Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Reading Room ATOM-AGE COMBAT "Puzzle"

Besides tales of the US and USSR fighting World War III...
...Atom-Age Combat featured tales of combat versus aliens on other worlds, as well!
Note: the last page was the inside back cover of the comic, so it's just black-and-white.
Illustrated by Dick Ayers, this tale from Fago's Atom-Age Combat #3 (1959) touches on an interesting idea.
Someone's keeping us from leaving Earth...but they're also keeping others from approaching Earth!
Were they protecting us from them...or them from us?
Since this was the final tale in the final issue of the series, we'll never know the answer...
BTW, this was the second series called "Atom-Age Combat"!
The first was published by St John Comics with five issues in 1952-53 and a one-shot in 1958.
Fago Publications bought the title when St John dropped it's comic line, continuing the numbering from the one-shot and producing two issues.
Fago itself only lasted from 1958-59.
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Monday, July 27, 2020

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics MORLOCK: 2001 "Coming of Morlock!" Part 1

Welcome to the dystopian Earth of 2001...
...as seen in 1975 by writer Michael Fleischer, penciler Al Milgrom, and inker Jack Abel!
Will Morlock be used as a weapon of the State?
Will he allow himself to be used?
Find Out
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A "Lost" Graphic Novel about Dystopia

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Can SURGEON X Save the World From the Pandemic?

Is This Our Tomorrow?
Find Out This Thursday at our fellow RetroBlog Medical Comics and Stories!
In the meantime, go to the website below for some kool background about the "World That's Almost Here"...

Friday, July 24, 2020

Friday Fun / Trump Reading Room HICKORY "Irrigation"

Let's have a look at how some creatives see Don (the Con) Trump's "deporables"...
...in this never-reprinted tale from Quality's Hickory #1 (1949)
Illustrated (and probably written) by Harry Sahle, this comic series began in the 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.
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