Thanks to the President-Elect, Atomic Armageddon may be here soon!Duck n' cover and prepare for the inevitable end in style with Atomic Kommie Comics™ radiation-proof (well, not really!) garb and collectibles from our vintage Atomic War collection!
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Live the 1950s like it was tomorrow (and it might well be!) with ATOMIC WAR!
Thanks to the President-Elect, Atomic Armageddon may be here soon!Duck n' cover and prepare for the inevitable end in style with Atomic Kommie Comics™ radiation-proof (well, not really!) garb and collectibles from our vintage Atomic War collection!
Saturday, January 14, 2017
LOST WORLDS and FANTASTIC WORLDS Cover Gallery
They ran for a combined total of only five issues...
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| Art by Alex Toth |
...but Standard's short-lived sci-fi anthologies Fantastic Worlds and Lost Worlds had some first-rate talent both on the covers and inside them!
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| Art by John Celardo |
Plus, all five covers had something in common quite unique in publishing...
...none of the covers had anything to do with any of the interior stories!
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| Art by Alex Toth & Mike Peppe |
Despite the captions, which did mention titles from stories that ran in the books...
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| Art by Mike Sekowsky & John Celardo |
...the art didn't depict anything even close to what was in the tales!
But they sure look kool, don't they?
Friday, January 13, 2017
Reading Room LOST WORLDS "Outlaws of Space"
Some say space operas are just Westerns with rayguns instead of six-shooters...
...and here's a story that plays with those cliches, even down to the characters mentioning the parallels!
While we don't know who wrote this never-reprinted story from Standard's short-lived sci-fi anthology Lost Worlds #6 (1952), the art is by Alex Toth (pencils) and Al Rubano (inks).
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Thursday, January 12, 2017
Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Time and Tide"
According to the cliche, what "waits for no man"?
The answer is in this never-reprinted tale from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #6 (1953).
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Reading Room: ATOM-AGE COMBAT "Puzzle"
Besides tales of the US and USSR fighting World War III...
...this series featured tales of combat on other worlds, as well!
Note: the last page was the inside back cover of the comic, so it's just black-and-white.
Illustrated by Dick Ayers, this tale from Fago's Atom-Age Combat #3 (1959) touches on an interesting idea.
Someone's keeping us from leaving Earth...but they're also keeping others from approaching Earth!
Were they protecting us from them...or them from us?
Since this was the final tale in the final issue of the series, we'll never know the answer...
BTW, this was the second series called "Atom-Age Combat"!
The first was published by St John Comics with five issues in 1952-53 and a one-shot in 1958.
Fago Publications bought the title when St John dropped it's comic line, continuing the numbering from the one-shot and producing two issues.
Fago itself only lasted from 1958-59.
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