Reading Room: STRANGE WORLDS "Ransom--One Million Decimars!"

Spaceships, ray guns, beautiful barely-clad women, and...secret agents???

It's an atypical (but kool) example of 1950s pulp/comic book sci-fi!

(Plus, it's illustrated by a guy who ended up doing official portraits of several Presidents of the USA!)

The writer of this tale from Avon Comics' Strange Worlds #9 (1952) is unknown, but the illustrator is Everett Raymond Kinstler who went from comics and pulps to fine art, specializing in portraits of the rich and famous.

In fact, he's painted every American President from Nixon thru George W. Bush!

Presumably, when President Obama has a free afternoon (he's been rather busy with projects like disposing of Bin Laden.)...

Kinstler's Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan paintings are the official White House portraits for them!

Unlike many other "fine" artists who started out doing commercial art, Kinstler happily acknowledges his comic book work.

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Will Russia and North Korea start World War III, and will you be dressed for the occasion?

Because the Russians and the North Koreans seem determined to take us back to the Cold War, Atomic Armageddon may be here soon!
Duck n' cover and prepare for the inevitable end in style with Atomic Kommie Comics™ radiation-proof (well, not really!) garb and collectibles from our vintage Atomic War collection!
And in the meantime, you can read a collection of stories from Atomic War! and World War III at our "brother" RetroBlog, War: Past, Present and Future™!

Design of the Week: Atom-Age Combat!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another.
This week: Relations with Russia are becoming frosty again, so let's celebrate with a classic comic book cover from the 1950s, when the Cold War was about to go nuclear-hot!

Available on kid and adult t-shirts, mugs, e-reader, laptop, and phone cases, and other goodies!

Reading Room: SPACE DETECTIVE "Flame Women of Vulcan"

When Last We Left the Avenger and Teena...

Art by Gene Fawcette

...well, that covers what you need to know in order to enjoy this never-reprinted chapter of the final case from the files of the Space Detective!

Though the writer and inker are unknown, the penciler of this kool 3-part tale from Avon's Space Detective #4 (1952) is Gene Fawcette.
While certain issues have been reprinted, the entire short-lived series has never been compiled in one place...until now, as you'll see if you click HERE!

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Reading Room: SPACE DETECTIVE "Attack of the Wasp-Women"

We Have Already Seen...

Art by Gene Fawcette

Notorious serial killer Beast Man escapes from confinement.

Right after that, more killings occur, but commited by a group of skull-headed space pirates!

Tracking the space pirates, Avenger and Teena discover it's Beast Man, his aide, Vulcan Woman and their gang using x-ray devices in their spacesuit collars to hide their identities by making their skin invisible!

The criminals manage to escape, but the Space Detective is on their trail...

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TOMORROW

for the Space Detective's final case!

Though the writer and inker are unknown, the penciler of this kool 3-part tale from Avon's Space Detective #4 (1952) is Gene Fawcette.

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