Holiday Reading Room: SNOW QUEEN "About the Mirror and Its Pieces" and "A Little Boy and a Little Girl"

With rumors swirling about a sequel film...

...and an incredible about of merchandise offered this Christmas for the animated film, Frozen, we're re-presenting the classic (and extremely-different fairy tale the flick is based upon!

Tomorrow:

The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Knew Magic

Written by Gaylord Du Bois and illustrated by Lea Bing, this never-reprinted tale from Dell's Fairy Tale Parade #9 (1943) is the only comic book adaptation of the Hand Christian Andersen fairy tale!
(The currently-available graphic novel...

 ...is an adaptation of the movie, not the original story.

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A Christmas Carol

21 designs including the 1st Edition, the Arthur Rackham-illustrated edition, and the 1951 movie!

Santa Claus: the Man Himself

21 designs that will bring back fond childhood memories of the 1950s and '60s!

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

He's the jolly old elf in a red suit

They are big green men from Mars with an even bigger robot!

Before Nightmare before Christmas they were the stars of the weirdest Christmas movie EVER!

Choose the comic book cover or two different poster designs!

Christmas in the Comics

Comics characters from the Golden Age to the Bronze Age celebrate Xmas in their own unique way.

Prices good now through midnight Eastern Time on December 1st, 2014

The Secret of Santa Claus aka St. Nick aka Kris Kringle aka Father Christmas

DID YOU KNOW...the image of Santa Claus, as we Americans know it, is based on the work of two artists over 70 years apart?

1) Thomas Nast, who illustrated the first published version of Clement Clark Moore's The Night Before Christmas in the 1860s

and

2) Haddon Sundblom, who took Nast's visual concepts, refined them, and used them to illustrate Coca-Cola's Christmas advertising campaigns from the 1930s onward!
TRIVIA:
Both Nast and Sundblom are equally famous for their other artistic accomplishments...
Nast was primarily a political cartoonist, whose illustrations of New York's "Boss" Tweed were considered the main reason the corrupt politician was forced from office!
Sundblom also created the image of the Quaker Oats man, and was a noted pin-up girl artist! (In fact, his last published artwork was a pin up girl semi-dressed in a Santa outfit for Playboy's December, 1972 cover!)

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ offer a dozen different renderings of 'ol Kris Kringle which follow in the visual tradition of Nast and Sundblom, on a host of Cool Christmas™ collectibles ranging from tree ornaments to hot cocoa mugs to snugglies, sweatshirts and hoodies for kids and adults!
While they range from paintings to comic book cover art, they all feature the "classic" image of Santa known to Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials!
So give your "special someone", whether they're a spouse, lover, friend, or relative, a warm feeling this Christmas with a kool kollectible featuring the personification of the Christmas Spirit--Santa Claus!

Reading Room STORIES BEHIND THE STARS "Hydra, the Immortal Monster"

Here's a popular mythological creature who's been "retconned" in movies and tv...

...but this never-reprinted one-pager from Harvey's Flash Gordon #4 (1950) gives you the original version of the story!

Illustrated (and possibly written) by Bob Powell.

Reading Room STORIES BEHIND THE STARS "Andromeda"

Ever wonder what the actual legend behind Clash of the Titans was?

This Bob Powell-illustrated, never-reprinted feature from Harvey's Flash Gordon #3 (1950) explains the myth!

You'll note the "monster" is not the movie's Kraken, which was a mythological Norse creature based on sightings of huge octopi.

Ray Harryhausen let his imagination run wild, producing a far more interesting creature than the usual fire-breathing lizard.

The writer of the feature is unknown, but could be Powell.