Polar Vortex II: the Wrath of Cold!

With winter finally hitting the US full-force...

... we invite you to re-visit the kool Polar Vortex posts on this blog

STRANGE TALES "When a Planet Dies"
UNUSUAL TALES "Night of Red Snow"
TALES TO ASTONISH "I Found the Abominable Snowman"
Part 1 / Conclusion
STRANGE WORLDS "I Captured the Abominable Snowman"
WILD! "Frozen North"
PLANET COMICS "Life on Other Worlds: Pluto"
COSMO CORRIGAN "Exiled to Pluto"
COSMO CORRIGAN "Martians, Mercurians and Money"
COSMO CORRIGAN "and the Space ShowGirls"
NORGE BENSON "Plummeting to Puto"
WEIRD THRILLERS "Graveyard in the Antarctic"
Plus, every RetroBlog featured a post with a winter/Arctic/extreme cold theme!

Here's the list (with links)...

Crime & Punishment

NORTHWEST MOUNTIES

"Mountie Guns Break the Snow Siren's Secret!"

Hero Histories

DOC SAVAGE

"Polar Treasure"

Heroines

NELVANA OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS

"Attack from Etheria"

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

WINKY DINK

"at the Arctic"

Seduction of the Innocent

Adventures into Darkness

"Frozen Death"

True Love Comics Tales

Lovelorn

"World's Most Dangerous Game"

War: Past, Present & Future

CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED

"Battle of the Bulge"

Western Comics Adventures

Original Ghost Rider

"Coffin of Snow"

Read them in front of a roaring fire with a mug of hot chocolate!

Reading Room FOUR COLOR "Maybes About the Moon"

Since many of you are taking a "snow day" from school...

...we feel you should still have a little (somewhat) educational info input when you come in from making snow forts and having snowball fights!

This never-reprinted short from Dell's Four Color Comics #1253 (aka Space Man #1) appeared in 1962, just as our Mercury space program was getting under way, so it's a lot of speculation.

Illustrated by Jack Sparling, but the writer is unknown.

BTW, even though it appeared in Four Color Comics, it's in black and white because it appeared on the inside back cover.

The inside covers were printed with only one color, black instead of the four colors CYAN, YELLOW, MAGENTA, and BLACK (CYMK), that make up all the colors in standard comic printing, as a cost-saving measure!

THIS is a SUPER Bowl!

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!

You'll love...LOVE DIARIES and LOVE LETTERS for Valentine's Day!

Until the intro of texting, blogs, Twitter, MySpace and FaceBook, the main way people kept track of their love lives was thru Love Letters and Love Diaries!
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...

All You Need is Love...

Beatrice Fairfax

Confessions

Lovers Lane

Mod Love

School of Love 

(or is that Love in School?)

Tender Love Stories

WarTime Love

Weddings

Western Love

...will help get your point across on the Most Important of Days!

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.