At this time of year, Christmas carols are in continuous rotation on radio stations and in the Atomic Kommie Comics™ office.
One of our favorites is Christmas at Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic!
(You were expecting maybe Adeste Fidelis?)
Enjoy!
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Christmas at Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic
(You were expecting maybe Adeste Fidelis?)
Enjoy!
Monday, December 8, 2025
Monday Mecha Madness ASTRO BOY "Gangor"
Last Week We Presented...
...the never-reprinted 1960s Gold Key comic book adaptation of one of the original Astro Boy episodes!
This week, we're showing you the actual episode...with an evil robot that looks a somewhat different than the actual robot in the episode!
But Wait!
Now that you've seen both the American comic book, and the English-dubbed anime episode, there's one more version of the tale to tell!
You'll see it...
Next Monday!
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Sunday, December 7, 2025
Pearl Harbor Day Special: UNCLE SAM "Ruthless Invaders!"
Six months before Pearl Harbor, this comic book story predicted the event...
...in Quality Comics' National Comics #18, cover-dated December 1941!
Remember that comic books used to be cover-dated 2-4 months before the actual on-sale date, and that the actual production time for a comic is anywhere between 1-3 months!
So this comic was on sale in September or October of 1941, and the story was written by Will Eisner and drawn by Lou Fine sometime between May and August of that same year!
Eerie, eh?
Note: they didn't get some of the details quite right...
Guam is hit at the same time as Pearl Harbor.
This one is weirdly close to reality!
Guam was attacked and conquered the very next day, Dec 8th!
Aircraft bomb Guam and battleships shell Pearl Harbor.
In reality, aircraft bombed Pearl Harbor and battleships shelled Guam just before it was invaded!
A German invasion fleet heads for New England!
Plus, the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Guam were part of a coordinated plan by Japan and Germany!
In reality, Germany had no such trans-Atlantic fleet available.
Hell, they couldn't even invade England, only 35 miles away from Axis-occupied France across the English Channel at it's closest point!
And, the Germans were less than happy to discover they now had to deal with America, along with England and Russia!
Hitler had hoped to keep the US out of the war for at least another year.
However the Nazis did honor their pact with Japan and declared war on the USA less than a week after Pearl Harbor.
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Space Hero Saturdays FLASH GORDON "and the Space Pirates" Part 1
Ya Want Full-On Space Opera?
Now, Here's SPACE OPERA!
...starring the one-and-only Flash Gordon as rendered by EC Comics legend Wally Wood!
The story continues next Saturday...with a different artist!
Illustrated by Wally Wood and his studio.
Wood (and writer Harvey Kurtzman) had previously-done the hysterical MAD comic book parody "Flesh Garden" (which you can read HERE), but this is his only "official" Flash Gordon work...which is a really shame, because is there's anybody who deserved a chance to do at least one continuity featuring the character, it's him!
The writer is unknown.
Though Flash had his own comic at this time, this three-parter appeared in the back of The Phantom's title from the same publisher, King Comics.
The particular tale appeared in the back of King's The Phantom #18 (1966), which was actually the first issue of the series from King Comics.
(They just continued the numbering from the previous publisher, Gold Key!)
Friday, December 5, 2025
Friday Holiday Fun CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL "Twas the Night Before Christmas and All Through the House..."
It's a pretty long title for a one-pager...
...but the pay-off makes it worthwhile!
The writer and artist for this piece from the one-shot anthology Christmas Carnival (published by Ziff-Davis in 1952 and reprinted by St John in 1955) are, sadly, unknown.
But we didn't want this piece, unseen for 70 years, to be forgotten...so here it is for your enjoyment!
In fact, since this 100-page comic hasn't been reprinted in almost 3/4 of a century, we're going to run more material from it for the rest of December, with the finale on the day after Christmas being a story by Dave (MAD magazine) Berg!
In fact, since this 100-page comic hasn't been reprinted in almost 3/4 of a century, we're going to run more material from it for the rest of December, with the finale on the day after Christmas being a story by Dave (MAD magazine) Berg!
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