Thursday, May 24, 2012

Reading Room: SPACE ADVENTURES "Jealousy on Kano"

One of comics legend Bernie Krigstein's few non-EC art jobs...
...which was probably unused material that Charlton purchased when they bought out Ziff-Davis' inventory.
From Space Adventures #16 (1955), it has the same look as Krigstein's SpaceBusters or Space Patrol material from the early 1950s, not his EC work from this period.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Reading Room: SPEED CARTER: SPACEMAN "BirdMen of Uranus"

The 1950s, when heroic astronauts fought for Truth, Justice, and the American Way...
 ..against the Uranians, who apparently are the space-age counterparts of the Chinese Communists, as least until the end of this lead story from Speed Carter: SpaceMan #2 (1953)!
While physics isn't my strong point, they must still be in the atmosphere, not the vacuum of space, or Kondor's wings wouldn't work!
Written by Hank Chapman, illustrated by Joe Maneely!
Speed Carter and the Space Sentinels will return in the (dare I say?) near future!

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Return of the Ants, Man!

Due to the mild winter, the ants are back in the kitchen...in force!
Makes you wonder if Henry Pym's a little perturbed he wasn't included in the Avengers movie, and is getting his six-legged friends to "lobby" for his big screen debut...

Monday, May 21, 2012

Preview: THE SHADOW #5 Cover by Francesco Francavilla

Who Knows What Evil...?
Francesco Francavilla does, as this cover from #5 of Dynamite's new Shadow comic book shows!
Check out his blog entry about it HERE !
BTW, if you want more The Shadow stuff, have a look at...
The Shadow: the never-reprinted 1994 movie adaptation HERE!
The Shadow's never-reprinted Bronze Age adventures with The Batman and The Avenger HERE!
The Shadow's never-reprinted campy Silver Age adventures HERE!

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Design of the Week Redux--United We Stand

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...a vintage World War II-era painting of the 48-star Old Glory at sunrise over a typical American town.
Available on a host of goodies like t-shirts, mugs, throw blankets, etc, it's the perfect retro-kool (and very patriotic) Memorial Day gift for Republican and Democrat alike!