Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY "Krag" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

In the millennia before our recorded history, a barbarian and his allies tried...and failed..to conquer the Earth.

They avoided capture by placing themselves in suspended animation in a secret underground location.
Fast-forward through the centuries to the "present day" of 1968...

Bomba and his friend, Jobo, discover gigantic grey humanoids transporting a pulsating green globe which alters organic matter into...something hideous!

Trivia: When this story was reprinted in France, the cover was different...

Was this the original version of the cover, or was it modified to avoid giving away the plot-point of Jobo's death?

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It's a Tale THRICE-Told! WEIRD "Eye of Evil!"

Remember when we ran these two stories last week?

A run of the mill sci-fi tale...

...and it's original, more horror-oriented, version...

As you might have guessed, Eerie Publications got its' claws on these two versions of a story from a defunct publisher Ajax-Farrell and...

...reprinted the heavily-edited, Comics Code-approved version...

...and redid the original story in a rather...unique...way!

Antonio Reynoso brought his surreal style to this redo which appeared in Eerie Publications' Weird V8N2 (1974).

Reynoso was one of numerous South American artists used by Eerie to re-interpret old comics stories in an updated, usually gorier, style for the b/w magazine market.

In fact, he did more stories (over 80 of them) than any other artist!

And, unlike most of their other illustrators, he worked exclusively for Eerie in the American comics business!

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Holiday Reading Room EVERY DAY'S A HOLLY DAY "Labor Day"

With at least two available jobs for every applicant who wants to work...

...the power of the worker has never been stronger!

Why is this 1955 comic entitled "Every Day's a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day's a Holiday"?

Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!

Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day" in 1962), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!

We'll be presenting the other chapters on the dates they fall upon.

Watch for them!
(BTW, Monday Madness will return next week...)

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Cartoon History of the United States

We Hope You Enjoyed Our 2022 RetroBlog Summer Blogathons...

...with the theme of "crossover", featuring posts of long-out of print (OOP) tales with multi-genre appeal!

First up...

Tying in to the new Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunder...

...was a double-feature of the conclusion of Thor and Jane Foster's long-running soap opera-style Silver Age romance in

True Love Comics Tales

...along with Jane Foster's first time wielding Thor's hammer in

Heroines!

Then...

Then the OOP Street Fighter the Movie (1995) comic adaptation in both

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

and

Pop Art Martial Arts

Plus...

Plus the OOP graphic novel that served as the basis for a recent flick starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in...
Western Comics Adventures
and right here at
Atomic Kommie Comics
And, finally...

The multiversal (and OOP) first Doctor Strange prose novel, Nightmare (1979) by William Rotsler in both

Medical Comics and Stories

and

Seduction of the Innocent

PLUS: A standalone OOP "beach read" Gothic Romance in

True Love Comics Tales

(Hey, it's a long-standing tradition!)
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Space Hero Saturdays ZANY "Buck Dodgers" and "Flush Gordon"

A couple of comic strip parodies from one of the many MAD Magazine imitators...

From Candar's Zany #3 (1959), illustrated by Carl (Golden Age Human Torch) Burgos, writer unknown, though it might have been Burgos himself.

From Candar's Zany #2 (1958), artist and writer unknown.

Note: "Max Oboy" is a spoof of Mac Raboy, Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr and Green Lama comic artist who replaced Alex Raymond on the Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1948 to his passing in 1967.

These HTF (and never-reprinted) space adventure parodies, were from Candar, which published risque titles like French Cartoons and Cuties and College Laughs.

Though Zany only ran four issues, it had a pretty damn good lineup of writers and artists including the aformentioned Burgos (who was also the editor for the first two issues), Bill Everett (who also painted all four front covers), Joe Sinnott, Dick Briefer, John Forte, Don Orehek, Morris Waldinger, Paul Reinman, and Pete Costanza!

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