Is it this one?
Click HERE to see the America that DeSantis (and, ironically, many Republicans) apparently want to restore!
Sunday, August 6, 2023
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Space Force Saturdays TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET "Spaceship of Doom!"
Here's the only major 1950s multi-media space hero we haven't covered...
...so we're intoducing him to you with his first appearance in his second comic series!
So, let's join Tom and the crew of the Space Academy ship Polaris...
Besides being the longest-running tv/radio show of the genre (six years), Tom Corbett had the longest run of any of the tv series comics adaptations...fifteen issues with two different publishers!
The second series was published by Prize Comics and packaged (as were a number of Prize titles of the period) by the Simon & Kirby studio.
The series' primary artist was Mort Meskin, but there are apparently other artists doing layouts and inking including Jack Kirby himself, and Steve Ditko (who was just starting out).
This tale from Prize Comics' V2N1 (1955) was penciled by Meskin and inked by several different artists.
Trivia: the TV series is one of only a half-dozen shows to have appeared on all four major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and DuMont) during its' first run!
Trivia: the TV series is one of only a half-dozen shows to have appeared on all four major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and DuMont) during its' first run!
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!
Visit Amazon and Buy...
Friday, August 4, 2023
Friday Fun HICKORY "Irrigation Irritation"
Let's have a look at how some creatives see twice-impeached/thrice indicted Don (the Con) Trump's "deplorables"...
...in this never-reprinted tale from Quality's Hickory #1 (1949)
Illustrated (and probably written) by Harry Sahle, this strip began in Hillman Comics' anthology All-Humor Comics, then spun-off into it's own, short-lived, title when All-Humor was cancelled.
In 1948-49, superheroes were all but kaput.
Comics were experimenting with every genre imaginable to see what would sell.
Li'l Abner was a major success in newspapers and had already spawned a radio series and feature film!
Strips like Looie Lazybones had long been a part of anthology titles, and series like Ozark Ike, and Babe had earned their own titles, though it was probably due more to their emphasis on the characters' involvement in sports than their rural origins.
Hickory the comic only lasted six issues.
Please Support
Atomic Kommie Comics
Visit Amazon and Order...
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Reading Room VANGUARD ILLUSTRATED "Tangled Web"
One of the joys of doing a blog like this is discovering people who, all too briefly, worked in comics...
...then moved on, sometimes without a trace!
This never-reprinted tale from Pacific's Vanguard Illustrated #4 (1984) is written and illustrated by Ruth Raymond.
It's her only comics credit, and, sadly, I can't find a single reference to her outside of the Grand Comics Database!
Was "Ruth Raymond" a pseudonym?
Both the scripting and art, though a tad awkward, show enormous potential.
It's sad to think this talented creative wasn't given a chance to grow.
If anybody has any info, please leave a link in the comments section!
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder: CHILDREN OF DOOM "Part 2 The Last Countdown..."
The world ended.
But not by nuclear war, since a Doomsday Machine that would destroy the planet if any atomic explosion was detected, ended even the testing of nuclear bombs!
Instead, a European power (implied to be an Iron Curtain nation, likely the USSR) manages to re-direct two meteors to strike Earth, ideally affecting only the USA!
Unfortunately, an attempt to divert the meteors using missiles results in the space rocks fragmenting and hitting all over the planet, creating devastation on an unparalleled scale!
With the Earth apparently doomed, a pair of astronauts in orbit, believing themselves the only survivors, decide to head for the nearest habitable planet...Venus!
But they don't know people have survived...but not unscathed...
The Story Concludes
NEXT WEDNESDAY!
Scientific note: In mid-1967, it wasn't yet known that Venus was covered with clouds of sulfuric acid and the surface was barren, so heading there instead of Mars wasn't an unreasonable concept.NEXT WEDNESDAY!
As this issue’s “Postscripts From The Editor” (Dick Giordano) explains: “This issue may reach the stands a little late.
We had an entirely different issue ready for press, cover and all, and lost it on a legality.
We then had to get this one together in a big hurry.
We’ve always liked the idea of a black and white comic book but have been afraid of doing one in a format where everyone else is in four color.
So we mixed it up in this one! Some four color, some black and white. We like it…do you?"
The “we” was writer Denny O'Neil (under a pseudonym) and artist Pat Boyette, who produced the entire 25-page tale from concept to script to camera-ready art and color guides in less than a week!
Boyette did all the penciling, inking and lettering.
Rumor has it that O'Neil also assisted with the color guides.
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!
Visit Amazon and Buy...
which reprints this story
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)