OTHER Patriotic SuperHeroes (& SuperHeroines)

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!)

In that virtuous vein, we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ want to tell you about a plethora of patriotic pummelers at Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ in our Flag-Draped Heroes line of kool kollectibles!

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!)

So fly the flag (or The Flag himself) this 4th of July with Flag-Draped Heroes ONLY at Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™!

Fantastic Femmes--Ola Ray

Former Playboy PlayMate Ola Ray is best-known for her scream-queen performance in the groundbreaking Michael Jackson video Thriller, but she also did several movies, including genre flix, during her too-brief showbiz career.
Today, she's a stay-at-home mom raising a teen-age daughter.
Ola recently sued Michael Jackson for unpaid royalties from Thriller. (The video's co-writer / director, John Landis, is also suing for the same reason)

Genre appearances include...
Thriller (Michael's Girl)
Beverly Hills Cop II (PlayMate)
Night Stalker aka Man Who Could Not be Killed
(Sable Fox)
Note: this is NOT Kolchak: the Night Stalker
AutoMan "Murder MTV" (Joanne)
Fear City (Honey)
10 to Midnight (Ola)

Check out...
Link to NY Daily News article about Thriller lawsuit

Note: normally, I post a couple of large pix for a Fantastic Femme entry, but most of the Ola Ray shots I have are from her Playboy shoot, and unusable in a G-rated blog!
If you want to see them, you'll have to Google them... ;-)

Will be back tomorrow...

Dealing with an emergency, so no entertaining banter today. ;-(
See you tomorrow...

We're BACK on FaceBook!

A couple of years ago, we set up shop on FaceBook.
Shortly after that, we suffered a major hard-drive crash.
Though we had done weekly backups, the crash occurred after our last backup, and our FaceBook info was lost.
Attempts to retrieve the passwords via FaceBook's help (and, I use the word loosely) pages were futile.
So the page lay unchanged for a couple of years, though people tended to find it when Googling "Atomic Kommie"
Now, at long last, were back up and running on a NEW FaceBook page!
Stop by and BookMark it!
We'll be adding to it often.
(And please be gentle, we're newbs at this!) ;-)

Note: Because of demand, We're leaving our 2nd Design of the Week (The Dillinger is Coming! design) up for another week!

Fantastic Femmes--Angel Coulby

Note: this page has been updated with NEW info 
HERE!