Saturday, November 12, 2022

Space Hero Saturdays BRICK BRADFORD "Action on Pura"

Meet a "space hero" who travels with a companion in a time machine which also moves through space!
No, not that one!
We're talking about the one who did it a generation before that one...
This never-reprinted short story from King's The Phantom #28 (1967) was by Paul Norris, who was also doing the newspaper strip!
Premiering in 1933, Brick Bradford started out as a high-adventure strip starring a daredevil aircraft pilot who encountered lost civilizations, dinosaurs and other fantastical situations.
In 1935, the strip's resident scientist, Professor Southern, created the "Time Top" which could travel through time and through space!
From then on, the strip was more or less a standard space opera with occasional journeys into the past and future.
Though it never achieved the level of popularity of Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers in the US, there were a couple of spin-offs including a series of Big Little Books and a movie serial starring Kane Richmond, who had also played Spy Smasher and The Shadow on the silver screen!
Though it lost American newspapers from the 1950s onward, the strip remained popular in Europe, Asia and Australia, where it continued until the retirement of the strip's current writer-artist, Paul Norris, in 1987...
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Friday, November 11, 2022

Veterans Day Tribute to World War II Aviator Collectibles

 Comic books played a major part in shaping the public's impression of both our troops and our enemies during World War II.
Among the classiest were these three beautiful covers for Contact Comics, an aviation-oriented title. Spectacular, intense, eye-catching color highlights these poster-style pieces of art.
Each one paid honor to the aviation division of one of the three armed forces branches. (The Air Force as a separate branch didn't come about until after WWII)


Tribute to the Navy Air Corps
featuring F6F Hellcat fighters.
featuring B-24 Liberator heavy bombers.

Tribute to the Marine Air Corps
featuring F4U Corsair fighters.

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ have digitally-restored and remastered them on a line of kool kollectibles which would make perfect Veterans Day, Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, or 4th of July gifts for the WWII veteran in your life.
Choose from t-shirts, mugs, magnets, BBQ aprons, and many other goodies.

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Reading Room: AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES "2038 AD: An Excursion to Mars"

In just a few years, we'll be spending our vacations on Mars, but getting there will seem awfully familiar...
...at least they thought so in 1938, when this feature appeared in Centaur's Amazing Mystery Funnies V1N2!
Writer/illustrator A S Van Eerde also did covers and interiors for magazines like American Legion, as well as fine art, but his comic book work was limited to this short-lived two-page strip that ran only four installments.

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder NIGHTMARE "Massacre of Mankind!"

Look at this tale and tell us...if you can...when was it created?
Was it
The Golden Age (1940s)?
The Atomic Age (1950s)?
The Silver Age (1960s)?
or
The Bronze Age (1970s)?
The answer will surprise you!
One hint: The artist who drew it worked in all four eras!
It was written and laid-out in the 1950s, but penciled and inked in the 1970s!
Scripted by Walter (The Shadow) Gibson and laid-out by Gene Fawcette back in 1952, the tale was fully-penciled and inked by Bill (Sub-Mariner) Everett for Skywald's b/w anthology Nightmare #2 (1971)!
It's actually the first chapter in a three-part tale, but the other two parts were never re-done!
You'll see the complete original tale starting next Wednesday!
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