Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics DRACULA COMICS "Invasion"

Covid-19 isn't the only virus afflicting mankind...

...as this rather bizarre feature demonstrates!

Kool, eh?

Written by Estaban Maroto (who's better-known as an illustrator) and depicted by Jose Bea, this tale from New English Library's Dracula Magazine V1N5 (1972) originally appeared, in Spanish, in Buru Lan's Drácula V1N5 (1971)!

It was then published in America by Warren Publications in a trade paperback collecting the first six issues of Dracula Magazine and as a standalone tale in color insert sections of the publisher's usually-all b/w magazines!

So older fans will probably remember it from several different places during the early 1970s!

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Dracula

the Trade Paperback

(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine!)

Is THIS Our Future?

Is this our future...

...thanks to the ineptitude of President Don da Con?

Legendary artist Basil Wolverton did these illustrations for articles in a religious organization's magazine about the Book of Revelations.

They were later compiled, along with others, into a multi-volume version of the Bible by that same organization which covered from Genesis to Revelations!

Here's the final image in the series that was so shocking, the editors initially refused to publish it!

Is this our future???
The Choice is Up to YOU!!!

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Wolverton Bible

(which takes the HTF 1970s limited-distribution multi-volume series and reprints it in a single hardcover book!)

CORONAVIRUS COMICS...Because Real Life is TOO Scary...

...we present tales of fictional epidemics/pandemics daily here on this blog...

...and our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...

...Medical Comics...
...plus...

...Heroines...

...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...

...Crime & Punishment...

...True Love Comics Tales

(you'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories involve disease)...

...Not Safe for Work Comics...

...Seduction of the Innocent...

...War: Past Present & Future...

...Hero Histories...

...Horror Comics of the 1950s...

...Western Comics Adventures...
Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!
Don't Miss Them!

CoronaVirus Comics / Friday Fun CRAZY "Flu Strains from DIfferent Countries"

You thought that, during the 1970s, we were becoming more sensitive to ethnic humor?

You obviously weren't around then, bunkie!

While TV series like All in the Family and films like Kentucky Fried Movie were cleverly skewering racial stereotypes, some pop culture contributors were still indulging in them, as this (not surprisingly) never-reprinted feature from Marvel's Crazy Magazine #43 (1978) proves!

I don't know what writer Fred Wolfe and artist John Langton were thinking when they created this, but the fact that editor Paul Laikin let it see print doesn't speak well for any of their sensibilities!

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Sincerest Form of Parody

CoronaVirus Comics MARVEL TALES "Last Man Alive!"

This lovely cover by Bill Everett is sorta true...

...but it's also sorta deceiving!
Read about Freddie Kruger (yep, that's his name)...

So he wasn't the last man alive...nor was he even on Earth!

Why the disconnect between the cover for Atlas' Marvel Tales #153 (1956) by Bill Everett and the story illustrated by Ed Winiarski?

Two possibilities!

1) the cover was conceived and drawn before the story was written, and the tale, done later on, was modified from the basic premise!

2) Editor Stan Lee (who probably didn't write the story) failed to convey the concept of the already-done story properly to the cover artist, and it was too late in the production process to correct it!

Trivia: It's not unusual for a one-shot character's name to became famous for another reason later on!

This character has no relation to the villain of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise!

Conversely, when Raymond Burr's character in the first Godzilla film, reporter "Steve Martin" was resurrected 29 years later in Godzilla 1985, a certain comedian by the same name had become extremely famous!

Despite that, Burr's character retained the name in the sequel...

BTW, the story's author is unknown and neither the cover nor the tale has ever been reprinted.

This is its' first appearance in 54 years!

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Ten-Cent Plague

Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America