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Sunday, April 26, 2020
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Disinfect Your Mind with an Injection of CORONAVIRUS COMICS...
...as we present tales of fictional epidemics/pandemics daily here on this blog...
...and our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...
...plus...
(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...
...Hero Histories...
...Heroines!...
...Crime & Punishment...
...and the aptly-named
Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!
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Friday, April 24, 2020
Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics How Medicine has Changed Under Trump
Sometimes the jokes write themselves, thanks to Don da Con...
Rick McKee ©2020 Cagle Cartoons
vs
Norman Rockwell
Medicine in Eisenhower's America (1958)
This is Progress?
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Thursday, April 23, 2020
CoronaVirus Comics REAL HEROES "Plague Vanquished"
Not all comics heroes wear capes...
..as this tale of Edward Jenner, the doctor who saved us from smallpox, proves!
Who says comics ain't educational?
Not me, kiddo!
This never-reprinted story from Parent Magazines' Real Heroes #15 (1946) was one of several graphic dramatizations of Jenner's achievement which has saved countless lives since its' introduction!
Depending on how long the Covid-19 lockdown continues, we may have time to run all of them!
Sadly, both writer and illustrator(s) are unknown!
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics SPACE ADVENTURES "U.F.O.: Healers from Nowhere"
Here's a two-issue tale of disease and death from...elsewhere...that features a round-robin of artists...
...including one of the greatest of all time and a couple who are almost on his level!
This rather low-key story from Charlton's Space Adventures #60 (1967) was the first chapter of a three-part book-length tale that gets wilder as it goes on.
Not that unusual for comics of the Silver Age...except for three things:
1) It was a full-length story in an anthology title.
Anthology books usually had two or more stand-alone stories.
2) The story produced a three-part sequel, which was published a year later!
3) Most importantly, each chapter of this tale was illustrated by a different artist!
This premiere was rendered by "Melonius Thonk" (a play on then-popular jazz musician Thelonius Monk) a pen-name used to cover an apparent artist jam since every page has different stylistic elements.
As you'll see, the remaining two chapters were rendered by extremely distinctive artists who penciled and inked their own work!
BTW, the entire story from the final issue of this book's first run was written by future Batman and Green Lantern/Green Arrow scribe Denny O'Neil using his "Sergius O'Shaughnessy" pseudonom.
Note that the printing on this story is pretty bad.
Unlike other comics publishers who used outside printers, Charlton was famous for pinching pennies by printing their own books using presses that were designed to handle cardboard boxes and other pretty hard materials, not fragile newsprint!
Because the paper was heavier and slicker for covers, the printing on them was cleaner than the insides, but hardly perfect.
But the printing inside Charlton's books could be pretty spotty, as in this case...
Note that the printing on this story is pretty bad.
Unlike other comics publishers who used outside printers, Charlton was famous for pinching pennies by printing their own books using presses that were designed to handle cardboard boxes and other pretty hard materials, not fragile newsprint!
Because the paper was heavier and slicker for covers, the printing on them was cleaner than the insides, but hardly perfect.
But the printing inside Charlton's books could be pretty spotty, as in this case...
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(which shares a number of plot elements with this story)
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