He's NOT Your Father's Perry Mason...

...but he is your grandfather's!

...as these 1940s graphic adaptations of two of Erle Stanley Gardner's novels show!

Note: these are reformattings of the Perry Mason newspaper comic strip!

The new HBO series draws on several sources including the early novels, the newspaper comic strip, a six-film 1930s b-movie series adapting the books, and a long-running 1940s-50s radio show!

Trivia: the serialized radio show spawned a live daytime TV-show spinoff which Gardner disapproved of, so the character of Mason was replaced by Mike Karr and the show premiered as the soap-opera The Edge of Night (1956-1980)!

You can read both of the never-reprinted 1940s comics after the July 4th Weekend as part of our usual Summer Blogathon, spread out between this blog and "brother" RetroBlog Crime & Punishment!

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Perry Mason

Warner Brothers Movie Collection

As the Usual Summer Inferno Reaches the Continental USA...

...beat the heat by staying indoors in air-conditioned comfort and enjoying...COMIC BOOKS!

Read free comics of fictional epidemics/pandemics destroying America (or Earth) in the past, present, and future...Mon-Fri here on this blog, and weekly / bi-weekly on our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...

...Medical Comics and Stories...

...plus...

...True Love Comics Tales

(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...

...Horror Comics of the 1950s...

...Crime & Punishment...

...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...

...Western Comics Adventures...

...the aptly-named

...Not Safe For Work Comics...

...Seduction of the Innocent...

...Hero Histories...

...Heroines!...

...War: Past, Present and Future!

Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!

Don't Miss Them!

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics NEW YORKER "Self-Isolating"

Chris Ware is a multi award-winning comics writer-artist...

...who, like most comic book/strip professionals, creates, undisturbed by others, in his own studio/office.

Besides his other work, he's been a steady contributor to The New Yorker, including covers and editorial cartoons during the pandemic like the one above from the March 30, 2020 issue!

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Comics of Chris Ware

Drawing is a Way of Thinking

CoronaVirus Comics THE GREAT TRICORDER CONTEST!

We showed you this amazing tale of past and present  Star Trek doctors fighting a disease...

...HERE and HERE, but we didn't answer the question...WHY?

Why do a stand-alone story about the medical personnel of the various (pre-CBS All-Access) series solving a medical mystery?

It turns out, a company called "Qualcomm" (in conjunction with Paramount) was behind it!

Why?

This will explain it...

Even those who didn't have a degree in medicine or electronics could participate...

If you keyboard "tricorderfederation.org" site, you find this!

And, it appears that, in 2017, someone did win the competition!

However, three years later, despite much publicity, there's still no tricorder, even in beta!

Pity.

We sure could use it during this pandemic, eh?

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics CONAN THE BARBARIAN ANNUAL "Bride of the Oculist!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...it's the story of a lovely lady who cheated on her husband (who had developed a lethal pathogen).

One of her many lovers (and the only one who truly loved her) tried to find her...and did so, finding her slain by her husband's disease (which he's also contracted)!

Scripted by Christopher Priest (as "James C Owlsey"), and illustrated by Ernie Chan/Chua (with an assist on layouts by John Buscema), this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Conan the Barbarian Annual #11 (1987) is easily the most "adult" Conan color comic adventure ever!

Note: Marvel didn't introduce their ratings labels (All Ages/Mature/etc) until 2001.

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Essential Conan

Volume 1

(and ONLY!)

Featuring issues 1 to 25