Monday, February 26, 2024
Russkie-Smashers YOUNG MEN COMICS "Captain America Turns Traitor!"
Monday, February 12, 2024
Russkie-Smashers CONFESSIONS OF THE LOVELORN / MY ROMANTIC ADVENTURES "Communist Kisses" / "Iron Curtain Romance"
Volume 6
So This is Love!
(which reprints the original-titled version of this story)
Paid Link
Monday, February 5, 2024
Clobberin' Korean Commies with The Duke! JOHN WAYNE ADVENTURE COMICS "Bridgehead"
Trivia: Besides not doing a Korean War movie, Wayne never did a film set in World War II Europe!
Correction: Wayne did appear in a film with flashbacks to WWII, Cast a Giant Shadow, and an actual WWII movie, The Longest Day, as part of an all-star ensemble!
(Though, to be fair, neither one had a comic adaptation!)
Thanks to reader Lawrence for catching my gaffe and inspiring me to do a little more research!
This never-reprinted tale is from Toby's John Wayne Adventures #15 (1952), penciled by Mel Keefer.(The other credits are unknown)
You'll note that Wayne is referred to as "John Wayne", not "John Wayne as Sgt Stryker" or some other character he played in movies...or a totally-new character!
The conceit of this 31-issue series, John Wayne Adventure Comics, was that Wayne was always himself in the stories, no matter where or when they were set!
Tales ran the gamut from Wayne in the French Foreign Legion to putting out oil-rig fires to big-game hunting in Africa to tracking spies in Hong Kong, with at least one Western-themed story every issue.
Oddly enough, though there are numerous comic adaptations of Wayne's Western movies, and even a comic based on The Conqueror (where he portrayed Genghis Khan), there are no comics adapting any of his war movies!
Visit Amazon and Order...
Monday, January 29, 2024
Russkie-Smashers BLACK COBRA "Big Blast"
Yet we're still involved in aquatic combat with Russkies!
It may be a re-working of a previously-published comic story, which the studio was notorious for, as shown HERE, where a story written and drawn for one character was modified/updated for a totally-different character!
Or, it may be a totally-new tale.
Monday, January 22, 2024
Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Threat from the Abyss!"
Trivia: those "inventory" tales were the last ones featuring the Blackhawks singing triumphantly at the end of the story!
DC dropped that, along with almost all Communist-clobbering plotlines until the final issue of the original run, as we showed HERE, HERE, and HERE!
Monday, January 15, 2024
Russkie-Smashers DANGER Duke Douglas in "Khyber Incident"
He's a hard-hitting, hard-drinking, hard-loving, Russkie-smashing secret agent...
Our Hero's premiere tale from Comic Media's Danger #7 (1954) was written by Ken Fitch and illustrated by Don Heck.
Note I emphasized "tale", since he actually premiered on the cover of the previous issue...
But every issue after that until the end of the book's run featured two or three stories starring the Agent with a Vest...and you'll be seeing them here!