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Thursday, December 3, 2020

A Hallmark Channel-type Christmas Tale...in Comic Book Form!

Ever watch a romantic Hallmark Channel Christmas movie?

Well, our "sister" RetroBlog, True Love Comics Tales, is presenting a novel-length comic story that reads exactly like one of those astonishingly-popular tearjerker flicks!

Big city girl unable to find a romantic partner journeys to the countryside to spend Christmas with relatives!

She meets a guy who she had briefly (and klutzilly) encountered back in the city!

Note: he's the very image of a potential lover she had been dreaming about for months! (hence the title)

Is it fate they encounter each other?

Or will his dark secret drive them apart?

Click HERE to find out!

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder LOST WORLD "Return to America"

Trapped in Europe and still seeking a route back to America...

...Hunt Bowman and alien princess Lyssa once more make the cover!

(oddly, even though the cover is by the story's artist, Lily Renee, it has nothing to do with the tale!)

Let me get this straight...

Aliens smart and advanced enough to travel across interstellar space utilize a gas that's fatal to them...but not humans?

Did no one try this stuff out on captive Earthers to see if it would work before issuing it to combat troops?

Well, at least Hunt and Lyssa are back in the good ol' USA, specifically, Boston!

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Lily Renee, Escape Artist

Trina Robbins

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Happy 40th, Flash!

Before we end 2020, we wanted to acknowledge that it's the 40th Anniversary of Flash Gordon.

Though critically-reviled when it came out, the movie has attained cult-classic status, primarily due to the soundtrack by Queen...

...and over-the-top performances by (among others) Brian Blessed (Hawkman Prince Vultan), Topol (Dr Zarkoff) and Max Von Sydow (Ming the Merciless).

The adaptation was written by Bruce Jones and illustrated by legendary artist Al Williamson (who, ironically, was also doing the equally-magnificent graphic novel version of The Empire Strikes Back at the same time)!

Interestingly, Williamson inked the entire Flash adaptation, while allowing the talented Carlos Garzon (himself, no slouch) to ink the bulk of Empire.
Read it, from the beginning...HERE!

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Monday, November 30, 2020

Monday Madness / Holiday Reading Room SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "How Santa Got His Red Suit"

Didn't you ever wonder...

Well, here's the answer, from Dell's Four Color Comics #61 (1944)!

After being published annually as it's own title in 1942-1943, Santa Claus Funnies became a Four Color Comics feature, publishing annually from 1944 to 1961.

This tale was written and illustrated by Walt Kelly, before he created the classic comic strip Pogo.
Beginning with a two-part adaptation of the novel Gulliver's Travels in New Comics in 1935, Walt began an almost two-decade run in comic books, almost all of it for Dell Comics, where his distinctive style quickly developed into the "house style" for humor and funny animal stories that other artists would try to emulate.
Walt was the primary artist on the ongoing Santa Claus Funnies and Christmas with Mother Goose series, and, as we said, we'll be presenting quite a few of those stories this Christmas season.

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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Retro-Kool Christmas Collectibles!

It's time to reveal the coolest Christmas goodies ever, exclusively for your shopping pleasure! (Don't ya just love soft-sell?)

Ornaments, greeting cards, clothing, mugs, throw blankets, shopping bags, magnets, and many other items with stylish retro graphics that will make great under-the-tree gifts or stocking stuffers!