Reading Room: SUPERSNIPE "Haunted Money" Part 1

How do fanboys celebrate Halloween?

By getting into costume and battling crime and evildoers, whether human or incorporeal!

So, they're not specters, but sleazeballs!

How will our currently-unconscious hero overcome these foul fiends?

Be here tomorrow for the awe-inspiring answer...

Same Snipe-time!

Same Snipe-blog!

Herlock Domes was another supporting character (like Gramps and Ulysses Q Wacky) who had his own backup strip in SuperSnipe Comics.
The characters crossed-over frequently with each other and popped into SuperSnipe's strip creating a fairly cohesive and consistent "universe" much like Marvel Comics did a couple of decades later (but on a smaller scale, natch).
Story and art for this tale from SuperSnipe Comics V4N12 (1949) by the highly-underrated George Marcoux, who did all the "SuperSnipe Universe" strips.

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CountDown to Halloween 2012 at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

Our "brother", Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™, has been participating in this blogathon...

...with several entries, each from a different movie studio!

First up was Quatermass 2 aka Enemy from Space, from Britain's legendary Hammer Studios!

Next was the never-reprinted 1940s adaptation of Universal Studios' Son of Frankenstein!

Then, a week-long mini-blogathon of the never-reprinted graphic novel based on the movie inspired by 1950s horror comics...Laurel Entertainment/Warner Brothers' CreepShow!

Finally, this week...the first, never reprinted, American comic book appearance of Toho Studios' Godzilla!

(Note: it's NOT the Marvel Comics series from the late 1970s!)

It's not too late to join in the fun!

Just click on any of the links above for monsterous thrills!

"Thank You" for your Halloween orders!

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ wanted to say 'thank you" to all who ordered our ghoulish goodies and creepy customizable collectibles!
It's nice to see so many like-minded ghouls and creatures out there! ;-)

With the second-scariest day, Election Day, only a week later, we'd like to recommend a couple of satellite stores for your consideration...
"Pay My F@#$ing Mortgage!" which shows how only selling the Honus Wagner T-206 card will enable you to keep a roof over your head during the recovery...
and
"Fill My F@#$ing Gas Tank!" which follows the same theme, but with ridiculously-fluctuating gasoline prices!
Now, THOSE are scary!

Happy Halloween

and 

GET OUT AND VOTE!

Reading Room: STRANGE WORLDS "Invasion from the Abyss"

Since 1938, Halloween and alien invasions go hand-in-hand...

...even when the "aliens" are from inside the Earth, rather than outer space!

This story from Avon's Strange Worlds #3 (1951) was a "Fleagle Gang" production.

The "Fleagles" were a group of artists including Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Roy Krenkel, Wally Wood, Angelo Torres, and George Woodbridge who would help each other out on tight deadlines by doing a "jam" with individuals penciling and inking different pages and even different panels on a single page, producing some absolutely amazing visuals!

Trivia: the group was named by EC Comics editor/writer/artist Harvey Kurtzman.

The idea of advanced beings living inside the Earth and invading/reconquering the surface was very popular in the early 1950s.

Richard Shaver and pulp magazine editor Ray A Palmer caused a media firestorm with series of stories presenting a theory that combined the "civilization inside the Earth" concept with another pop culture phenomenon...flying saucers!

Numerous readers wrote in, claiming that they had actually seen creatures and vehicles exactly as described in the stories!

The "Shaver Hoax" (as it came to be known) influenced 1950s sci-fi/fantasy ranging from the pilot episode of the TV's Adventures of Superman to movies like Brain Eaters.

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Reading Room: "Ghosts from the Underworld"

In the scientific world of the future, there's no place for unexplainable things like ghosts...

...or is there?

So there was a plausible (albeit far-fetched) explanation for the "ghosts"!

This one-shot tale from Youthful's Captain Science #3 (1951) was illustrated by Don Perlin at the beginning of his long (45+ years) comics career.

In fact, it was his first published work!

Don continued working steadily (writing/penciling/inking/editing/art directing) until the mid-1990s, when he went into semi-retirement.

He still does an occasional cover or spot illustration as well as private commissions.

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