Thursday, May 1, 2014
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Best of Reading Room: COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB Conclusion

...that really says it all, doesn't it?
BTW, wouldn't this comic make a great multi-million dollar cgi-fx movie?
Wait a sec...they did a BattleShip flick (based on the board game)!
Aquatic aliens vs the US Navy!
These guys at American Comics Group were ahead of their time...by over 50 years...and theirs was better!
On with the story...
Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub will return...soon!
(I wanna see what happens next, too!)
(I wanna see what happens next, too!)
Script by Richard Hughes, the Stan Lee of ACG who wrote practically everything during his tenure as editor/writer!
Pencils by Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Odgen Whitney and others.
Reprinting issues #1-#5
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Best of Reading Room: COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB Part 2
Now, that's a synopsis!
(For the record, the "saucer" still looks like a doughnut!)
I could see the editorial conference now...
"OK, guys, for our first issue we have..
3-D (sort of) effects!
An atomic sub!
Evil aliens!
A "flying saucer"!
The underwater city of Atlantis!
A giant sea monster!
Did we leave anything out?"
Find out tomorrow in the pulse-pounding conclusion!
Script by Richard Hughes, the Stan Lee of ACG who wrote practically everything during his tenure as editor/writer!
Pencils by Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Odgen Whitney and others.
Reprinting issues #1-#5
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Best of Reading Room: COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB Part 1
...although how an atomic submarine will do it is something to behold!
Oddly enough, the "flying saucer" looks more like a flying doughnut...or the 1950s concept of a space station as seen in then-contemporary films and TV shows!
Script by Richard Hughes, the Stan Lee of ACG who wrote practically everything during his tenure as editor/writer!
Pencils by Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Odgen Whitney and others.
Be here tomorrow for Part 2 when we'll see who's behind the "flying saucer"...
Reprinting issues #1-#5
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Sunday, April 27, 2014
COMMANDER BATTLE AND THE ATOMIC SUB are returning...
While preparing files for our 3-D Week series a couple of years ago, I came across this title in my archives...
..which doesn't use 3-D, but a pseudo-3-D process called...
BTW, only the first issue used the TrueVision gimmick.
The 1954 seven-issue series, Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub from American Comics Group, had a lot in common with the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea tv series and the Voyage to the Deep comic series, emphasizing wild science fiction storylines with the occasional spy/anti-Commie tale.
Be
here tomorrow when we re-present the never-reprinted #1, which features
the origin of the sub, the assembling of the crew and their first
mission!
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