Monday, September 29, 2025

Third Reich Terrors MONSTERS ATTACK! "Return of the Golem!"

Last Halloween, We Presented Commie-Clobbering Kaiju!

This Halloween, we're showing you MONSTERS...some serving Adolf's boys and some killing Nazis!







Written by Mort Todd and illustrated by John Severin, this never-reprinted story from Globe Communications' Monsters Attack! #1 (1989) is a fitting opener to our month-long look at "Third Reich Terrors"!
The concept of the Golem dates back over 2,000 years to references in the Judeo-Christian Old Testament.
The Golem we know today as a supernatural defender of oppressed Jews originated in the story of "The Golem of Prague" in the late 1500s.
You can read about it HERE.
That version has become widely-popularized in media including movies/TV/radio, numerous prose novellas and novels and even comic books!
(Both DC and Marvel have ongoing Golem characters!).
One of the more popular iterations in recent times has been a Nazi-fighting statue like the one in this tale.
In fact, it's so popular, we're running three different stories about it!
The one you've just read, a Bronze Age one involving (then-present day) second-generation Nazis and a Hitler clone, and a Golden Age tale rendered by a talented up-and-comer named Kubert!
Wonder whatever happened to that guy...
Plus, we'll have werewolves, vampires, and even the Frankenstein Monster putting in appearances!
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Russkie-Smashers SILENT INVASION "The Stubbinsville Connection Part 1: Atomic Spies!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

In the paranoid America of the 1950s, newspaper reporter Matt Sinkage discovers...
Lots of questions, but few answers.
Here's a little background from the authors...
Silent Invasion will return...
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Monday, September 22, 2025

Russkie-Smashers SILENT INVASION "The Stubbinsville Connection Part 1: Atomic Spies!"

Here's a long-lost series that deserves to be revived...
..with it's weird n' wild genre-mixing that's back in vogue in pop culture!
Do We Have to Tell You?
TO BE CONTINUED...TOMORROW!
Writers Larry Hancock & John Ellis Sech and illustrator Michael Cherkas start the saga off with a bang, eh?
Renegade's Silent Invasion #1 (1986) came as a surprise to comics fans at the tail-end of the 1980s b/w explosion.
It wasn't a spoof or rip-off, as most of the era's title's were.
The creative team's only credit before this was a detective strip; Dick Mallet; that appeared in the back of Cerebus for several months!
But publisher Deni Sim saw potential in the presentation they made to her, and gave the go-ahead for a bi-monthly book.
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Monday, September 15, 2025

Nazi-Punchers DEADPOOL/BATMAN "The Gun & the Sword"

Normally We Don't Post About an Upcoming Comic...

...but this one presents a unique example of cross-company Nazi-punching not seen in over a quarter-century!

Not since 1996's Batman/Captain America, almost 30 years ago, have characters from the Big Two joined forces against Nazis!
And not just any Nazis...
...but Adolf himself!
The tale by writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Terry Dodson, "The Gun & the Sword", is a secondary story in Marvel/DC's Deadpool/Batman, on-sale in your LCS this Wednesday!
Note: the cover at the head of this post is one of the limited-edition alternate covers.
The primary cover is below...
Weird notes: the alternate cover shows Captain America in a comics-accurate costume, and Wonder Woman in a movie-accurate costume!
But the story shows Cap in a movie-accurate uniform and Wonder Woman in a comics-accurate ensemble!
Was this deliberate?
If so, why?
And Cap is left-handed?
He's always been shown as right-handed, not a southpaw!
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Monday, September 8, 2025

Russkie-Smashers DETECTIVE COMICS Robin the Teen Wonder "Strike...While the Campus is Hot" & "Drop Out...or Drop Dead!"

Last Week, Robin the Boy Wonder Captured the Nazi Crew of a U-Boat Single-Handed!

This Week, Robin the Teen Wonder goes after young adult "rebels" working for Russkies!








This was Part One of a two-part tale by writer Frank Robbins, penciler Gil Kane and inker Murphy Anderson from DC's Detective Comics #394 (1969)!
Normally, we'd wait a week to run Part Two (by the same creative team) from DC's Detective Comics #395 (1970), but we still haven't established the Kremlin connection yet!
So here's the conclusion...and look for the Russkie tie-in...
And here's the Russkie reveal...
And that was how non-urgent crime-fighter communications worked in the pre-internet days!
No emails!
No texts!
Just snail mail!
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