Continuing the origin of Tek Jansen (Stephen Colbert)!
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Monday, September 7, 2015
Stephen Colbert IS Tek Jansen: Space Hero!
Did you know new Late Show host Stephen Colbert is really...
...and that he had both a five-issue mini-series...
...and a number of animated cartoon episodes (with Colbert as the voice of Jansen)!
Hang tight, True Believers, 'cause we'll be posting some of the OOP (that's "out of print") adventures of everybody's (especially Stephen's) favorite space hero!
Sunday, September 6, 2015
The Horror...the Horror (comics, that is)!
Monster Crime!
Now that's a title!Yeah, they knew what budding juvenile delinquents wanted back in the 1950s!
As you might have guessed, the upcoming Halloween holiday has inspired the Atomic Kommie Comics™ crew to add like mad to our Horror Comics of the 1950s™ section.
And, what titles did we add to our kool kollectibles kollection?
Besides the aforementioned Monster Crime, there's Tales of Horror, Horror from the Tomb (see a trend?), Beware! (with a fantastic Frank Frazetta cover!), and The Clutching Hand!
We already had The Hand of Fate, Horrific!, Weird Adventures, Baffling, Challenge of the Unknown, Terror Tales, Haunted, The Beyond, Weird Terror, Weird Mysteries, Weird, Diary of Horror, WitchCraft, and Eerie!
Plus collectibles with our ghoulishly-graphic, viscerally-vintage Horror Comics of the 1950s™ logo!
BTW: the Tote Bags featuring these designs would make GREAT trick-or-treat bags!
Be the envy of all the kids on your block this All Hallows Eve!
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Best of Reading Room: COMMANDER BATTLE AND HIS ATOMIC SUB "Battle Beneath the Earth"
...now
that you've read the built-in synopsis, let's proceed, but with one
caveat: this part of the story (despite being Comics Code-approved) is
possibly NSFW due to politically-incorrect racial attitudes.
SPOILER: The "new, exciting mystery character" will quickly replace one of the original four Atomic Commandos.
Is he...
- 1) an alien?
- 2) a teen sidekick?
- 3) an alien teen?
You'll find out when Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub return in a previously-unreprinted tale in two weeks!
Two points:
1) You'd think the giants would find blonde and red-headed Belotti just a bit out-of-place.
2) I wonder if Irwin Allen saw this series, years before either the movie or tv versions of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Besides
the similar plots to several episodes of the tv series, Allen's use of a
submarine-berthed aircraft (the Flying Sub) seems more than
coincidental.
Just sayin'...
The script for Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub #2 (1954) by Richard Hughes, the Stan Lee of ACG who wrote practically everything at the company during his tenure as editor/writer!
Pencils by Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Al Camy, Odgen Whitney and others.
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