Design of the Week--Silver Age Captain Marvel Redux

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
(Except, that we're keeping him another week, due to popular demand!)
This week, a Lichtenstein-style pop-art rendering of the 1960s version of Captain Marvel!
No, not the Golden Age hero who said "SHAZAM!" or the several Marvel comics characters who've used the name, but an alien android who yelled "SPLIT!" and then broke into several pieces which flew around operating independently! (I'm not kidding!)
The vintage art also features the Ben-Day dot pattern for the skin tone that Roy Lichtenstein popularized in his "pop art" paintings of the period.
It's retro-style fun on a host of kool kollectibles, but only for a week, so grab them while you can!
Next Friday, it'll be history, just like the 1960s!

Robin Hood-the Man-the Myth-the Merchandise!

Just in time for the new Russell Crowe film...go "Secret Chic" with kool kollectibles featuring imagery from these previous versions of the legendary outlaw including Douglas Fairbanks' 1922 silent movie, the classic 1938 Errol Flynn flick, and several Golden Age comics covers (including Classics Illustrated)!

We're talking dark & light t-shirts, messenger bags, mugs, magnets, and other tchochkies...and all at a price that won't feel like we're stealing from the rich! ;-)

Captain Flash--the Silver-Age Hero No One Remembers!

Right before The Flash was revived in Showcase #4, there were several short-lived attempts to bring back super-heroes, who had all but disappeared by 1949, replaced by horror, western, and romance comics.
One of the better characters debuted in 1954...
Mild-mannered professor Keith Spencer lived in "Atom City" (an obvious surogate for Los Alamos), somewhere in the SouthWest USA.

Spencer was also Captain Flash, who could set off a "miniature atomic explosion" inside his body by clapping his hands, which made him super-strong, super-fast, and near-invulnerable for brief periods.

Like most heroes, he had a teen sidekick, Ricky Davis, who, like Bucky (Captain America's partner) and Tim (Black Terror's aide) didn't have a secret identity and was referred to as "Ricky" in and out of costume.
As Captain Flash, most of Spencer's time was taken up either dealing with Communist spies trying to steal atomic technology or disasters created when the technology went awry, which happened with alarming frequency!

Art was by veteran Mike Sekowsky, who later became one of Silver Age's most prolific pencilers, working on numerous titles including Justice League of America, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Metal Men,

The series only ran four issues before the publisher, Sterling Comics, went bankrupt in 1955.
Ironically, Captain Flash was the company's best-selling title, showing that superheroes were viable again!

Of course, we at Atomic Kommie Comics™have always believed that superheroes are marketable, and Captain Flash is no exception!
That's why we've included him in our new Lost Heroes of the Silver Age of Comics™ line featuring some of the characters who also filled the magazine racks of the 1950s and '60s along with the better-known Marvel and DC heroes and heroines!

Welcome back, Captain Flash! (But for God's sake, don't applaud!) ;-)

Frank Frazetta (February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010)

If one picture is worth a thousand words, here's two thousand words...

Rest in Peace.

You will be remembered...

Messenger / iPad / Kindle / eBook / LapTop Bags REDUCED to $24.99!

Just in time for use as graduation (or birthday) gifts, we've lowered the price of our multi-purpose bags from $29.99 to ONLY $24.99!
Of course, they come with our assortment of retro-kool vintage designs, many exclusive to our online store!

We've even set up two different ways you can go directly to our kool kollection...
1) a special shop page leading you directly to the bags, separated by genre (mystery, horror, western, romance, sci-fi, etc.) Yes, we cover EVERYTHING!
or
2) you can just look thru the entire assortment (over 500 designs) at once!

(Of course, if you just want to take your time and browse thru the whole store...come in. hang out, look around! You're always welcome!)