Reading Room VANGUARD ILLUSTRATED "...friend in need..."

In Space, No One Can Hear You...

...Dream (bet you thought I was going to say "Scream" didn't you?), as this never-reprinted story from over 30 years ago proves!

This tale from Pacific's Vanguard Illustrated #5(1984) had appeared a decade earlier in a somewhat different form!

You'll see that version...tomorrow!

Writer-artist Ron Harris is best-known as the artist for the Dallas and Star Trek newspaper strips in the late 1970s-early 1980s.

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Star Trek: the Newspaper Strip

Volume One

Halloween's Over...Time for CHRISTMAS!

Well, the Christmas shopping season is more-or-less underway (Remember when it didn't begin until after Thanksgiving?), so we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ are going to offer you an ongoing guide to reasonably-priced pop culture collectibles that would make great gifts for the hard-to-please person in your life from now thru Christmas Eve!

You think the economic situation is bad now?Go back 79 years ago, to November 1938 and see...elves were picketing Santa's WorkShop for better pay!
(You'll note that the cover is dated January, 1939. But it was actually on sale in November, 1938! Publishers used to cover-date comics and pulps two to three months ahead of the actual on-sale date to keep the books on the stands for as long as possible!)
Thus do we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ offer another retro-styled collectible for your Christmas gift-giving consideration, and offer you a bit of media history at the same time!
In this case, we proudly present one of our Christmas in the Comics line from our Cool Christmas collection: seven different digitally-remastered comic covers featuring classic characters celebrating Christmas, including The Green Lama, Fast Willie Jackson, SuperSnipe, and Edison Bell: Boy Inventor, as well as two long-out-of-print versions of The Big Man, Santa, himself!
Available on a multitude of memorabilia including greeting cards, mugs, hoodies, and other goodies, these pop-art collectibles are NOT available in any brick-and-mortar stores, only on-line thru us!
And don't forget our Santa Claus--the Man Himself, A Christmas Carol starring Scrooge, the Hardly-Abominable SnowMan, and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians lines!
There's something for everyone under the tree at Atomic Kommie Comics™!

Pre-Black Friday Sale: 2018 Pop Culture Calendars!

Because it's become the most popular sale we've ever run, we're bringing back the  
Atomic Kommie Comics™
2018 12-Month Calendars 
at a 25% discount!
Perfect for office, dorm, or bedroom!
The IDEAL gift for the hard-to-please pop culture fan in your life (or yourself)!
12 months of comic and pulp covers and/or movie posters!A FULL YEAR OF GRAPHIC FUN!

Sherlock Holmes: the Greatest Sleuth of All!™

Basil Rathbone IS Sherlock Holmes!™

WereWolves and Vampires™

Vampires of Pulps and Comics™

Werewolves of the Comics and Pulps™

Zombies of Comics and Pulps™

Plus MANY MORE!

Classic comic book and pulp magazine covers and movie posters, scanned from the originals and digitally-remastered and restored!
NOT available in stores, only on-line!
And, until November 23, 2017, they're FIVE BUCKS CHEAPER!
Normally $19.99, they're only $14.99!
Order now...before time runs out!

Friday Fun "Whatever happened to Carmelita Rodriguez?"

The innocent victim of Dracula vs Zorro reappeared in Topps' Zorro #9 (1994)...

...but writer Don McGregor's plans for her future apperances were disrupted by the book's cancellation two issues later!

However, a Zorro spin-off title, Lady Rawhide, kept going as a line of mini-series, and Carmelita became one of the protaganists of the 1996-97 mini-series Other People's Blood...

...first as a victim requiring rescue by the heroine...

...then as the one who rescues the heroine...

...though that's not readily apparent by the cover art!

Sadly, this is as much of this reprinted (in 1999) tale I'm going to re-present, but you can order it below...

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Lady Rawhide: Other People's Blood

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Reading Room STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES "One Last Chance"

A never-reprinted, Ditko-rendered, Silver Age tale...

...is our post-Halloween treat (no trick) to our loyal fans!

I rather like the idea that the protaganists will never know if they succeeded in saving the future, or inadvertently destroyed it!

Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories V3#2 (1968) was written entirely by Steve Skeates, though the stories in the anthology were illustrated by different artists.

Apparently editor Dick Giordano had planned to allow a single writer to carry each issue, with Denny O'Neil handling all the chores on the first issue and Skeates scripting the second.

Giordano's departure to DC scuttled the concept, and from the third issue onward, a variety of writers would fill the pages.

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Unexplored Worlds

Steve Ditko Archives, Vol 2