...but will be back tomorrow with...
...the lost SpaceBusters tale...by Bernie Krigstein!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
War is Hell...but, then, so is LOVE!
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™
Monday, January 30, 2012
Reading Room: GULLIVAR JONES "Warrior of Mars"
With all the hubub about the new John Carter of Barsoom movie...
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| 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.
This was Part 1.
We'll be presenting the remaining chapters in the weeks up to the opening of John Carter., beginning HERE.
Gullivar Jones had the advantage of only one novel to adapt, then the door was open to totally-new adventures.
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| Art by Frank Frazetta |
We'll be presenting the remaining chapters in the weeks up to the opening of John Carter., beginning HERE.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
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!
Saturday, January 28, 2012
On Valentine's Day, tell her (or him) "Giddyap, Honey!"
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™
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