Monday, November 11, 2024

NoKo Crushers COMBAT CASEY "Atomic Warfare"

Since it's Veteran's Day...
...let's look at how our comic book military viewed a possible atomic war in the 1950s against the Communist NoKos (aka North Koreans)!
WTF???
Admittedly, in 1954, when Combat Casey #19 was published by Atlas (later Marvel), scientific analysis of actual a-bomb explosions was limited, but I find it hard to believe that this was the cutting-edge of nuclear knowledge as presented in this never-reprinted story by artist Robert Q Sale and an unknown writer!
Then again...maybe it was, as detailed by this legendary character...

Monday, November 4, 2024

Russkie-Smashers CRUSADER FROM MARS "Death in the Soil"

Lars of Mars wasn't the only Jerry Siegel co-created character to battle Russkies!
..There was also this guy, who was the Red Planet's only felon in half a century!
Illustrated by Henry Sharp, and written by editor Jerry (Superman) Siegel, the second story from Ziff-Davis' Crusader from Mars #1 (1952) continues the theme that the major example of "Evil on Earth" Tarka and Zira must battle is Communism!
BTW, isn't it a shame there was never a Lars/Crusader crossover?
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