Monday Madness MAD-DOG "Rabid"

He is The Hero We Need NOW...

...at least, that's what they thought in 1992, according to Ace Comics' editor Harlan Stone.

Writer Evan Dorkin, penciler Gordon Pucell, and inker Ray McCarthy play along with the premise of the short-lived TV 1990s series BOB (starring Bob Newhart) about a Silver Age comic character being revived in the Dark Age of the 1990s.

Editor Harlan Stone, mentioned above, is the character on the show who supports reimagining the Adam West-Batman-like Mad-Dog as a psychopathic killer vigilante, which Mad-Dog's creator, Bob McKay, hates, as shown in this "behind the scenes" page...

So, Stone proposes this comic (published by Marvel) which will present both versions!
You can read Bob McKay's upbeat Silver Age version right now over at our 'brother" RetroBlog Hero Histories by clicking HERE!
And you can watch (yes, watch) the series' origin story at another "brother" RetroBlog, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video, by clicking HERE!

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Bob Newhart (1929-2024)

Everybody knows the late, great, Bob Newhart's...

...two long-running TV series, The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart.

But, how many remember his final series, Bob...which was set in the world of comic books and greeting cards?

(Silly side note, considering the progression of series titles from The Bob Newhart Show to Newhart to Bob, if he had done another series what was it going to be called..."The"?)

In the 1992-94 series Newhart played Bob McKay, a Silver Age creative now doing greeting cards, who created, wrote, and illustrated Mad-Dog, a super-hero with the abilities of...you guessed it...a dog!

(He also, somehow, retained the copyright to the character, a rarity for creatives before the 1990s!)

When a new publisher wants to revive the character, Bob agrees, provided he does the book.

But, that's not what the publisher has in mind...

Note: we don't call the 1990s "The Dark Age" for nothing!

As you can see, Marvel Comics published a never-reprinted six-issue tie-in comic in "flip-book" format, with one half being Bob McKay's Silver Age version, and the other half being Ace Comics' Dark Age version.
In tribute to this unjustly-forgotten project, which featured an episode guest-starring noted comics creatives Jack Kirby, Bob Kane, Sergio Aragones, Jim Lee, and Mark Silvestri; we're interrupting our "Time-Lost" Summer Blogathon to do the following...

Presenting the pilot episode on

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

NOW!

Presenting the "Silver Age" Mad-Dog on Monday at

Hero Histories!

And presenting the "Dark Age" Mad-Dog on Monday right here at

Atomic Kommie Comics!

Miss them at your peril!

Space Hero Saturdays MOON ZERO TWO Part 1

Here's a movie that promoted itself as the "First Space Western"...

...though this psychedelic 1969 flick is more "Space" than "Western"!

Damn claim jumpers!

As you can see, life in 2021 (three years ago) is rough!

Next Saturday, the exciting conclusion as well as some behind-the-scenes info!

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Friday Fun / Trump Reading Room UNQUOTABLE TRUMP "Giant-Size Super-Leader Team-Up"

From Now Until Election Day, We'll Be Presenting Examples of How Creatives See Don da Con...

...often using his own words, as in this example from Unquotable Trump by cartoonist R. Sikoryak, based on the cover for Marvel's Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up #2 (1975) by penciler Gil Kane and inker Al Milgrom!

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Reading Room / Tales Twice Told WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Desert Castle"

We Presented the Later Telling of This Tale HERE...

...now here's the earlier (and never-reprinted version) from Key Publishing's Weird Tales of the Future #3 (1952)!

Note that, unlike the 1970s telling which gave the year as 2995, this earlier, 1950s version, illustrated by journeyman Tony Mortellaro,  is set in 1995, which makes the setting, technology, and clothing much more acceptable!

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Science Fiction Comics

Taylor History of Comics

Vol 3

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