Roosevelt Reading Room LIFE STORIES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS "Theodore Roosevelt"

With Ken Burns' The Roosevelts running on PBS...

...we thought we'd show how educational comics portrayed them, beginning with the Rough Rider!

This never-reprinted tale from Dell's Life Stories of American Presidents (1957) features the superb artwork of John Buscema.

Edited (and possibly written) by Helen Meyer.

If you think Buscema did a great job with the dynamic Teddy, wait until tomorrow, when he tackles the wheelchair-bound FDR in a masterful bit of effective storytelling!

Reading Room SPACE FALCON "Pirate of the Stratosphere"

If you're a Golden Age or sci-fi comics fan, you've read the adventures of SpaceHawk...

...but I seriously doubt you've even heard of Space Falcon!

If you don't know who Space Falcon is, it's quite understandable.

His only, never-reprinted, appearance was in PL Publishing's first and only issue of Captain Rocket (1951)!

In fact, PL was one of the least successful comic publishers in history, lasting less than a year and producing only eight titles, none of which ran more than three issues!

Horrifying Halloween Invitations!

If you're going to do a party on October 31st (It's on Friday this year!), you'll want to create the right mood by sending out an appropriate invitation to your ghoulish get-together!
That's where we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ can help you set the right macabre mood!
Using classic comic book covers and movie posters, we've given you a plethora of perverse pictures to choose from with a dozen different, demonic, invitations as 8-packs of postcards and/or 10-packs of note cards and greeting cards ranging from G-rated to PG-13 to suit every need! (The one above is PG).

So have a look and order NOW!
The later you place your order, the greater the chance that your treat could turn into a missed-deadline trick!

Reading Room MEDUSA CHAIN Conclusion

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. and Part 5.

Then ask yourself...

I'd like to be able to say "The Medusa Chain will continue...", but it didn't.

Unfortunately, the book (and most of the DC Graphic Novel series) sold poorly, and the project ended after only six issues.

(The exception was Jack Kirby's The Hunger Dogs.)

It was revived a year later as DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel, using adaptations of prose novels by big genre names like Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison and Ray Bradbury and comics pros like Keith Giffen and Klaus Janson, but fared equally-poorly, ending after seven issues.

Reading Room MEDUSA CHAIN Part 5

If you want to know what happened before one of the koolest space battles ever seen in comics begins...

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Then continue, with the codicil that it gets extremely gory and may be NSFW...

Why do the Earthians want radioactive material?
Find out tomorrow, in the surprising climax!

There's no explanation in the story as to what the "Fibonacci Sequence" is.

Named after the Middle Ages mathematician Leonardo of Pisa aka Fibonacci (although it was known in Indian science and arts at least a century earlier), the sequence begins with 1 and 1, or 0 and 1, depending on the starting point, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two.

For sci-fi fans, the concept is also the basis for the famous "computing number of tribbles" scene in classic Star Trek's "The Trouble with Tribbles".

Plus, Fibonacci is also the person responsible for instituting Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc) as the standard in our mathematics, replacing the Roman numbers (I, II, III, IV, V, etc) used until then.