Reading Room: SPACE CLUSTERS Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Protagonists...

Pursuing criminal Ethan Dayak, Lieutenant Kara Basuto of the Terran Interplanetary Corps follows him from star system to star system, always one step behind him.
Due to the huge distances, both of them go into suspended animation during the trips between planetfalls.
But the more time they spend in hibernation, the more their minds and bodies begin to alter, until they are no longer human...but beings of pure energy...

Never reprinted, this 1986 graphic novel by sci-fi novelist Arthur Byron Cover and award-winning artist Alex Nino is one of many "lost" works from the 1960s onward that we take great pleasure presenting to you.
Watch for the next one, soon!

Reading Room: CAPTAIN FLIGHT "Story Behind the Cover"

In the "old days", comics often had amazing covers like this...

...that had nothing to do with any of the comics tales inside!

So they wrote a text story around it!

Does the rest of Mankind settle on Eden?

Do the Edenites/Atlantians return to Earth?

What happens next?

We'll never know, since this story in Four Star's Captain Flight Comics #11 (1947) is Flight's final apperance!

Both cover and story illustrations are by L B Cole. but the writer is, regrettably, unkown.

Reading Room CAPTAIN JOHNER AND THE ALIENS "Suspense in Space"

We Rejoin Our Combined Human/Alien Team of Explorers...

...as they face a life-or-death situation!

It's amazing how writers Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer and creator/artist Russ Manning manged to tell a complete (and exciting) story in just four pages, as they did with this tale from Gold Key's Magnus, Robot Fighter #4 (1963).
Today's comic creators with their bloated "epics" could take a lesson from them!

After You See Captain America: Civil War...

Today we're presenting a gallery of Captain America art from the Silver Age by Jim Steranko (above) and the character's co-creator Jack Kirby (all the rest).
Y'know I don't plug my collectibles everyday!
Just most days...  ;-)
Now that I've seen Captain America: Civil War, I had the urge to repost these classic pix...

Click on the art to enlarge

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For the Guys in the Foxhole...

After seeing Ken Burns' The War, several years go, we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ thought of doing something in the same vein, showing the gritty, dramatic, truth in honest, non-romanticised terms. Not like Sgt. Fury or Our Army at War, but something that would pay respect to the dogfaces and leathernecks who actually won the war!
Thus, we came up with... our World War II line , classic comic images drawn by veterans, for veterans, history and WWII buffs, or anyone who admires the men and women who put their lives on the line to stop true evil from conquering the world, not because they wanted to, but because they had to!
We digitally-restored and remastered them on a line of kool kollectibles which would make perfect Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, or 4th of July gifts for the WWII veteran in your life.
Choose from t-shirts, mugs, magnets, BBQ aprons, and many other goodies.
What cooler way to say "thank you" to the guys or gals of the "Greatest Generation" for what they did for the world?
(And have a look at the other collectibles we offer at War: Past, Present & Future™ while you're at it!)