Monday, October 24, 2022

Monday Madness WEIRD MYSTERIES "Trick or Treat"

It's Almost Halloween...

...so let's have fun telling a tale of a Halloween costume party gone horribly wrong!
Illustrated by Eugene Hughes and scripted by an unknown writer, this All Hallows Eve story from Key Publications' Weird Mysteries #10 (1954) was reprinted only once until the 2010s...but in black and white and with the only alteration being a title change...
...when it appeared in Stanley Morse's Stark Terror #2 (1970).
(Morse, BTW, was the publisher of Key Publications before the company went out of business during the Dr Wertham-created "Seduction of the Innocent" scandal that almost destroyed the comic book business in the mid-1950s.

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Thanks for Ordering Halloween Goodies from Atomic Kommie Comics™

We broke sales records this year...thanks to you!
We're finishing prepping and shipping already-ordered products, but no new orders can be accepted, since they wouldn't arrive before Halloween, and we believe in TREATS, not TRICKS!
Happy Halloween to EVERYONE!

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Space Hero Saturdays MARVEL PREVIEW "Good Lord!"

A very kool tribute to EC's Weird Science and Weird Fantasy (& Weird Science-Fantasy)...
...which often combined sci-fi space hero adventure with horror elements!
There's an especially-ironic note to this EC tribute tale...the "Crusty Bunkers" inker ensemble, who like EC's "Fleagle Gang", who would help each other out with tight deadlines in the 1950s!
The Fleagles consisted of Al Williamson, Angelo Torres, Frank Frazetta, and Roy Krenkel with occasional assistance by Russ Heath, Wally Wood and Joe Orlando.
Their projects were often last-minute art "jams" with people doing anything from a figure or backgrounds in a panel to full pages at a shot.
The 1970s/80s equivalent was "The Crusty Bunkers", and consisted of artists based at Neal Adams' Continuity Associates art studio.
On this particular tale from the b/w magazine Marvel Preview #1 (1975), written by Marv Wolfman and penciled by Dave Cockrum, they were...(in alphabetical order) Neal Adams, Terry Austin, Pat Broderick, Russ Heath, and Joe Rubenstein.
And, like the Fleagles, they inked the story piecemeal, so you can see several different artists' styles on various pages, and even individual panels!
Penciler Dave Cockrum himself was at an artistic peak, having recently-finished his run on DC's Legion of Super-Heroes and was working on Marvel's then-recently-revived X-Men series that would make Marvel's mutants marketable again!
(Say that five times fast!)
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Friday, October 21, 2022

Friday Fun CALLING ALL KIDS "Pug and Curly Find Someone to Scare"

Though not quite as weird as their book-mate Twinkle...

...anthropomorphic squirrels Pug and Curly were even more long-lived, running for the entire existence of Calling All Kids from #1 to 26!
This tale, BTW, was from the same book as last week's Twinkle story, Parent Magazine Press' Calling All Kids #13 (1947).

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Haunted House Reading Room UNCANNY TALES "I was Locked in a...Haunted House!"

Here's a tale that was so kool...
...Stan Lee and the artists at Atlas/Marvel told it three times...with variations, of course!
Written by Stan Lee, illustrated by Joe Maneely, this story from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #7 (1953) featured comic book fanboys as the protaganists.
(Note they only read Atlas titles like MysticMarvel Tales, and Uncanny Tales!
None of that EC crud for these guys!)
Be here Tuesday when Stan Lee and another Silver Age great re-tell this tale!
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