never-reprinted story from 1979 with a battle involving both science and magic against Doctor Doom both on this blog and Seduction of the Innocent!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

And the tale of a superhero who travels from comic books to the real world in a short-lived and long-forgotten (almost 40 years ago) TV series finally gets the attention it deserves at Hero Histories and Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

Part 1

Part 1.5

Will Captain Justice rescue the helpless reporter and hardboiled-gumshoe?

How, without super-powers, will he stop a well-armed crimelord?

And what does Stan (the Man) Lee have to do with any of this?

Tune In This Week!

Same Blog Time! Same Blog Channel!

RetroBlogs...Where You Can Read and Watch Kool Stuff Created Before You (and Sometimes, Your Parents) Were Born!

We Hope You Enjoyed Our 2022 RetroBlog Summer Blogathons...

...with the theme of "crossover", featuring posts of long-out of print (OOP) tales with multi-genre appeal!

First up...

Tying in to the new Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunder...

...was a double-feature of the conclusion of Thor and Jane Foster's long-running soap opera-style Silver Age romance in

True Love Comics Tales

...along with Jane Foster's first time wielding Thor's hammer in

Heroines!

Then...

Then the OOP Street Fighter the Movie (1995) comic adaptation in both

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

and

Pop Art Martial Arts

Plus...

Plus the OOP graphic novel that served as the basis for a recent flick starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in...
Western Comics Adventures
and right here at
Atomic Kommie Comics
And, finally...

The multiversal (and OOP) first Doctor Strange prose novel, Nightmare (1979) by William Rotsler in both

Medical Comics and Stories

and

Seduction of the Innocent

PLUS: A standalone OOP "beach read" Gothic Romance in

True Love Comics Tales

(Hey, it's a long-standing tradition!)
Come Back Next Summer for More RetroBlogs Fun!

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Concluded...

...with a Re-Presentation of the Long-OOP Prose Novel from 1979...

...which spanned two blogs, Seduction of the Innocent and Medical Comics and Stories!

But, because we were posting to both blogs daily, instead of alternating between them with one-a-day posts, we had problems creating the correct hyperlinks to flow the reading experience from chapter to chapter smoothly!

Now, that was (dare we say it?), a
NIGHTMARE!

But, everything has been corrected due to cyber-sorcery and now you can read the entire novel starting HERE!
We've done other prose novels...

Captain America: the Great Gold Steal
and

Batman vs the 3 Villains of Doom

...but they were each posted to a single blog!

When we do more OOP prose novels in the future, that's the format we'll return to!

Hey, we're eccentric...but we're not insane!

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathon Goes MULTIVERSAL...

...with the biggest entry we've ever done!

A loooong (almost 45 years) Out Of Print novel by noted sci-fi fantasy author William Rotsler!

And it's so big it takes two RetroBlogs; Seduction of the Innocent and Medical Comics and Stories, to accommodate the multiverse-spanning saga!

DON’T DARE GO TO SLEEP

Unless you are prepared to confront an evil that is older than time itself—a haunting, inhuman horror!

Unless you are prepared to share the fate of the dark-eyed Evangelist, the power-hungry Prize-fighter, the cold-blooded Assassin, and the stunning love-starved Starlet!

Unless you are prepared to enter the terrifying realm of NIGHTMARE, dark overlord of the dream dimension, and master of other men’s minds!

Unless you are prepared to trust your future, and the future of your world to...

Doctor Strange

Master of the Mystic Arts

in

NIGHTMARE

A soul-chilling tale of terror . . . terror that could be YOURS!

Begin HERE...and don't falter!

The fate of the Multiverse may depend on YOU!

IS THIS TOMORROW? Russkies/Communists and Propaganda

Even children 80 years ago knew how Russkies use propaganda...

...as this 1940s tale on our "brother" RetroBlog, Seduction of the Innocent! demonstrates!

Remember that Vladimir Putin, was both a KGB officer and high-ranking Communist Party member!

(If you believe Vlad's "ex" KGB and Communist Party, his actions in this [and other] matters would say otherwise...)

Part 1

Part 2

Conclusion

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Asians and Asian-Americans in Comics...the Saga Continues

Even more from our ongoing examination of how American comics portray Asians and Asian-Americans...

Start with the only Golden Age Desi jungle girl in (where else?)

Heroines

The Lone Ranger rides to the rescue of oppressed Chinese settlers in the old West, first in a never-reprinted comic tale in...

Western Comics Adventures...

...then listen to the dramatic radio show the comic was adapted from at...

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

and finally, witness the villainy of the character who personified the racist concept of "Yellow Peril" for over a century in...

Seduction of the Innocent!

There's lots more coming!
Don't miss it!

Asians and Asian-Americans in Comics...Continued

More from our ongoing examination of how American comics portray Asians and Asian-Americans...

Meet the only costumed Golden Age Asian super-heroine in (where else?)

Heroines!

The Blackhawks' Chinese teammate "Chop-Chop" gets not just one, but two different stories of how he joined the already-established aviator team!

