Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Tales Twice Told STRANGE GALAXY "Terror Asteroid"

With a really kool title like this...
...you can bet there'll be thrills and chills aplenty in the dark void of space..where no one can hear you scream!
If you think this story from Eerie Publications' b/w magazine Strange Galaxy V1N11 (1971) has a curiously-1950s retro feel to it, you'd be right...sort of.
Though the art by Antonio Reynoso is new, the story itself is lifted, with only minor caption and dialogue changes, from a tale in Avon Comics' Strange Worlds #9 (1952)!
We'll bring you that one on Thursday!
Note: Reynoso was one of numerous South American artists used by Eerie to re-interpret old comics stories in an updated, usually gorier, style for the b/w magazine market.
In fact, he did more stories (over 80 of them) than any other artist!
And, unlike most of their other illustrators, he worked exclusively for Eerie in the American comics business!
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Monday, September 19, 2022

Monday Maternity Madness CHOICES "Civilization as We Know It!!"

The male (not "men" by any standard) Republican mindset in a nutshell...
...and I do mean "nut"!
From Angry Isis Press' Choices: a Pro-Choice Benefit Comic for the Anthology National Organization for Women, produced to raise money after the Supreme Court ruling of Webster V Reproductive Health Services (1989) began the re-imposition of limits to the rights of women over their own bodies!

Sunday, September 18, 2022

Gruesome Graphic Invitations for Halloween!

If you're going to do a party on October 31st (It's on Monday this year!) or the weekend before, you'll want to create the right mood by sending out an appropriate invitation to your ghoulish get-together!
That's where we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ can help you set the right macabre mood!
Using classic comic book covers and movie posters, we've given you a plethora of perverse pictures to choose from with a dozen different, demonic, invitations as 8-packs of postcards and/or 10-packs of note cards and greeting cards ranging from G-rated to PG-13 to suit every need! (The one above is PG).

So have a look and order NOW!
The later you place your order, the greater the chance that your treat could turn into a missed-deadline trick!

Saturday, September 17, 2022

Space Heroine Saturdays TARA "Outlaw of the Universe!"

An origin story, or as we say in comics "Who She Is and How She Came to Be"!

And it hasn't been reprinted since initial publication in Nedor's Wonder Comics #15 (1947)
Yes, I said #15, even though the cover by Alex Schomberg (aka "Xela") is from #16!
I'll explain later...
Tara continued in Wonder Comics until the book was cancelled, then popped over to fellow Nedor title Thrilling Comics for her final appearance!
You'll be seeing another chapter of her saga once a month as part of Space Heroine Saturdays!
As to why the cover for the next issue is used here:
1) the cover for #15 featured a different character.
2) The cover used on #16 actually shows a situation from this issue (#15)!

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Tara: Queen of the Space Pirates

Friday, September 16, 2022

Friday Fun GROOVY: The Marvel Comic You NEVER Saw!

Until the 1970s, Marvel Comics was owned by Martin Goodman, who also published lots of non-comics magazines!

In 1968, Marvel switched newsstand distributors and could finally expand the number of titles it had on the racks and spinners from only 11 per month to...whatever the market could bear!
Publisher Martin Goodman decided to do "corporate synergy" decades before it became a buzzword!
He would take comic panels from his b/w magazines, color them, and package them in a comic book-sized anthology!
Note that, despite being distributed with Marvel's comics, none of the Marvel creative crew worked on this project!
What could go wrong?
A lot!
Groovy was racked with the comics, since it was comic book-sized!
But the adult audience (who bought the material in magazines) rarely (if ever) even looked at comics racks and spinners!
Even adding a Marvel logo to the cover didn't help sales.
#3 was the final issue!
Next Friday, we'll provide some examples of the material that appeared inside.