Reading Room: SOLAR LEGION "Enter Adam Starr"

Where there's a frontier, mankind tends to create a police force to keep "law and order"...

...though at this point, it's a tale of a solo vigilante, unemcumbered by governmental restrictions!

Proving the old trope that space opera is just "horse opera" (Old West stories) with ray guns instead of six-shooters, this all-Jack Kirby (writing and art) production from Tem Publishing's Crash Comics Adventures #1 (1940) shows both Kirby's limitless potential and his relative inexperience.

He was only 23 when he did this tale, so "borrowing" the basic plot from the most popular genre in media at the time was quite excusable.

The demonstration of Kirby's imagination, which was just beginning to kick into high gear, is the epic scope of the tale, spanning the solar system with a tale that, today, would be an entire issue, but he fits into just five pages!

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Simon & Kirby Library

Science Fiction

Happy Halloween from Atomic Kommie Comics™

See You Tomorrow!

I'm off to PARTY HEARTY!

Design of the Week DANTE

If you're going to see the new Tom Hanks film Inferno...

...why not be subtly-kool with a Dante t-shirt, sweatshirt, or bag?

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This time around,  it's a classic early 1900s image of Dante Alighieri, whose "Inferno", from the epic poem The Divine Comedy, is the "MacGuffin" of the Dan Brown novel and new movie Inferno!

Showing both Heaven and Hell, it's a superb example of lithographic design that would look great on your body or desk!

Frankenstein Reading Room ADVENTURES OF JERRY LEWIS "Scared Silly" Part 3

We Have Already Seen...

...Jerry Lewis had rented a supposedly-haunted house for $12 a month.

It was "haunted"...by former horror movie stars Boris Killoff (Krankenstein), Bela Le Ghouli (Drinkula), and Peter Leery (Dog Boy), who were preparing for a return to the silver screen!
The trio had invited a noted film director to visit, hoping to impress him with their ability to still scare moviegoers!
But there's been a complication, as Bela Le Ghouli explains...

Don't ya just love a happy ending?

As a bonus, here's a feature from this issue about artist Bob Oksner, whom I've felt has been under appreciated by today's fans...

This winds up the Frankenstein Reading Room for this year.
It'll return next year when the wind blows cold and the moon shines bright.

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Artists and Models

Movie about a comic book artist, a fan, and a model in a threesome

starring Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin with Shirley MacLaine as "BatLady"!

Frankenstein Reading Room ADVENTURES OF JERRY LEWIS "Scared Silly" Part 2

When Last We Left France's Favorite Comedian...

...he had rented a supposedly-haunted house for $12 a month.

It was "haunted"...by former horror movie stars Boris Killoff (Krankenstein), Bela Le Ghouli (Drinkula), and Peter Leery (Dog Boy), who were preparing for a return to the silver screen!

Who will trap whom?

See the inane answer...tomorrow!

With the Comics Code limiting use of the classic monsters to humorous or decidedly non-threatening versions, DC decided to limit them to funny/satirical tales.

Jerry would go on to meet versions of the Mummy, Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon and other film and print fiction monsters.

However, fellow DC Comic comedian Bob Hope would end up with ongoing appearances by dopplegangers of Frankie (Coach Franklin Stein), Drac (Dr. Van Pyre), and Wolfy (Professor Von Wolfman) as the faculty of Benedict Arnold High School, which Hope's nephew attends!

That these new characters look exactly like the trio of monsters in this story is attributable to the fact they share the same artist, Bob Oksner!

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein