Showing posts with label Reading Room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading Room. Show all posts

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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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Reading Room THE SHADOW "Showdown on Gargoyle Island!"

...an artificially-enhanced man equipped by Shiwan Khan to resist the Shadow's ability to "cloud men's minds"!
There was one more camp-classic issue of The Shadow, and we  presented it several years ago HERE, HERE, and HERE.
It's the only issue of the series without Shiwan Khan!
You can also read the somewhat less-campy first issue (by writer Robert Bernstein and artist John Rosenberger) on this blog by clicking HERE, HERE, and HERE!
We haven't done #2 yet, but we'll get to it soon!
PLUS: You can read the text feature revamping The Shadow's origin that ran through all eight issues of the comic series by clicking HERE....which leads us into...
...our presentation of the never-reprinted final "Maxwell Grant" Shadow novel from the 1960s which begins...
MONDAY!
But, before that...
Thursday, head to...
for another never-reprinted comic tale featuring the pulp/radio, slouch-hatted, twin .45 automatic-wielding Shadow we know and love!

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Reading Room THE SHADOW "The Shadow's Amazing New Weapons!"

We Have Already Seen...

You gotta admit, scripter Jerry Siegel does know how to recap a story!


Should I point out that a radioactive power source sitting near someone's genitals for hours at a time could render that person sterile?
Nah...

To Be Concluded...
TOMORROW!

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