Today, we PARTY, with our own Super-HERO Bowl!
A marathon of comic book-based DVDs and BluRays from around the world.
(Thank the tech gods for multi-region players!)
See you tomorrow with more exciting tales!
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Saturday, January 31, 2015
You'll love...LOVE DIARIES and LOVE LETTERS for Valentine's Day!
In fact, they made up one of the most popular sub-categories of romance comics, with literally dozens of titillating titles!
Let our selection of the best of these these kitchy, campy (and very kool) classic comics covers help you express your true feelings on the Most Important of Days--Valentines Day on greeting cards, teddy bears, mugs, and even "naughty" undies!
And, if they can't assist your love-life, perhaps something from one of our other sections at True Love Comics Tales™ including...
(or is that Love in School?)
Tender Love Stories
...will help get your point across on the Most Important of Days!
Friday, January 30, 2015
Reading Room CAPTAIN QUICK & THE SPACE SCOUTS "Hermits of Callisto"
The Space Scouts and their mentor finally leave Mars...
...only to find a mystery on a moon of Jupiter!
A poignant (and ironic) end to a short-lived series nobody remembers!
Though the art for this never-reprinted tale from Prize Comics' Tom Corbett: Space Cadet V2#3 (1955) is credited solely to Marvin Stein at the Grand Comics Database,
the layout appears to be by Jack Kirby, which would make sense since
Simon & Kirby's studio was packaging the book for Prize.
Beyond being set in the near future, there was no connection to Tom Corbett.
Beyond being set in the near future, there was no connection to Tom Corbett.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Reading Room KANDI THE CAVE KID "Dinosaur"
Creationists believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old...
...so to them, this could be considered a chapter in a history book!
This never-reprinted story from Dell's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #15 (1943) was the final appearance of the Walt Kelly-created character.
Besides both print adaptations of theatrical cartoons and new tales of existing Warner Brothers characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Dell introduced a number of new characters to fill out the pages of the comic anthology, including Kandi and Pat, Patsy & Pete.
Kandi was one of the shorter-lived ones, with only a half-dozen short tales from #3 to #15.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Reading Room HILLBILLY COMICS "Man Who Hated the Moon"
Here's a tale of the good ol' boys who former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee calls "Bubbas"...
...from a short-lived 1950s title telling their stories!
Yep, these are the people Huckabee and other Republicans play to while decrying the "educated elites".
"Bubbleville', according to Mike, represents the big cities of New York, Washington and Hollywood where the educated (but not smart) people live.
"Bubbaville", I guess, is everywhere else in the good ol' USA.
And that's where the real people are.
The ones who are smart...without all that fancy book-learnin'.
Written and illustrated by the highly-underrated Art Gates, this never-reprinted piece from Charlton's Hillbilly Comics #1 (1955) shows the "wisdom" Huckabee's bubbas are famous for!
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