Monday, July 31, 2017

Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Purple Mists!"

The perils of exploring the universe are many and varied...
...as seen in this never-reprinted story from Key Publications' Weird Tales of the Future #6 (1953)!
Though it's implied that one of the guys Rex and Tom shot was Rex's brother, that point is more-or-less ignored!
The writer is unknown, but artist Hy Fleishman signed his work in the first panel.
Fleishman worked for numerous publishers during the 1950s including Atlas (later Marvel), Story, Key, and Lev Gleason in various genres including horror, war, sci-fi, western, romance, and even humor.

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Will North Korea Start World War III...and Will You be Dressed for the Occasion?

Because the North Koreans seem determined to take us back to the Cold War, 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!
And in the meantime, you can read a collection of stories from Atomic War! and World War III at our "brother" RetroBlog, War: Past, Present and Future™!

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Reading Room BLAST-OFF! "Danger! Atoms!"

Some stories need little extrapolation...
...such as this never-reprinted short by writer/artist Howard Nostrand from Harvey's Blast-Off! #1 (1965)
Cute, eh?

Friday, July 28, 2017

Friday Fun BIG APPLE COMIX "Lotsa Yox featuring Rodger Farnsworth USAAF"

With Kong:Skull Island coming out on disc last week...
...we nostalgically flashed-back to the good old days, when cinematic giant apes had to come to NYC and climb whatever the tallest building was at the time!
But, because artists Herb Trimpe and Wally Wood insisted on including a nude woman in the strip, you'll have to see this never-reprinted classic in out "brother" blog Not Safe for Work Comics!
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Thursday, July 27, 2017

Reading Room THE UNEXPECTED "Monstrous Crime"

As DC Comics ended it's non-super-hero anthologies...
...sometimes unused stories for one title were used as filler in other books!
Originally-produced for the sci-fi anthology Time Warp, this never-reprinted story ended up in the back of issue #207 (1981) of the DC horror anthology The Unexpected.
Tor Infante (aka Nestor Infante/Ernesto Infante) illustrated only 11 war and horror stories in the early 1980s, all for DC, before disappearing from the American comics scene until the 1990s, when he took on multiple assignments for Continuity Comics including Ms Mystic and Megalith, as well as KnightHawk, which found a new home at Acclaim Comics after Continuity folded.
Infante passed away in 2011.
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