CoronaVirus Comics AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES "Daredevil Barry Finn vs the Infectious Insects!"

One of a number of rich, handsome, heroic, layabouts who fought evil...

...because they had the wealth and spare time to do so!

This never-reprinted story from Centaur's Amazing Mystery Funnies V2N09 (1939) was conceived, written and illustrated by Tarpe Mills, one of the few female creatives working in comics before World War II put most of the male writers and artists in military service.

Tarpe's imagination also produced the The Purple Zombie, the original Cat-Man, and, most famously, Miss Fury.

Such "gentleman adventurers" as Barry Finn were popular in literature and media of the period.

Examples include The Saint, Lord Peter Wimsey, The Falcon, Boston Blackie, and Bulldog Drummond.

His nemesis, Zaroff (named after the villain of The Most Dangerous Game, but a scientist, not a hunter) constantly did typical mad scientist stuff which Finn would always thwart.

The brash young hero kicked butt for eight chapters, none of which has been seen since their original publication.

It may be time to change that...

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Miss Fury
Sensational Sundays 1944-1949

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Part 1

We've re-presented various adaptations of "Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe...

 ...until we're blue in the face, but this one has to be the most popular (and award-winning) one of all!

Will it truly be "great fun"?

For whom???

Find out next Monday...

Adapted and illustrated by comics legend Richard Corben, this somewhat-snarly, but extremely-kool version of the gothic classic appeared in Dark Horse's multi award-winning 2013 one-shot Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and the Red Death!

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Raven and the Red Death

Adapted by Richard Corben

The Summer Blogathons Return...

Yep, it's that time of year, when Atomic Kommie Comics present...

The RetroBlog Summer Blogathon!

...featuring batches of fascinating stuff from our vaults (almost all never-reprinted), in one or two-week blocks of daily entries, giving you a chance to sit back and enjoy complete stories that you haven't seen in years...or have only heard about, but never read, like...

Perry Mason...whose never-reprinted comic books will show you why the new HBO series is closer than you think to the early novels!

Check out Crime & Punishment for his hard-boiled adventures!

And to make it a Super-Summer Blogathon...

The book-length saga of Superman dying from "Virus X" was one of the classic (and often reprinted) Silver Age tales of the Man of Steel!

But. that's not what we're showing...since it's been reprinted numerous times over the years (and deservedly so)!
Did you know it was re-conceived as an expanded, multi-part, never-reprinted, story in Action Comics several years later?

That's what you'll see at Hero Histories in July!

Plus, we're presenting not one, but two Blogathons featuring the Man of Steel's cousin in stories unseen for 50 years!

Several of Supergirl's (somewhat kinky) romances in True Love Comics Tales!
And...

The Maiden of Might's weirdest, wildest adventures in Heroines!
There's even more, but you'll have to be back next Sunday to find out about them...

You Thought We Were Getting Rid of CoronaVirus? Really?

As the Medical Menace makes an unwelcome comeback...

...why not Shelter-in-Place and enjoy COMIC BOOKS about imaginary (hopefully) epidemic/pandemics! devastating America (or Earth) in the past, present, and future...Mon-Fri here on this blog, and weekly / bi-weekly on our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...

...Medical Comics and Stories...

...plus...

...Heroines!...

...Seduction of the Innocent...

...Hero Histories...

...War: Past, Present and Future...

...the aptly-named

...Not Safe For Work Comics...

...True Love Comics Tales

(You'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories revolve around disease!)...

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

...Crime & Punishment...

...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...

...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 for the next week!
However, as of July 4th, we're ending the ongoing CoronaVirus Comics features on all the blogs!
There will still be CoronaVirus-oriented posts from time to time, but we're getting back on track with, among other things, our traditional Summer Blogathons!

Be here next Saturday for details!

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics NELLIE THE NURSE "Busman's Holiday"

Before teen books like the Archie line dominated humor comics...

...there were...I suppose you'd call them..."young adult" humor comics like this one!

BTW, this opening panel's situation does not appear in the story...

In many ways, these comics are the screwball comedy b-movies / TV situation comedies of their era, as this never-reprinted tale from Timely's Nellie the Nurse #2 (1946) demonstrates!

Nellie had a healthy 36-issue run from 1945 to 1954.

She also popped up as a back-up feature in Willie Comics, Comedy Comics, and Millie the Model from time to time.

BTW, we mentioned Archie Comics earlier in this post.

When Nellie was revived in the late 1950s by Timely's successor, Atlas Comics, guess what style she was drawn in?

Saw that one coming, didn't ya?

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Nurse Nellie's Belly Laughs