Atomic Kommie Comics

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SONIC DISRUPTORS "Are You Ready to Rock?" Conclusion

In 2030...as seen from 1987...

...the world has gone to shit!

How did it happen?

Read on...

While it won't be "next month", we will present "Republic of Rock" in the near future!

Writer Mike Baron, penciler Barry Crain, and inker John Nyberg created this series for DC in 1986, when the company was encouraging creatives to present new, creator-owned, projects either as stand-alone graphic novels or mini-series.
Though this was proposed as a 12-issue series, only seven issues were published, and contrary to rumors, there was no unpublished 8th issue!
We'll tell that tale...someday!

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Taylor Illustrated History

Science Fiction Comics

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Reading Room VANGUARD ILLUSTRATED "...friend in need..."

In Space, No One Can Hear You...

...Dream (bet you thought I was going to say "Scream" didn't you?), as this story from over 30 years ago proves!

This tale from Pacific's Vanguard Illustrated #5(1984) had appeared a decade earlier in a somewhat different form!

You'll see that version...Thursday!

Writer-artist Ron Harris is best-known as the artist for the Dallas and Star Trek newspaper strips in the late 1970s-early 1980s.

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Star Trek: the Newspaper Strip

Volume One

Monday, August 28, 2023

Monday Madness: Neil Gaiman Spoofs Gothic Romances...AND Romance Comic Books!

Who else could do it...and do it so well?

NO ONE!
THAT'S WHO!

So, check out our annual summertime "beach read" Gothic romance...

at our "sister" RetroBlog...

TRUE LOVE COMICS TALES!

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Gothic!

(An anthology of original Gothic horror prose tales by various authors where the short story the graphic novel is based on first appeared)

and/or

Fragile Things

by Neil Gaiman

(Prose anthology of Gaiman's work featuring the short story the graphic novel is based on, along with background information)

and/or

Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire

by Neil Gaiman and Shane Oakley

(Graphic novel adaptation of the short story)

Sunday, August 27, 2023

Read THE SHADOW: DESTINATION MOON

The never-reprinted, final Maxwell Grant Shadow novel from 1967,

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The Shadow: Destination Moon

Maxwell Grant

(Dennis Lynds)
Out of print for over a half-century!

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Space Hero Saturdays DRIFT MARLO: SPACE DETECTIVE "Case #1: File of the Periled 'Peace-Maker' " Part 1

Not the first comic character to be called "Space Detective"...

...but Drift Marlo was the first one to be set in the present (1962), not the future!

...and so does the "alien" Drift encountered!

Coincidence?

You'll have to wait until next week to find out!

Plus: we'll present background info on our all-but-forgotten stellar shamus!

But for now, we will tell you this tale is from Dell's Drift Marlo #1 (1962), written by Phil Evans and illustrated by Tom Cooke.