It's Almost Thanksgiving! Bring on the Turkeys!

This November, some of the RetroBlogs are presenting what could charitably be called...turkeys.

(Actually, this story may well qualify for one of the entries, but right now it's a kool graphic...)

We're talking the worst of the worst.

Stories and/or art that are so awful, so inane, they're not even shown on the 'Net, just talked-about in whispers!

In fact they're so bad they've never been reprinted, and probably never will be!

Confirmed so far are...

 The comic adaptation of the awful movie Conan the Destroyer in Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

(We were gonna run the comic book adaptation of Howard the Duck, but even we have our limits!)

In Hero Histories you'll see the three-part tale that introduced the Blackhawks as super-heroes working for a spy organization!

BTW, they're from the same era as the Dracula and Frankenstein superhero incarnations we just ran!

And, Marvel's disco-themed follow-up to the success of Dazzler written by Stan (the Man) Lee himself...Night Cat, in Heroines!

Bring the sweet potatoes and biscuits 'cause, beginning this week, we have the turkeys!

Flash Gordon: the Greatest Adventure of All...HQ!

For years, the only version of this available anywhere has been a poor dub from VHS...

Not anymore.
Here it is dubbed from a foreign laserdisc (remember those?), and in stereo!
Enjoy!

Retro Christmas Kool is HERE!

With Halloween over and Thanksgiving right around the corner, it's time to reveal the coolest Christmas goodies ever, exclusively for your shopping pleasure!
(Don't ya just love soft-sell?)
Ornaments, clothing, mugs, shopping bags, magnets, and many other items with stylish retro graphics that will make great under-the-tree gifts or stocking stuffers!

Santa Claus--the Man Himself!
12 different 1960s Santa Claus designs (for the 12 days of Christmas!) that will bring back nostalgic memories of your Baby Boomer childhood!

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!

He's the jolly ol' elf in a red suit.
They are big green men from Mars with an even bigger robot!
Who will win?
YOU, that's who, with these kool collectibles based on the weirdest Yuletide movie ever!

 
The Hardly-Abominable SnowMan! 
Along with St. Nick, our frosty friend is one of the most recognizable symbols of Winter and the Christmas Season!
5 different Frosty designs!

PLUS: The saga of Scrooge! "A Christmas Carol" brought alive with a dozen different images from, among others, the very FIRST edition EVER, the classic 1951 movie, and the famous Arthur Rackham edition!
Bah, Humbug!

Happy Holiday Shopping from Atomic Kommie Comics

SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS "Headless Horseman Rides Again" Cover

Here's the cover from the never-reprinted 1973 story we've been running the past couple of days...

...and here's the original art by penciler Gil Kane and inker Ernie Chua aka Ernie Chan.

Absolutely beautiful, eh?

Happy Halloween!

Reading Room SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS "Headless Horseman Rides Again!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Upstate New York crime lord "Bones" Bullinger murdered reporter Matt Carter to stop the newspaperman's investigations into the underworld.

But Carter's widow, Kim, and his best friend, private eye Duke Durbano, kept the investigation going.

So "Bones" hired NYC hitmen to kill the pair.

The assassins failed (though they don't know it) and "Bones" (in an elaborate disguise) is about to eliminate them...

Written by Gary Friedrich at the same time as he was co-creating the flaming-skulled, motorcyclist known as Ghost Rider, this tale from Marvel's Supernatural Thrillers #6 (1973) was left open-ended with the possibility of the Horseman returning as a "Spirit of Vengeance" to deal with other criminals.

Note: 1973-75 featured the appearances of several avenging supernatural characters including Ghost Rider, Son of Satan, Man-Thing, Scarecrow (aka Straw Man), and the return of The Spectre in extremely-gruesome (for the Comics Code era) tales.

Illustrated by penciler George Tuska and inker Jack Abel, both of whom worked in comics during the horror comics era and were quite familiar with how to tell a terrifying tale!