Reading Room DRACULA VS ZORRO "When Titans Clash!"

When Last We Left Our Protaganists...

...on a short voyage from Spain to France, Don Diego de la Vega and Count Vlad Dracula court the same lovely female fellow passenger.

When she abruptly rejects Diego's attentions (which she enjoyed and encouraged earlier), the playboy decides to play "guardian angel"...

To Be Continued...Next Friday!

By the way, here's how the cover for #1 actually appeared on the comic racks!

A matte-black cover with glossy-black embossed artwork and red/white highlights!

It looks really kool to the naked eye, but, as with most "enhanced" covers, it doesn't photograph well (much like vampires?)!

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Friday Fun DRACULA VS ZORRO "Dracula's Story"

Here's a kool cross-genre tale that's been buried almost 20 years...

...featuring the evil Prince of Vampires versus the heroic Fox of California!

To be Continued, NOW, at our "brother" RetroBlog...

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Len Wein (1948-2017)

Most remember Len Wein for co-creating Swamp Thing, Wolverine, and the All-New, All-Different X-Men...

FOOM Magazine #10 Cover Original Art by Dave Cockrum

(...particularly, Storm, Colossus, and NightCrawler.)

But I prefer to remember his earlier, quirky projects like...

Hot Wheels #6 Cover Art by Neal Adams & Dick Giordano

Hot Wheels

(based on the cartoon series based on the toy line)

Wild West Action #1 Cover Art by Syd Shores and Mike Esposito

The Bravados

(An ethnically-diverse assortment of Western heroes)
and his (believe it or not)...

Secret Hearts #148 Contents Page Art by Gray Morrow

...romance comics work!

Len was not a one-trick pony!

He had an interest in almost everything imaginable...and it showed in his work.

BTW, all the links are to material that hasn't been reprinted since publication in the early 1970s!

Check them out!

BONUS: Here's the printed version of the X-Men-themed cover for Marvel's FOOM #10...

...and that's why I wanted to run the original art!

The two-color (as compared to comics' usual four-color) printing really muddied up the art!

Frankenstein Reading Room GHOST RIDER "vs Frankenstein!"

When Titans Clash!

And, it was the cover-featured story for Ghost Rider #10 (December 1952), though not illustrated by Frank Frazetta as were some of the earlier covers!

This particular one was by interior artist Dick Ayers, who illustrated almost all of stories in Ghost Rider.

BTW, as a matter of fact, this book was the Halloween issue!

(Comics were cover-dated 2-3 months ahead of their actual on-sale date, so this issue was on-sale in October, 1952!)

And now, on with the tale...

Aw, shucks, it wasn't really the Monster of Frankenstein!

This was, more often than not, the modus operandi used by baddies (and the hero) in Original Ghost Rider tales.

What seems to be supernatural, is just sleight-of-hand.

However, there were a couple of tales where things were, in fact, what they appeared to be, such as League of the Living Dead!

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Reading Room VENUS COMICS "Strange Rocket!"

Here's another never-reprinted tale...

 ...from the back of Atlas' Venus Comics featuring the art of a major Silver Age Marvel artist!

The parents weren't questioned as to where their son went after he failed to show up for school...ever again?

"Well, officer, Toby went into space with a bunch of extraterriestrials, but they promised they'd bring him back.

It's OK, we gave him permission..."

The writer of this somewhat silly story from Venus #12 (1951) is unknown, but the artist is Gene Colan, best known to Marvel fans as one of the definitive artists on Daredevil, Iron Man, and Dracula.

Put Western Women Under Your Christmas Tree!

The tradition of Old West-themed Christmas presents dates back to the late 1800s, and was immortalized in the modern Xmas film A Christmas Story written (and narrated) by the late, great, Jean Shepherd.
Ralphie's quest for a Red Ryder BB Gun was mirrored by countless little boys (and probably more than a few girls) of the 1930s-1950s!
We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ believe the tradition should be upheld...but with a twist!
As part of our ongoing Christmas List of Pop Culture Stuff, we suggest...Women Outlaws, one of the coolest lines in our Western Comics Adventures™ section!These AIN'T no ladies!Think Barbara Stanwyck or Jane Russell in comic book form!
We're talkin' Horses! Leather! High-heeled boots! ShootOuts! Dominant females who don't take no sh!t! And...CatFights! Wah-HOO!
(And it's all rated PG-13 or PG!)
Besides the usual t-shirts, mugs, and other collectibles, these kool retro images also adorn women's duds! Jersey Tees, Spaghetti tanks! Thongs!
If women who can ride and shoot as well as any man ain't yer cup of prairie coffee, we also have Real-Life Westerners, Broncho Bill, The Cisco Kid & Pancho, Kid Cowboy, Masked Heroes, Native Americans, A Wealth of Westerners, and even Western Love!
Think of how they'll look under the Christmas tree!
(And they're safer than a Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle! You won't shoot your eye out!)

Wind up "Lone Ranger Month" with a Classic LONE RANGER Comic Story!

Here's a tale written by the co-creator of the Lone Ranger...

...originally-published in the newspaper strip, and probably based on a radio show episode!

Click on the link HERE to read it!

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)
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DVR ALERT! The Valley of Gwangi on TCM!!!

We interrupt this blog with vital news!!!

Yes!

GWANGI is coming!

This Saturday, June 16th, at 7:30 am EST!

NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD!

Warm up the DVR or DVD recorder!

PLUS, you can read the 1960s comic book adaptation of the movie HERE!