Our NEW Theatrical Posters Gallery

We're re-presenting a whole line of long out-of-print theatre, movie and tv posters as affordable prints perfect for students' dorm or bed rooms, house stagers who need a way to personalize a home they're selling in a kitchy (but not tacky) way or pop-culture aficionados who don't want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for a display piece!

Our Theatre Posters gallery has retro-kool 3-D movie posters, superhero (live action AND animated) film art, and HTF sci-fi-on-Broadway prints.
Talk about "something for everyone"!

Tomorrow: the Golden Age comic book cover gallery!

Atomic Kommie Comics' NEW Poster/Print Galleries

A couple of days ago we told you about a new poster print of the ultra-rare Stan Lee at Carnegie Hall poster from 1972.
Now, we are unveiling even more ultra-rare material from our archives, now made available to you as collector's item prints in the Atomic Kommie Comics™ Art Gallery!
There are three sub-galleries...

Theatrical Posters 

 (which includes movie, tv, Broadway and genre convention material)

Golden Age 

(HTF comic book covers from the 1930s to 1950s)

 and Odds and Ends

(pop art / pop culture stuff that doesn't fit into either category)

Over the next few days, we'll be going into detail about each gallery.

These prints would make ideal dorm or bedroom decor for students or game-room decoration for pop-culture-oriented teens!

Keep in mind we're just getting started. There'll be a lot more images placed in the galleries over the next few weeks.

Tomorrow: Theatrical Posters!

DETECTIVE COMICS' "Skeleton Cases" Gets Pulp-Style Artist!

It's always a pleasure when someone you know makes a career breakthrough.
I'm pleased to say that noted artist Francesco Francavilla (whose Green Hornet and Zorro work I'm constantly plugging) is bringing his pulp/noir-stylings to DC Comics' flagship title...Detective Comics!
He'll be handling the new backup feature "Skeleton Cases", featuring Commissioner Gordon.
Personally, I think it's just a matter of time before they give him the lead strip as well!

MARVEL-ous Evening with Stan Lee at Carnegie Hall--the Poster!

Face Front, True Believer!

Here's a digitially-remastered and restored print based on the HTF poster from January 5th, 1972, the MARVEL-ous night when Stan Lee and the Marvel Bullpen filled Carnegie Hall with song and story!

From the Bullpen Bulletins that ran in all July, 1972 Marvel comic books:
"ITEM: January 5, 1972! Mark that date in your memory-book, faithful one - 'cause that's the night the batty Bullpen got it all together at Carnegie Hall, in the hectic heart of New York City!
As we told you last month, the whole magilla was called 'A MARVEL-OUS EVENING WITH STAN LEE' - and it was a way-out compendium of music, magic, and madcap Marvel mayhem!
Smilin' Stan himself was Master of Ceremonies - presiding over the frantic goings-on while images of mighty Marvel superheroes flitted across a giant movie screen.
A trio of our titanic artists got into the act, too, as Jazzy Johnny Romita, Happy Herb Trimpe, and Big John Buscema did sensational sketches of Captain America, ol' Greenskin, and Thor - which in turn were projected onto that selfsame screen. (There was a passel of our cavortin' characters in actual attendance, too, including Spidey, Daredevil, Doc Doom, and even J. Jonah Jameson himself!)
The standing-room-only crowd exploded with applause, also, at the roster of famous names who had gathered to pay homage to the madness that is Marvel: World-famous film director Alain Resnais translated a few of Silver Surfer's soliloquies into his native French; and there were also a few pungent paragraphs about our heroes which were intoned by radio personalities Alec Bennett and Earl Doud, by actors Rene Aberjonois and Chuck McCann (you've seen the latter a zillion times as the 'Hi Guy' neighbor on the other side of the medicine cabinet in those Right Guard commercials), and neo-journalist Tom Wolfe, resplendent in red, white, and blue as he read about - you guessed it - Captain America.
As for the music mentioned about, most of it was provided by the far-famed Chico Hamilton and the Players - but some more Marvel Madmen got into the act, too, as Hectic Herbie and Bashful Barry Smith plunked a couple of wild electric guitars while Rascally Roy Thomas belted out a rousin' rocker or two!
Then, for the grand finale, just about everybody in the blamed Bullpen crowded onto stage to sing the Merry Marvel Marching Society theme-song - while, not to be outdone, dozens of cheering fans rushed onstage as well, and the show closed amid a revel of handshaking and autograph signing all 'round.
And that was that!
All in all, it was a wildly successful evening - and not necessarily the last of its kind, either!

And, if there were a few bleary eyes and sore throats among the Bullpenners come the morning of the 6th - well, that's show biz, people!" 
With astounding art by Merry Marie Severin, this poster is a funky composite of major Marvel stars as of 1972!
Top Row: Captain America, DareDevil, Mr. Fantastic, Ant-Man
Second Row: Dr. Strange, Information, Spider-Man, Thor
Third Row: Falcon, Invisible Girl, Hulk, Sub-Mariner
Forth Row: Dormammu, Iron Man, Nick Fury, Human Torch
Bottom Row: Black Widow, Thing, Silver Surfer, Conan

Available as a magnificent high-end print here.
The perfect centerpiece to your comics library or bedroom!

Or, if you're looking for something a bit more discreet (and less expensive), there's always a t-shirt emblazoned with the image...

Before Scott Pilgrim was...Cutie Honey!

Scott Pilgrim vs the World got me to thinking about other films derived from comics/graphic novels/manga that utitlized not just the storytelling aspects that comics/graphic novels/manga derived from movies, but the particular visual bits created for the printed page that teleported to film versions.
In America, the Batman tv series and first Hulk film are the most obvious aspects, with sound effects spelled out, and the screen broken into panels.
But I always felt the movie creators were holding back, as if they were somewhat embarrassed about using those print-based elements.
OTOH, foreign movies based on print properties are the place where filmmakers go totally bonkers in adapting those visual cues on a massive scale.
Case in point...Cutie Honey!

Also based on a print comic/manga (Cutey Honey created by the lengendary Go Nagai) this flick is just as lunatic, just as filled with visual cues derived from comics/manga and video games as Scott Pilgrim!
Cutie Honey is a weird, wild, film.

 If you liked Scott Pilgrim, you owe it to yourself to check it out.