CoronaVirus Comics DEATH RATTLE "Masque of the Red Death"

We've run numerous adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story...

...but this is the actual bone-chilling tale, uncut!

Illustrated by Daryl Hutchinson. this never-reprinted story from Kitchen Sink's Death Rattle V2N13 (1987) is fascinating, combining the complete centuries-old text with art that deliberately tries to evoke the style of 1930s-40s pulp artists like Virgil Finley and Hannes Bok!

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Raven and the Red Death

Adapted by Richard Corben

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics CONAN THE BARBARIAN ANNUAL "Bride of the Oculist!" Part 2

When Last We Saw Our Barbarian...

Richel, an oculist relates the tale of Narada (his unfaithful wife), Tolkan (her current lover), Conan, and the malady he, Richel, created that binds them all together...

Hard to believe, but this issue was approved by the Comics Code Authority!

Guess they considered Hyborian Era STDs to be "fantasy"...

Scripted by Christopher Priest (as "James C Owlsey"), and illustrated by Ernie Chan/Chua (with an assist on layouts by John Buscema), this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Conan the Barbarian Annual #11 (1987) is easily the most "adult" Conan color comic adventure ever!
Note: Marvel didn't introduce their ratings labels (All Ages/Mature/etc) until 2001.

Payback's a bitch as you'll see when this story concludes...

...Next Wednesday!

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Essential Conan

Volume 1

(and ONLY!)

Featuring issues 1 to 25

CoronaVirus Comics ACTION COMICS "Three Aces vs the Serum Stealer"

Not every feature in DC's Action Comics has been Superman-caliber material...

...including this series featuring middle-aged aviators!

This never-reprinted tale about opportunism during a medical emergency from DC's Action Comics #39 (1941) resonates today since some individuals and businesses are taking advantage of shortages of equipment (like masks and hand sanitizer) and medications during the Covid-19 pandemic!
Written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Chad Grothkopf, it's a solid, simple tale, just not very "flashy" as compared to the lead feature (You-Know-Who).
Despite that, they had a fairly long run in Action from #16 through #63.

BTW, The Three Aces constantly-state (as in this tale) that they flew in "the World War".

Since America hadn't entered World War II as of the time of publication, it was a clear reference to World War I (15 years earlier), which would have made the youngest of them in their late-30s, at least!

As of Action #47 (1942) they rejoined the military, serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt (Theodore, not Franklin).
Note: there wouldn't be a real aircraft carrier named "USS Theodore Roosevelt" until 1986!

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10¢ War

Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics THE STAND: CAPTAIN TRIPS "Prologue: the Circle Opens" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Protaganists...

...oh, and a car containing a scientist on the run, his wife, and their child just crashed into a gas station...

(BTW, the "Captain Trips" of the title is nickname of the disease!)

Adapted by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and illustrated by Mike Perkins, Marvel's The Stand: Captain Trips #1 (2008) details the accidental release of a fast-acting viral bio-weapon that will shortly decimate the world's population!

Marvel needed six mini-series from 2008 to 2012 to adapt the 1990 revised and expanded edition of the already-massive 1978 novel!

Trivia: Randall Flagg, a character who appears in many of King's stories, unifying them into one "multiverse", makes his debut in The Stand novel.

But, in comics, he premiered in Marvel's Dark Tower adaptation, which was published before The Stand!

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The Stand: Captain Trips

Collecting the entire five-issue Mini-Series

or

The Stand Omnibus

collecting all six miniseries and the SketchBook plus an exclusive Companion in one huge HTF and OOP two-volume slipcased set!

With CoronaVirus Infection and Death Numbers Dropping in Areas that Kept Social DIstancing...

...we'll be ending the CoronaVirus Comics Blogathon...

...across the RetroBlogs family as of Saturday, the 4th of July, since most of America will be in recovery mode.

Mind you, we have more than enough material to run through Labor Day, but, with the pandemic diminishing, It's time for us, like the USA to start to return to normal!

And now a word for charity...

Lockdown Heroes

...is a work of art and, at the same time, a result of civil commitment and a testimonial to a historical moment.

Lockdown Heroes is a portfolio that collects illustrations of female "essential workers" done by noted Italian good-girl fumetti artist Milo Manara as high-quality frameable prints on fine paper, with Manara's signature on a dry stamp, inside a folder contained, in a slipcase.

Plus: there's a dossier written by Italian pop culture expert Vincenzo Mollica, and an interview with Milo Manara.

A charitable donation from the sale of each copy of Lockdown Heroes will support the Luigi Sacco Hospital in Milan, the University Hospital of Padua and the Domenico Cotugno Hospital in Naples.

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