Is Toonopedia Gone?

One of the Net's best resources for comics-related info is...gone?

...a really-cool site loaded with info and pix on comic books, comic strips, animation, and almost everything related, is no longer at www.toonopedia.com!

We hope Don Markstein is OK and that this is just a temporary glitch.
Here's an interesting item...
I went to the Wayback Machine, hoping to see if they'd archived the site (as they do with so many others), and the following message came up...
This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.
Weird, eh?

YouTube Wednesday: The Avengers (Past & Present)

With all the attention the new trailer for...

Click on art to enlarge and download

The Avengers

..is getting, I fondly remember when Earth's Greatest Heroes were animated directly from Jack Kirby's original art (or photostats of it)!

 Oddly, Giant-Man and the Wasp were not in this animated version of Avengers #6, though they were major players in the original story!

And, now, here's the trailer for the new flick (which also doesn't have Giant-Man or The Wasp [sob])...

Reading Room: ATOM-AGE COMBAT "The Hungry Moss"

A story from the 1950s that might've inspired the cult flick The Green Slime!

This tale from the fifth (and final) issue of this 1952-53 comic book is one of only three stories in the entire series with actual sci-fi or alien elements!
Most of the tales were of the World War III / Atomic War type showing a long-feared "US vs the Russian and/or Chinese Commies" war using advanced technology and limited nuclear weaponry.

While the writer is unknown, the art is by longtime war comics artist Dick Ayers, best-known for Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos. 

We're currently presenting another sci-fi story from Atom-Age Combat at our brother blog War: Past, Present & Future™!

Check out 

the Atomic PX

for all your

radiation-proof

uniform and equipment

needs!

2012 12-Month Calendars Now Available!

There are pop culture categories and subjects we've wanted in 12-month 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 and 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?)
Only $19.99 each!

Here are the  
Atomic Kommie Comics™ 
2012 12-Month Calendars 
by genre

Mystery / Crime
Sherlock Holmes: the Greatest Sleuth of All!™ 
Basil Rathbone IS Sherlock Holmes!™
Mr District Attorney™

Horror
WereWolves & Vampires™
(shown above)
Horror Comics of the 1950s™
Vampires of Pulps & Comics™
Werewolves of the Comics & Pulps™
Zombies of Comics & Pulps™

Camp / Kitsch
3-D Movies
3-D Comic Books
Seduction of the Innocent!!™
Jungle Girls™
Good Girl / Bad Grrrl™

Romance
True Love Comics Tales™


Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Martians, Martians, Martians!™
Art of Barsoom™ 
Thrilling Science-Fiction Tales™ 
Bugs & Creepy Crawlies of Comics & Pulps™
Dinosaurs of the Comics & Pulps™ 

SuperHeroes
Captains of the Comics™
Heroines!™
Classic Phantom Lady
Lost Heroes of the Silver Age of Comics™
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™
Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics vs HITLER™
Classic Black Terror
Classic Blue Beetle
Classic Captain Future
Classic Dare Devil
Classic Green Hornet
Classic Green Lama
Classic Monster of Frankenstein

Classic SuperSnipe

Western
Western Comics Adventures™
Real-Life Western Comics™
The Cisco Kid and Pancho™
Masked Western Heroes™


Military
Captain MidNight™
Aviators of the Golden Age of Comics™
WAR: Past, Present & Future™
Classic Korean War Comics™

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

Frankenstein Fun on RetroBlogs™

It's October and a number of RetroBlogs™are doing the Halloween thing...

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™ has presented the (very loose) comics adaptation of the 1931 movie!

Hero & Heroine Histories™ is presenting Golden Age tales of

The Monster vs the Prize Fighters

and

the Monster's NEW adventures!

Plus: this week, the Origin of the Silver Age Frankenstein!

And coming just before Halloween...

the 1940s Classics Illustrated version!

On Monday, Western Comics Adventures™ presents Frankenstein vs the Original Ghost Rider!