Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Luana & Gwendoline


In our ongoing search for pop culture coolness, Atomic Kommie Comics™ has come across posters for two of the funkiest flix of the 70s-80s for our line of kool kollectibles including t-shirts, mugs, mousepads, and other tchochkies...
Luana (aka Luana - la Figlia della Foresta Vergine [Italy], Luana - Der Fluch des weißen Goldes [West Germany], Luana, the Girl Tarzan [USA]) was an Italian jungle flick featuring the only Eurasian jungle princess I've ever seen, a little-known actress named Mei Chen who looks really good in a fur bikini! Produced in 1968, but not released to the US until the mid-70s, it's best known for two American posters featuring art by none other than fantasy art legend Frank Frazetta! (There was also a novelization by Alan Dean Foster [who did a helluva lot of them in the 70s] with the Frazetta art on the cover! And the key art was used as a cover for Vampirella #31, which featured a comic adaptation of the movie!)
Needless to say, we've found BOTH of the posters (along with a non-Frazetta European one) and are offering them at our Menacing Maidens section of Seduction of the Innocent™.
PLUS: we've added the Indiana Jones-style poster for the 80s Just Jackln movie version of John Wilie's Sweet Gwendoline strip called Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak, featuring video vixen Tawny Kitaen. The film is perhaps the classiest R-rated sexploitation film ever done, with a real sense of visual style, and actors who can actually act, despite truly awful dialogue! (The director also did the 80s versions of Emmanuelle and The Story of O.)
Mix in poster for both Cleopatra Jones blaxploitation flix, SuperChick, and the pre-Charlies' Angels team Ebony, Ivory & Jade, and you'll see why Menacing Maidens is a must-see site for the SERIOUS schlock fan!

Monday, August 25, 2008

John McCain...the Betrayer

Sometimes, life imitates art.
Sometimes, art fits life.
In archiving some graphic files, I came across one that I felt could be modified to express my dismay at Republican Senator John McCain's failure to back the GI Bill to provide much-needed help to veterans.
Imagine, a fellow veteran unwilling to help his fellows, his comrades, his buddies!
Thus, the image you see at left of a helpless medic pleading for help as his last bottle of precious plasma is blasted by an unseen enemy...
You can find it at McCain the Betrayer on shirts, stickers, buttons, mugs, and other goodies.
Plus: I'll provide a volume discount if you need one. If it means getting the message out, I'd rather just break even.
We can't allow him to become the Commander-in-Chief!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

We give NEW meaning to "Back to School"

Well, summer's almost over.
Soon it'll be time to go back to...dare I say it...SCHOOL!
But, Atomic Kommie Comics™ always tries to look on the bright side and think to myself, "It's time to buy new clothes and school supplies!"
And, luckily, we can provide just what you need, including messenger bags/schoolbags, mousepads, magnets, mugs, notebooks/sketchpads, and, of course, casual clothing, all with an appropriate theme...Romance in school!
Just direct your browser to School of Love™ and see what I'm talking about! Several vintage classic comic book covers from the Campus Romances & Campus Loves series that will give your personal gear a kool retro look!
And remember, almost all of our digitally-restored & remastered designs are EXCLUSIVE to us! You can't buy them in stores!
(And if you're looking for something a little sleazier, have a look at Seduction of the Innocent™, our section of stuff your grandparents didn't want your parents seeing when they were your age!

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Cosmo Cat & SuperDuper Mouse



Admittedly, when you think of Atomic Kommie Comics™, you don't usually think of funny animals.
Well, it's time you did...
We're reintroducing two long-lost superheroes from the 1940s. We've done that before in our Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ line.
This time, the rub is...they're funny animals, and they're for kids only!
Cosmo Cat, like many other superheroes, was created by an accident that would kill most normal people (or animals). In his case it was dropping a bomb on his foot. The fact that he was standing in an atomic power plant at the time might have had something to do with his survival. Scientific accuracy was not one of the strong points of Golden Age stories...
After gaining the usual super-powers of invulnerability (which all animated animal characters have to an extent, Ask Wile E. Coyote!) super-strength, and flight, he renewed his powers by taking Cosmic Catnip Capsules! Despite having the power of flight, he rode in a cat-rocket when traveling from his base on the Moon to battle crime on Earth.
He was one of the last of a wave of 1940s super-animals including Super Rabbit (ironically from Timely/Marvel) and Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, the animal surrogate of the Golden Age Captain Marvel.
We're also offering the FIRST of that wave...Super Mouse (although we're calling him "SuperDuper Mouse" to avoid wrath of the owners of the Big Man in Blue! (and, no, Super Mouse was not a DC character!)
Super Mouse also took a controlled substance to maintain his powers, in his case cheese produced from the milk of a "super-cow"! (We won't dwell on the implications of chemical/radiation-enhanced animals, at least not while chewing on our genetically-manipulated cheeseburger...)
At any rate, we're offering several images of each furry hero...
CosmoCat 1, CosmoCat 2, CosmoCat 3, CosmoCat 4, SuperDuper Mouse 1, & SuperDuper Mouse 2
Please note: while we offer the usual assortment of mugs, mousepads and other tchochkies, the clothing is infant, toddler, and kid sizes only!

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

"...will trade rare baseball card for gas..."


We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ are pop culture fans.
But we're also sports fans.
And, as any well-read sorts do, we keep up with current events.
So when the opportunity presented itself to combine all three aspects in our work...well we just jumped at the chance!
Last weekend, one of the few surviving Honus Wagner T-206 baseball cards was auctioned for over $1,000,000! A newsperson, after reading the story, commented "well. I guess the old owner will be able to fill HIS gas tank now!"
Cue cartoon lightbulb and *PING* sound effect!
Thus was born our newest pop culture collectible... "Afford to fill this mother F@#%ing Gas Tank!" Bumper Stickers, combining sports (baseball), current events (outrageous cost of fuel), and pop culture (trading card collecting) all at one shot on the place where your opinion will be seen by all: the bumper of your car!
Buy one!
Buy ten (You'll save a dollar on each if you do!)!