"...will trade rare baseball card for gas..."

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ are pop culture fans.
But we're also sports fans.
And, as any well-read sorts do, we keep up with current events.
So when the opportunity presented itself to combine all three aspects in our work...well we just jumped at the chance!
Last weekend, one of the few surviving Honus Wagner T-206 baseball cards was auctioned for over $1,000,000! A newsperson, after reading the story, commented "well. I guess the old owner will be able to fill HIS gas tank now!"
Cue cartoon lightbulb and *PING* sound effect!
Thus was born our newest pop culture collectible... "Afford to fill this mother F@#%ing Gas Tank!" Bumper Stickers, combining sports (baseball), current events (outrageous cost of fuel), and pop culture (trading card collecting) all at one shot on the place where your opinion will be seen by all: the bumper of your car!
Buy one!
Buy ten (You'll save a dollar on each if you do!)!

Miss Cairo Jones, comics' FIRST female detective!

Created by Bob (Supergirl) Oksner, Miss Cairo Jones was supposed to be a male detective, but because fiction in general, and comics in particular, were already flooded with them, Cairo became a female detective!
Along with new writer Jerry Albert, Oksner illustrated the strip's entire run from 1945 to 1947.
Miss Jones made only one appearance outside of her newspaper comic strip, in a one-shot comic book reprinting the first strip storyline. It is from that issue that we've digitized and remastered the cover art that Atomic Kommie Comics™ now re-presents as part of our Heroines™ line of kool kollectibles which also includes Jane Arden: Crime Reporter, Cave Girl, Jet Dream & Her StuntGirl Counter-Spies, Friday Foster, Miss Fury, Miss Masque (Masquerade), Molly O'Day: Super-Sleuth, Annie Oakley, Phantom Lady, Tiger Girl, and UnderCover Girl!

The Lost Heroes RETURN...

We've been busy, busy, busy, here at Atomic Kommie Comics™!
First up: not one, not two, but SIX new 12-month calendars for 2009 based on the wildly-successful Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ line, featuring digitally-remastered art scanned directly from the original 1940s comics!
For all aficionados of the Golden Age of Comics, we proudly present...
1st Appearance Lost Heroes The FIRST cover appearances of a dozen of the greatest heroes of the 1940s including Black Terror, Fighting Yank, Green Lama, Amazing-Man, The Target, The Arrow, Samson, Miss Masque (aka Masquerade), DareDevil (aka Death-Defying Devil), HydroMan (aka Hydro), Dynamic Man & Dynamic Boy, and PyroMan
MORE Lost Heroes Behold the roll-call of greatness...StrongMan, DareDevil (Death Defying Devil) & The Claw, HydroMan (Hydro) & Rainbow Boy, Sorceress of Zoom, Captain Battle & Capt. Battle, Jr., The Arrow, Amazing-Man, The Target & the Targeteers, Magno & Davey, Sub-Zero Man, Radior, and Cat-Man (Cat) & Kitten in our second hero anthology calendar!
Flag-Waving Lost Heroes A dozen Golden Age star-spangled costumed patriots including: V-Man, American Eagle, The Eagle & Buddy, American Crusader, Captain V, Man of War, The Flag, Super-American, U.S. Jones, Major Victory, The Conqueror, and Yankee Doodle Jones!
PLUS calendars featuring the following SOLO heroes...
The Black Terror
The Fighting Yank
The Green Lama
And, for those, who missed it the first time around (both of you)...the ORIGINAL Lost Heroes calendar, repurposed for 2009!
Note: After July 30th, calendars on the linked website should read 2009, not 2008! However, PoD supplier CafePress isn't always as prompt on implementing and updating promised template changes as they should be. If it does read 2008, don't despair! Just bookmark the page and come back in a day or so to try again! (and my apologies in advance if that's what happens!)
And, as we always say; BUY PROJECT SUPERPOWERS!
If it wasn't for Alex Ross reintroducing these cool characters in all-new adventures, they'd just be fading four-color memories for old fanboys like us here at Atomic Kommie Comics™ !

Notes on audio goodies...

Two items I've recently acquired that have proven invaluable...
1) I have a huge collection of old radio shows and "kids" records on vinyl, including stuff not available on-line or on cd (like the Raiders of the Lost Ark: the Movie on Record, a 1981 release with dialogue, music and sfx from the film and NO narration!). With the ION USB TurnTable, I rip those old albums to cd with ease using Audacity (for my personal use, only, of course)! (Believe it or not, I don't have an IPod, and don't want one. I much prefer my cassette and cd walkmans!) Got it at Costco for under $100!
2) And in terms of listening to those walkmans (walkmen?), I found I had to wear a bulky pair of over-the-ears studio headphones to get decent bass for, among other things, soundtracks by Korngold, Williams, or Goldsmith (Robin Hood, ESB, and STtMP, respectively). Not the most comfortable things to wear in the dead of summer while commuting...
I looked around for smaller headsets, and ended up getting a pair of V-Moda Bass earbuds.
BEST bass I've ever heard in buds (I no longer have to use the bass-boost setting on the walkman), plus they effectively block outside sound (very important in the subway!).

Alex Ross+Barack Obama=SuperShirt!

Take super-star artist Alex Ross.
Add super-politican Barack Obama.
What do you get?
Officially, it's called Obama: Time for a Change.
In reality, it's the coolest Presidential campaign shirt in history!
Buy It! NOW!
Wear it proudly!
'Nuff said.