Zombies, Zombies, Zombies!

ZOMBIES!

Call them the undead, the unliving, reanimated corpses, or even the ultimate carnivores, zombies are HOT, HOT, HOT!

Between Walking Dead, Dead Set, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, 28 Days Later & 28 Weeks Later, the Return of the Living Dead series, and, of course, the George Romero Living Dead series, zombies have never been more popular!
But, all those films and tv series owe a debt to the visual depictions of zombies in the horror pulps and comics of the Golden Age (1930s-1950s)!

Like video games today, those periodicals were deemed so harmful to the psyches of impressionable youths that the government held hearings about possibly banning them altogether! 
The comics industry barely survived, but ended up toning down horror comics to a mere shadow of their blood-dripping selves, only recently, in the 1990s,  returning in all their gruesome glory!

Even with modern technology, today's zombie flix are hard pressed to match these classic comics for visceral visual thrills.
So, it's with pardonable pride that Atomic Kommie Comics™ re-presents some of the creepiest and koolest covers from those bygone days, digitally-restored and remastered, on a line of collectibles including mugs, hoodies, iPad/Kindle/messenger bags, and a 2014 12-month calendar!

If you're looking for a birthday or holiday present for a fan of the life-impaired (or a Halloween treat for yourself), why not combine one of our kool kollectibles with one of the books or DVDs available on-line or at brick-and-mortar stores?
(We'd provide links, except Amazon cut us as an affiliate due to the state forcing tax collection for Internet sales)

Design of the EEK Redux! The No Longer-Walking Dead!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
With the new season of Walking Dead underway on AMC, you like the way we graphically-show the only way to stop a zombie/walker/biter (depending on who you're listening to)...do something to destroy the head, so much that we're extending his undead presence for another week!
He's available on t-shirts, messenger bags, mugs, and a whole slew of kool kollectibles perfect for Halloween!
So order now, before he puts the bite on you...

RetroBlogs' Countdown to Halloween 2013 is in full swing...

There's lots of Halloween fun at the RetroBlogs this week including...

Golden Age superhero Captain Triumph vs a werewolf!

In a weird twist, the superhero is the supernatural character while the monster is scientifically-created!

Part 1 / Conclusion

PLUS...

The original Golden Age monster hunter known as GRIMM goes into action...

HERE!

Justice in the Old West strikes from beyond the grave...a generation later...

HERE!

A famous detective solves the mystery of why classic movie monsters are killing young Hollywood actors...

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Conclusion

The Shadow battles the same vampire in three different mediums...and the villain is based on the character that inspired Dracula...

HERE!

A woman rises from the dead to protect her husband from a werewolf attack...

HERE!

And we're just getting warmed up, folks!

Visit all these blogs to see much more Countdown to Halloween 2013 fun over the next two weeks!

Space Adventures #12 by Steve Ditko

Even though it has nothing to do with any of the stories inside Charlton's Space Adventures #12 (1954), it's one of the most famous and most reprinted covers Steve Ditko ever did (excluding Amazing Spider-Man and Amazing Fantasy #15, of course)!

Reading Room: SUPERSNIPE "Halloween" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Kid with the Most Comic Books in America...

...Koppy (SuperSnipe) McFad (wearing his original costume), celebrates Halloween by trick-or-treating with his friends Herlock Domes and Roxy, and ends up at the Van Welty mansion where the trio inadvertently helps an assassination attempt on the mansion's rich owner.

When news reports about the police suspecting the costumed kids reach Koppy and Herlock, they investigate in an attempt to clear themselves, discovering the "policeman" who tricked them was a fraud in a rented costume!
After the costume store owner gives them the name of the man who rented the police uniform, the now-plainclothes heroes go in search of the criminal...

Usually, SuperSnipe triumphs despite his rather "Inspector Clouseau"-type antics, but this time he not only figures out the clues (with a couple of handy coincidences), but deliberately puts himself in danger to keep the criminals in the store until the police arrive!

He may not have super powers, but SuperSnipe proves himself to be a real hero...

Story and art for this tale from SuperSnipe Comics V2N12 (1945) by George Marcoux, who did all the "SuperSnipe Universe" strips himself!

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