Preview: THE SHADOW #7 Cover by Francesco Francavilla

Who Knows What Evil...?

Francesco Francavilla does, as this cover for #7 of Dynamite's new Shadow comic book shows!
Check out his blog entry about it and his first poster, The Creature from the Black Lagoon...

...for the noted MONDO Posters Collection HERE!

BTW, if you want more The Shadow stuff, have a look at...

The Shadow: the never-reprinted 1994 Alec Baldwin movie adaptation HERE!

The Shadow's never-reprinted Bronze Age adventures with The Batman and The Avenger as well as never-reprinted Frank Robbins-illustrated stories HERE!

The Shadow's never-reprinted, campy costumed Silver Age adventures HERE!

Design of the Week--I'm Changing--Changing!!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...vintage retro-style art of a psychedelic black light poster from the 1970s featuring 1960s art by Jack Kirby!
Just the thing for beachwear or backyard wear!
Get it now, before it transforms into nothingness next Sunday!

The Greatest HERCULES of All is Coming to RetroBlogs™!

We hope you've enjoyed five days of...

at Crime & Punishment™ this week
and we want you to join us next week as

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™ 
goes to sunny Italy for a week of posts featuring two sword and sandal (with a hint of sorcery) sagas starring Steve Reeves...

...featuring the manly art of John Buscema
and...

...with muscular renderings by Reed Crandall and George Evans!
The testosterone will be oozing off your screen!

PHANTOM LADY at the London Olympics...in 1948!

Join the voluptuous vigilante known as the Phantom Lady...

...as she battles those who would destroy the 1948 Olympic Games (which also took place in London)

by visiting our newest "sister" blog, Heroines™!

Reading Room: EXPLORERS IN THE UNKNOWN "Hostile Asteroid"

In the 1960s, we were about to reach the Moon...

...so the idea that we would first explore the Solar System, then nearby stellar systems, within a few decades wasn't unreasonable.

We developed a new metal alloy, Zakanite, just to use it on ID tags and insignia?
There's not a nut or bolt on the ship made from it..or even the crewmens' ID tags and insignia?
And you wonder why Congress cut NASA's budget in the mid-1970s!
We do learn there's only three officers (including the ship's commander) in the ship's complement.
Because there's only four pages in each story, there's no character development between them.
This odd tale from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea #8 (1966) was written by Dick Wood (who wrote the entire series) and illustrated by Nevio Zaccara (who remained the strip's artist until the final chapter).

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