The Christmas Gift that Keeps On Giving Year 'Round--a 12-Month Calendar!

One of our favorite types of pop culture collectible here at the Atomic Kommie Comics™ offices are calendars, in particular the multi-page 12-month kind, with a different illustration for each month.

I have over a decade's worth of James Bond 007 movie poster calendars.
Each year the new one adorns the wall over my computer.
When the year is over, I cut it up and use the art the next year as mini-posters to decorate whatever vacation place I rent during the summer.
Besides Bond, over the years, I've picked up, or been given, various Star Trek, Star Wars, DC, Marvel, and other licensed property calendars.
I've always enjoyed using them, and often thought of the person who gave them to me!

But, there are pop culture categories and subjects we've wanted in calendar form as presents for others (or for ourselves), but were never produced!
So, we decided to create them ourselves, using the wildest, rarest, kitchiest comic book, pulp magazine covers & movie posters we could find, each image digitally-restored and remastered from hi-rez scans of the original items, NO reprints or low-rez files! (Would we do that to you?)

Here are the Atomic Kommie Comics™ 12-Month Calendars (by genre)...

Mystery / Crime
Basil Rathbone
IS
Sherlock Holmes!™

Mr District Attorney™


Horror
Horror Comics
of the 1950s™


Camp / Kitsch
Seduction
of the Innocent!!™

Jungle Girls™

Good Girl / Bad Grrrl™


Romance
True Love Comics Tales™

Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Martians, Martians, Martians!™

Thrilling
Science-Fiction
Tales™


Golden Age SuperHeroes
Captains of the Comics™

Heroines!™

Classic Phantom Lady

Lost Heroes of
the Golden Age of Comics™

Lost Heroes of the
Golden Age of Comics
Team-Ups™

1st Appearance
Lost Heroes of the
Golden Age of Comics™

Flag-Waving
Lost Heroes of the
Golden Age of Comics™

Classic Amazing-Man

Classic Black Terror

Classic Blue Beetle

Classic Captain Future

Classic Cat-Man

Classic Dare Devil

Classic Doc Strange

Classic Fighting Yank

Classic Flame

Classic Green Lama

Classic
Monster of Frankenstein

Classic Owl

Classic Samson


Western
Western
Comics Adventures™

Real-Life
Western Comics™

The Cisco Kid
& Pancho™

Masked Western Heroes™


Military
Captain MidNight™

Aviators of the
Golden Age of Comics™

NOT available in stores, only on-line! Order now...before time runs out! ;-)

Make it a WOODSTOCK Christmas Celebration!

BlackLite-Style Poster Store 1
BlackLite-Style Poster Store 2
BlackLite-Style Poster Store 3

Body-Painted Reveler

ORIGINAL Aquarian Exposition Poster Store 1
ORIGINAL Aquarian Exposition Poster Store 2
ORIGINAL Aquarian Exposition Poster Store 3

Make a kool retro Woodstock gift set by combining one of our groovy goodies with the DVD or Blu-ray of Taking Woodstock or Woodstock: the Movie!

Behold...the Blue Beetle!

One of the most popular concepts in crime fiction of the 30s-40s was a policeman who felt too constrained by the letter of the law and decided to take up a masked identity to "serve justice rather than the law"!
Every rank from beat officers (The Guardian) to police commissioners (The Whisperer) donned a mask (and usually a skintight outfit) to fight criminals in their off-duty hours.
One of the longest-lasting was Officer Dan Garret aka The Blue Beetle.

Garret had good reason to be disillusioned about the power of law and order.
His late father was a police officer killed by a criminal who evaded prosecution even after Dan himself joined the force.
Seeing the fiend once again go free due to an unbreakable (though false) alibi, Officer Garret took matters into his own hands.
Donning a mask, fedora and business suit (ala The Green Hornet), Dan adopted the Blue Beetle identity to harass the felon and force him to to commit a crime in front of witnesses, including Garret's reporter girlfriend and her photographer!
It worked, and undeniable retribution was finally delivered to the killer!
In the next issue, after saving scientist Dr Franz, from racketeers, the grateful chemist gave Garret a suit of bulletproof chainmail, as well as a supply of an experimental vitamin, 2-X, to enhance his strength and reflexes!
Combined with a pair of lethal .45 automatics, that chainmail and "power pills" made the "upgraded" Blue Beetle a formidable foe indeed!

The Beetle's adventures began in Fox Comics' Mystery Men Comics #1 (though he didn't make the cover until #7) and ran thru all 31 issues.
He gained his own title The Blue Beetle, which published 60 issues between 1939 and 1950 and also appeared in every issue of Big 3 Comics, an anthology title featuring the most popular characters from Fox's various titles!
Blue Beetle was popular enough to be the only Fox Comics character to warrant both a newspaper strip and a dramatic radio series, both of which were, regrettably, short-lived. (The newspaper comic strip featured art by a young Jack Kirby!)
In the mid 1950s, another publisher did a reprint series which proved so successful that they published a reworked new version of the Beetle that ran into the 1960s, was revived again in the 1980s and runs on-and-off to this day. (In each of these revivals, the Beetle has a new secret identity and powers.)
But Dan Garret, the original Beetle, hadn't been seen since the mid '50s, until Alex Ross revived him in the acclaimed Project SuperPowers in 2007.
Atomic Kommie Comics™ has also revived The Blue Beetle as part of our Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ line with several of his best covers from his own title and Mystery Men Comics on t-shirts, mugs, and other goodies.
Heck, we're so proud of him that we gave him his own 2010 12-Month Calendar with a rarely-seen comic cover for each month!

The Blue Beetle's waiting to scuttle under your Christmas tree or lurk in the stocking of your favorite pop-culture aficionado!

FREE Christmas bonus for our dedicated fans: mp3s of The Blue Beetle radio show!

And BUY Project SuperPowers, the BEST Golden-Age revival comic (er...graphic novel) out there!

Design of the Week--Sherlock's Silhouette!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...perhaps THE most recognizable silhouette in fiction, based on the man who is to Sherlock Holmes as Sean Connery is to James Bond...Basil Rathbone!
No lettering!
No words!
Simple, effective, visual shorthand that tells you...Holmes, Sherlock Holmes!
Even if you're a fan of the new Robert Downey jr version, you've got to admit, it's an effective icon!
Wear it with pride!

Lurking under the Christmas Tree--G-Men, T-Men & Spies!

In our continuing quest for cool Christmas presents for the pop culture aficionado in your life, we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ wish to offer you yet another exciting possibility for gift-giving...
Secret agents have been a part of pop culture for centuries, but spying didn't really become a glamorous profession until World War I.
Since then, the image of the spy has been of a heroic figure fighting off foreign evildoers while holding a girl in one arm and a martini (shaken not stirred) in the other...
In that stylish vein, we offer a line of collectibles that present our government's heroic G-Men, T-Men & Spies on classic comic covers.
Note: "G-Men" is slang for "Government Men" or F.B.I. agents. "T-Men" were Treasury agents.

Protecting us from threats both internal and external, these brave fictional American men (and women) fought enemies ranging from Communists, to the Mafia, to Iranians (perceived as a threat even in 1955!), and looked good doing it!
(The most famous spy in fiction, James Bond, isn't American!
He's a member of MI-6, the British Secret Service!)

Choose from 9 different designs including Cloak & Dagger, Date with Danger, Atomic Spy Cases, Al of the F.B.I. (later Al of the Secret Service), T-Man, and GangBusters!
Make it a Merry Christmas for your loved one...and the entire Free World!