COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB are coming...

While preparing files for the 3-D Week series, I came across this title in my archives...

..which doesn't use 3-D, but a pseudo-3-D process called...

BTW, only the first issue used the TrueVision gimmick.

The 1954 seven-issue series from American Comics Group featuring art by Ogden Whitney, Sheldon Moldoff, and Ken Hughes has a lot in common with the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea tv series and the Voyage to the Deep comic series, emphasizing wild science fiction storylines with the occasional spy/anti-Commie tale.

Be here tomorrow when we present the never-reprinted #1, which features the origin of the sub, the assembling of the crew and their first mission!

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Preview: THE SHADOW #1 Alternate Cover by Francesco Francavilla

Who Knows What Evil...?

Francesco Francavilla does, as this alternate cover from #1 of Dynamite's new Shadow comic book shows!
Check out his blog entry about it HERE!

Whitney Houston (1963-2012)

Genre appearances included...

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Fairy Godmother / performer: "Prologue", "Impossible", "It's Possible", "Finale Ultimo", "There's Music in You")

The Preacher's Wife (Julia Biggs)

The BodyGuard (Rachel Marron / performer: "Queen of the Night")

Note: The BodyGuard is not really genre, but it's use of footage from the classic 1926 film Metropolis as well as the Maria-Robotrix-influenced costume prominently featured in the video for "Queen of the Night" and the film itself make it worthy, IMHO, of inclusion.

Check out...

Whitney's Official WebSite

Other actresses to play Fairy Godmother in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella include Celeste Holm [1965] and Edie Adams [1957]

Other actresses to play Julia Biggs include...
Actually, in the previous version of this film, The Bishop's Wife [1947], the character was named Julia Brougham and played by Loretta Young.

3-D BONUS: Blinkeys!

The 1960 William Castle movie 13 Ghosts used red/blue 3-D style glasses, but not for 3-D!

While most of the movie was black and white, certain sequences had red and blue tinting.
To see the ghosts, you looked thru the red "lens".
To not see the specters, you looked thru the blue "lens".
But, years earlier, in 1953, Harvey Comics' 3-D comic books offered a similar idea in a series of one-page fillers most of which have never been reprinted...
(Yes, you need those 3-D glasses to read them properly!)

Adventures in 3-D #1. Art by Howard Nostrand

Adventures in 3-D #2. Art by Bob Powell

True 3-D #1. Art by Bob Powell

True 3-D #2. Art by Bob Powell

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