Monday, April 22, 2024

Monday Madness SLOW DEATH "Antarctica!"

The first Earth Day was in 1970...as was the first issue of this environmentally-themed comic!

In 2020, this 50th Anniversary final issue came out featuring a mix of new and classic tales!
This is the cover-featured new story about...
Writer/artist William Stout has worked on movie/tv storyboards and production design, illustrated comic books, album covers, and movie posters.
In 1989, Stout traveled to Antarctica and Patagonia.
His experiences there eventually resulted in a one-man show Dinosaurs, Penguins and Whales — The Wildlife of Antarctica.
In 1991 Stout received a grant from the National Science Foundation to participate in their Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.
For three months during the 1992-1993 austral summer, Stout was based at McMurdo Station and Palmer Station.
He made several dives beneath the ice, climbed the active volcano Mount Erebus, camped in the dry valleys, and produced over one hundred painted studies as he carefully observed Antarctica's wildlife.
Talk about "practice what you preach"!
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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Tomorrow is Earth Day...

...so, we're doing a double-post!

The comic book adaptation of the first episode of the 1990s animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers at
Plus:
The cover-featured tale from the 50th Anniversary revival of the legendary ecology-themed comic anthology...
Slow Death
Right Here at
Atomic Kommie Comics!
We're always entertaining, right to the end...which may be a lot sooner than you think!

Saturday, April 20, 2024

Space...Hero? Saturdays WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Jumpin' Jupiter 'In Space No One Can Hear You Laugh' "

..his third appearance from Weird Tales of the Future #4 (1953) is gonna make you plotz!

Whether it's his ongoing SpaceHawk and Space Patrol strips or any of the numerous one-shot tales he did, Wolverton's Golden Age output was always instantly-recognizable!
The humor strip ran in #2 thru #5 of Key Publications' Weird Tales of the Future, along with several serious sci-fi/horror one-shot stories also written and illustrated by the amazing Basil!
And, yes, we'll get to the second tale, along with the fourth (and final) one...in the future! (Where else?)
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Friday, April 19, 2024

Friday Fun RIOT the Complete "Why Izzit?"

Appearing in Atlas' Riot #5 and #6 (1956)...
...these never-reprinted features by writer Stan Lee, penciler Dan DeCarlo, and inker Rudy Lapick...
...were designed as fillers for use at any point the book's page count came up short!
Were more created...but never used?
Or are these four pages all that exist?
I suspect we'll never know the answer...

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Reading Room SCREAM DOOR "Hey Buddy, Can You Lend Me a..."

This tale, written and illustrated in 1970-71, embodies two problems...
...the "collector mind-set", and extrapolating future technology based on what currently-exists!
Most of this blog's readers, as well as myself, share (to an extent) Gerson's attitude about collectibles, though perhaps not a willingness to die before giving them up!
Overall, this tale, written and illustrated by Michael (The Shadow) Kaluta, holds up well in a Twilight Zone-esque fashion.
However, the idea that a derelict land-line phone would, after a couple of centuries, still be hooked up to a functioning network defies belief in 2024, since few of our still-standing public phones are still operational!
Add to that the fact nobody in the tale carries some sort of personal communication device, as was common in sci-fi/fantasy tales written since the 1930s and set in the near-future, and what was delightfully-ironic in the 1970s seems quaint and improbable from a 21st Century viewpoint!
Notes: Scream Door, the prozine this tale appeared in, consisted mostly of material meant for the legendary magazine Web of Horror.
When Web was cancelled as of #3, almost all of the already-completed stories for later issues ended up in either this one-shot or the three-issue series I'll Be Damned, by the same publisher.
"Buddy..." also appeared in Marvel's b/w magazine Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1 (1975).
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