War is Hell...but, then, so is LOVE!

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ know that the path of love is not always smooth, especially in wartime.
In tribute to the brave men and women of the armed forces, we've created a new section of True Love Comics Tales™ about military-based love comic books entitled WarTime Love™ just in time for Valentine's Day featuring greeting cards, teddy bears, clothing and a host of other goodies with vintage retro-style romance comic cover art.
Show your beloved, be they an officer, noncom, or GI Joe (or GI Jane) that you're thinking of them on Valentine's Day.
A Public Service message from Atomic Kommie Comics™

Reading Room: GULLIVAR JONES "Warrior of Mars"

With all the hubub about the new John Carter of Barsoom movie...

Art by Gil Kane and unknown inker

...let's look at the first Earthman on Mars, whose adventures predated Edgar Rice Burroughs' tales by half a decade.

With the success of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian, comics went pulp-mad, looking for other properties that were doing well in paperback reprints to adapt into the four-color format.

DC latched onto The Shadow, The Avenger, and Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser well as the entire Edgar Rice Burroughs library including Tarzan, Carson of Venus, and John Carter.

Marvel grabbed Doc Savage, added Kull (also a Robert E Howard character), and looked for another barbarian/swashbuckling hero.

They ended up adding two, Gullivar Jones and Lin Carter's Thongor, neither of whom ran more than eight issues.
Gullivar Jones had the advantage of only one novel to adapt, then the door was open to totally-new adventures.

Art by Frank Frazetta

This was Part 1.
We'll be presenting the remaining chapters in the weeks up to the opening of John Carter., beginning HERE.

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3-D Sweeps thru RetroBlogs Next Week!

With Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace being released in 3-D next Friday, Feb. 10th...

We're going 3-D mad at RetroBlogs™!

Romance!

War!

Horror!

SuperHeroes!

So dig out those red/blue-lensed glasses, and join in the fun beginning Feb 6th!

On Valentine's Day, tell her (or him) "Giddyap, Honey!"

Valentine's Day is almost upon us, and nothing says I Love You like gunpowder, horse blankets, and guys who don't bathe for days, right?
Right?
Someone thought so back in the 1950s, when two of the most popular genres--romances and Westerns were combined into Western romances (or Romantic Westerns) in both prose fiction and comics.
True Love Comics Tales™ has digitally-restored and remastered the best of the comic cover art from that all-too-brief shining period of American literature for a new line of Valentine's Day goodies including greeting cards, diaries, teddy bears, even shirts, tops, and, well...bottoms for men and women at Western Love™
Just the thing for the cowboy or cowgirl in your life!

A Valentine's Day Public Service message from the buckaroos at Atomic Kommie Comics™

Reading Room: INTERPLANETARY POLICE "Rumpus on Rex" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroes...

The Space Siren plans to mine the valuable newly-discovered mineral Taganium, found only on asteroid Rex.

However, she lacks transport for the bulky metal.

So, she steals several freighters from a starbase on Venus.

However, Captain Bruce Warren of the InterPlanetary Police has tracked her to Rex, found the stolen ships, and radioed for backup.

Enraged, Tanya attacks Warren's ship and a space dogfight ensues...

Why is it good guys in comics are so hot for bad girls? (Batman/Catwoman)

But good girls tend to be attracted to really dull good boys? (Wonder Woman/Steve Trevor)

This high-adventure story from Buster Brown Comic Book #30 (1953) was written by Hobart Donovan, penciled by Reed Crandall, and inked by Ray Willner.

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