If You Missed It: ABRAHAM LINCOLN: LIFE STORY

We ran this 100-page, never-reprinted story...

...featuring art by the legendary John Buscema immediately after the 2012 Presidental Elections.

You can read it right before Lincoln's Birthday HERE!

And, come back tomorrow for another, shorter, never-reprinted tale about Abe Lincoln by John Buscema!

Reading Room SPACE PATROL "Balloon Men of Jupiter"

Just when you think you've seen the weirdest art Basil Wolverton could create...

...you find something even weirder!

The multi-talented Basil Wolverton wrote, illustrated, lettered, and probably colored, this wild tale from Amazing Mystery Funnies #21 (1940).
I'd love to see someone animate these classics of surreal storytelling.

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Reading Room STRANGE JOURNEY "Captain Kiddeo: Space Bum"

Is it humor?

Is it serious?

I can't decide...

...read the tale and judge for yourself!

The title is a variation of "Captain Video", a tv show which had been cancelled three years earlier when this never-reprinted tale appeared in Ajax-Farrell's Strange Journey #3 (1958).

Yet the story itself has nothing to do with Captain Video, not even as a spoof of it, like MAD's superb Captain Tvideo which you can read HERE!

The attempts at humor and wit are lacking in both, and the illustrations have none of the wonderful background detail (Called "chicken fat" by artist Will Elder) MAD's artists were famous for!

Plus, the art is so jammed-up, I have the impression the original (perhaps unpublished) story was longer, and re-edited to fit into the 5 page slot in an otherwise average sci-fi anthology.

We do know it's a product of the S M Iger Studio which packaged Ajax-Farrell's books, but not who the particular creatives were...

War is Hell...but, then, so is LOVE!

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ know that the path of love is not always smooth, especially in wartime.
In tribute to the brave men and women of the armed forces, we've created a new section of True Love Comics Tales™ about military-based love comic books entitled WarTime Love™ featuring greeting cards, teddy bears, clothing and a host of other goodies with vintage retro-style romance comic cover art.
Show your beloved, be they an officer, noncom, or GI Joe (or GI Jane) that you're thinking of them on Valentine's Day.
A Public Service message from Atomic Kommie Comics™

Reading Room ROCKET SHIP X "Halley's Comet"

It was a bit of a bust in 1985...

...and it'll be returning in 2060...when many of those who are now reading this blog will see it, though I won't...(sob).

The writer and artist for this one-pager from Fox's one-shot Rocket Ship X #1 (1951) are unknown.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and be depressed over my own mortality...