Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Miss Cross Patch on Christmas Eve"

Unlike this Goldilocks story, which adapted an existing fairy tale into an Easter setting...

...this is a classic nursery rhyme, greatly expanded and enhanced by Walt (Pogo) Kelly for Christmastime!

From Dell's Four Color Comics #253 aka Christmas with Mother Goose (1949), written and illustrated by Walt (Pogo) Kelly.
For the remainder of the holiday season, we'll present stories (many never-reprinted) from this oversized holiday annual which ran from 1945 through 1949 every Monday!

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Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories

Retro-Style 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!

Santa Claus--the Man Himself!

More than a dozen different 1960s Kris Kringle designs that will bring back nostalgic memories of your Baby Boomer childhood!

PLUS: 

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!

The (Hardly) Abominable SnowMan!

Along with St. Nick, our frosty friend is one of the most recognizable symbols of Winter and the Christmas Season!
5 different Frosty designs!

The saga of Scrooge!  

A Christmas Carol brought to life with images from...
the very FIRST edition EVER
and the 1951 movie starring Alastair Sim!
Bah, Humbug!

Christmas in the Comics!

Designs featuring famous comic characters celebrating Christmas!

Green Lama!

Fast Willie Jackson!

Edison Bell: Boy Inventor!

Two different SuperSnipe designs!

Santa's Elves on Strike!

Western Rider Rusty!

3-D First Christmas Comic!

and MORE!

Happy Holiday Shopping from 
Atomic Kommie Comics™

Space Hero Saturdays BRICK BRADFORD "Action on Pura"

Meet a "space hero" who travels with a companion in a time machine which also moves through space!

No, not that one!

We're talking about the one who did it a generation before that one...

This never-reprinted short story from King's The Phantom #28 (1967) was by Paul Norris, who was also doing the newspaper strip!
Premiering in 1933, Brick Bradford started out as a high-adventure strip starring a daredevil aircraft pilot who encountered lost civilizations, dinosaurs and other fantastical situations.
In 1935, the strip's resident scientist, Professor Southern, created the "Time Top" which could travel through time and through space!
From then on, the strip was more or less a standard space opera with occasional journeys into the past and future.
Though it never achieved the level of popularity of Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers in the US, there were a couple of spin-offs including a series of Big Little Books and a movie serial starring Kane Richmond, who had also played Spy Smasher and The Shadow on the silver screen!

Though it lost American newspapers from the 1950s onward, the strip remained popular in Europe, Asia and Australia, where it continued until the retirement of the strip's current writer-artist, Paul Norris, in 1987...

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Veterans Day Tribute to World War II Aviator Collectibles

 Comic books played a major part in shaping the public's impression of both our troops and our enemies during World War II.
Among the classiest were these three beautiful covers for Contact Comics, an aviation-oriented title. Spectacular, intense, eye-catching color highlights these poster-style pieces of art.
Each one paid honor to the aviation division of one of the three armed forces branches. (The Air Force as a separate branch didn't come about until after WWII)

Tribute to the Navy Air Corps
featuring F6F Hellcat fighters.

Tribute to the Army Air Force

featuring B-24 Liberator heavy bombers.

Tribute to the Marine Air Corps
featuring F4U Corsair fighters.

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ have digitally-restored and remastered them on a line of kool kollectibles which would make perfect Veterans Day, Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, or 4th of July gifts for the WWII veteran in your life.
Choose from t-shirts, mugs, magnets, BBQ aprons, and many other goodies.

Reading Room: AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES "2038 AD: An Excursion to Mars"

In just a few years, we'll be spending our vacations on Mars, but getting there will seem awfully familiar...

...at least they thought so in 1938, when this feature appeared in Centaur's Amazing Mystery Funnies V1N2!

Writer/illustrator A S Van Eerde also did covers and interiors for magazines like American Legion, as well as fine art, but his comic book work was limited to this short-lived two-page strip that ran only four installments.