Sunday, June 25, 2023

The RetroBlogs Summer Blogathons Return with TWO Themes...

First up is
The Summer of...The Shadow!
We're re-presenting not one, not two, but three never-reprinted decades-old series featuring He Who Knows...you know the rest!
The remainder of the never-reprinted non-Mike Kaluta-illustrated issues of the 1970s Shadow comic series (we already ran one HERE) written by Denny O'Neil and Michael Uslan, featuring art by Frank Robbins and ER Cruz in
Crime & Punishment!
 
The remainder of the never-reprinted, campy,1960s Shadow "costumed superhero" series written by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Paul Reinman. (and, yes, we already ran several of them HERE, HERE, and HERE) published by Archie Comics, in
And, because the response to our previous prose novel presentations was so positive, we're going to run the last original novel under the "Maxwell Grant" pseudonym (though it was really genre novelist Dennis Lynds, not Shadow creator Walter Gibson) through three RetroBlogs...
Hero Histories
Crime and Punishment

and here at
Atomic Kommie Comics!
Plus, we're returning to a blog we've inadvertently-neglected this past year with a festival featuring the greatest martial arts performer of all time...
at
Plus:
We've been doing "theme months" at
July will of the month of...
...with re-presentations of never-reprinted tales from both the 1960s Dell comic (above), and the 1980s Marvel/Star comic!
And, the final July post (after the Barbie movie opens on July 21st) will be about a 1960s comic created to tie-in with a competitor's line of fashion dolls!
If we weren't doing these re-presentations, we'd be the first in line to read them!
The Summer Fun begins
July 3rd!

Saturday, June 24, 2023

Space Hero Saturdays SHADOW COMICS "Riddle of the Flying Saucers"

Who Knows What Evil Lurks...on Earth and the Moon?
Yeah, that guy!
As they used to say...
Not a dream!
Not a hoax!
Not an "imaginary story"!
This never-reprinted tale from S&S's Shadow Comics V7N10 (1948) is illustrated by Bob Powell, who may have written it..although it could be The Shadow's primary writer, Walter Gibson, who co-created and scripted the Spurs Jackson and His Space Vigilantes strip in Charlton's Space Cowboy Comics a few years later!
It's definitely not an adaptation of a Shadow radio show episode, which most of the comic stories during this period, in fact, were...as shown HERE and HERE!
BTW, this wasn't the last time He Who Knows What Evil would be involved in a Moon-related story...

...which you can learn more about
TOMORROW
...when we detail our plans for this year's
RetroBlogs Summer Blogathons!
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Friday, June 23, 2023

Friday Fun NUTS! "Popular Pictorial Science Handicrafts"

We brought you a similarly-themed tale about comic books from the same MAD-clone series HERE!

And now, our host/instructor (who originally-had a red mustache and hair) presents popular "slick" magazine genres...
This feature, illustrated by Hy Fleishman, from Premier Magazine's Nuts! #5 (1954) demonstrates the quality this undeservedly-obscure, short-lived (1953-1956) company gave to the titles in its' multi-genre (humor/Western/horror/romance/crime/funny animal) lineup!

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Thursday, June 22, 2023

Reading Room WORLD OF SUSPENSE "While Simon Slept"

If you go by the never-reprinted Carl Burgos-illustrated cover, these are horror stories!
But, you'd be wrong.
Let's present a story shown on the cover as a small vignette on the right, but still given the first spot in the book!
I'm compelled to ask "Why would anyone be carrying around both theirs and their brother's birth certificates?"
Illustrated by Bill Everett, this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' World of Suspense #5 (1956) has some serious plot holes.
But, hey, what can you expect in only four pages?
BTW, the scripter is unknown, but could've been Everett himself.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SILVER SURFER: THE ULTIMATE COSMIC EXPERIENCE Part 4

...trapped on Earth by Galactus, the Silver Surfer encounters Ardina, who was created by the Planet Devourer to lure the Sentinel of the Spaceways back into willing servitude!
But the end is not yet in sight!
There is more, much more of this tale to be told...
NEXT WEEK!
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