Rottener than the Red Skull!
More lethal than Lex Luthor!
More menacing than Moriarity!
Deadlier than Doctor Doom!
He's the Ultimate Villain!
And, he was REAL! Adolf Hitler tricked or forced millions into obeying his maniac desires, and plunged the Earth into the deadliest global conflict ever!
Here are a dozen of the best of those classic images from the war years, digitally-remastered and restored directly from the actual comic books, on our newest 12-month calendar for 2011...Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics versus Hitler!
Perfect birthday or holiday present for the WWII and/or comic book fan in your life, especially combined with one of the books below or another of our Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ collectibles to make a gift set!
And then go "...heil (razzberry), heil (razzberry), right in Der Fuehrer's Face!"
THE "Must-Have" Comic Book Fan Gift Book of 2010! Titan Books'The Simon & Kirby Superheroes is a compilation of almost all the duo's superhero work for companies other than Marvel and DC (most of which is available in affordable hardcover or trade paperback).
The Fly Fighting American & SpeedBoy
(featured on the cover)
Curiously, the first superhero character the pair did,
The Blue Bolt, is not included!
Nor is their Western superhero, Bulls Eye!
But a couple of the Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™are included!
So why not combine one of our cool collectibles with this terrific tome to make a Golden Age Comics fan's birthday or Christmas present dream come true?
We're re-presenting a whole line of long out-of-print theatre, movie and tv posters as affordable prints perfect for students' dorm or bed rooms, house stagers who need a way to personalize a home they're selling in a kitchy (but not tacky) way or pop-culture aficionados who don't want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for a display piece!
Our Theatre Posters gallery has retro-kool 3-D movie posters, superhero (live action AND animated) film art, and HTF sci-fi-on-Broadway prints.
Talk about "something for everyone"!
Tomorrow: the Golden Age comic book cover gallery!
Where did Out of Print go?
A very kool, self-aware, strip about the plethora of Public Domain characters currently enjoying a resurgence of interest, with lots of inside jokes by people who knew their subject matter.
It was up a couple of weeks ago. Now, suddenly...gone!
Anybody know what's up?
Through my formative (read "teen") years, summertime was when I would head for 42nd Street in Manhattan for double and triple-feature afternoons at a tacky grindhouse theatre! (yeah, I was [and still am] a nerd)
One of my favorites, which kept rotating into the second and third-run theatres for years, was Infra-Man!
Here's the American trailer for it's 1976 release...
Since such live-action rubber-suit superheroics had been limited to tv (Particularly UltraMan and SpectreMan) up to this point, it was a real treat to see it up on the big (or at least larger than my tv) screen!
It was the height of the '70s kung-fu flick craze, so the hero was not only armed with weapons and powers, but could kick monster as with fists (and feet) of fury!
Plus, the villain of the pic...was a villainess (an extremely cute one) called "Dragon Mom", which I suspect was a mistranslation of the character's original name "Elzebub"!
As for the plot, I'll leave it to the kool guys at BadMovies.Org to describe it... Make sure that you are sitting down for this. ...after sleeping through the last ice age Princess Dragon Mom wakes up. She is dismayed to find what was once her kingdom is now absolutely infested with humans and sets out to make them her slaves. Lucky for us that Professor Chan just finished developing the Infra-Man and Rayma immediately volunteers to become a super hero worthy of most French fashion shows. Battling through dozens of monsters with kung fu, laser beams, and explosive kicks is what being Infra-Man is all about. Some of the fight scenes are absolutely priceless and the really fun thing is this: when not destroying stuff the evil mutants all stand around in a room dancing (badly)...
(Read the entire review for much more snarky fun)
The 42nd Street of my youth is long gone, Disneyfied into a California-style tourist trap.
But, to relive the memories my wayward teens as well as of this classic of weird cinema (and to add to my burgeoning tacky t-shirt collection), I produced a dark t-shirt for myself with the American release poster emblazoned on it.
My film-going buds wanted to know where I got the shirt, and this led to my setting up the firstAtomic Kommie Comics™ t-shirt store, where Infra-Man can now be found in the Pop-Art Martial Arts™ section on shirts, mugs, magnets, iPad / messenger bags, etc.!
Recently, I branched out to create another on-line store using a vendor who could do bigger images on products. This led to the Summer SuperHeroes & Spies shop featuring (you guessed!) Infra-Man!
