Reading Room: PHANTOM WITCH DOCTOR "Out of the Deep"

Avon's Phantom Witch Doctor (1952) was a unique one-shot...

...with a lead story featuring the title character and a trio of totally-unrelated tales backing it up.

Whether the creature is a Lovecraftian-type Elder-God, a stranded alien, or just a sentient life-force is never really explained.

Another unsolved puzzle is who the writer and artist(s) for this never-reprinted short story were.

But what's life without a few mysteries, eh?

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Reading Room: ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN "Man in the Mirror"

I've worked on-and-off in the comics industry since 1982...

...and I've never experienced a situation like this guy goes through!

(I've never seen anyone wear a suit jacket at their desk, either. But that's another story...)

This reflective story ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #9 (1950) was probably written by editor Richard Hughes and was illustrated by pulp artist Robert S Pious, who worked on-and-off in comics from 1940 to 1955 before moving into book publishing and later, fine arts.

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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?
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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!