Reading Room: DAN HASTINGS "Radium Raiders from Earth's Core"

Originally a Flash Gordon clone, even using Alex Raymond art swipes....

...by the time the wandering strip took up residence in Scoop Comics, it had gotten away from interplanetary adventures to intraplanetary tales!

I suspect this tale from Dynamic's Scoop Comics #1 (1941) was meant to be an interplanetary adventure with several panels redrawn/relettered to make it a "civilization at the earth's center" story.

Both writer and artist(s) are unknown.

Originally proposed as a newspaper strip packaged by the Harry A Chesler Studio in 1937, Dan Hastings was reworked into comic book format when comics using new material instread of strip reprints took off in 1939!

The series went thru several different publishers, starting at Chesler/Dynamic, moving to Centaur, then MLJ (later Archie), finally back to Chesler/Dynamic, with minor modifications to cast and premise at each company.

This tale was the first of his final run at Chesler/Dynamic, where he faced more Earth-bound foes, including thinly-disguised Axis surrogates (with more advanced tech than the real-life Germany and Japan).

Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Tale of Chip-Chop and His Christmas Good Deed"

Besides shoehorning existing fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters into holiday-themes tales...

...Walt (Pogo) Kelly occasionally did stories featuring totally-new characters and situations!

Sadly, this never-reprinted story from Dell's Four Color Comics: Christmas with Mother Goose #201 (1948) is Chip-Chop's only appearance anywhere!

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Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories

Thanksgiving's Almost Here...Time for CHRISTMAS!

The Christmas shopping season has been more-or-less underway since Halloween.
(Remember when it didn't begin until after Thanksgiving?)

In order to make your Yuletide shopping a breeze, we're offering a guide to reasonably-priced pop culture collectibles that would make great gifts for the-hard-to-please person in your life!

You think the economic situation is bad now?Go back 84 years ago, to November 1938 and see...elves were picketing Santa's WorkShop for better pay!

(You'll note that the cover is dated January, 1939. But it was actually on sale in November, 1938! Publishers used to cover-date comics and pulps two to three months ahead of the actual on-sale date to keep the books on the stands for as long as possible!)

Thus do we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ offer another retro-styled collectible for your Christmas gift-giving consideration, and offer you a bit of media history at the same time!

In this case, we proudly present one of our Christmas in the Comics line from our Cool Christmas collection: numerous digitally-remastered comic covers featuring classic characters celebrating Christmas, including The Green Lama, Fast Willie Jackson, SuperSnipe, and Edison Bell: Boy Inventor, as well as two long-out-of-print versions of The Big Man, Santa, himself!

Available on a multitude of memorabilia including greeting cards, mugs, hoodies, face masks, and other goodies, these pop-art collectibles are NOT available in any brick-and-mortar stores, only on-line thru us!

And don't forget our Santa Claus--the Man Himself, A Christmas Carol starring Scrooge, the Hardly-Abominable SnowMan, and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians lines!

There's something for everyone under the tree at Atomic Kommie Comics™!

Space Hero Saturdays GET LOST! "Ace of Space: Four-Flush Gordon"

If you're a poker player, you'll get the reference in the name of the title character...

...if not, we'll explain it at the end of this classic comedy tale!

A four flush (also flush draw) is a poker hand that is one card short of being a full flush.

"Four flushing" refers to empty boasting or unsuccessful bluffing.

Written and illustrated by the team of Ross Andru and Mike Esposito for first issue of their short-lived 1954 humor title Get Lost, for their own short-lived publishing house, MikeRoss Publishing,  this was their almost-mandatory Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers spoof all humor publishers in the 1950s did!

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Friday Fun TEENAGERS INGENUE "Suzie's Theory of Relative(ity)"

From 61 years ago...

...a look at how teenagers allegedly perceived Yuletide family revelry, from Dell's Teen Agers Ingenue (December, 1961), illustrated by Susan Perl.

And yes, this was a real magazine targeted towards teens!
We'll be showing your more examples from it during the Christmas season!