If you're into GREAT bad movies with good graphics...grab an Infra-Man goodie from either store (While I grab Dragon Mom)!
Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week, it's the logo for one of the koolest comic series of the Swingin' 60s...The Higher United Nations Defense Enforcement Reserves Agents aka the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents!
In the era when Sean Connery played James Bond 007, Adam West played Batman, and A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S. with initials were all the R.A.G.E., they combined spies and superheroes into one unique package!
We're expanding the Lost Heroes concept to include post-Golden Age material from long-forgotten companies of the late 1950s to late 1960s (and there are a LOT of them!)
Due to overwhelming response over the Christmas season, we've decided to reduce the price of our blank sketchbooks in every genre from $14.99 to ONLY $9.99!
They're great gifts for artists, writers, or pop culture collectors!
And now, they're an even better value!
So, ALL the sketchbooks / journals / logs are now reduced by 1/3!
To browse, you can either click HERE, which will take you directly to our Complete Pop-Culture Clock Collection, or come to Atomic Kommie Comics™ , and browse by genre! But act FAST! Time waits for no one! (Actually, the quote is "Time waits for no MAN.", but I didn't want to appear sexist!)
Looking for a cool, campy (but cheap) way to spruce up your autumn wardrobe? Get back to basics with our Value T-Shirt! Enjoy a great look and fit at a reasonable price...ONLY $14.99 each! Made of cool, midweight white 100% cotton perfect for casual wear with a letterman jacket, sport jacket, blazer, zip hoodie, or sweater! PLUS: the shirts feature digitally-remastered full-color classic comic book and movie poster artwork (shot directly from the original comics and posters) UNAVAILABLE IN OTHER STORES!
Looking for a cool, campy (but cheap) way to spruce up your back-to-school wardrobe? Get back to basics with our Value T-Shirt! Enjoy a great look and fit at a reasonable price...ONLY $14.99 each! Made of cool, midweight white 100% cotton perfect for casual wear with a sport jacket, blazer, zip hoodie, or sweater! PLUS: they feature digitally-remastered full-color classic comic book and movie poster artwork UNAVAILABLE IN OTHER STORES!
Among our most popular items are 12-month calendars. (Y'know, the ones with different illustrations for each month.) Last year we almost doubled the selection of subjects, and you pop culture aficionados responded by gobbling them up like there was no tomorrow (pun intended)! Plus, there were several subjects that you requested we create calendars for! No fools we! If the demand is there, supply it we will!
That's what Peggy Orenstein asks in a recent Sunday NY Times article. While searching for a fantasy role model for her 6-year old daughter, she bemoans the fact that today's super women are "more mammary than muscle", and that (except for Wonder Woman), most are just female variations of more-popular heroes (SuperGirl, BatGirl & BatWoman, Spider-Girl, She-Hulk, etc.)
Luckily for Ms. Ornstein, we have an alternative for her...cool clothing & collectibles featuring empowered heroines who aren't femme versions of established heroes, and aren't built like inflatable adult toys...
With all the tzimmis over the Return of Steve Rogers as Captain America (and who didn't know that was coming?), you might want to have a look at the other star-spangled heroes introduced during the Golden Age of comic books!
You did know Captain America was not the first superhero to wrap himself in the "colors that never run", didn't you? The very first flag-wearing hero was Archie (then MLJ) Comics' The Shield who predated Cap by over a year! Then, between 1940 and 1945, dozens of stars & stripes-wearing heroes (and heroines) flew, leaped, punched, kicked, and flipped thru the four-color newsprint world of comic books! (Technically, Superman wore red, YELLOW, and blue, so he wasn't visually a flag-waving hero. But Wonder Woman's Amazon garb was meant to show alliance with America's values and beliefs!)
We're talking about American Crusader American Eagle (now Burning Eagle) Captain Battle & Captain Battle Jr Captain Courageous Captain V (illustrated above) The Conqueror The Eagle & Buddy The Flag Major Victory Man of War Miss Victory Stars & Stripes Super-American Unknown Soldier (now Soldier Unknown) U.S. Jones V-Man Yank & Doodle Yankee Doodle Jones & Johnny Reb on t-shirts, mugs, messenger bags, and other goodies!
(We'll be doing individual Hero(ine) Histories of each of them over the summer. Watch for them!) Most, if not all of them have recently been revived in the new series Project SuperPowers and it's spin-off titles. (Pick them up at your local comic book store TODAY!)
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