Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "London Blitz 2.0"

We Have Already Seen...

...Hunt and Lyssa, having been accidentally-transported via Volta spacecraft from St Louis to Paris, must now find their way back to America, but without alien technology to help them...

Fiction House's Planet Comics #31 (1944) continues the trek across a devastated Europe...which, ironically mirrors the then-current situation known to us as World War II!

But even bigger changes are coming to the Lost World, as you'll see next week!

Note: While some spacecraft and submarines look similar, they're actually designed to operate in totally-different envrionments!

Spaceships fly though a near-vacuum, and low gravity so they're built to keep their interiors from exploding outward!

OTOH, subs are designed to keep incredibly-heavy water pressure from crushing them like tin cans.
Unless you can figure out how to make the vessel's structure do both effectively, a combo-use ship isn't really feasible...

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Holiday Reading Room CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Animals' Christmas"

There's a whole slew of Walt (Pogo) Kelly-created Christmas-themed tales...

...and I'll post them as a major part of the Holiday Reading Room series!

A never-reprinted Walt Kelly tale from Dell's Four Color #90 (1945) subtitled Christmas with Mother Goose, the first of the annual Yuletide anthologies that ran from 1945 to 1949 which utilized fairytale characters in X-Mas settings!

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Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories

Monday Madness: Christmas at Ground Zero---It's Earlier than You Think!

At this time of year, Christmas carols are already in continuous rotation on radio stations and in the Atomic Kommie Comics™ office.
(Remember when this didn't happen until after Thanksgiving?)
One of our favorites is Christmas at Ground Zero by "Weird" Al Yankovic.
(You were expecting maybe Adeste Fidelis?)

Which brings us to, perhaps, the most unusual theme for potential Christmas presents (and, you gotta admit, we've had some real weirdies!)...atomic Armageddon!
BTW, our apologies...the brand-new link directly from YouTube does a weird re-routing, so you have to click on the video embed to go directly to YouTube instead of being able to watch it on the blog!
Within our sci-fi-oriented The Future WAS Fantastic!™ section is the Atomic War line of kool collectibles with classic comic book covers from the fear-filled '50s, featuring the nuclear destruction of New York City (see above), Washington DC, and Moscow on black hoodies, sweats, and tees, as well as mugs and other tchochkies!

So for all you survivalists out there, while you duck n' cover under the Christmas tree, prepare for the irradiated end stylishly with our radiation-proof (not really!) garb and goodies!

Festive Christmas FaceMasks

Though the pandemic is limiting our usual Yuletide festivities, we should be prepared...

...if we can celebrate with family and friends by using festive face masks like these

Santa Claus-featured coverings...

...or, if you're feeling grumpy, some

Scrooge/A Christmas Carol-themed facewear...

...or comic-book coverings...

...or, last (but not least),

seasonal SnowMan nose/mouth protectors!

Each double-layer mask is reusable, washable, and built for comfort.
Every one-size-fits-all adult or kid mask features a pocket for optional filter use...and comes with two free carbon filters!
PLUS: these are exclusive designs, not available anywhere else or line-or in Brick-and-mortar stores!
(Even Amazon doesn't have them!)

Space Force Saturdays SPACE SQUADRON "Fiends with Four Arms" / MARVEL TALES "Starmen"

From Atlas' Space Squadron #2 (1951)...

...here's the cover-featured tale which was a rarity for Atlas Comics...a text story!

We don't know who the scripter is for the text feature from Atlas' Space Squadron #2 (1951), but the artist is Werner Roth who became the primary Jet Dixon artist as of this issue, replacing George Tuska.
Roth is best-known as the penciler (after Jack Kirby) of most of the early (1965-1969) run of Marvel's X-Men!

Oddly, the feature was reprinted a couple of years later in Atlas' Marvel Tales #116 (1953)...when Jet Dixon's replacement series, Speed Carter: SpaceMan, was being published!

Since the Marvel Tales cover wasn't a reprint of the earlier Space Squadron cover (or even related to the story), the title was changed, and the insert art replaced by a generic spaceship.

But the character names remained the same!

Note: This is the only Jet Dixon story to ever be reprinted!

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Atlas Era Tales to Astonish

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