Atomic Kommie Comics

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Reading Room SPACE SQUADRON "World of No Return"

Buckle up your jetpacks...

...as we hurtle back to the year 2000 (as seen from the year 1951!)...

This never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Space Squadron #2 (1951) is typical of the early 1950s, when sci-fi was dominiated by various military and police organizations patrolling and controlling the universe, much as America was patrolling and controlling the non-Commie-controlled parts of Earth.
As in many ongoing series (no matter what the genre), the evil progeny (Edgar Revere) of a great man (Blast Revere) was never revealed as the schemer behind most of their problems!

Neither the writer nor artist are known.
See the other Captain Jet Dixon of the Space Squadron tales we've presented HERE!
And keep watching, as we finish our re-presentation of this time-lost series before the end of the year!

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Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr

by Isaac Asimov
(under the pen-name "Paul French")
Omnibus of ALL Six Space-Opera Sagas!
David Starr: Space Ranger, Pirates of the Asteroids, Oceans of Venus, Big Sun of Mercury, Moons of Jupiter, Rings of Saturn

Monday, October 9, 2017

Reading Room EVERY DAY IS A HOLLY DAY "Columbus Day"

It used to be October 12th...

...but now it's the second Monday in October, to allow people a three-day holiday!

Interestingly, this page from Brevity Inc's one-shot giveaway Every Day is a Holly Day (1956) acknowledges Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, a rarity in that era!

Why is this comic entitled "Every Day is a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day is a Holiday"?

Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!

Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day"), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!

We'll be presenting the other chapters on the dates they fall upon.

Watch for them!

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Cartoon History of the Modern World

Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution

Sunday, October 8, 2017

Gruesome Graphic Invitations for Halloween!

If you're going to do a party on October 31st (It's on Tuesday this year!), you'll want to create the right mood by sending out an appropriate invitation to your ghoulish get-together!
That's where we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ can help you set the right macabre mood!
Using classic comic book covers and movie posters, we've given you a plethora of perverse pictures to choose from with a dozen different, demonic, invitations as 8-packs of postcards and/or 10-packs of note cards and greeting cards ranging from G-rated to PG-13 to suit every need! (The one above is PG).

So have a look and order NOW!
The later you place your order, the greater the chance that your treat could turn into a missed-deadline trick!

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Reading Room 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY "New Seed" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Beyond-Human Protaganist...

...once known as Gordon Pruett, he had been transformed by a Monolith into a "New Seed" who now wanders time and space the way you and I wander local streets...

The remaining three issues after this introduced X-51 aka "Mister Machine", renamed "Machine Man", and now an integral part of the mainstream Marvel Universe.

You can read them HERE, HERE, and HERE, and unless you have the actual issues of 2001 in your comics collection, this blog is the only place I know of where you can do so!

Though Marvel has reprinted the later ongoing Machine Man series, it can't reprint the three issues of 2001 introducing the character, nor can it reference the Monolith's participation in the character's origin due to licensing issues!

NOTE: This wasn't the first series set in the 2001: a Space Odyssey universe!

In 1971, Polystyle's comic weekly Countdown introduced an ongoing two-page strip set sometime after 2001...