His Silver Age origin at

Hero Histories...

...plus his politically-incorrect (and somewhat racist) Golden Age Origin at

Not Safe for Work Comics!

Meet the immortal "World's Greatest Lover" who seduces (among others) Pacific Islanders in...

True Love Comics Tales!

Discover secrets about the 1970s Charlie Chan cartoon (and other media versions) that you never dreamed of in...

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

and finally, meet the villain who's personified the racist concept of "Yellow Peril" for over a century in...

Seduction of the Innocent!

There's lots more coming!
Don't miss it!

Reading Room / Halloween Horror SUSPENSE "Raving Maniac"

People blaming pop culture (like movies and video games) for violence and evil in society is nothing new...

...as seen in this over 65-year old short story from Atlas' Suspense #29 (1953)!

Writer/editor Stan Lee is the model for the story's editor.

Though artist Joe Maneely doesn't use Dr Fredric Wertham's likeness for the screaming loon, the character is clearly based on the impression the "good doctor" made on comics industry workers whose livelihood he almost destroyed.

This was the final issue of the pre-Comics Code horror title which, initially, adapted stories from the famous dramatic radio show.

When the similarly-named Tales of Suspense debuted a couple of years later, it was a Code-approved science-fiction/fantasy title until the arrival of superheroes Iron Man and Captain America.

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Ten-Cent Plague

The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America

Not Just Zombies....but ASTRO-ZOMBIES for Halloween!

 

Ah, Halloween...
One of our favorite times of the year here at Atomic Kommie Comics™!
What better time to promote our ghoulish goodies, including black hoodies and t-shirts (the perfect thing to wear during Zoom calls), tote/trick-or-treat bags, and mugs at Seduction of the Innocent™?
SEE: the moody moonlit graveyard of the full-color Italian poster for the original Night of the Living Dead!
SEE: the kitchy graphics of the rarely-seen Astro Zombies poster (believe it or not, the film was PG)!
SEE: the koolest ghoul of all...Vincent Price, on the classic poster for the original House on Haunted Hill?
And let's not forget
The Green Slime!
Last Man on Earth!
The ORIGINAL Demon Barber of Fleet Street!
I Married a Monster from Outer Space!
The ORIGINAL Little Shop of Horrors!
Occhio de Uccide!
AND (You knew we had to have this one) Plan 9 from Outer Space!
Make a kool-ghoul gift for your horrible hubby, wicked wife, boyfiend, or ghoulfriend with one of our collectibles! 
Buy them! Trade them! Collect 'em all!

A Halloween Treat (No Trick!)...Horror Comics of the 1950s!

Since brick-and-mortar stores are already selling Halloween stuff, we now offer the following...

Before videogames came along, comics, tv, and movies were said to be the contributing factors to...(gasp)...JUVENILE DELINQUENCY!
Noted psychiatrist Dr Fredric Wertham SAID SO in his classic book Seduction of the Innocent!
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 tote bags, t-shirts, mini-buttons,and other ghoulish goodies?

Are you ready to be scared?

Click HERE...if you dare!

Britain's Fredric Wertham and the Gorbals Vampire!

Most readers of this blog are familiar with Dr. Fredric Wertham and his notorious book Seduction of the Innocent, which basically attributed 1950s juvenile delinquency to the reading of comic books, specifically horror comics!
But, did you know that Great Britain had a similar cultural phenomenon, known as The Gorbals Vampire, and they also blaming American horror comics?

Bleeding Cool, a site of such importance to all comics fanboys and fangirls (yes, that includes us) that it should be one of your PRIMARY bookmarks, has posted info on a BBC documentary about this infamous (and little-known) period of British history!

Link, read, listen, and learn.
For those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it!

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Our Contributions to the CountDown to Halloween Blogathon...

...run Monday through Friday on FIVE different blogs!

This Week...

MONDAY

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video runs comic adaptations of AIP's 1960s "Edgar Allan Poe" films...currently presenting the Vincent Price/Boris Karloff/Peter Lorre/Jack Nicholson comedy The Raven!

TUESDAY

Seduction of the Innocent presents the premiere psychedelic adventure of Victorian monster fighter Sir Leo!

WEDNESDAY

True Love Comics Tales begins the Halloween Season with a Silver Age inter-comics company romance!

THURSDAY

Hero Histories premieres the introduction of the time-lost WereWolf Hunter!

FRIDAY

Horror Comics of the 1950s showcases the never-reprinted introduction of...Dr Neff!

(Believe me, it's better than it sounds!)

Add in our own thrice-weekly contributions...

MONDAY MADNESS

The never-seen in the US Dracula one-page comedy shorts from DRACULA!

WEDNESDAY WORLDS OF WONDER

The never-reprinted apocalyptic adventures in the original, 1980s Walking Dead b/w comic!
FRIDAY FUN

Stan Lee's humorous look at classic horror/sci-fi movies and tv shows from the never-reprinted Monsters to Laugh With & Monsters Unlimited!
That's eight days of posts in only seven days!
How do we do it???